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If anyone had still been in any doubt that Oscar Piastri is the real deal, they must surely have revised their view following last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. As Jake Boxall-Legge shows in our report on page 16, the Australian defied a team inst

Hyundai will compete at the pinnacle of sportscar racing with a new LMDh car under its premium Genesis brand. That it is developing a hybrid prototype was finally confirmed last week in a perfunctory statement on social media, but where and when has

The FIA has announced the introduction of a new Officials Department to start a production line of trained race officials. The governing body is looking to have a wider pool of qualified race stewards to adequately cover F1’s overseas races on an exp

The World Rally Championship is set to feature new event formats for selected rounds for 2025, with at least one event to run “quite a bit longer”. The championship has for some time been investigating changes to the length of its events, with Rally

The Sauber Formula 1 team is set for a choice between youth and experience as incumbent Valtteri Bottas and McLaren youngster Gabriel Bortoleto vie for its remaining 2025 seat, while Williams is keen to see its impressive rookie Franco Colapinto in t

Both Honda and Alpine have been found to be in procedural breach of Formula 1’s power unit cost cap by the FIA, although it has been made clear that neither overspent. In announcing the results of its cost-cap evaluation for teams and engine manufact

Toyota has replaced Takamoto Katsuta with protege Sami Pajari for the next round of the World Rally Championship in Chile next week. The move is part of a decision to hand Finnish duo Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen a further two WRC Rally1 outing

Ferrari is hopeful of a clarification of the rules governing race restarts in the World Endurance Championship. The Italian manufacturer has lost its appeal against its failed protest of the results of the Spa 6 Hours in May, but the FIA Internationa

Porsche will revise its LMDh driver line-up across its World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship programmes for 2025. It has confirmed that there will be changes and promised an announcement prior to the WEC finale in Bahrain in No

Ex-Formula 1 superstar and IndyCar champion Juan Pablo Montoya made his first NASCAR Cup Series start in 10 years at Watkins Glen last Sunday. The 48-year-old Colombian was at the wheel of a 23XI Racing Toyota at the venue where he scored his second

Jules Gounon is set to make another appearance for the Alpine World Endurance Championship squad at the Bahrain finale. But whether that means the French manufacturer’s official reserve is in line for a full-time seat in one of the Signatech-run A424

Only a post-race penalty after the weekend finale denied Freddie Slater a hat-trick of Euro 4 wins at the Red Bull Ring last weekend, but the 16-year-old Briton has moved into the lead of the three-round series. Amid some rain and on slick tyres, Sla

Length 3.070 miles Number of laps 62 Friday 20 September FP1 1030 FP2 1400 Saturday 21 September FP3 1030 QUALIFYING 1400 Sunday 22 September RACE 1300 CATCH THE RACE LIVE SKY SPORTS F1 BBC RADIO 5 LIVE TV Highlights CHANNEL 4 1730 2023 POLE POSITION

Formula 3 star Luke Browning made his F2 debut in Baku last weekend after being given a late call-up to replace Zak O’Sullivan at ART Grand Prix. O’Sullivan, winner of two races in his rookie F2 campaign, announced early last week that he was pulling

“We barely changed the car from FP1 to now,” Charles Leclerc revealed after his charge to a fourth – or fifth, if you count sprint races – successive pole position in Azerbaijan. There was the small matter of his FP1 shunt, and a few ‘hotfixes’ to sh

Race engineer Tom Stallard provided Oscar Piastri with some sage advice at the start of his stint on hard tyres, based on the findings of his discarded medium-compound Pirellis. Piastri, who had been stuck in Charles Leclerc’s wake among the opening

A purple-shrouded fence keeps the still-open public areas from coalescing with those working at the circuit within the confines of the Baku City Circuit. The fences split the pavements neatly in half, although it means navigating the kerbside foliage

Briton’s most experienced Formula 1 driver led home its newest in the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton also heading Ollie Bearman past a late calamity for Nico Hulkenberg in the other Haas. Hamilton had started from the pitla

Lando Norris “would have been happy with eighth” in Baku given his qualifying disaster, but instead took fourth through a combination of his charging drive and the late Sergio Perez/Carlos Sainz crash. Norris’s hopes of getting near the front of the

Yuki Tsunoda suffered his second successive retirement, this time from the lingering effects of a first-lap clash with Lance Stroll at Turn 4. Stroll had attempted to put a move on Tsunoda into the previous corner, but the RB driver successfully held

Alex Albon didn’t think his alternative strategy of starting on the hard-compound tyre was any quicker than the conventional medium-tyre start, despite running as high as second in Azerbaijan. Albon’s qualifying effort was hampered by a cooling fan b

Porsche knew it would be in the mix at Fuji. The Japanese circuit did, after all, provide the breakthrough race for its 963 LMDh in 2023. The German manufacturer was far from convinced that it was going to win the penultimate round of the 2024 World

ROUND 15/15 Alex Palou stamped his name among the legends by capturing his third IndyCar Series championship in the season finale at Nashville Superspeedway, while Colton Herta took victory in the wild 206-lap race. A starting spot of 24th for Palou

ROUND 12/14 While Richard Verschoor took feature race victory on a dramatic Formula 2 weekend in Baku, Gabriel Bortoleto displaced Isack Hadjar at the top of the standings on what could prove to be a pivotal event. Red Bull Junior Hadjar had a comfor

ROUND 12/12 Louis Foster had already been crowned Indy NXT champion two weeks earlier, but the extra weight of hardware didn’t slow him down in the season finale at Nashville Superspeedway. The 21-year-old Briton once again proved untouchable and led

ROUND 8/10 The Styrian Alps climate did its worst over the weekend, and so did the title contenders in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine. While Rafael Camara and Tuukka Taponen drew a points blank, glory went to James Wharton and T

ROUND 9/12 Triple Eight has had some great days in Supercars, but not many would match its performance in the Sandown 500. The new combination of Will Brown and Scott Pye edged out 2023 victors Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup to take a convincing win, the

ROUND 28/36 Chris Buescher prevailed in a stunning last-lap duel with Shane van Gisbergen at Watkins Glen, snatching the lead away into the Carousel and holding on through the final set of corners for his first win of the 2024 season. SVG was forced

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Will Brown/Scott Pye (below) Triple Eight (Chevrolet Camaro) Chris Buescher RFK Racing (Ford Mustang) Race 1 Jordan Pepper/Alessio Deledda Oregon Team (Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2) Race 2 Christopher Haase/Simon Reicher Eastalent Racing Team (Audi R

A total of 50 modern Porsches are set to compete at a British Touring Car Championship event for the first time at Silverstone this weekend, with both the Carrera Cup GB and Sprint Challenge GB series attracting 25-car entries. Among the additional d

Porsche squad Toro Verde GT has become the second team to confirm plans to enter the new TOCA Junior Championship next year. Toro Verde, which was only founded in 2021, competes in both the Carrera Cup and Sprint Challenge GB and has raced in British

A third edition of the popular Super Touring Power event at Brands Hatch has been officially confirmed for next year. The special fixture that celebrates a halcyon British Touring Car period has been organised in partnership between MotorSport Vision

Leading Ginetta teams have given a positive reaction to planned changes to the manufacturer’s Junior and GT championships for 2025, with many squads already pledging multi-car entries. It was revealed last month that the G40s used in Ginetta Junior w

Building on its Royal Automobile Club Historic Event of 2023 accolade, this weekend’s Castle Combe Autumn Classic features a wider range of series over an expanded two-day programme. The GT & Sports Car Cup takes centre stage for two hours on Saturda

Peter Tyler is recovering in hospital having suffered a high-speed crash at Brands Hatch last weekend that left the Radical racer with broken bones. The incident happened on the first lap of the final Radical SR3 Cup race when Tyler and James Pinkert

Josh Smith endured mixed fortunes at Brands Hatch last Saturday as he made his Formula Ford comeback ahead of next month’s Festival showpiece event at the track. Smith, who claimed a memorable victory at the Festival back in 2018, finished second in

The Classic Touring Car Racing Club will mark its 50th anniversary with special events and a celebration race at its season finale at Thruxton this weekend. The club was founded in 1974 as the Classic Saloon Car Club and ran its first championship th

British drivers were triumphant as the CIK-FIA World Karting Championships returned to the UK for the first time since 2017 at PFi last weekend, as both of the main finals featured unexpected late twists. Former British Formula 4 racer Joe Turney was

Alex Summers ensured that the British Hillclimb Championship title contest will go to the final round at Loton Park next week by taking a mighty double victory at Doune last weekend. Summers went to the Scottish hill for the penultimate event of the

Tom Harris survived a first-corner pile-up and a last-bend hit to successfully defend his BriSCA F1 World Championship crown at Skegness Raceway on Saturday night, driving a new car he had only finished building a few days earlier. Harris started the

Porsche Carrera Cup GB star Andrew Rackstraw claimed two superb victories in the United Formula Ford and Champion of Brands double-header at last weekend’s Ford Power Live meeting, as preparations for the upcoming Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hay

There was drama before the penultimate round of the GT Cup Championship even got under way at Donington Park last weekend, with dominant pairing Richard Neary and Ian Loggie forced to miss the event. This was after the Abba Racing-run Mercedes-AMG GT

Ronan Doherty is a well-known sim racing star and has also been very impressive in real-life competition in recent times in Formula Vee and, of late, in Formula Ford 1600. Feeling that he should have won the famous Leinster Trophy in 2023, when he wa

The contrast in experience between Simpson Motorsport’s GT Cup pairing at Donington Park last weekend could not have been greater. One, a newcomer diving head-on into a lofty racing introduction “about 40-odd years late”; the other four races shy of

Race 1 Fraser Fenwick (Lamborghini Huracan ST) Races 2 & 3 Shamus Jennings/Greg Caton (Porsche 911 GT3) Race 4 Shamus Jennings (Porsche 911 GT3) Races 1 & 2 Lewis Clark Races 1 & 2 Will Orton Races 1 & 2 Michael Gibbins (MCR S2n) Races 1 & 2 Simon Cl

National racing organisers are always looking at developing fresh ideas to encourage new drivers into the sport and breaking down the barriers to getting involved. And a great example of a club innovating in such a way came with the Caterham Graduate

RRP £189.99 While Lego has evolved significantly over time, the core concept of snapping bricks together to create a model that, with a little imagination, resembles something from either the real or fictional world remains. But how much has the prod

Formula 1 World Championship Round 18/24 Marina Bay, Singapore 22 September Live Sky Sports F1, Sun 1255 Highlights Sky Sports F1, Sun 1630 Channel 4, 1730 MotoGP Round 15/21 Buddh, India 21-22 September Live TNT Sports 2, Sat 1330, Sun 1115 Highligh

Despite a 30-year career spanning Europe, Japan and Australia, it takes James Courtney an impressively short amount of time to nominate Garth Tander as his favourite team-mate. When Courtney and Dick Johnson Racing were fighting for the 2010 V8 Super

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