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The tone in Lando Norris’s voice was clear for all to hear. He was pounding around the Hungaroring on Sunday in command of the grand prix, but he was being asked to step aside and let his young team-mate into first place. There was debate and subtle

Red Bull racer Sergio Perez says he is determined to reverse his poor form after another lacklustre weekend at the Hungaroring put more question marks on his future. The Mexican, who is seventh in the points table and has only had four podiums this t

Formula 1’s governors altered the Hungaroring runoff in the build-up to Sunday’s grand prix after a qualifying accident launched Yuki Tsunoda. The RB man went off on the exit of Turn 5 and the car was tipped into the air. That prompted the FIA to rep

Haas has confirmed that it will have an all-new driver line-up in 2025 as it has parted ways with Kevin Magnussen. The Dane raced with Haas from 2017 until 2020 and was brought in as a late replacement for Nikita Mazepin at the start of the 2022 seas

Australian Supercars title-winner James Courtney has confirmed that this will be his last season of competition. The 44-year-old from Sydney made his full-time debut in Supercars in 2006 after a promising career in Europe that included a Formula 1 te

Morgan Short said he and his brother Marcus learned rapidly on their “baptism of fire” one-make racing debut in the Ginetta GT championship at Snetterton recently. Morgan, the older son of Le Mans and British GT frontrunner Martin, told Motorsport Ne

Thomas Balfe, the teenage son of British GT frontrunner Shaun, won his first-ever car races at Snetterton 10 days ago with a double win from pole in Ginetta GT Academy. Balfe Jr, 17, made his race debut last September sharing a C1 with his dad and Wa

Jon Armstrong isn’t ruling out an outside shot at the overall European championship title ahead of the season-closing quartet of asphalt rallies in Italy, Czech Republic, Wales and Poland. The ERC3 title winner from 2023 starts Rally di Roma Capital

Aoife Raftery said the chance to drive the Peugeot 205 T16 Craig Breen used to win the European championship-counting Circuit of Ireland in 2015 was an “honour”. Raftery, who holds eighth place in the Junior European Rally Championship after four rou

Chris Ingram says that there is more to come from his new Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 as he prepares for the second half of the British Rally Championship. Ingram and co-driver Alex Kihurani gave the Yaris its first UK rally win with a tremendous perform

Teenager Charlie Tuthill has shown excellent pace on his first two rallies as he becomes a third generation of the family to go rallying. Tuthill, who only turned 17 years of age earlier this year, has done three events in the last month in an MG ZR

Former pop star Shane Lynch says that contesting this year’s Bowler Defender Rally Series is giving him just the best time in a sport he loves. Lynch was a global star with the Boyzone band but has always been a motorsport enthusiast and started ral

Rallyday XL, planned for Castle Combe at the end of September, has been cancelled for 2024. The long-standing Rallyday event at the Wiltshire race circuit has been a popular part of the regional rally calendar but will not happen this year following

Bob Clarke ended a 38-year break from rallying to contest the Nicky Grist Stages in a Mini Cooper he has spent the last two years stripping and rebuilding. Clarke, who contested the 1974 RAC Rally, wanted to finish the car’s debut event and achieved

USAC National Midget Series racer Thomas Meseraull is set to make his BriSCA F1 stock car debut at this year’s World Final at Skegness in September. Meseraull, or T-Mez as he is better known, is a 19-time USAC National Series winner and a regular ri

Series leader Patrick O’Donovan stamped his authority on the 2024 British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy title-race with double-victory in the fifth and sixth rounds of the 2024 campaign at Lydden Hill. O’Donovan secured the back-to-back w

As the series got back on the World Final trail, Ryan Morgan overcame both a day of hard racing and immense pressure in the final to take his first feature win since joining National Hot Rods. He fended off form man Hayden Ballard and survived what

Pascal Wehrlein turned a 12-point deficit in to a six-point winning margin in London last weekend to beat a two-pronged Jaguar attack and take a thrilling 2024 Formula E title. The DTM champion and Formula 1 driver won on Saturday and took a runners

The World Rally championship’s first visit to Latvia allowed Kalle Rovanpera to take his second successive win and third of the 2024 campaign. The bald facts are that the brilliant Finn took the lead on Thursday night’s opening stage and was never he

Rally Latvia delivered a hicccup in the rise to WRC2 prominence of Toyota’s three-cylinder GR Yaris Rally2 after a bravura performance from the Toksport Skoda Fabia RS of Oliver Solberg handed the Swedish Rally1 refugee victory – and the category’s p

Just two Rally3 cars arrived to contest the WRC3 category in Latvia, with Renault represented by the Clio of Estonia’s Joosep Ralf Nogene and Ford by the M-Sport Fiesta of Turkey’s Kerem Kazaz. It was Nogene’s event to lose following the opening supe

The explosion in interest in the one-make racing categories in the 1980s played perfectly into the hands of Dave Loudoun. The engineering graduate was a mainstay of some of the most competitive grids the UK had seen and he usually ended up on top. F

Not since the 1960s has anyone won the British Rally Championship using two different cars. Nobody has won both the European and British rally titles either. But history is there to be rewritten, and after three rounds in a Volkswagen Polo GTI R5, Ch

Callum Black and Jack Morton put themselves right into contention in the Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship with a fabulous victory on the Tour of Epynt after a ferocious battle with Mark Kelly and Will Atkins. Black and Morton got their Ford Fiesta

David Bogie and stand-in co-driver Kirsty Riddick effortlessly won the RSAC Scottish Rally which has extended the driver’s victory record on the famous event to eight. Jonny Greer finished second on his first Scottish gravel event in five years, whi

The Northern Ireland Championship title might have already been settled in favour of Jonny Greer for a fifth time, and with a round to spare, but the Tyrone Stages still managed to attract 10 R5 and Rally2specification cars bearing Skoda, Ford, Volks

I want to do FIA Formula 3 next year, but also more generally for my career in motorsport I’m going to need to know all the European tracks, so getting to race in Hungary and at Zandvoort recently in GB3 with Rodin was perfect. It means I’ve only got

The history books will record Oscar Piastri took his maiden grand prix win at the Hungaroring by two seconds from McLaren stablemate Lando Norris. It was a historic occasion, but the final classification won’t be able to convey the drama that was tak