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Red Bull says it will keep an open mind about developing low-drag rear wings for 2025 after Max Verstappen voiced his frustration over not having a bespoke design. In 2024 Red Bull did not develop a bespoke low-drag rear wing and instead trimmed its existing design for low downforce circuits like Monza and Las Vegas. That left it on the back foot at those venues, as there was only so much ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/v6j0PJn via IFTTT

Aston Martin's incoming managing technical partner Adrian Newey has delved into the reasons why he left Red Bull and took up a new challenge in Formula 1. After an 18-year stint in Milton Keynes, which yielded eight drivers' titles and six constructors' crowns, Newey decided last April to call time on his successful partnership with the team, just one year on from signing a new contract. The ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/S9fTUlI via IFTTT

Ford has shocked the Supercars pitlane by signing reigning Supercars champion team Triple Eight Race Engineering for 2026 and beyond. The squad, which won the Supercars drivers’ title with Will Brown and the teams’ title last year, will race two Ford Mustangs after the end of the new season. It will also be responsible for the design and development of the Mustang from the start of next ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/sy6MNLV via IFTTT

LONDON, 30 January 2025 Bernie Ecclestone, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris were among the honourees and big winners at the Autosport Awards, the ‘Biggest Night in Motorsport,’ while rising star Deagen Fairclough claimed the coveted Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award. Hosted by Dermot O’Leary and Lee McKenzie, and taking place on 29 January, at London's iconic Roundhouse in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CSXFdu8 via IFTTT

KTM and its satellite team Tech3 revealed the liveries for their 2025 bikes in a joint event in Malaysia on Thursday. The factory KTM Racing team has retained its familiar orange and dark blue colour scheme this year, with logos of title sponsor Red Bull again being displayed prominently on the bike. Meanwhile, Tech3 will adopt the same livery as the factory team, having previously ran ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/uF3qUYC via IFTTT

Formula E has announced it will hold an event next month in Miami where celebrities and influencers, including Brooklyn Beckham and Sergio Aguero, will get the chance to experience the latest Gen3 Evo machines first-hand. The event, dubbed ‘Evo Sessions’, will be held between 5-6 March using a shortened layout of the Miami International Autodrome raced on by Formula 1 and which also ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/u4WFMwZ via IFTTT

Tower Motorsport has lost its LMP2 victory in the Daytona 24 Hours over a technical infraction, with United Autosports inheriting the top spot. The #8 ORECA-Gibson 07 crewed by Sebastien Bourdais, Job van Uitert, Sebastian Alvarez and John Farano scored a provisional win in the secondary prototype division at Daytona International Speedway, but a post-race technical inspection revealed that the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pGvhLiN via IFTTT

The South African government has extended the deadline to submit host bids for a Formula 1 grand prix in the country. After a bid to revive the South African race at Kyalami fell through in 2023, the government continued efforts to end the 32-year hiatus of grand prix racing in the African country. As previously reported, the country's ministry of sport, arts and culture commissioned a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/PqFjCey via IFTTT

VR46 has explained how it is already seeing the impact of its new deal with Ducati in MotoGP. The team owned by motorcycle racing legend Valentino Rossi is getting factory support from the Borgo Panigale team this year, taking over the status enjoyed by Pramac until it jumped ship to Yamaha. It was already public knowledge that Fabio di Giannantonio would be getting a factory-spec GP25 this ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pkomG76 via IFTTT

Imagine being forced to live without your mobile phone for two days. Over the past couple of decades, that has gone from being mildly irritating to borderline catastrophic, given how many things our phones are now crucial for. But being disconnected from the outside world is just one of the challenges that face the finalists of the Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award. By ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/H6NdXZr via IFTTT

VR46 rider Franco Morbidelli believes running a year-old Ducati in 2025 will actually benefit him in the upcoming MotoGP season. Last year, Morbidelli joined Pramac to ride the best bike on the grid, a Ducati Desmosedici of the same specification as Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin, and better than that of Marc Marquez's, who used the previous year's bike at Gresini. However, a huge ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jTP1nh5 via IFTTT

Autosport Business is starting its first-ever newsletter, with the Business Formula available from Wednesday. Once a week, the Business Formula will drop into your inbox with the latest news from the business world of Formula 1 and motorsport as a whole. Launched to coincide with the Autosport Business Exchange, the newsletter will be written by Mark Mann-Bryans, Autosport’s F1 business ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ckF8sVg via IFTTT

Between the ever finer margins separating the Formula 1 grid and relying on an older windtunnel, Red Bull knows it is not out of the woods yet as it tackles its development issues. To some degree Red Bull's car balance problems that helped derail its 2024 constructors' title bid coincided with correlation issues, with the team struggling to get the real world results to match up with the data ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/32tPoWc via IFTTT

New Ducati signing Marc Marquez believes it will be “dangerous” to assume the Borgo Panigale marque will remain the benchmark in MotoGP for 2025 and beyond. The Italian outfit had been making major strides since the latter part of last decade, but it was only after the arrival of Francesco Bagnaia in the factory team for 2021 that it became the powerhouse that it is today. Bagnaia won ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zqGhdI4 via IFTTT

The World Rally Championship Monte Carlo opener is set for final stage showdown with 22.2s covering the top three after changeable weather conditions shook up the leaderboard. Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier is pursuing a record-extending 10th Monte Carlo win and managed to survive tricky icy conditions across the two morning stages, but his lead has been cut to 18.1s by team-mate Elfyn ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0yalGQ1 via IFTTT

Porsche held a commanding lead halfway through the Daytona 24 Hours, with Felipe Nasr heading a 1-2 for the German manufacturer. Former Formula 1 driver Nasr propelled the factory #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh to the front of the field after passing the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac of Filipe Albuquerque late in the 11th hour. The #7 Porsche had been in contention for much of the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JSMQX34 via IFTTT

Thierry Neuville has been hit with a €10.000 fine for a breach of World Rally Championship sporting regulations during the Monte Carlo Rally. Reigning world champions Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe were found to have contravened the rules by driving on a road section without all four wheels of their car rotating [Article 34.1.5]. The offence occurred on Friday after stage six when ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Yakc1nh via IFTTT

Toyota's Sebastien Ogier moved a step closer to a record-extending 10th Monte Carlo Rally win after increasing his lead at the World Rally Championship season-opener on Saturday morning. The eight-time world champion managed to increase his overnight advantage to 17.2s over Hyundai's Adrien Fourmaux, who leapfrogged Toyota's Elfyn Evans [+20.0s]. Kalle Rovanpera just about hung onto fourth ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4G28wDe via IFTTT

“We want to do things differently to any other motorsport” is a phrase – coined by Formula E co-founder Alberto Longo earlier this week – that certainly wouldn’t be out of place as the all-electric championship’s motto. Innovative systems to spice up the racing in Formula E are nothing new and during its 10-year tenure the championship has implemented several, including Fan Boost ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Xn2rVLd via IFTTT

As Formula 1 fans await another launch season of fresh car design excitement, news coming out of Haas this week has provided early insight into how both the American squad and its main supplier, Ferrari, may fare in 2025. When asked if his team was changing its front suspension design for this coming season – in a media roundtable attended by Autosport – Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu laughed ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/O7wq3YV via IFTTT

Porsche and BMW have voiced concerns over the reliability of the high-voltage element of the one-make LMDh hybrid system going into this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours.  Their apprehension follows a spate of issues that have afflicted LMDh machinery and forced parts to be changed over the course of the pre-event Roar test last weekend and the opening two days of the IMSA SportsCar Championship ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/etkyR73 via IFTTT

Four-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Dan Lloyd is closing in on a series return in 2025 after a season in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB. The 32-year-old Yorkshireman is hot favourite to take the seat alongside Chris Smiley at Restart Racing, which is switching to Excelr8 Motorsport-built Hyundai i30 N machinery this season. Three of Lloyd’s BTCC race victories came in 2022 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qMWN375 via IFTTT

While the 2025 Formula 1 season is heralded as having the finest rookie intake in years, teams are scouring the karting scene trying to unearth the next raw diamond. The upcoming season will feature no less than five full-time rookies, with a lot of attention on Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton replacement Andrea Kimi Antonelli, while Ferrari protege Oliver Bearman debuts for Haas and Jack Doohan gets ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CO4naqh via IFTTT

Officials have been forced to cancel stage five of the 2025 World Rally Championship season-opener in Monte Carlo due to a spectator medical issue. Before crews were able to start the 16.68km Saint-Leger-les-Melezes/La Batie-Neuve stage, officials announced there would be a delay to the start due to a spectator issue. Minutes later a call was made to cancel the test to allow medical crews to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/kRAnlvb via IFTTT

Pierer Mobility AG has announced that Stefan Pierer has stepped down as the CEO of Austrian two-wheel manufacturer KTM. Gottfried Neumeister will take over the reins of the company as part of the management reshuffle, but Pierer will remain on board as the co-CEO. The news was made public just ahead of an important court hearing for KTM AG and its two subsidiaries at the regional court in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/u0xFy2q via IFTTT

The FIA and Formula E have officially confirmed that the Pit Boost concept, which will require drivers to make a mandatory pitstop, will debut during the Jeddah E-Prix weekend. As revealed by Autosport in December, the concept will be implemented for the 2024-25 season having been in development for over two years. The technology means the new Gen3 Evo cars will receive a 10% battery ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/LIhJ6n5 via IFTTT

It does not take long when scrolling through the expert advice on LinkedIn to stumble across the seven-minute rule – ‘always make sure you speak within that timeframe at the start of a meeting, or you risk losing the room’. Now Formula 1 will test its own version of the theory when it hosts F175 - its first-ever season livery launch party at London’s O2 Arena next month. All 10 teams ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7WksavM via IFTTT

The fans outside Ferrari’s test track in Fiorano had been there long before dawn. Some had scaled the security fencing, others had brought stepladders and pulled away at the green netting that had been installed to keep out prying eyes and camera lenses. At one point, the growing throng of Tifosi was five or six people deep, each with craned necks trying to catch a glimpse of Lewis ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/QK2kdYP via IFTTT

Marc Marquez feels it's only “logical” that Francesco Bagnaia will have first say in matters at Ducati, but is confident the Borgo Panigale marque will give him equal treatment in MotoGP this year. Marquez is joining a Ducati team where team-mate Bagnaia is already the top dog, with the double champion having scored the factory’s first world titles since Casey Stoner in 2007 and helped ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/hNVHxo2 via IFTTT

Jamie Chadwick has extended her grassroots karting initiative to find new female racing talent, opening it up to girls as young as eight-years-old. The three-time W Series champion, who also made history in 2024 as the first woman to win an Indy NXT road course race, says the goal is to uncover talent but also encourage female participation in motorsport after launching the project in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/97HZxwt via IFTTT

Lewis Hamilton has embarked on his first on-track outing with his new Ferrari team, sampling a 2022 F1 car at the team's Fiorano test track. Seven-time world champion Hamilton took the wheel of the F1-75 on a foggy Wednesday morning as hordes of Italian tifosi flocked to Ferrari's proprietary test venue in Maranello to spot a glimpse of their new hero. Donned in a red overall and a bright ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/gUMluSB via IFTTT

Autosport is 75 years old in 2025 and a new-look Autosport Awards will kick off the celebrations. The Awards has moved from its traditional December slot at Grosvenor House Hotel to the Roundhouse in January. But some of the history, including a selection of the key Awards, remains – and the stars often attend the event to receive their Awards in front of motorsport luminaries. The ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pyHGi5J via IFTTT

Haas has significantly altered its Formula 1 race team staff ahead of the 2025 season, with changes in driver engineers, strategy and sporting operations personnel alongside its two new drivers. Team principal Ayao Komatsu said the alterations represented a “huge change” for Haas, as he briefed the F1 press corps ahead of the new season. Topping the bill of the changes to the American ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/evCFI8x via IFTTT

Silverstone Autosport BRDC Award finalist and Italian Formula 4 dominator Freddie Slater will add a partial GB3 campaign with Hillspeed to his 2025 schedule. Slater has marked himself out as one of the rising stars of the sport in recent years as a glittering karting career - that included world championship success - was followed by an unstoppable march to the Ginetta Junior title in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/glYvEmw via IFTTT

BMW ended up fastest and topped the times in three sessions over the official Roar test ahead of this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener.  A 1m35.424s around the Daytona International Speedway from Dries Vanthoor on the opening day aboard the #24 Rahal BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh stood as the best time of the three-day test in which GTP class machinery took to the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/M8mFKOf via IFTTT

Alpine’s executive technical director David Sanchez has admitted the team will have no excuses going into Formula 1’s new era in 2026. Since the Renault Group bought the Enstone-based outfit back in late 2015, it has consistently set long-term goals of regular podiums and wins, but the past nine seasons yielded just nine top-three finishes, including Esteban Ocon’s memorable victory in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OaEzBQt via IFTTT

“If you have two Red Bull cars, you have kind of a magnet in between them and they always come together at a regular rate!” Motopark boss Timo Rumpfkeil is chuckling about his year running both Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda in the 2019 Euroformula Open series, where they locked horns five years before they would be at war again, this time for the seat alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7icnEzV via IFTTT

It's very refreshing to hear Honda boss Alberto Puig talk about aspects of his life that are much more ordinary than those required of him as HRC team manager in the MotoGP world championship.  At 58 years old, and after seven years in the position, the former rider has experienced Honda's descent into hell from the inside. The Japanese brand hasn't won a race since 2023 (Alex Rins, in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qW5Vbrk via IFTTT

“We are somewhere in the past for these drivers – from their start points to the final target. And we are super happy to see that they have success.” No Formula 1 driver has immaculately appeared at the top level. Now a decade ago, even Max Verstappen made the briefest stop in the junior categories before his graduation to grand prix racing. Back then, he’d just scrapped closely with ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/R9xIi21 via IFTTT

M-Sport has taken the covers off its newly liveried Ford Puma that will contest the 2025 World Rally Championship, ahead of next week’s Monte Carlo opener. The British squad has revealed a new navy blue colour scheme featuring a continuation of its association with energy drinks giant Red Bull and technology company SafetyCulture. M-Sport will once again filed two full-time entries. It has ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6fsLiAn via IFTTT

New technical regulations and a change of tyre manufacturer has made preparations for the challenging Monte Carlo Rally among the most demanding for World Rally Championship teams in recent times. Not since the introduction of the Rally1 cars in 2022 has the WRC undergone such significant changes, heaping even more importance on teams to do the best job possible with their Monte pre-event ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Cvu9ZXz via IFTTT

The Gedlich Racing Winter Series begins this weekend at Estoril, where the GT Winter Series, SRO-licenced GT4 Winter Series and Prototype Winter Series will be in action. The 2025 GT and GT4 Winter Series season opener will be streamed live on the Winter Series YouTube channel, alongside the sister Prototype Winter Series. Coverage kicks off at 13:30 local time on Saturday, and 08:50 on ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/q9LJnhx via IFTTT

Our writers debate the merits of Max Verstappen moving out of Red Bull after the upcoming Formula 1 season, amid rumours of a monster bid prepared by Aston Martin. Read Also: Formula 1Aston Martin denies Verstappen offer rumour, but 2026 question marks remain Verstappen could find it fulfilling to build new project - Ben Vinel Verstappen has always been very vocal ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/l9hipdc via IFTTT

M-Sport Ford has hailed a “great start” to its factory programme in cross-country rallying after Mattias Ekstrom finished on the podium in the 2025 Dakar Rally. Having already tested the waters in 2024 with an existing NWM-built prototype, Ford made its full-fledged entry into Dakar this year with a four-car effort run in conjunction with its WRC partner M-Sport. Although the early exit ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jP7bSDy via IFTTT

Yazeed Al-Rajhi outgunned factory Toyota rival Henk Lategan in a customer Hilux to claim an against-the-odds victory in the Dakar Rally. With newcomers Ford and Dacia still finding their feet in cross-country rallying and last year’s winner Audi having pulled out of the competition, the 47th edition of Dakar was effectively an all-Toyota affair. But while the Japanese manufacturer fielded ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KbC1LJV via IFTTT

Genesis, you might think, will become the first South Korean manufacturer to compete at the Le Mans 24 Hours when its forthcoming LMDh takes to the grid in 2026. But you’d be wrong. Thirty years before the Hyundai brand’s intended arrival there was another campaign at Circuit de la Sarthe by a car maker from the Asian country. SsangYong made an assault on the French enduro back in 1996. It ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ZIGD79A via IFTTT

For Miami Grand Prix president Tyler Epp, 2024 was the year which saw the event blossom into what race organisers had always hoped it would be. A harsh spotlight had shone on the previous races at the Miami International Autodrome following its high-profile inclusion on the 2022 Formula 1 calendar but, as Lando Norris claimed his maiden victory in the sport, Epp could also afford to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/j9NJwG8 via IFTTT

There's one significant detail about Franco Colapinto's move to Alpine – and that's his current job description at Enstone probably not being what he and his managers are really aiming for. “If Franco is not in a racing seat next year, we'll have a historic car, two-year-old car,” Colapinto's now former boss James Vowles, from Williams, said at a press conference in Qatar. “He'll be ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/V54o9hJ via IFTTT

Lamborghini has recruited Maurizio Leschiutta from BMW where he headed up the M Hybrid V8 LMDh programme to become its new motorsport boss. Leschiutta has taken over as head of motorsport to oversee the Italian manufacturer’s LMDh prototype, GT3 and one-make sportscar programmes at the Italian manufacturer’s in-house Squadra Corse competitions department. The Italo-Canadian moves into ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6w3CsLQ via IFTTT

Fittingly for a city known as the Marriage Capital of the World, the arrival of Formula 1 in Las Vegas marked the beginning of a memorable union, with race organisers already planning for year three. The Las Vegas Grand Prix burst onto the 2023 F1 calendar with the glitz and glamour that is always associated with Sin City and, after initial teething problems involving a loose drain cover ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Sa6bZr9 via IFTTT

The FIA has countered criticism from Formula 1 drivers on how it spends the money generated by fines. The situation around driver fines was one of several topics that caused unease among F1 drivers last season as they grew increasingly frustrated at how FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem has been running things. Over the 2024 season a total of around 270,000 euros - not counting suspended ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MiZTybe via IFTTT

Dermot O’Leary to host the ‘Biggest Night in Motorsport’ – the Autosport Awards O’Leary – known for This Morning and his BBC Radio 2 show on Saturdays – will host alongside F1 and Sports presenter Lee McKenzie Spice Girl Melanie C to DJ the exclusive afterparty Bernie Ecclestone to receive a unique 75th Anniversary Trophy The Autosport Awards, the ‘Biggest Night ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/K2pVQvR via IFTTT

Ferrari will end its five-year hiatus from the British GT Championship as AF Corse is set to contest the 2025 season full-time with a 296 GT3. AF Corse will run the car under its Spirit of Race banner with drivers Duncan Cameron and Matt Griffin, who have six series wins together and finished third in the 2010 standings.  This team/driver combination also started Ferrari’s last British GT ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dfro3mT via IFTTT

Martins Sesks will return to the World Rally Championship’s top flight this year after securing a six-round programme with M-Sport-Ford. The highly rated Latvian impressed in outings in Poland, Latvia and Chile after making the leap to Rally1 with the Ford squad last year, as part of a programme supported by the WRC Promoter. A run to fifth driving a non-hybrid powered Puma in Poland was ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3f8WwL2 via IFTTT

BMW's upgraded M4 GT3 EVO took victory on its maiden outing in last weekend's Dubai 24 Hours, as WRT secured its third win in the last four years at the event. Entered under the Al Manar Racing by WRT banner, the second iteration of the successful BMW that was introduced in 2022 beat strong competition from Porsche to claim outright spoils, the fifth in the event's 20-year history for ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/WStvbcf via IFTTT

Hosting not just the most fabled round of the World Endurance Championship but a landmark race in the annals of motorsport over the course of an entire day takes some doing – but for the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the event is much more than a 24-hour challenge. Le Mans staged its Centenary edition in 2023 but returned with one of the most memorable races in its storied history a year ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KaZHDdC via IFTTT

Oscar Piastri has fine-tuned how he works with the McLaren team and is 'not afraid to be a bit more pushy' having completed his second campaign in Formula 1. Piastri played a key role in McLaren’s world constructors’ title in his sophomore season, scoring two grand prix wins and eight podiums, with a streak of 12 top-five finishes in 13 rounds in the middle of the year. The 23-year-old ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CpDiH5d via IFTTT

Toyota’s Lucas Moraes beat Ford rival Mattias Ekstrom to score victory on Stage 7 of Dakar Rally, as Henk Lategan’s advantage was almost entirely eliminated. Competitors faced a shorter 418km test around Al Duwadimi on Sunday, with the organisers having adjusted the route and the start timing to ensure medical helicopters could be deployed.  A surprise bout of rain made the terrain even ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5QUo0d6 via IFTTT

Jean-Eric Vergne and Max Guenther set a strong pace in the second round of the Formula E World Championship in Mexico City. However, just as a podium finish seemed within their grasp, a late-race safety car intervention disrupted their plans. Mexico was hosting a Formula E race for the ninth time, but it was a first for the Gen3 EVO electric single-seaters. The spectators turned out in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/TphU96w via IFTTT

Oliver Rowland believes he “would have found it hard to win” the Mexico City E-Prix were it not for a late safety car followed by passing three cars in one lap for the lead. The Nissan driver took his first Formula E victory of the season and his first at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit on Saturday, despite only leading the final six laps in a race dominated by Porsche drivers ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jHmSo6u via IFTTT

Alpine’s executive technical director David Sanchez says the team has recovered from a “very heavy” car and an aerodynamic deficit over the 2024 Formula 1 season. Sanchez was hired by Alpine last May, having worked at the Enstone-based outfit from 2005 to 2007 as a junior aerodynamicist before moving to McLaren and Ferrari, with a brief second stint in Woking early last year. When ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Nfl2qh7 via IFTTT

Reigning Formula E champion Pascal Wehrlein has revealed he made a second visit to hospital due to headaches following his Sao Paulo shunt which ripped the halo from his Porsche’s chassis. The German suffered the spectacular accident when his Porsche was flipped over by Nick Cassidy’s Jaguar in the season-opener last month, with the top of the roll hoop and halo making heavy contact with ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zYXeg24 via IFTTT

Ryo Hirakawa’s move to Alpine as a test and reserve driver was overshadowed by the news that ex-Williams racer Franco Colapinto has been appointed for the same role on Thursday. Beyond obvious questions as to why Alpine chose to have three drivers for a position usually held by a single up-and-coming junior, its decision to hire 30-year-old Hirakawa was also curious. In Colapinto it has a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pCH3dVS via IFTTT

Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache has delved into the reasons that led the squad to lose the Formula 1 constructors’ title in 2024, although Max Verstappen retained his crown to become a four-time world champion. Red Bull’s season got off to a flying start with Verstappen winning four of the first five grands prix and leading three 1-2s thanks to Sergio Perez’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Xeo8Iy3 via IFTTT

The FIA has defended its decision to prevent Carlos Sainz Sr and Sebastien Loeb from completing the 2025 Dakar Rally after both sustained roll cage damage to their cars. Two of the most high-profile drivers in this year’s Ultimate field were thrown out following separate rollovers in the opening three stages of the event. Although both Sainz Sr and Loeb were able to recover from their crashes ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/tSP0bgY via IFTTT

Williams team principal James Vowles has said “a lot of the really positive bits” that happened to his Formula 1 squad in 2024 were invisible to the public eye. The Grove-based team endured a tougher season last year, finishing ninth in the constructors’ championship with several substantial crashes for Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant and Franco Colapinto alike damaging the outfit’s results ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7JgqtDc via IFTTT

Porsche aces Matt Campbell and Ayhancan Guven will defend their Bathurst 12 Hour victory from last year in next month's edition of Australia's prestigious endurance race. Campbell and Guven won the first round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2024 alongside Laurens Vanthoor in a Porsche 911 GT3 R fielded by Manthey EMA, but will switch to Absolute Racing and team up with Alessio ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ceJGT3b via IFTTT

The Autosport Awards, motorsport's most prestigious awards evening, today announced that Qiddiya will be the presenting sponsor for 2025. This sponsorship includes the inaugural Business Exchange, which will take place on the morning of the awards celebration. The newly reimagined Autosport Awards will take place on January 29, 2025, at London's iconic Roundhouse, bringing together elite ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ne1w8Gv via IFTTT

Formula 1 owner Liberty Media has announced the appointment of Derek Chang as its new president and CEO. The role was previously held by Greg Maffei, who helped Liberty complete its takeover of F1 in January 2017 but departed at the end of last year. Chang, who has extensive knowledge of sports broadcasting deals, most recently worked for EverPass Media – a company which supplies live ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/IclgwLO via IFTTT

Le Mans 24 Hours winner Ryo Hirakawa has joined Alpine’s Formula 1 team as its test and reserve driver. Having previously been a part of McLaren’s driver development programme, Hirakawa will switch to Alpine in 2025 and take on an expanded role with the Renault Group brand. He will participate in Alpine’s TCP (testing of previous cars) programme and support the development of the car ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/vDu6jd2 via IFTTT

Change. Accelerated. The two-word mantra by which Formula E operates as it looks to move the everyday automobile closer to an electric future – a process now advancing even faster with SABIC’s support. SABIC, a global leader in diversified chemicals, has been a key technical partner of Formula E’s GENBETA programme since its inception. The live development platform is aimed at showcasing ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JTDNPUe via IFTTT

Anyone who assumed the Dakar Rally had become too easy since leaving its spiritual home in Africa was taken aback by the first few days of the 2025 event in Saudi Arabia. The strategic decision to place the 48-hour stage near the very beginning caused havoc, taking out several heavyweights including four-time champion Carlos Sainz Sr (Ford) and WRC legend Sebastien Loeb (Dacia) - who exited in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/x3uLEKb via IFTTT

Sebastien Loeb still has a chance to return to the Dakar Rally despite being forced out of the event by the FIA on safety grounds, Autosport understands. Following a barrel roll in Tuesday’s third stage between Bisha and Al Henankiyah in Saudi Arabia, the Frenchman’s Dacia Sandrider was thoroughly inspected by FIA’s technical stewards. It was concluded that the roll cage on his car was ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/aIy9vZu via IFTTT

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has insisted Max Verstappen's commitment to the squad has never been in doubt despite rumours of a split last season. The Dutchman, who has won four Formula 1 world drivers' championships with the Milton Keynes-based outfit, fielded questions about his future at numerous stages last term after turmoil within Red Bull, a car that faced a number of issues ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/GFKyihX via IFTTT

Formula 1 has announced TAG Heuer as the first individual partner as part of its 10-year deal with LVMH. Replacing Rolex, TAG Heuer becomes the championship's official timekeeper and branding will be used globally after LVMH struck a decade-long agreement to bring a number of its luxury brands to F1. The partnership continues a long legacy for TAG Heuer in Formula 1, having first appeared as ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/EAJSfl4 via IFTTT

Lewis Hamilton is set to make his Ferrari on-track debut in just two weeks’ time, as the Scuderia adjusts to the new, more restrictive FIA regulations surrounding private testing with older machinery, Autosport understands. Up to last season, there was no limit on how much running was allowed with two- to four-year-old cars, but the rules were tweaked for 2025 after Max Verstappen tested Red ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cz8KNZT via IFTTT

Toyota privateer Yazeed Al-Rajhi moved into the lead of the Dakar Rally after the first half of the 48-hour chrono stage on Sunday, with Dacia’s Nasser Al-Attiyah in hot pursuit in second. Following a successful debut in 2024, ASO implemented the new marathon stage format again this time, with competitors facing an arduous 947km test over Sunday and Monday with limited external ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KO5Ce7m via IFTTT

All 11 MotoGP teams will reveal their 2025 bikes and liveries in January and February ahead of the opening round of the season in Buriram, Thailand on 2 March. With pre-season testing scheduled in Malaysia and Thailand, and South-East Asia seen as an important market for manufacturers, most teams have chosen this part of the world to unveil their new contenders for 2025. However, some teams ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OiLZrq7 via IFTTT

Carlos Sainz Sr’s Ford rolled over in the first part of the Dakar Rally’s 48-hour stage on Sunday, leaving him stranded in the desert. The four-time Dakar winner had started the second test of 2025 in eighth place but things went south for him just after midday in Bisha, Saudi Arabia. According to information received by Autosport, the Spaniard was navigating a sandy area at the exit of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/XSfvHuR via IFTTT

Alpine's decision to take Mercedes' Formula 1 gearbox for 2026 will give it "headroom" to develop elsewhere for the next series of regulations before building its own in 2027. Despite protestations from the personnel at the Renault Group's Viry-Chatillon powertrain headquarters, the decision was made to shutter the French manufacturer's 2026 engine project and assume a customer deal with ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zYSP457 via IFTTT

Toyota driver Seth Quintero has been promoted to first place in Saturday’s opening stage of the Dakar Rally after he stopped to help a stranded Laia Sanz. Quintero was originally classified as runner-up in the 413km test in Bisha, 50s down on provisional winner Guerlain Chicherit of X-raid Mini, after a late shuffle in positions at the front of the order. But, a few hours after the entire ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5Kyeo14 via IFTTT

In 2024, Jorge Martin became the first rider in the MotoGP era to win the title with a satellite team, beating the same-spec factory Ducati of Francesco Bagnaia. It was a feat not seen in the premier class since Valentino Rossi won the 500cc title with the Honda Europe-managed Nastro Azzurro team in 2001 and Eddie Lawson claimed top honours in 1989 on a Honda entered by the private Rothmans ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/kqJDf3B via IFTTT

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has claimed the appearance of flexi-wings and the FIA's decision not to take a more hardline approach towards them played a crucial factor in 2024's Formula 1 constructors' championship. The Scuderia was one of two teams, along with Red Bull, who sought clarification from F1's governing body over the apparent use of flexing front wings by McLaren and ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zA4MPb1 via IFTTT

Though F1 race teams spend most of their year globetrotting, each one still has a place to call home. Usually known as the factory, it’s not as glamorous as the F1 pitlane – but it does offer a permanent base. This is where the cars are built. And, if there’s enough time between races during the frenetic season, it’s also the place to which they return for maintenance. Even on race ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bg3JNQh via IFTTT

Alex Albon has warned Williams not to “be relaxed” for the 2025 Formula 1 season, despite not having to repeat painful 2024 efforts to improve critical car design and build processes.  Williams started the 2024 campaign with its car significantly overweight – to the extent it estimated it was losing up to 0.45 seconds a lap until it could replace parts with lighter components during its ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/yuCSqQX via IFTTT

As preparation for the Monte Carlo Rally goes, heading for the Middle East to contest a 24-hour race is on the unconventional side.  But the news announced shortly before Christmas that Kalle Rovanpera will make his endurance racing debut in next week's Dubai 24 Hours only underlines that he is indeed feeling "recharged" ahead of his full-time WRC return this year, following a partial campaign ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zbLldFw via IFTTT

Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has expressed his gratitude towards his drivers after they mostly refrained from hitting out at their car’s lack of performance in the media. 2024 was a noticeably poorer season for the Silverstone-based squad after a 2023 campaign when Fernando Alonso was a regular podium contender. Aston Martin’s best result last year was Alonso’s fifth-place ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KTc3G9u via IFTTT

MotoGP imposes a winter break during the off-season, the rules for which are properly defined so riders can get some rest and the development of bikes can be restricted. How long does the winter break last? Article 1.15.1.1 of the MotoGP regulations, which covers testing and training, specifies the rule that applies to full-time riders. "Riders under contract or teams under contract" for the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/n6jsdiY via IFTTT

Oscar Piastri believes he has all the tools he needs to compete for the Formula 1 world championship but has conceded he now must “deploy them all the time”.  Australian Piastri earned his first grand prix victories as part of the McLaren effort that saw the team clinch a first constructors’ championship since 1998.  But the former F2 and F3 champion finished the year 82 points ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/y4ElDu7 via IFTTT

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has conceded the squad's previous dominance under Formula 1's ground-effect regulatory era masked "a lot of the issues" with its cars. The Milton Keynes-based outfit failed to hold onto its constructors' championship from 2023 as McLaren and Ferrari surpassed its points total across the season - the former triumphing after a showdown in Abu Dhabi's ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/uh5A1Pe via IFTTT

Ford, together with its long-time World Rally Championship partner M-Sport, has designed the new Raptor T1+ to take on the Dakar Rally. With a star-studded line-up including past winners Carlos Sainz Sr and Nani Roma, former Audi star Mattias Ekstrom and promising youngster Mitch Guthrie Jr, the American manufacturer is already seen as a favourite for the 47th edition of the world’s toughest ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/vWi0ezc via IFTTT

Pol Espargaro was surprised to see how Marc Marquez was able to tame an increasingly difficult Honda MotoGP bike during their team-mates in 2021-22. Having played a major role in building KTM’s MotoGP operation from scratch, Espargaro got the opportunity to race for the factory HRC team in 2021 alongside six-time champion Marquez. At that time, Marquez was still not fully fit after ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MJsiF4U via IFTTT

George Russell believes his “natural driving style has worked well” with the current generation of Formula 1 cars and is another reason behind his excellent qualifying record in 2024. Russell ended the previous campaign with a 24-6 qualifying split against his now former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and also finished one place above the seven-time world champion in the drivers’ ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ILHVqTD via IFTTT