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Red Bull will be the focus of attention when Formula 1 pre-season testing starts this week in Bahrain - for reasons both on and off the track.

MotoGP has been left with just five bike makers since Suzuki’s shock withdrawal at the end of the 2022 season, a decision that came despite the Japanese marque having a long-term deal with promoter Dorna.The new 2027 rules represent the best opportunity for a new or returning manufacturer to enter the premier class, as the overhaul will help to equalise the field between incumbents and potential ...Keep reading

Newcastle United's sporting director Dan Ashworth is placed on gardening leave after telling the club he wants to join Manchester United.

Sato, who has been linked with Honda throughout his career, will compete in this year’s Indy 500 with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the quest for a third victory in the event.His appointment mirrors a similar move at Toyota where former F1 racers Kazuki Nakajima and Kamui Kobayashi have both been given management roles.Sato has long been involved in young driver programmes in his role with ...Keep reading

Mercedes has not only dialled out a 'spiteful' rear end of W15, it also appears to have changed its new Formula 1 car in an area that Lewis Hamilton felt was a problem.While Hamilton had endured the tricky rear of the W14 that left him lacking confidence at times, he was also not happy last year with the seating position.Speaking during the early 2023 races, Hamilton said: “I don't know if ...Keep reading

Visitors will be able to land on one of the Farne Islands again after avian flu forced its closure.

Olly Jones and Ben Gallon lost their mothers to cancer within a week of each other.

England's Gary Wilson wins his first Welsh Open title with a 9-4 victory in the final against compatriot Martin O'Donnell.

The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has begun in earnest.Following the non-points exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum won by Denny Hamlin earlier this month, Joey Logano took pole for this weekend's Daytona 500 season opener by leading a Ford front-row lockout in qualifying on Wednesday night.
Logano and McDowell underlined the potency of the new Mustang by locking out the front row ...Keep reading

Kevin Harvick didn’t have the quickest car at Daytona and struggled against an overheating problem that dropped him back into the murkier zones of the whirling dervish pack, but what he did have was the right move up his sleeve at the crucial moment.He grasped American racing’s biggest prize away from one of its best-loved racers, Mark Martin, in brilliant – yet controversial – ...Keep reading

Forty cars will start the most-watched motorsports event in the United States on Monday afternoon, an event that is rain-delayed from Sunday, which also serves as the annual season-opener for the NASCAR Cup Series.2024 Daytona 500 starting lineup 



Pos
Nº
Driver 
Manufacturer 


1
22 
Joey Logano
Ford


2
34 
Michael ...Keep reading

Fourmaux delivered the best result of his WRC career to date to finish a milestone third, 47.9 seconds behind eventual Rally Sweden winner Esapekka Lappi of Hyundai.The M-Sport Ford driver successfully navigated incredibly challenging conditions that caught out world champions Kalle Rovanpera and Ott Tanak to end Saturday in second position, behind Lappi and in front of Toyota’s Elfyn Evans, to ...Keep reading

Formula 1 urges Red Bull to resolve the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner "as soon as possible".

Horner is the subject of a probe launched by Red Bull’s energy drinks parent company into unspecified allegations made against him by a female employee.He has denied any wrongdoing and recently faced lengthy questioning by the independent barrister who has been appointed by Red Bull to look into the matter.While Red Bull is going through the process of analysing the findings of the investigation ...Keep reading

Ferrari dropped a bombshell on the motorsport world earlier this month when it announced that it had signed seven-time F1 champion Hamilton for 2025.It will bring to an end a fruitful 11-year partnership with the Mercedes F1 team, whom Hamilton joined from McLaren at the end of 2012 and won six of his seven world titles between 2014 and 2020.Quartararo is a known F1 fan and lover of cars, and ...Keep reading

The Hyundai driver beat Toyota’s Elfyn Evans by 29.6 seconds across Sweden’s 18 snow stages to clinch a first win since his breakthrough 2017 Rally Finland victory.The success ended a 2,394 day wait to stand on the top step of a WRC top tier podium, following his Finland win, 60 rallies ago when driving for Toyota.The Finn, competing in the first round of a partial programme this year, made ...Keep reading

It is why we saw different floors on McLaren images, and Red Bull tried to hide the sidepod inlets on its new RB20 to keep the prying eyes of rivals away from what it is really doing for a little while longer.Sometimes though, teams go the extra mile beyond disguising what they are doing, by throwing a few deliberate distractions out there.Remember the fake serrated floor that appeared on the Alfa ...Keep reading

The Italian manufacturer is entering its 10th season since its return to the premier class in 2015, when it joined the grid in partnership with Gresini Racing.From 2022, Aprilia was entered as a standalone factory team after Gresini elected to link up with Ducati.That year marked a breakthrough for Aprilia, who scored its first victory in MotoGP with Aleix Espargaro in Argentina.Espargaro was able ...Keep reading

The Daytona 500 now joins the Xfinity Series race on Monday, creating the first-ever Monday doubleheader at Daytona International Speedway.The Xfinity Series race will broadcast on Fox Sports 1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. The Daytona 500 will be live on Fox, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.Fans with Saturday grandstand tickets and admission to the Fanzone may attend both races on Monday.The ...Keep reading

This year’s red-and-yellow colour scheme of the 499Ps fielded in the Hypercar class by the AF Corse team once again celebrates the success of the previous factory Ferrari prototype, the 312PB of 1972 and 1973.The livery incorporates a new shade of Ferrari racing red inspired by the F2007 Formula 1 car in which Kimi Raikkonen took the Italian manufacturer’s most recent world drivers’ ...Keep reading