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The new F1 season will feature a record-breaking 24 events, with the start times largely unchanged from 2023.Just one race will have a different start time, with the Miami GP kicking off at 4pm local time instead of 3:30pm.Practice and qualifying times have been released too for most grands prix, but only the race start time is available for sprint weekends and the Las Vegas GP.After its first ...Keep reading

2024 will mark the 30th year of Repsol’s sponsorship of Honda, a partnership that has made its orange livery one of the most recognisable in the history of motorcycle racing.However, in what is supposed to be a landmark year for their long-standing association, the Spanish oil giant will end up with limited exposure for its brand on the two factory RC213Vs, while the size of the Repsol logos on ...Keep reading

Al-Attiyah has endured a torrid run in the 46th edition of Dakar following his switch from Toyota to Prodrive, with a combination of accidents and reliability problems forcing him out of the event.The Qatari driver had been on the back foot since he dropped 25 minutes to the leaders on the opening stage, and his hopes of securing a sixth career victory formally ended when his Prodrive Hunter took ...Keep reading

The pair were named on Wednesday along with Rene Rast and Robin Frijns when the German manufacturer firmed up the line-ups in the two M Hybrid V8 LMDhs that will compete under the BMW M Team WRT banner during its maiden season in Hypercar.Marciello and Wittmann will be teamed in the #15 entry with Dries Vanthoor, who was listed against the car on the publication of this season’s WEC entry list ...Keep reading

As part of a push to improve the fortunes of the soon-to-be-renamed AlphaTauri squad, owner Red Bull has revamped its leadership and is making infrastructure changes.Part of that will involve AlphaTauri taking more customer parts from Red Bull, and a ramping up of its presence on its parent team’s Milton Keynes campus.Brown has expressed worries before about the extent of the partnership, and he ...Keep reading

The idea is that the new mayor will champion the North East and lobby government for support.

As figures show knife crime rising in north-east England, the BBC speaks to stabbing victim Yazan.

Victims felt alone yet hundreds were enduring similar experiences. Here we look at some of their stories.

Theo Pourchaire won the 2023 F2 Championship, but he will not return to the series in 2024 as he evaluates a switch to Japan's Super Formula series and continues to be Sauber F1’s reserve driver.  F2’s 2023 runner-up Frederik Vesti appears unlikely to be returning either, with other young talents such as Jack Doohan and Ayumu Iwasa also heading off to their next motorsport ...Keep reading

A two-year agreement, de Alba will spend the 2024 season driving the No. 2 entry for the newly formed Andretti Cape Indy NXT before transitioning to Andretti’s Indy NXT outfit for 2025.The 24-year-old Mexican comes in as a two-time NASCAR Mexico Series champion (2021, 2023), along with titles in SC Super Copa (2019) and Super Copa GTM (2021, 2023). He debuted in USF Pro 2000 in 2022 with two ...Keep reading

Dye, 20, competed full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series last year. He scored one top-ten and ended the season 18th in the championship standings.He's also the 2022 ARCA Menards Series championship runner-up, and has one career ARCA victory (Berlin 2021).In 2023, he made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, running two races with Alpha Prime Racing. He finished 17th at Texas Motor Speedway and 21st at ...Keep reading

Although only 23 years old, VeeKay is already going into his fifth season in North America’s premier open-wheel championship.Last year’s output by the Dutchman featured only two top 10s and a best result of sixth en route to placing 14th in the standings. Statistically, it was the worst season of his career. However, battling through such a challenging campaign forced growth for both he and ...Keep reading

When F1 Correspondent Lawrence Barretto headed down to the McLaren Technology Centre to see the new livery, he found a team excited about the future and benefitting from the bounce a strong campaign like 2023 can give you.

McLaren have become the first Formula 1 team to unveil their 2024 look by revealing their livery for the upcoming season.

Toto Wolff has spoken of his energy and determination ahead of the 2024 F1 season as he bids to get Mercedes back to winning ways after agreeing a new deal to lead the outfit.

Norris currently has a contract to race with McLaren – where he has competed ever since he entered F1 as a rookie back in 2019 – until the end of the 2025 campaign.But as uncertainty over Sergio Perez’s position as Max Verstappen’s team-mate at Red Bull continues given Perez’s poor pace and race showing against the world champion, speculation remains that the team could make an audacious ...Keep reading

While preparations continue back at its factory for the official launch of the MCL38 next month, McLaren on Tuesday evening revealed the livery that its car will run in. Off the back of its impressive turnaround in form last year, where it went from near the back of the field to end the campaign as Red Bull's main challenger, interest is high on whether or not McLaren can continue its rate of ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has confidence they can build on last season's progress but is wary of Red Bull's potential to continue improving.

The Woking-based team has made a change to its new season launch process for 2024, as in previous years it revealed both the livery and launch specification of its new design simultaneously.This time, McLaren has chosen to showcase its tweaked colour scheme in a bid to boost its marketing potential at a time of year when new car launch news has been relatively quiet in recent seasons, while ...Keep reading

Trackhouse Racing announced an extension of their partnership with Quaker State on Tuesday, which includes multiple races as the primary sponsor on Suarez's No. 99 Chevrolet and an associate sponsor on Ross Chastain's No. 1 Chevrolet.The motor oil brand will also back Suarez's efforts at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum as he enters the NASCAR Mexico Series race, which precedes The Clash at the ...Keep reading