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Kick Sauber have confirmed that Alessandro Alunni Bravi will leave his position as Team Representative and Managing Director at the end of January 2025.

Williams Esports driver Ismael Fahssi triumphed in the season-opening round of the 2025 F1 Sim Racing World Championship on Tuesday night, making a dramatic last-lap move for victory.

With an ownership group that includes Dale Earnhardt Jr. and sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller, JR Motorsports has been a staple in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for nearly 20 years. To-date, JRM has four driver's titles, winning in 2014 with Chase Elliott, 2017 with William Byron, 2018 with Tyler Reddick, and lastly, 2024 with Justin Allgaier.
2024 was Allgaier's first Xfinity championship after 14 ...Keep reading

After a thrilling battle with Kyle Larson, the Toyota-powered entry of Christopher Bell came away with the win at the Non-Wing Outlaw Golden Driller in the Tulsa Shootout earlier this month. Climbing from his car victorious, he shouts, "I've got four words: Thank you Joe Gibbs!" 
And he had plenty of reasons to be thankful. Bell, a three-time winner at the Chili Bowl Nationals and Turkey ...Keep reading

Toyota expects Kalle Rovanpera's return to a full-time World Rally Championship drive will make team-mate Elfyn Evans “much stronger” this year. 
The Japanese squad is gearing up to begin a tilt at both the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles next week in Monte Carlo, with an expanded line-up that features four full-time drivers and a partial campaign for eight-time world champion ...Keep reading

Another link between Formula 1’s past and present has been severed – for now. Alessandro Alunni Bravi might not be a household name for fans but the announcement that he is to leave Sauber puts even more distance between F1’s corporate present and its past as Bernie Ecclestone’s personal fiefdom.
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What does Andretti Global look like after Michael Andretti took a step back?
It's a question many have pondered since the team owner stepped down as Chairman and CEO in September, handing the reins off to Group 1001 CEO Dan Towriss. Andretti remains a strategic advisor to the organization he co-founded in 2002.  
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Red Bull has agreed an earlier exit for future Sauber team principal Jonathan Wheatley, while letting McLaren wait on sporting director Will Courtenay.
Wheatley was announced as Sauber's future team boss last August, but continued in his long-time role as Red Bull's sporting director through the 2024 season.
Motorsport.com understands Wheatley, who has worked for Red Bull since 2006, has now ...Keep reading

Nasser Al-Attiyah has revealed he is left with a “lot of stress” after a navigation error on Stage 10 dented his hopes of scoring a sixth career victory in the Dakar Rally.
The Dacia star opened the road on Wednesday’s first visit to the gruelling Empty Quarters of Saudi Arabia, but a mistake by co-driver Edouard Boulanger meant they lost their way just 9km into the stage.
They ...Keep reading

“When you lose that’s when you really need to become one [in the team] and it shows everybody’s character. I think everybody is pushing hard to help me turn this around.”
Just 10 months ago, those very words from Antonio Felix da Costa began another article that was written under very different circumstances than those the Portuguese driver currently finds himself.
At the time, da ...Keep reading

Indonesia has formally declared its interest in hosting a round of the World Rally Championship in the near future.
The WRC Promoter met with the Indonesian Minister for Sport and Youth, Dito Ariotedjo, in the nation’s capital city Jakarta this week to discuss the possibility of Indonesia making a return to the WRC.
A Heads of Agreement for Indonesia to join the WRC in the future was ...Keep reading

Nani Roma scored Ford’s first stage victory of the 2025 Dakar Rally on Wednesday, while Toyota driver Henk Lategan recaptured the lead in the overall standings.
Stage 10 marked the first visit to the unforgiving Empty Quarters desert in Saudi Arabia, as competitors tackled 120km of dunes and sand between Haradh and Shubaytah.
The tricky route shook up the order in the Ultimate category and ...Keep reading

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

Sauber managing director and team representative Alessandro Alunni Bravi will part ways with the team at the end of January, after eight years working with the Formula 1 team.
The bespectacled Italian was added to the board of the Sauber team following its takeover by Longbow Finance in 2017, the investment company headed by Tetra Pak billionaire Finn Rausing.
Previously, Alunni Bravi had ...Keep reading

Liam Lawson has reflected on how performing a “big overtake” in a New Zealand racing series – during a time where his future looked uncertain – led to him unexpectedly catching the eye of Red Bull’s Helmut Marko and subsequently being signed to the squad’s junior programme.

The six drivers in F1 history who became champion for the first time alongside a former title-winning team mate.

While we await the start of the new Formula 1 season, there is still plenty of racing action to enjoy as the 2025 F1 Sim Racing World Championship kicks off this week, with all 10 F1 teams ready to battle it out in the esports competition.

Christian Horner is confident that Red Bull have the “strength and depth” to cope with the departures of Adrian Newey and Jonathan Wheatley, with the team boss stating that the moves have sparked an “evolution” at the squad rather than a “rebuild”.

Oliver Oakes has taken positives from Alpine’s competitive end to 2024, and their recovery to sixth in the constructors’ standings, while stating that there will be “no magic” involved in them climbing further up the Formula 1 pecking order.

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 the several topics that caused unease among F1 drivers last season as they grew increasingly frustrated at how FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem had been running things.
Over the 2024 season a total of around 270,000 euros - not counting suspended ...Keep reading