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Ollie Bearman and Esteban Ocon will head to the Jerez circuit in southern Spain this week, with the new Haas team mates taking part in a Testing of Previous Cars session.

Toto Wolff has stated that Mercedes will continue to carry black on their car livery in the future, with the team boss crediting Lewis Hamilton for being instrumental in bringing the colour scheme when it was first introduced back in 2020.

With over 800 starts at the national level, and 197 in Cup, Mike Wallace was looking forward to making an unexpected return to the sport in next month's Daytona 500. But the veteran driver, even with 11 Daytona 500 starts and 16 attempts, was denied a 17th, as confirmed by a NASCAR spokesperson to Motorsport.com.
NASCAR cited "recent racing activity and performance" as the driving factors ...Keep reading

Cadillac and Jota have taken the wraps off the livery in which the two factory V-Series.R LMDhs will race in the World Endurance Championship this season. 
The Cadillac Hertz Team Jota entries will hit the track in the same 'Hertz Racing Gold' colours as the British team's customer Porsche 963s of 2023-24. 
The livery was launched in Paris on Monday at Cadillac's flagship electric vehicle ...Keep reading

Williams endured a problematic 2024 Formula 1 campaign, beginning the year with an overweight car, and then being forced to revert back to older, heavier parts late on due to a significant number of heavy crashes for both Alex Albon and mid-season substitute Franco Colapinto.
Speaking ahead of the Imola weekend in May, team principal James Vowles conceded that the FW46 was giving away roughly ...Keep reading

Racing is all about innovation and finding any advantage over your competitors. Sometimes that comes in the form of employing a better driver, a faster pit crew, or a genius engineering team that can successfully play within the margins of the rule book. We saw an example of that with Formula 1 this season and its flexi-wings that brought speed for various teams. And the FIA swiftly began ...Keep reading

The 2024 Indy NXT Vice Champion, Jacob Abel is making the step up for a full-time rookie campaign behind the wheel of Dale Coyne Racing’s No. 51 Honda-powered entry in the 2025 IndyCar Series' season. The Kentucky native takes over the role after having previously undergone an evaluation test with Coyne in 2023.
“We are excited about running another Indy NXT by Firestone Vice-Champion here ...Keep reading

The Dakar Rally has claimed its first high-profile victims, and the chequered flag has fallen on the Dubai 24 Hours with victory claimed by the Al Manar Racing by WRT BMW. After a brief lull while gravy-soaked turkey and pigs-in-blankets were consumed, motorsport is well and truly back.
The year ahead promises numerous talking points across the spectrum of categories. From Formula 1's most ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez's first comments since leaving the Formula 1 grid after losing his Red Bull seat indicated a sabbatical from driving.
The Mexican's struggles behind the wheel of the RB20 resulted in Liam Lawson replacing him alongside Max Verstappen for the new campaign, with Perez's 14-year stay in the championship brought to an end.
Speaking at an event in Mexico, he said he would wait six ...Keep reading

Oliver Rowland became the second different Formula E winner in as many races after surging to an unexpected victory in the closing stages of the Mexico City E-Prix.
But while the Briton’s overtaking prowess handed him the win, the outright performance of Porsche drivers Antonio Felix da Costa and Pascal Wehrlein was an ominous warning sign for its rivals.
After another exhilarating race in ...Keep reading

New Aprilia MotoGP signing Jorge Martin believes he could possibly have a chance to fight for the championship again in 2026.
The reigning champion has switched to Aprilia’s factory team on a two-year contract after being snubbed of a chance to move up to the factory Ducati team in favour of six-time champion Marc Marquez.
Starting this year, he will lead an all-new line-up at the ...Keep reading

Henk Lategan extended his lead at the top of the overall Dakar Rally standings with a dominant performance on Stage 8.
The factory Toyota driver finished the test in 4h49m54s, though was docked two minutes after finishing for a speed violation, to finish 1m47s ahead of team-mate Guy Botterill and 4m4s ahead of Century driver Mathieu Serradori.
Stage 7 winner Lucas Moraes opened the track in ...Keep reading

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

Thierry Neuville is hopeful Hyundai will debut its highly anticipated revised 2025 World Rally Championship car at Rally Sweden next month.
Hyundai has spent much of last season developing a significant upgrade to its i20 N Rally1 car for 2025, but confirmed late last year that it would begin the new season in Monte Carlo next week with its 2024 car – minus the hybrid power unit, as per the ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri has fine-tuned the way he’s working with the McLaren team, 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 has also been growing off the ...Keep reading

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Dacia Sandriders driver Nasser Al-Attiyah has revealed he has sent a letter to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem over his grievances from this year's Dakar Rally.
The five-time event winner was left aggrieved by a 10-minute penalty when finishing fastest on Stage 5, a lost spare wheel taking away his 9m59s advantage at the end of the test to leave him one second adrift of the stage win in ...Keep reading

Having achieved four world championships, 63 wins, 112 podiums and 40 pole positions during his 10 years in Formula 1 so far, Max Verstappen has ensconced himself amongst the most successful drivers in the sport’s history – which could make the prospect of becoming his team mate a slightly daunting one.

The director of the Dakar Rally personally made sure competitors were able to find the correct route on Stage 7 after a mistake was found in the roadbook.
Several drivers struggled to validate a waypoint a third of the way into Sunday’s 418km test in Al Duwadimi, with many going off course as they religiously followed the roadbook supplied by organiser ASO.
It was later discovered that the ...Keep reading

Former Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has insisted owner Lawrence Stroll is understanding and supportive of the journey faced to reach the top of F1 despite his "impatience" for success.
Canadian businessman Stroll bailed out the floundering Force India team last decade, renaming the team Racing Point before transitioning to the luxury British car manufacturer's moniker.
Since ...Keep reading