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'Driving is like birthday and Christmas in one'

Formula 1 at the BBC - Wed, 2025-02-05 09:56
Skye Parker, 14, is among those taking part in the initiative and is hoping to become a F1 champion.

Meet the girls pushing to become future F1 stars

Formula 1 at the BBC - Wed, 2025-02-05 09:16
More Than Equal, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, is continuing its goal to find and develop future Formula 1 stars.

Meet the girls pushing to become future F1 stars

Formula 1 at the BBC - Wed, 2025-02-05 09:16
More Than Equal, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, is continuing its goal to find and develop future Formula 1 stars.

Meet the girls pushing to become future F1 stars

Formula 1 at the BBC - Wed, 2025-02-05 09:16
More Than Equal, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, is continuing its goal to find and develop future Formula 1 stars.

Meet the girls pushing to become future F1 stars

Formula 1 at the BBC - Wed, 2025-02-05 09:16
More Than Equal, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, is continuing its goal to find and develop future Formula 1 stars.

Alpine announces new team-mates for Schumacher in WEC 2025

Motorsport - Wed, 2025-02-05 06:08
Mick Schumacher will be joined by Frederic Makowiecki and Jules Gounon in Alpine’s World Endurance Championship line-up for 2025. 
It means the ex-Formula 1 racer will have two new full-season team-mates in the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh for his second year of sportscar racing. 
In 2024 he was joined by Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere, who are now respectively sporting director and ...Keep reading

Martin taken to hospital after huge crash in Sepang MotoGP test

Motorsport - Wed, 2025-02-05 05:39
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín suffered a horror crash just two hours into the the Sepang MotoGP test on Wednesday, forcing medical services to take him to a nearby hospital.
At around ten minutes to twelve in Malaysia, the Spaniard was approaching the entrance to Sepang's second corner, a tight left-hand turn, when his Aprilia RS-GP threw him out violently, sending him spinning in the ...Keep reading

Aston Martin completes line-up for Hypercar project in WEC and IMSA

Motorsport - Wed, 2025-02-05 00:05
Aston Martin will run an all-British line-up in one of its Valkyrie AMR-LMHs at the Le Mans 24 Hours and across the full World Endurance Championship this season.
The double Le Mans class winner Harry Tincknell, who was announced as part of The Heart of Racing Hypercar class line-up last November, will be joined by 2018 McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Tom Gamble for the full ...Keep reading

NASCAR to introduce F1-esque fastest lap bonus point in 2025

Motorsport - Tue, 2025-02-04 17:47
NASCAR, in a way, is taking notes from F1's old playbook. The American stock car series recently renewed its long-standing partnership with Comcast, and as part of the new deal, the sanctioning body is introducing the 'Xfinity Fastest Lap' point.
As it stands, the driver and team who secures the fastest race lap during any given points-paying race will be awarded the "bonus point." The rule ...Keep reading

Bearman looks for 'growth' in first full F1 campaign

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 16:27
British teenager Oliver Bearman is aiming for a year of "continuous growth and development" as he prepares for his first full campaign in Formula 1.

Bearman looks for 'growth' in first full F1 campaign

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 16:27
British teenager Oliver Bearman is aiming for a year of "continuous growth and development" as he prepares for his first full campaign in Formula 1.

Bearman looks for 'growth' in first full F1 campaign

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 16:27
British teenager Oliver Bearman is aiming for a year of "continuous growth and development" as he prepares for his first full campaign in Formula 1.

This new magazine feels like the F1 museum of your dreams

Motorsport - Tue, 2025-02-04 15:05
You've no doubt come across RACEWKND, the art-book-slash-magazine where each issue carries a satisfying heft and a specific theme: say, the Miami GP's inaugural race or F1 in the 1970's. Now, the team behind those all-too-periodic periodicals is back with something new and, thankfully, more regular: a quarterly magazine called RQ1. 
"Each issue of RACEWKND is a deep dive into a single topic ...Keep reading

How Sauber’s UK hub might solve Audi’s F1 growth troubles

Motorsport - Tue, 2025-02-04 14:35
Sauber opening a technical centre for Audi's coming Formula 1 entry appears to solve one big headache for the nascent project, while also drawing new parallels with rival squad, Haas.
The news that Sauber is now searching for premises on which to open its 'Sauber Motorsport Technology Centre UK' means it is primarily hoping to attract F1 staff based in the United Kingdom, while also ...Keep reading

Sauber launches UK engineering hub ahead of Audi F1 takeover in 2026

Motorsport - Tue, 2025-02-04 14:11
Sauber is set to establish a United Kingdom base as it prepares to morph into the Audi Formula 1 factory team in 2026.
The team’s headquarters will remain in the Swiss municipality of Hinwil, while running its power unit operation in Neuburg, Germany.
But it will now open a third location in the UK’s ‘motorsport valley’, which covers England’s South East and Midlands regions where ...Keep reading

Sauber owner Audi to open F1 base in the UK

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 14:00
The Swiss-based Sauber team says it will open a UK base this year as owner Audi gears up for its official entry into Formula 1 in 2026.

Sauber owner Audi to open F1 base in the UK

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 14:00
The Swiss-based Sauber team says it will open a UK base this year as owner Audi gears up for its official entry into Formula 1 in 2026.

Sauber owner Audi to open F1 base in the UK

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 14:00
The Swiss-based Sauber team says it will open a UK base this year as owner Audi gears up for its official entry into Formula 1 in 2026.

Sauber owner Audi to open F1 base in the UK

Formula 1 at the BBC - Tue, 2025-02-04 14:00
The Swiss-based Sauber team says it will open a UK base this year as owner Audi gears up for its official entry into Formula 1 in 2026.

Why Haas F1 won’t use Toyota’s wind tunnel despite technical partnership

Motorsport - Tue, 2025-02-04 12:36
Haas will continue to work in Ferrari’s Formula 1 wind tunnel despite signing a high-profile technical partnership with Toyota last year.
Although Toyota's F1 team came and went expensively during the 2000s without securing a single victory, its wind tunnel in Cologne was once considered so cutting edge that other F1 outfits used it in preference to their own. 
However, Haas has decided ...Keep reading

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