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Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas will start 2019 with a one-off outing in the opening round of the Finnish Rally Championship. Bottas will make his rally debut at the Arctic Lapland Rally on January 24-26, driving an M-Sport Ford Fiesta RS WRC. He will share the car with experienced co-driver and two-time World Rally champion Timo Rautiainen. […]
McLaren Formula 1 boss Zak Brown believes Red Bull’s split from Renault will help his team in 2019. After three difficult seasons with Honda, McLaren switched engine suppliers to Renault for the 2018 season. Though the team didn’t receive the boost to challenge at the front of the field, Brown is happy with Renault’s performance. […]
European Formula 3 race winner Jehan Daruvala will switch to Prema Racing for the 2019 FIA Formula 3 championship. The 20-year-old, who spent the past two years racing with Carlin in the European championship, makes the step up to the Formula 1 support series after a one off appearance in the GP3 series last year. […]
Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Abu Dhabi marked the end of the 2018 Formula 1 championship. It’s been a one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory, with thrilling races, a tight battle at the top of the championship standings and talented young drivers making their debuts. Hamilton and Mercedes may have official glory, but […]
Toyota claimed its fourth 1-2 of the 2018-19 World Endurance Championship in a rain disrupted 6 hours of Shanghai. The #7 car of Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez, and Kamui Koboyashi claimed its second consecutive win ahead of sister #8 car, driven by Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Buemi, and Kazuki Nakajima. Heavy rain caused two red […]
Honda star Naoki Yamamoto could be set for Formula 1 free practice outings in 2019. Yamamoto became the first driver in more than 10 years to win both the Super GT and Super Formula titles in the same year, when he and team-mate Jenson Button secured the GT crown last weekend. The successful season takes […]
Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi claimed pole for the #7 Toyota ahead of the 6 Hours of Shanghai. Kobayashi became the only man to set a lap time under 1m43s around the Chinese circuit with his final lap of the day. His 1m42.708s gave the car a combined time of 1m43.931s, putting the squad top […]
Budget concerns could force Red Bull Junior Dan Ticktum to compete in the Japanese Super Formula rather than Formula 2 next season. Ticktum, who finished runner up in the European Formula 3 championship, is hoping to have enough superlicesnse points to be ready for a Formula 1 by 2020. But the high costs involved in […]
Sauber has partnered with Formula 2 team Charouz Racing System to launch its own junior team. The Sauber Junior team will field drivers in F2, the new Formula 3 series, and ADAC Italian Formula 4 championships from next season. It aims to give drivers a route from the entry level FIA series straight to F1 […]
Lewis Hamilton’s championship celebrations continued in Brazil as he claimed his 10th win of the season. But it was Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who was star of the show in Interlagos. Despite appearing to struggle all weekend, Red Bull proved to be a force to be reckoned with on race day, and Verstappen looked set […]
Fernando Alonso will compete in the 2019 Indy500 with McLaren Racing, the team has confirmed. The Spaniard last competed in the race in 2017, leading a number of laps before retiring with engine problems. An Indy500 win is all Alonso needs to complete the unofficial Triple Crown of motorsport, having taken the 24 Hours of […]
Lewis Hamilton claimed Mercedes’ 100th Formula 1 pole position in a rain disrupted qualifying while a weigh bridge incident for Sebastian Vettel has put the Ferrari under investigation. Hamilton was the fastest after the first round of laps in the final qualifying session with Vettel just under a tenth of a second slower. He found […]