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Hyundai has the fastest car, Toyota has a new star man, Citroen has a point to prove but M-Sport has Sebastien Ogier. Ogier silenced his last remaining doubters last year, winning his fifth consecutive world championship with effective privateers M-Sport after four supreme years with the all-conquering Volkswagen. His rug of comfort and support was […]
Renault Formula 1 development driver Oliver Rowland expressed his appreciation for the Formula Renault 3.5 championship following its closure at the end of the 2017 season. The series yielded eventual F1 stars such as Fernando Alonso, Robert Kubica, Kevin Magnussen and Carlos Sainz Jr. During its height, it was a serious rival to F1’s main […]
Bryan Bouffier will return to the top tier of the World Rally Championship, in the series’ season opener in Monte Carlo, driving the third M-Sport Ford Fiesta. Bouffier, who won the 2011 Monte Carlo Rally when it was part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, will drive alongside five-time champion Sebastien Ogier and Welshman Elfyn Evans. […]
Euroformula Open driver Simo Laaksonen will race for Campos Racing in GP3 this year. Laaksonen switched to EF Open in 2017 after three years racing in national F4 championships. The 19-year-old Finn ended his maiden EF Open sixth in the drivers’ championship with two podiums to his name, he was also Campos’ highest placed driver. […]
GP2 veteran Rene Binder will drive in four IndyCar races with Juncos Racing in 2018. Binder participated in 74 GP2/F2 races between 2012 and 2017, scoring points on just seven occasions. Last year, alongside a guest appearance at F2’s standalone event at Jerez, he raced in the final season of World Series Formula V8 3.5, […]
Formula 2 driver Nicholas Latifi will serve as the reserve and test driver for the Force India Formula 1 team in 2018. Latifi finished 16th in his first full-time GP2 season with DAMS in 2016 but last year took nine podiums and one race win on his way to fifth in the F2 championship. The […]
Alex Palou will race in the Formula 3 European Championship in 2018 for Hitech Grand Prix. The 20-year-old spent two years in GP3 between 2015 and ’16, showing good one-lap pace but struggling for results in the races, taking just two podiums and one race win. He switched to Japanese Formula 3 last year, taking […]
Jose Maria Lopez is set to return to Formula E after Neel Jani split with Dragon Racing after just one weekend. Lopez made his debut with Virgin Racing last year but was axed in favour of Alex Lynn after just one season, which included two podiums. The opportunity to return to FE arose when Jani […]
The 2018 Formula 2 season will mark the debut of the next-generation car and is likely to boast one of the series’ strongest ever grids. 2017 champion Charles Leclerc will race with the Sauber Formula 1 team in 2018, the 32nd driver to graduate from the series since its inception in 2005. Russian Time and […]
Citroen has confirmed nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb will be returning to the series in 2018 on a part-time basis. Loeb, who won consecutive titles with manufacturer between 2004 and 2012, tested the Citroen C3 on asphalt and gravel earlier in the year. He will return to competition in 2018 on three rallies; Rally […]
The 2017 Formula 2 season may have been the first season under a new name, but it marked the end of the era for one of the greatest single-seater cars of all time. It seems fitting that the last year for such an exciting and beloved generation of F1’s main feeder series, would be dominated […]
Reigning WRC2 champion Pontus Tidemand will remain with Skoda for the 2018 season but will be joined by a number of youngsters. The biggest name being 17-year-old Kalle Rovanpera, who picked Skoda over a full-time campaign in a Fiesta R5, the car he drove when making his WRC2 debut in Wales and Australia last year. […]