With political tensions running high between Britain and Russia, at least two British politicians have put on pressure on Formula One to cancel the Russian Grand Prix, which is scheduled to take place in Sochi on Oct. 12.The F1 event was thrust into conversations after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine, killing 298 people. […]
For many it is the essence of rallying: the Rally Finland. The Volkswagen works duos go into the eighth round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), from 31 July to 3 August, in first, second and third place in the championship. Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F), Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN) and Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Fløene (N/N) […]
Drivers will discover different stages when the start their recce on Monday for the Rally Finland Neste (31 July – 3 August for round eight of the World Rally Championship.Just three of last year’s special stages remain in the same format but what hasn’t changed is the DNA of one of rallying’s classics. Smooth gravel […]
Porsche South Africa’s Toby Venter has swooped like a modern super hero to save the Kyalami racetrack and set the minds of motorsport fans at rest after many years of uncertainty about the venue’s future.Speculation has been rife over what might become of the circuit, especially given the multitude of purposes the huge property could […]
The Super Series heads to the Free State for round five of the 2014 season. Here, the Engen Xtreme team will contest the Bridgestone Production Car Championship at Phakisa Freeway on Saturday, 2 August. The event makes the start of the second half of the season, with the Engen Xtreme racers a strong presence in […]
But the outspoken 1997 world champion says it is not just the drivers’ fault, as the F1 of today does not bring out the “wild animal” in them. “The rules are too restrictive,” French Canadian Villeneuve told Schwetzinger Zeitung newspaper. “I have always regarded formula one as an extreme sport, but not really anymore,” he […]
In his striking yellow MINI ALL4 Racing, Joan “Nani” Roma (ES) has won the sixth round of the 2014 FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies. After four demanding special stages and 666.13 competitive kilometres during the 2014 Baja Aragón the Spaniard and his co-driver Michel Périn (FR) claimed the victory for the Monster Energy […]
The historic Kyalami race track may remain as a beacon of the motor industry as it was bought by Porsche South Africa for R205 million on Thursday noon. Lance Chalwin-Milton, Joint MD at High Street Auctions said because of this buyer it is likely that the property would “remain in the industry.” He added that […]
Emma Gilmour’s race craft skills have been sharpened this weekend, with the talented Kiwi showing her claws and rubbing panels with the top guns at the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship’s (GRC) fourth round in New York. A confidence boost associated with some new-found speed in her Rhys Millen Racing Hyundai Veloster Turbo rallycross car […]
The Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team is coming home with a first place trophy and some bodywork that needs fixing. Tanner Foust and Scott Speed were two of the fastest cars on the track throughout the fourth round of the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship in New York. However, rough starts and tough competition had the […]
World Rally Championship regular Ott Tanak claimed a dominant victory in Estonia to make it six winners from seven rounds in this seasons European Rally Championship.Tanak, who was untouchable in his home guest appearance, was fastest on 10 of the 14 gravel stages. The 26-year-old did suffer a few few minor technical issues with a […]
Manx rally driver David Higgins is Rally America champion for the fourth consecutive year after overcoming late adversity to win the New England Forest Rally in Newry, Maine.The Subaru Rally Team USA man and co-driver Craig Drew took their fifth victory of the season to secure the Championship with two events still remaining. A […]
Formula 1 preview: Hamilton enters this weekend’s Hungarian GP as the favorite Lewis Hamilton will be aiming to win his third straight Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday and fifth overall as he chases Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg for the championship lead in the last race before the summer break.Mercedes has won nine of the season’s […]
The entry list of Baja Aragon contained many surprises, especially in the cars’ category. The only vehicle missing is the Peugeot 2008DKR to have a debut in Teruel – that will happen at the Dakar. X-raid Mini comes with six cars including FIA World Cup leader Vasilyev and reigning Dakar champion Nani Roma, Toyota Overdrive with […]
The WRC stars of today will go head-to-head with the rallying legends of yesteryear when they tackle the Neste Oil Rally Helsinki Battle next weekend (26 July).The rally sprint event will take place on the streets of Helsinki and action will be streamed live on WRC.com between 15.00 and 17.30. The Neste Oil Rally Helsinki […]
The Asian Le Mans Series for 2014 promised growth in all classes but the reality is that for the first round that simply hasn’t emerged.The official entry for the race this weekend at Inje South Korea now numbers only 8 cars, a very disappointing total, and low enough that promises of other cars to come […]
Unbeaten in the opening half of the 2014 season, reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez currently holds a 77 point title lead. That’s an average increase of 8.6 points per race. If Marquez’s championship advantage continues growing at that rate he’ll have a 120 point lead after Aragon (round 14 of 18). That projection would put […]
In less than one month, the Race of Argentina will welcome … an Argentine as provisional leader of the FIA WTCC standings. After the end of the European part of the season, José María López went home for a few days before taking a well-deserved break and met with the Argentine press to whom he […]
BMW’s Maxime Martin has dominated a hugely dramatic race at the Moscow Raceway to record his first ever DTM victory as defending champion Mike Rockenfeller failed to finish. The RMG-driver, already having claimed a maiden pole-position in his rookie DTM season yesterday, made the perfect getaway from the word go and continued to march away […]
Dragon Motor Racing will also field one entry in the opening round of the Pirtek Enduro Cup, the Wilson Security Sandown 500 in September. The three wildcard entries add to the full-time grid which sits at 25 this season following the return of three racing entitlement contracts at the end of 2013, taking the grid […]
Nico Rosberg has been forced to alter the design of the special World Cup-themed helmet he was planning to wear at his home German GP this weekend following an objection from FIFA, football’s world governing body. Days after the national team triumphed over Argentina in the 2014 World Cup final in Brazil to trigger days […]
Driver Morgan Shepherd gets ready for practice for Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon on Saturday. It’s been almost two decades since Morgan Shepherd last ran a full Sprint Cup season, and his last national series victory was in 1993. He can still probably wheel a race car better than […]
78 views Corvette continues to dominate in the GT-Le Mans and Viper takes its first win in GT-Daytona.It was one of those near-perfect days for the OAK Morgan Nissan, with driver Gustavo Yacaman and Olivier Pla holding off three Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype cars, scoring a solid victory for the handful of P2 entries that […]
Ex-Formula One star and BBC F1 commentator, David Coulthard, attended the third round of the 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship, as an ambassador for Cooper Tire – leaving Norway last month with a new-found appreciation for the sport. Whilst in Hell, near Trondheim, 13 time Grand Prix winner Coulthard also managed to catch up with […]
THE PRETORIUS SAGA DRAWS TO AND END Francois aka “Frankie” Pretorius also “affectionately” known as “MSA 1” – a name that he took for himself when he bought the customised number plate for his bakkie, was this morning ordered to pay back more than R1.7m to eight complainants by the Alexandra Court. This was the […]
Avoiding Typhoon Neoguri… Despite avoiding much of Typhoon Neoguri which passed through the region on Thursday night, the fine conditions the GT Asia Series competitors enjoyed during official practice, qualifying and the opening race, rain re-appeared once more on Sunday morning for round six of the championship, the race getting underway in treacherous conditions with […]
Tom Sykes says he can go into the summer break feeling ‘very relaxed and very motivated’ after exceeding his own expectations by extending his World Superbike Championship lead at Laguna Seca with an eighth win of the season. Starting from pole position after demolishing the lap record during qualifying, though onlookers might have assumed Sykes […]
When you think of the Ford GT40, you may instantly think of the golden era of racing at Le Mans. But when you think of Le Mans, you might not instantly think of Ford. While Ford’s mid-engined monster dominated Le Mans 1966 to 1969, the Blue Oval brand did not have much of a presence […]
Sebastian Vettel has admitted Red Bull will not be able to catch up with Mercedes in 2014.Vettel has now told the Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell: “I doubt we can close the gap to Mercedes this season. “At the moment they are the measure of all things. “We at Red Bull and Ferrari need to realise […]
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone told a court on Tuesday that a multi-million dollar payment to a jailed German banker was designed to buy the man’s silence.Given detailed evidence for the first time in his bribery trial, Ecclestone repeated earlier statements that the payment to former BayernLB chief risk officer Gerhard Gribkowsky was an insurance […]
Considering NASCAR has its roots with the Moonshine runners from the Prohibition years, the sport has come an incredibly long way in a relatively short space of time.What isn’t particuarly well known in its home land of the USA, is just how big the sport is becoming in Europe, and especially Great Britain. At […]
Estonia’s best young rally drivers will take on the big guns from the FIA European Rally Championship when the Baltic nation hosts the fastest event of ERC 2014 from 17-19 July With the headquarters and service park in Otepää and the ceremonial start and finish in Tartu, Estonia’s second largest city, auto24 Rally Estonia marks […]
The Hockenheimring in Germany will host the 10th round of the 2014 Formula 1 season. It will be the 61st time that the German Grand Prix has appeared on the F1 calendar. The sport last visited the circuit in 2012, with Fernando Alonso winning from Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen (Sebastian Vettel finished second but […]
Queensland co-driver, Rebecca Smart, is currently forging a successful career in Europe, and as the reigning Fiesta Sporting Trophy champion in Belgian, is hoping to climb even higher up the rallying ladder. The sister of former ARC front-runner, Ryan Smart, Rebecca has been co-driving for Timo van der Marel in a variety of cars – […]
For the second time in three weeks, the New England area will host a round of the Rally America National Championship. The fifth round of the Championship already took place at the Mt. Washington “Climb to the Clouds” in Gorham, NH in late June, and now the Championship quickly resumes at the New England Forest […]
Robert Kubica scored his first win in a World Rally Car by dominating the Rally del Casentino in Italy on Saturday. The Polish star was driving an A-Style-run Ford Fiesta RS WRC and won 10 out of the 12 asphalt stages run around Bibbiena, north of Arezzo. Kubica won the event by more than two […]
Patrik Sandell’s rally outings have been sadly too rare of late, with the 2006 Junior World Rally Champion involved in Global Rallycross with Olsbergs MSE, but he’s been in action at home in Sweden this weekend, winning the Midnattssolsrally – the Midnight Sun Rally – in a 3-litre Porsche 911, prepared by UK specialists Tuthill […]
THE Volkswagen Sasolracing team completed a demanding Volkswagen Rally in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, finishing on the podium with Hans Weijs Jnr and Björn Degandt in their Volkswagen Sasolracing Polo S2000. In addition to the podium result, Volkswagen also received the Manufacturer’s Award for the most points scored, while Hans Weijs and Björn Degandt […]
• Second overall for Leeroy Poulter/Elvéne Coetzee • Poulter extends overall lead in championship • Fourth successive Class S1600 win for Guy Botterill/Simon Vacy-Lyle It was a weekend of mixed results for Toyota Motorsport on the Volkswagen Rally, which took place in and around Port Elizabeth on 11 and 12 July, 2014. The event saw […]
Championship leaders Guy Botterill and Simon Vacy-Lyle (Yato Tools Toyota Etios) scored their fourth consecutive victory in the SA National Rally Championship for two-wheel drive S1600 cars in Port Elizabeth on Saturday after winning 10 of the 15 special stages that made up the two-day VW Rally, halfway point of the eight-round championship. They […]