Lewis Hamilton hopes to return to form in Malaysia, the three-time World Champion has gone well in Kuala Lumpur and hopes to bring a victory for his Mercedes AMG PETRONAS team.Hamilton feels this weekends race at the Sepang International Circuit is his…...
Toyota’s Yaris WRC test car made its public debut today at the Paris Motor Show, with Microsoft confirmed as the team’s latest backer. Team principal and four-time World Rally Champion Tommi Makinen drove the car onto the stage and in…...
The World Motor Sport Council has confirmed a provisional 2017 World Rally Championship calendar with the full schedule expected by the end of November. A provisional 12-round calendar has been published with the possibility of extending it to 14 rounds.…...
Hyundai hasn’t just brought its really quite mad RN30 Concept to this year’s Paris Motor Show. There’s this thing too – its 2017 WRC car. Based (probably quite loosely…) on a regular three-door i20, Hyundai has been testing its 2017…...
Sebastien Ogier says is he fully concentrating on returning to form at his home World Rally Championship event at Corsica after two failures in the past two seasons as he lines up his first opportunity to seal a fourth consecutive…...
MINI All4 Racing will be fielding five crews for the 2016 Rallye du Maroc in Morocco, the final testing ground before the 2017 Dakar Rally in January.MINI All4 Racing will be fielding five crews for the 2016 Rallye du Maroc…...
Sébastien Ogier has gone quickest in Shakedown for the 2016 Tour de Corse – Rallye de France as Ogier remains on course for a fourth WRC title in a row.Volkswagen’s Sébastien Ogier has set the fastest time in Shakedown for…...
Among the entries at Petit Le Mans is the historic DeltaWing, making its final WeatherTech Championship appearance. There are also big-name IndyCar drivers taking part, from current series champion Simon Pagenaud to Scott Dixon.IndyCar drivers, including 2016 champion Simon Pagenaud,…...
Gaurav Gill continued his victory spree in Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, winning his fourth successive rally in succession in Japan.Having dominated the first leg with eight stage wins, Gill (co-driver Stephane Prevot) arrived on Sunday with a healthy 1m50.06s lead in…...
Kris Meeke says he will have to “step up to another level” if he is to continue his World Rally Championship winning streak on the Tour de Corse.The Dungannon driver, who is only contesting selected rounds of this season’s…...
M-Sport’s Mads Østberg will become the twenty-sixth driver to make 100 starts in the WRC with his appearance at this weekend’s Tour de Corse.Mads Østberg will make his one-hundredth start in the FIA World Rally Championship at the 2016 Tour…...
By AutoSport- –The World Rally Championship is considering making its European events shorter in order to add more rounds to the calendar.Autosport revealed earlier this year that 13 countries had an active interest in running new WRC events, but China…...
South African Audi Sport TT Cup star Sheldon van der Linde moved back into the lead of the series’ rookie standings and third in the overall championship in Hungoraring’s penultimate round in Budapest, Hungary over the weekend. “I wasn’t too happy…...
Despite a huge crash in the opening practice session that left him battered and bruised, Clint Seller (Neolife Yamaha R1) kept his SuperGP championship hopes alive when he took pole position and both race wins at the penultimate round of…...
Kiwi rally ace Hayden Paddon will have his hands full this weekend on the twisting tarmac surface of Corsica.The famed Tour de Corse is better known as the ‘rally of 10,000 corners’.Paddon said he and co-driver John Kennard are focused…...
The FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy will visit Latvia for the first time this weekend (1-2 October) as the world’s best rallycross drivers compete at a new state-of-the-art rallycross circuit at Bikernieki, located just 15 minutes from…...
Britain’s Harry Hunt has become the first privateer to secure a Peugeot 2008 DKR for the Dakar Rally.Peugeot dominated this year’s Dakar, winning all but three of the 12 stages and taking victory by more than half an hour with…...
Ott Tänak is looking forward to the challenge of the 2016 Tour de Corse – Rallye de France event.The Estonian, who will be fielding a DMACK World Rally Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC, which it’ll be making its début on…...
Round 10 of the 2016 WRC season takes the world championship to what is arguably considered the definitive asphalt rally of the sport, the Tour de Corse, held in the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. Corsica is widely viewed as…...
M-Sport World Rally Team’s Mads Østberg and Éric Camilli will be looking for a change of fortune next week – taking to the wheel of their Ecoboost-powered Ford Fiesta RS WRCs for the FIA World Rally Championship’s (WRC) legendary Tour…...
Hyundai Motorsport returns to competitive action next week as the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship moves onto the Tour de Corse.For Hyundai Motorsport, round ten of the season represents a significant milestone, with three ‘New Generation’ i20 WRC cars entered…...
The season is entering the back straight with the running of the Sun City 450 on September 30 and October 1 – the penultimate round of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship – but as the series winds down…...
Going into the penultimate round of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, the Sun City 450 on September 30 and October 1, the Special Vehicle drivers’ championship has developed into a two horse race. Reigning champion Evan Hutchison (Motorite…...
The Investchem Formula Ford championship took to Killarney Raceway in Cape Town to decide the winner of the sixth round of their 2016 championship. The duel for the top spot has been running all year between Dewald Brummer (4 –…...
Round three of the Sasol GTC Africa championship at Killarney Raceway on Saturday saw Volkswagen Golf GTI GTC racer Daniel Rowe claim all three race victories on the day, adding to his already convincing lead in this category. “Three pole…...
Round six of the Engen Volkswagen Cup series saw competitors tackle three races – after completing a qualifying session followed by a super pole for the fastest six. Unlike the traditional top six grid draw, this time the fastest drivers…...
An air of expectation and excitement currently surrounds the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA team, as they prepare the new Toyota Hilux Evo for its first race this weekend, the Sun City 450. Taking charge of the new vehicle will be…...
Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa is pleased to confirm that Leeroy Poulter is recovering well after surgery to remove an anomalous growth from the right side of his brain. The surgery, which took place on Friday, 23 September, was declared…...
Tame a “wild beauty” and make history: Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F) could be crowned world champions with Volkswagen for the fourth time in a row at their home event in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) – and that despite…...
Story by:Adrian Pheiffer Cape Town – News that the final round of the 2017 World Rallycross Championship is to be staged at the Killarney International Raceway has come as a welcome surprise to South African motorsport enthusiasts. Killarney executive manager…...
Brad Binder has been crowned Moto3 champion after finishing second in a thrilling Aragon race, wrapping up the lightweight class crown with four races still to run.The Red Bull KTM Ajo rider arrived at the Spanish venue needing a second…...
Honda’s Marc Marquez extended his MotoGP championship lead with a commanding Aragon Grand Prix victory ahead of Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.Marquez started from pole and regrouped from an early mistake to continue the form he has shown…...
South African Bentley Boy, Jordan Pepper can’t wait for the 2016 German ADAC GT Masters finale 1-2 October, although he’d have preferred that the season was a little longer. Jordan shares his yellow #7 Deutsche Post Continental GT3 with…...
Stephen Simpson is keen to end off his double-2016 US IMSA season where he started at the series Petit Le Mans finale at Road Atlanta in Georgia 1-2 October. Simpson and his teammates won the season-opening Rolex Daytona 24 Hour…...
Venturi established two new FIA world speed records for an electric vehicle at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States. The team broke their own record that was set in 2010 with Roger Schroer behind the wheel of the…...
Touring car legend Yvan Muller has revealed that he will retire from the World Touring Car Championship at the end of the year.Muller, who recently turned 47, is the most successful driver in WTCC history, having amassed an impressive 48…...
Apple and McLaren did hold talks about a potential future partnership, sources have indicated to Motorsport.com, but the discussions came to an end for unspecified reasons.A report in the Financial Times on Wednesday claimed that technology giant Apple approached McLaren…...
It’s looking mega for The Mountain in February, as new world rally cars and drivers look to Oz The closing date for entries for the next Bathurst 12-Hour is still 12 weeks away on December 16, but already there are…...
Single-seater racing action takes place at Killarney Raceway on Saturday, September 24, with the Investchem Formula Ford contesting round six of their 2016 national championship. Six consecutive race victories sees Dewald Brummer (4 – MAD Racing / Ango Trucks /…...
As the 2016 Donaldson Cross Country Championship heads into the home stretch, Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance will be going out with focus and determination at the upcoming Sun City 450, on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October.…...