Jamie Chadwick’s defence of her W Series title has been thrown into uncertainty by coronavirus and the rescheduling of the German Touring Car (DTM) championship the all-female single-seater series supports. The DTM issued a new provisional calendar on Wednesday with the first half of its season postponed and a tentative start at the Norisring in […]
Former Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore has said the achievements of Lewis Hamilton are not comparable to those of Michael Schumacher. Briatore believes the level of competition Hamilton has faced is not even close to the level of the seven-time champion. But does the Italian have a point? Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Mika […]
Now, Silk Way will have eight stages in Russia The FIM’s Cross Country Rallies series continues to change in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, with major route changes announced for the Silk Way Rally. The race’s original route had stages travelling through Kazakhstan and China. While Kazakhstan hasn’t been making international headlines over the […]
THREE-TIME DAKAR WINNER OFFERS HIS AVAILABILITY FOR WRC ROUND When it comes to off-road driving, nobody has enjoyed more stage rally success than Nasser Al-Attiyah – which is why he’s offering his services to Toyota for this year’s Safari Rally World Rally Championship round. Granted, the Qatari might ‘only’ have three Dakar wins to his […]
The Indianapolis 500 has been postponed from May 24 to August 23 due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak. The Indianapolis Grand Prix, which normally runs prior to the 500, is now set for July 4, setting up the first-ever IndyCar/NASCAR double-header. It marks the first time in 103 editions of the 500-mile event where the […]
Formula 1 is set to prohibit the development of cars for the next set of technical regulations until next year in order to cut costs during the COVID-19 crisis.A number of initiatives have already been agreed upon, designed to reduce the pressure on teams while the sport is unable to function normally given the global […]
The status of the 2020 the World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar in the second quarter remains as scheduled with a decision on Rally Sardinia in Italy expected next week after the expiry of the Italian government’s restrictions on sports and other public gatherings on April 4. Rally Argentina, earlier scheduled for April 20 to 23 […]
Earlier this year, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the pole for the Daytona 500 with a qualifying speed of 194.582 mph. That’s fast. But that’s how fast today’s Cup Series cars go on superspeedways with tapered spacers restricting engines. On this day 50 years ago, Buddy Baker got to go really fast. On Tuesday, March 24, 1970, […]
Former Hyundai Motorsport WRC driver Kevin Abbring from the Netherlands will switch over to the top class of FIA World Rallycross Championship with GC Kompetition. Originally slated for the Euro RX permanent entry lists, he will now focus on some rounds in World RX this season. He will be entering in a newly developed Renault Clio R.S RX as a wildcard […]
Following a digital meeting with all the Toyota 1000 kilometre Desert Race (TDR 1000) stakeholders on Thursday, 19 March the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 event in Botswana was made. The outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, has caused major disruption to societies with numerous events being cancelled or postponed worldwide. “First and […]
Lella Lombardi may not be the most famous name in Formula 1. But for one very good reason, it should be up there in lights with the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Juan Manuel Fangio and Ayrton Senna as she remains the only female driver in the history of the sport to register a points-scoring finish. Sport […]
Benz & Cie. delivered the first bus with a combustion engine on 12 March 1895 Premiere in the scheduled regular service connecting Siegen, Netphen and Deuz . Combustion engine revolutionised the segment once dominated by horse-drawn carriages and steam buses Today: Daimler Buses with battery-electric bus models and fuel cell drive technology Since […]
Mazda has announced that Multimatic Motorsports will take over the Japanese’s manufacturer’s Daytona Prototype International (DPi) program, starting at the next round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship. “With its broad experience in racing operations and race car development, Mazda has now tasked Multimatic with the operation of its flagship racing program,” Mazda Motorsports said […]
Organisers of the World Rally Championship have confirmed the postponement of planned upcoming rounds in Portugal and Italy. The WRC season began with events in Monte Carlo and Sweden while the Mexican round took place before being truncated as the coronavirus spread worsened. The Portuguese round was planned for 21-24 May while Italy was due […]
Helmut Marko says a lot of things, but no words have been quite so utterly bizarre as him saying the best thing that could happen to Max Verstappen is for him to catch coronavirus. In an interview with Kronen Zeitung newspaper, the 76-year-old was asked a series of questions about the coronavirus pandemic and the impact […]
Ayrton Senna. Three time Formula 1 world champion. The greatest of all time? At 24-years of age, Senna made his Formula 1 debut at the Brazilian Grand Prix, held at Jacarepagua, where he raced for Toleman Motorsport in the TG184. Out-qualifying teammate Johnny Cecotto by two seconds, although only by one position, Senna retired after […]
Story by:Reynard Gelderblom Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa, the start of the 2020 GTC Championship and inaugural GTC SupaCup is being suspended. On Sunday (March 16), President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a State of National Disaster due to the increase in infections of the novel coronavirus. This was followed the following morning by […]
Ken Block made his FIA World Rally Championship stage return at Rally Mexico earlier this month in his modernised Ford Escort Cosworth rally car, which ended earlier than expected. Entered in the National class that allowed him to compete with his 90’s car against the top modern WRC and R5 cars but with an restrictor. This was his first […]
Oliver Solberg will later today launch The Solberg Race using the DiRT Rally 2.0 game.The young Norweigan driver plans to use the Argentina rally on the game to let fans compete against both him and other players of the game in the event. Solberg said on the planned esports challenge: “Argentina is one of the events I was really looking forward to […]
Formula 1 will be able to finalize an updated 2020 race calendar without the approval of the teams, according to chairman and CEO Chase Carey. The first seven rounds of the season have been officially postponed — with Monaco since confirming it will not host a race this year — as a result of the […]
The 2021 Dakar Rally motorcycles could be restricted for both speed and power in a quest for safety THE organisers of the Dakar Rally are discussing with the FIM as to whether the future running of the Dakar Rally could see bikes imposed with both power and speed restrictions. The changes have been put on […]
It’s like Paris-Dakar but in Spanish instead of French. While seemingly everything else in motorsports was cancelled or postponed last week because of some virus or something (anybody hear anything about that?) the Sonora Rally in Mexico went off without a hitch. Or with only a few hitches, anyway. The rally is held so far out in the trackless desert […]
When I left Pretoria early Sunday morning it was so overcast that the auto lights on the Hyundai switched on and my optimism about Corona disappearing in a week and a driveable track at Rallystar was about the same. The closer I got to the track the more water puddles I saw next to the […]
RICKY BRABEC DELIVERS STELLAR PERFORMANCE FOR MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM DURING THE WEEKEND IN THE MEXICAN DESERT. Reigning Dakar Rally champion, American rider Ricky Brabec, has retained the top honours with a victory in the Sonora Rally. The Monster Energy Honda Team rider took on the Mexican Sonora Desert on the border of the United States to […]
Sandra Labuscagne-Jonck, the 2018 South African National Special Vehicle Navigators’ Champion and the first female competitor in South Africa to receive her Protea Colours, has been appointed to the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) Executive Committee as a director. Labuscagne-Jonck, who competes in the SACCS championship as a driver in the Special Vehicle Category, […]
2020 WRC RALLIES AN UPDATE BROUGHT TO YOU BY RALLYSTAR MOTORING We at Rallystar your favourite motosport website will do our best to update you on the evolving around the Covid-19 pandemic and the various government restrictions. . No decisions on event dates will be made by the WRC organisers before updates on the respective […]
September 9-12 will see the fourth edition of the Sunraysia Safari, and in a very exciting announcement, “Local Legends” (the Australian based maker of exceptional Beef Jerky, Biltong and Pork Crackle snacks) have secured the naming rights partnership for the event. Now known as the “Local Legends Sunraysia Safari Rally”, the partnership demonstrates the promotional […]
Infront Moto Racing has revealed that the FIM Junior Motocross World Championship will be heading to Finland in 2021, as Moto Club Vantaa will host the world’s fastest youngsters in motocross. Located next to the Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport, 18km from Helsinki and all harbours connected to the Baltic countries and Sweden, the hard-pack Finnish circuit […]
With five of the opening seven Formula 1 grands prix of 2020 postponed and two others cancelled, and with teams running this year’s cars in 2021, it begs the question – should F1 consider an elongated campaign through to the end of next season? The idea of an 18-month season, mooted between GPFans writers following […]
The ‘Magic Weekend’ at Höljes in Sweden which will host round 5 of the season on 3-5 July now sees additional two new classes to be run as support races. As the World RX of Russia got cancelled earlier, the all-new Projekt E electric rallycross series got moved to Sweden to host the third round […]
Throughout 2020, NHRA will be celebrating 50 Years of Pro Stock with special exhibitions and features at national events and showcasing the long history of the class on its media channels. Prior to each event on the 2020 schedule, NHRA National Dragster will focus on one Pro Stock moment from the history of the event. […]
Mercedes-Benz’s may tell Formula One next month that it plans to leave the sport, according to a report Wednesday from Autocar. Autocar and Racefans broke the news, and sources told the publications that the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team may be rebranded as an Aston Martin team and its lead driver and six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton could move to Ferrari. […]
While Formula 1 acknowledged last week its season was likely to begin in late May, it held off postponing its three races scheduled that month. On Thursday, however, that anticipated step was officially taken. “In view of the continued global spread of COVID-19 and after ongoing discussions with the FIA and the three promoters, it […]
Fifty years ago this week A.J. Foyt won a USAC midget race, which wasn’t that newsworthy except for the fact it was in his hometown. In the Astrodome. In front of more than 20,000 people. And he wasn’t declared the winner until the next day. “Hell yes I remember. It was a lot of fun,” […]
It would have sounding outlandish just a week ago. The 2020 Yokohama Sonora Rally presented by Method Wheel has suddenly been thrust toward the spotlight as one of the last big motorsports events in the world for the foreseeable future. Day 3 of this year’s five-day race through Mexico’s Sonoran Desert proved to be a […]
Hubless choppers are one such option. They are futuristic, almost alien-looking custom bikes built by hand around a Harley-Davidson frame, with wild-looking paintwork and at least one spoke-less wheel. Invented by Franco Sbarro and most famously used on the 1989 Sbarro Osmos, the center-less wheel is difficult to make, difficult to maintain and has many […]
After revealing the Speedtail two years ago, McLaren has now delivered the first customer examples of the hypercar. The first car, finished in a shade of purple, was handed over to its owner at the McLaren dealership in Brussels, Belgium. As you might have expected, the car looks even more insane on the road than it […]
Of late, the motorsports world at large is increasingly hungry for good news. A cloud of uncertainly hangs like a fog over the immediate future. Today’s piece of good news, however, comes from the beautiful landscape of the Mexican’s Sonora Desert. Event organizer Darren Skilton and his team have managed to move forward with their […]
Envision Group, the majority owner of the Envision Virgin Racing team, has set up a specialist facility in just 15 days to produce 100,000 face masks a day, and will donate them to areas heavily impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The ‘Envision Smile Manufacturing Centre’ was established in just 15 days and has been […]
It is easy to forget that it has been just one month since pre-season testing got underway at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. At that point the COVID-19 coronavirus had some prominence but it remained a faraway threat that had only derailed the Chinese Grand Prix, potentially threatened Vietnam, and meant that our Chinese colleague wasn’t […]