Oliver Turvey has been signed to Williams' Formula 1 team as a test and development driver to assist with the Grove squad's progress on its new simulator package.
The Briton switches to Williams after holding a similar role for McLaren for over 15 years, and had tested multiple times over that span with the Woking squad alongside other racing activities. 
Alongside his motorsport ...Keep reading

The McLaren M23 should be regarded as one of the all-time great Formula 1 cars. It has to be with three world titles - two drivers’ and one constructors’ — and 16 grand prix victories over a world championship career spanning a remarkable six seasons. That longevity makes it a kind of bridge between eras, not least because in its dotage the Cosworth-powered machine set a young Brazilian by ...Keep reading

Three-cylinder engines are on their way to European single-seaters for 2025, and it looks as though there is every chance that they will revitalise a much-loved category.
Since the demise of the FIA’s old Formula 3 European Championship at the end of 2018, when the ‘F3’ title was given by the governing body to the GP3 Series, the old philosophy of F3 cars has raced on in the Euroformula ...Keep reading

The fans outside Ferrari’s test track in Fiorano had been there long before dawn. Some had scaled the security fencing, others had brought stepladders and pulled away at the green netting that had been installed to keep out prying eyes and camera lenses.
At one point, the growing throng of Tifosi was five or six people deep, each with craned necks trying to catch a glimpse of Lewis ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez feels it's only “logical” that Francesco Bagnaia will have first say in matters at Ducati, but is confident the Borgo Panigale marque will give him equal treatment in MotoGP this year.
Marquez is joining a Ducati team where team-mate Bagnaia is already the top dog, with the double champion having scored the factory’s first world titles since Casey Stoner in 2007 and helped ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has embarked on his first on-track outing with his new Ferrari team, turning the wheel of a 2023 F1 car at the team's Fiorano test track.
Shortly after 9am Iocal time in Italy, seven-time world champion Hamilton took the wheel of the SF-23 on a foggy Wednesday morning as hordes of Italian tifosi flocked to Ferrari's proprietary test venue in Maranello to spot a glimpse of their ...Keep reading

Red Bull's floor update for the 2024 United States Grand Prix came at the expense of ultimate car "potential" but removed many of the correlation and balance issues that affected its RB20, according to technical director Pierre Wache.
The development direction of the RB20 hit a problematic streak at the tail end of the European season last year, culminating in a difficult Monza weekend at the ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 season's biggest crossover event — Lewis Hamilton joining Ferrari — kicked off this weekend with our first look at what's to come. Sir Lewis hard launched his new era on Instagram, dressed to the nines, standing in front of Enzo Ferrari's house on the team's Modena grounds while a Ferrari F40 poked into the frame. The image was, by itself, the first mile marker in what will ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls racing director Alan Permane says getting Yuki Tsunoda to Red Bull should remain a target of the squad's satellite team after his snub for 2025.
Red Bull decided to turn to Tsunoda's less experienced 2024 team-mate Liam Lawson to replace Sergio Perez at its main team for the upcoming season, ensuring Tsunoda stays at the junior team for a fifth consecutive season, much to the ...Keep reading

The 2025 specification World Rally Championship cars without hybrid power are much "simpler" and "a lot easier" to drive, according to Hyundai Motorsport's Ott Tanak.
The WRC will usher in new technical regulations this season after the FIA decided to remove hybrid power from Rally1 cars, which will also now run on a new control tyre supplied by Hankook.
As a result of the regulation change ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton will be reunited with his former trainer Angela Cullen as he embarks on a new chapter in his F1 career at Ferrari.
Hamilton, who enjoyed a formidable partnership with Cullen during his time at Mercedes, has turned to the New Zealander, who will form part of his backroom team.
Cullen worked with Hamilton for six of his seven world championship wins but they parted company ...Keep reading

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi is confident it will be "very easy" to manage former world champions Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez as they team up at its factory MotoGP squad this year.
Ducati's decision to sign former Honda star Marquez to replace Enea Bastianini has created the kind of 'dream team' not seen in MotoGP since Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo raced as team-mates at ...Keep reading

Autosport is 75 years old in 2025 and a new-look Autosport Awards will kick off the celebrations.
The Awards has moved from its traditional December slot at Grosvenor House Hotel to the Roundhouse in January. But some of the history, including a selection of the key Awards, remains – and the stars often attend the event to receive their Awards in front of motorsport luminaries.
The ...Keep reading

BMW has revealed an all-star line-up in its two Pro class entries for the 2 February race around the clock, in what could be the final showdown of the big three German marques at the Bathurst 12 Hour.
WRT has named Augusto Farfus and van der Linde brothers Sheldon and Kelvin to drive the #32 M3 GT3 while Valentino Rossi, Raffaele Marciello and Charles Weerts will share the #46 entry.
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It was the first name that stood out on the presentation slide displayed on the wall in one of the meeting rooms in Haas’ UK factory in Banbury.
Alongside the appointments of Ronan O’Hare as Oliver Bearman’s race engineer, plus the return of Mark Lowe as sporting director, Laura Muller’s name was confirmed as Esteban Ocon’s race engineer.
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Haas has significantly altered its Formula 1 race team staff ahead of the new season, with changes in driver engineers, strategy and sporting operations personnel alongside the arrival of Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman.
Team principal Ayao Komatsu said the alterations represented a “huge change” for Haas, as he briefed the F1 press corps ahead of the new season.
Topping the bill of the ...Keep reading

Thierry Neuville says the hunger for a second World Rally Championship title is stronger than ever heading into the Monte Carlo season opener as the defending champion for the first time.
Neuville will begin his title defence this week in Monte Carlo after finally achieving his ultimate dream last season, as he cast aside the tagline of being the championship’s perennial runner-up. 
The ...Keep reading

The Sauber and Racing Bulls Formula 1 teams will kick off their 2025 campaigns with a multi-day test in Imola this week.
As previously reported, Racing Bulls will head to the venue of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix for a three-day test of a previous car [TPC], with its 2025 racing drivers Yuki Tsunoda and debutant Isack Hadjar driving the 2023 AT04 from the team's AlphaTauri days.
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Even for the life of a professional racing driver, Stoffel Vandoorne’s career has had highs and lows more than most as championship successes have been followed by lacklustre spells and unfulfilled potential.
At one stage the Belgian was considered the next talent to emerge from the junior single-seater ranks, dominating the 2015 GP2 campaign in his sophomore season before making his Formula ...Keep reading

Defender has announced the model with which it will compete in the upcoming 2026 Dakar Rally in the Stock category.
The British manufacturer announced at the start of this month that it will enter the Dakar next year, although it remained to be known with which model it would do so.
On Monday, Defender revealed its OCTA model as the vehicle with which it will lay the foundations of its ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has admitted that he must fight for the 2025 MotoGP title as he joins the factory Ducati team to partner Francesco Bagnaia.
The Spaniard is stepping up to MotoGP’s benchmark team in 2025 after ending a 1,000-day barren streak and winning three races with Gresini Racing on a year-old Ducati.
It places him in a similar situation to what he faced in 2013 when he made his highly ...Keep reading

The South African government has opened up a bid process for prospective organisers of a future Formula 1 race in the country.
The government of the African nation has appointed a so-called Formula 1 Bid Steering Committee which has been tasked with finding potential organisers for South Africa's return to the F1 calendar.
South Africa last hosted an F1 grand prix at the Kyalami circuit in ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has described his switch to Ducati as the "most important challenge" of his career as he aims for his first MotoGP title since 2019.
Marquez began life as a factory Ducati rider during Monday's launch event in Italy, as he made his highly-anticipated debut in the company's corporate red colour.
The Spaniard was visibly smiling during the presentation, with the right arm injury ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton is set to make his Ferrari track debut on 22 January at Fiorano circuit, driving the F1-75 car from the 2022 Formula 1 season, Motorsport.com understands.
Joining Charles Leclerc at the Scuderia for the upcoming campaign after spending the last 12 years at Mercedes, Hamilton went to Maranello on Monday morning to prepare for his maiden run in red.
Hamilton has been able to get ...Keep reading

New Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell reckons that although the Silverstone outfit "won the world championship for most updates" in 2024, it must work on its internal processes to ensure that new parts deliver the expected performance.
Aston Martin started the season in reasonable shape and scored points in the opening seven grands prix, but a comprehensive series of updates at the Imola ...Keep reading

New World Rally Championship tyre supplier Hankook is “100% confident” in its product ahead of its competition debut in Monte Carlo despite drivers feeling its winter tyres require more development.
The Korean firm has taken over as the WRC’s control tyre supplier this year following the end of Pirelli’s four-year stint, which concluded at the end of last season.
Since winning the ...Keep reading

Ducati has showcased the bike that former world champions Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez will race in MotoGP this year.
In a special event held at the Italian ski resort Madonna di Campiglio on Monday, the Ducati GP25 was showcased to the public for the first time in its predominantly red race livery.
Ducati general manager Gigi Dall'Igna, team boss Davide Tardozzi and the Italian ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles says he is expecting his 2025 line-up of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon to bring his Formula 1 team the leadership it needs to help steer it out of its current plight.
WIlliams landed a major coup by signing race winner Sainz on a multi-year deal after the Spaniard lost his Ferrari seat to Lewis Hamilton. In Sainz and Albon, Williams is arguably punching above ...Keep reading

BMW ended up fastest and topped the times in three sessions over the official Roar test ahead of this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener. 
A 1m35.424s around the Daytona International Speedway from Dries Vanthoor on the opening day aboard the #24 Rahal BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh stood as the best time of the three-day test in which GTP class machinery took to the ...Keep reading

Scott McLaughlin has identified areas he needs to improve upon to beat the “professor” Alex Palou to the IndyCar title - and is now more confident he can do so.
Palou has dominated the American championship in recent years, winning three of the past four titles, while McLaughlin is hunting for a maiden crown having moved across from Australian Supercars.
The 31-year-old’s best ...Keep reading

Alpine’s executive technical director David Sanchez has admitted the team will have no excuses going into Formula 1’s new era in 2026.
Since the Renault Group bought the Enstone-based outfit back in late 2015, it has consistently set long-term goals of regular podiums and wins, but the past nine seasons yielded just nine top-three finishes, including Esteban Ocon’s memorable victory in ...Keep reading

“If you have two Red Bull cars, you have kind of a magnet in between them and they always come together at a regular rate!”
Motopark boss Timo Rumpfkeil is chuckling about his year running both Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda in the 2019 Euroformula Open series, where they locked horns five years before they would be at war again, this time for the seat alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in ...Keep reading

It's very refreshing to hear Honda boss Alberto Puig talk about aspects of his life that are much more ordinary than those required of him as HRC team manager in the MotoGP world championship. 
At 58 years old and after seven years in the position, the former rider has experienced Honda's descent into hell from the inside.
The Japanese brand hasn't won a race since 2023 (Alex Rins, in ...Keep reading

“We are somewhere in the past for these drivers – from their start points to the final target. And we are super happy to see that they have success.”
No Formula 1 driver has immaculately appeared at the top level. Now a decade ago, even Max Verstappen made the briefest stop in the junior categories before his graduation to grand prix racing.
Back then, he’d just scrapped closely with ...Keep reading

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Gresini Racing unveiled the livery for its 2025 MotoGP challenger at a presentation in Imola on Saturday.
During a special event at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari near its base, the Italian team took the covers off the two Ducati GP24 bikes that it will run on a customer basis this year.
Gresini has elected to retain the light blue-and-red colour scheme it first adopted in 2022 ...Keep reading

Of all the scrutiny over the so-called ‘big teams’ in Formula 1, Red Bull's new line-up is probably the one that has slipped under the radar for most.
Lewis Hamilton’s switch to Ferrari and Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s promotion at Mercedes have understandably taken the spotlight, with attention drawn to how they will compare against their new team-mates.
But it is perhaps the Max ...Keep reading

The two-time IndyCar Series champion Josef Newgarden believes the championship must have a lighter chassis when the next generation of cars are expected to debut in 2027. 
North America’s premier open-wheel series is aiming for an all-new chassis that year, having gradually evolved the current Dallara DW12 since its debut in 2012.
Team Penske driver Newgarden, who claimed his titles in ...Keep reading

M-Sport has taken the covers off its newly liveried Ford Puma that will contest the 2025 World Rally Championship, ahead of next week’s Monte Carlo opener.
The British squad has revealed a new navy blue colour scheme featuring a continuation of its association with energy drinks giant Red Bull and technology company SafetyCulture.
M-Sport will once again field two full-time entries. It has ...Keep reading

New technical regulations and a change of tyre manufacturer has made preparations for the challenging Monte Carlo Rally among the most demanding for World Rally Championship teams in recent times. Not since the introduction of the Rally1 cars in 2022 has the WRC undergone such significant changes, heaping even more importance on teams to do the best job possible with their Monte pre-event ...Keep reading

Our writers debate the merits of Max Verstappen moving out of Red Bull after the upcoming Formula 1 season, amid rumours of a monster bid prepared by Aston Martin.
Verstappen could find it fulfilling to build new project - Ben Vinel
Verstappen has always been very vocal about the fact that, unlike Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, he won't keep racing in Formula 1 until he's in his ...Keep reading

In 2021, Daison Pursley was racing a midget car in Arizona when his entire life changed. Battling another driver for a chance to make it to the next round, he crashed, his car flipping several times in an accident that left the then-17-year-old with a broken neck, his C4 vertebra completely shattered. At the hospital, doctors rushed him into surgery. Pursley woke up to learn that he was now an ...Keep reading

The World Rally Championship will expand to 12 Rally1 cars for the second round of the season in Sweden next month.
The release of the entry list for the 13-16 February event marks the largest Rally1 field since Rally Catalunya in 2022, where 12 top-flight cars were also entered.
Privateers Lorenzo Bertelli and Jourdan Serderidis will bolster the Rally Sweden entry, with the former driving a ...Keep reading

On Thursday, The Daily Mail published the rumour that Aston Martin is reportedly approaching sponsors with the intention of signing Max Verstappen on an astronomical £1 billion salary, spread over several years.
Although that amount was mentioned in capital letters, the interest itself should come as no surprise. It is no secret that both Aston Martin and Mercedes are still hoping for the ...Keep reading

Being among the World Rally Championship’s top flight, traversing the start ramp in Monte Carlo’s glitzy Casino Square in front of thousands of fans, is the stuff of dreams for any rally driver. Next week the WRC’s latest top class debutant Josh McErlean will turn that into a reality after a whirlwind off-season that has resulted in the Irishman landing a dream full-time Rally1 opportunity ...Keep reading

Formula 1's driver market for 2026 is expected to be a lot less lively than the seat-swapping antics that spanned the entirety of last season, as many of the championship's key players are locked in for the advent of F1's new regulatory overhaul.
That said, there's one key destination that many of those left out in the cold for 2025 may choose to pursue, as Cadillac's welcome to the grid opens ...Keep reading

The Dakar Rally has been held in several countries since its inaugural edition in 1979, but no driver had managed to lift the Touareg trophy on home soil until Yazeed Al-Rajhi this year.
The Saudi driver won an atypical 2025 event in which a number of favourites fell by the wayside early on, with Carlos Sainz Sr and Sebastien Loeb being the most high-profile departures.
Emerging winner in ...Keep reading

Last year, the MotoGP transfer market remained stagnant until Ducati decided on Marc Marquez as Francesco Bagnaia's team-mate for 2025 and 2026. The verdict from the Bologna brand was made effective in Mugello, and that's when Jorge Martin and Aprilia moved quickly to announce the arrival of the Madrid native once he found out that he had been discarded to wear the red overalls.
Aprilia rushed ...Keep reading

Mercedes has decided not to organise its traditional launch event for its latest Formula 1 car this season, Motorsport.com understands.
The new W16, which will be driven by George Russell and rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli, will first emerge when Mercedes runs a filming day at Bahrain International Circuit on 25 February, with pre-season testing set to take place on the same track from 26-28 ...Keep reading

The Brand Partnership of the Year is an award that recognises a brand that has made highly effective use of a motorsport platform to convey its brand message and to add value to the team, driver or series it has partnered with.
The winning sponsor’s activation will have shown high levels of creativity, scope and execution and will be announced at the Autosport Awards in London on January ...Keep reading