An almost perfect performance from Harry Bates and John McCarthy has seen the duo victorious in the 2020 Netier National Capital Rally and RSEA Safety Motorsport Australia Rally Cup. Having dominated the field on Saturday to win all 10 stages, Bates and McCarthy continued on their merry way, winning all but one of the day’s […]
The Volkswagen brand is pooling strengths for the transformation to the mobile electric era. The brand is terminating its motorsport activities as part of the company’s realignment and further focusing. The Volkswagen Motorsport GmbH workforce will be integrated in Volkswagen AG. “The Volkswagen brand is on the way to becoming the leading provider for sustainable […]
Audi is facing one of the greatest challenges in motorsport: The brand with the four rings will be competing in the famous Dakar Rally for the first time in 2022 with an innovative prototype. The alternative drive concept combines an electric drivetrain with a high-voltage battery and a highly efficient energy converter for the first […]
Chinese team Absolute Racing will return to the Asian Le Mans Series in 2021 with a two-car entry in the GT class. Specific details of which GT cars and drivers will be revealed at a later date. Founded in 2010 by experienced motorsport professionals Fabien Fior and Ingo Matter, Absolute Racing has since grown to […]
Nine world titles are up for grabs as the FIA World Rally Championship heads towards an action-packed finale at Italy’s ACI Rally Monza (3-6 December) this weekend. Honours remain to be decided in all four categories but the main focus rests on the outright championship. Four drivers can still win, with two teams battling for […]
After missing out on glory in 2019, Ken Torn claimed an FIA ERC3/ERC3 Junior title double in the Pirelli-equipped Ford Fiesta Rally4 he shared with co-driver and fellow Estonian Kauri Pannas. Having claimed class wins in Rome, Liepāja, Hungary and on last weekend’s Rally Islas Canarias, the 27-year-old Estonian Autosport Junior Team driver naturally considers […]
Oliver Solberg, 19, took the FIA ERC1 Junior Championship down to the season-deciding Rally Islas Canarias and overcame a six-point deficit to Grégoire Munster to clinch the crown after his 21-year-old was delayed on the opening stage of the event. But having won the category for young stars in Rally2 cars in Rome and Liepāja, […]
Details have been confirmed about plans to show ‘as live’ the second and third rounds of the Motorsport UK British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy presented by Cooper Tires from Lydden Hill on 5/6 December. As the nation gears up for the new government guidelines on 2 December, Kent has been classified as Tier 3, […]
Alexey Lukyanuk made it two FIA European Rally Championship titles in three years on Rally Islas Canarias yesterday**. Having campaigned a Pirelli-equipped Citroën C3 R5 for the Saintéloc Junior Team, this is what the 39-year-old St Petersburg resident had to say following his latest success alongside co-driver and fellow Russian Alexey Arnautov. What does a […]
Adrien Fourmaux delivered in style on his Rally Islas Canarias debut, taking his first outright victory in the FIA European Rally Championship and topping the ERC1 Junior classification to boot in his M-Sport Ford World Rally Team-entered Fiesta R5 MkII. Co-driven by Belgian Renaud Jamoul and using Michelin tyres, Frenchman Fourmaux moved in front on […]
