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Formula 1 is undoubtedly facing a tough time as the world gets to grips with its environmental issues. Manufacturers have to be seen to be doing the right thing, and Honda’s decision to withdraw from grand prix racing has been made on what it says is

Honda will withdraw from supplying engines in Formula 1 at the end of 2021, leaving the topflight with only three motor providers and giving leading squad Red Bull a headache for the future. The Japanese giant said that it would look to promote othe

Three-time British touring car title winner Matt Neal has given the strongest indication yet that he is ready to call time on his 30-year career in the tin-top category. The Team Dynamics Honda Civic driver and team boss says that he feels that he is

Ginetta graduate Jac Constable will make his debut in the British Touring Car Championship at Croft this weekend. The 22-year-old will take the controls of the Power Maxed Racing VauxhallAstra for the races in North Yorkshire. He has already tested t

Four-time Renault UK Clio Cup title winner Paul Rivett will finally make his debut in the British Touring Car Championship in the final two rounds of this season when he takes the controls of a Trade Price Cars Racing Audi S3. The 42-year-old will

British GT’s blue riband Silverstone 500 three-hour race event will this year be held without spectators due to Covid-19 precautions. The meeting was originally scheduled for June but following the suspension of motorsport events this summer due to

Academy Motorsport boss Matt Nicoll-Jones has said it is “very unlikely” that British GT4 title-contender JordanAlbert, replaced after a sponsor funding shortage, will return to the team this season. Albert, with Ford Mustang co-driver Matt Cowley, h

Jan Klingelnberg intends to return for British GT’s November Silverstone three-hour season finale after making his category debut at Donington Park last month alongside champion Warren Hughes. Le Mans LMP2 and BTCC race-winner Hughes won British GT’s

BRDC British Formula 3 champion Linus Lundqvist’s incredible run of Formula Regional Americas victories ended in bizarre circumstances in the recent Sebring round. The 2018 British F3 champion won all eight races prior to the FR Americas’ two-month m

Jordan Dempsey will defend his Walter Hayes Trophy crown as well as compete in the Formula Ford Festival this autumn with Kevin Mills Racing. The 2018 Chinese Formula 4 champion had eyed USF2000 and BRDC British F3 drives for 2020, and for the latte

British GT frontrunner Matt Cowley is combining his 2020 GT4 championship fight with another crack at Formula Ford’s two end-of-year events, the Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy, with Team Dolan. Cowley, who competes in British GT in anAcademy Motors

CIK superkart champion Lee Harpham achieved a new land-speed record for a superkart recently. Harpham from Grimsby was scheduled to appear at the Gamma racing day atAssen with his fellow Division One competitors but quarantine restrictions meant he c

The 750 Motor Club has unveiled a new all-inclusive Foundation Programme package for new and novice drivers competing in its Type R Trophy from next season. Drivers on the programme for the low-budget one-make EP3 Honda Civic Type R category would pa

Ginetta has unveiled its new GTAcademy series and car that from next season will replace the Ginetta Racing Drivers Club category as the manufacturers’ racing “entry point”. The new category in 2021 will race at five rounds supporting British GT, wit

Elfyn Evans has told MN he faces a “huge challenge to get up from the bottom of the scale” on Rally Sardinia this week. Evans starts what is currently scheduled as the penultimate round of the World Rally Championship season with an 18-point advanta

Craig Breen has been handed a gilt-edged opportunity to further stake his claim for a full-time World Rally Car ride with Hyundai next season. After finishing second on Rally Estonia in September, Breen and co-driver Paul Nagle have been named as par

Sebastien Loeb hasn’t ruled out a return to Hyundai’s factory World Rally Championship fold despite confirmation that he won’t stay with the team beyond this season. Loeb joined Hyundai for partial campaigns over a two-year stint, taking a third in C

Donagh Kelly has said a recent test in his Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 helped him see how much he had missed rallying as Irish rallying returns with this weekend’s Ravens Rock Rally. Entries for the rally were oversubscribed within 24 hours and a special

Dates and locations for next year’s Northern Ireland Rally Championship have been rubber stamped. Similar to this year’s championship, the 2021 instalment will consist of five Tarmac rounds with two of these – the Tour of the Sperrins and Tyrone Stag

Outgoing Rally4Wales technical director Richard Ceen is proud of the organisation’s proactive approach in helping resolve problems and move Welsh rallying forward. Ceen – a regular competitor – is stepping down from his role as he feels he has contri

Reigning World Rallycross champion Timmy Hansen has signed to drive for theAndretti United team in the new Extreme E series next year, and will be partnered by Catie Munnings. Hansen and Munnings were two of a number of drivers to test Extreme E’s O

In mid-September, Craig Finnikin won his first final at King’s Lynn since 2013. However, he didn’t have to wait so long to record another final victory at the Norfolk arena as he chalked up his second consecutive triumph on the last weekend of the mo

The 2021 edition of Rally Revival has been launched and will run on Saturday February 27 from a new base at Glyndwr University Wrexham. The second running of the rally tour will celebrate 60 years of the Mini Cooper, 40 years since Ari Vatanen and D

The fastest ever official laps of Goodwood circuit are probable when a Timed Shootout forms part of the Goodwood SpeedWeek (October 16-18). Le Mans racers Tom Kristensen and Emanuele Pirro will go head-to-head in Le Mans-winning cars and will be up a

It’s absolutely brilliant to have won the Nurburgring 24 Hours with Rowe Racing alongside Nicky Catsburg and Nick Yelloly. It’s a massive GT race, and it’s even more brilliant to win it with BMW in the M6 that I’ve driven for the last four or five ye

There are few more popular characters than Alastair Fisher in Irish rallying. Always preferring to let his driving do the talking, the 32-year-old has rallied far and wide throughout an impressive career that is far from over. Of course he comes fro

Autosport magazine titled its report at the time ‘Making a Morkery’ – a pun on one of the MSA Rally’s five special stages. One driver described the 41.87-mile Grantham-based event as “probably the worst rally at this level in the world” with its long

This year’s pushed-back race schedule came with a foreseeable consequence. That, come autumn, Britain’s elements could do their worst.And indeed British GT’s Snetterton sprint-race double header weekend, 2020’s penultimate meeting, was sodden to vary

In a championship that no-one seems to want to win, BRDC British Formula 3 championship title rivals Kush Maini, Kaylen Frederick and Louis Foster each took a Snetterton race win as well as had a disaster to impede their title bids. Frederick won Sat

The rain and gloom at Castle Combe could not take the shine off an absorbing GT and Sports Car Cup enduro that closed Saturday’s racing. Victory for the Lotus Elan of Andrew Haddon andAndy Wolfe was just reward for 90 minutes of relentless effort fro