October 18, 2024

Porsche looks set to take up the extra entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours it gained for winning the IMSA SportsCar Championship crown at Road Atlanta last weekend. Thomas Laudenbach, boss of Porsche Motorsport, told Autosport/Motorsport.com that it “absolutely makes sense” for the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport squad to run a third 963 LMDh in the double-points round of the World Endurance …Keep reading

Race 1 winner Eric Cheung dominated proceedings once again at Imola to take another win in the second and final encounter of the 2024 Ferrari Challenge Coppa Shell AM season. The Canadian, at the wheel of a Ferrari 296 of the Formula Racing team, got off to a perfect start from pole position and powered his way towards victory right from the early laps.Cheung immediately pulled out a gap over his …Keep reading

Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.As reported by GPOne, the one-time grand prix winner has received the nod from Valentino Rossi for Sepang, with the agreement of Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian, who last raced in MotoGP in …Keep reading

Reigning Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire will get his first run in a sportscar prototype when he joins Peugeot for the World Endurance Championship’s Bahrain rookie test next month.Pourchaire is one of the two drivers to be selected by the French manufacturer to drive the 9X8 2024 LMH at the Bahrain International Circuit on 3 November, along with his former F2 rival Clement Novalak.Pourchaire …Keep reading

Richie Stanaway will continue in a full-time capacity for the 2025 Supercars season but in PremiAir Nulon colours, where he will partner James Golding.The news follows Grove Racing’s decision to part company with the 32-year-old after only a single season, replacing him with Super2 champion Kai Allen.This will be only the fourth full-time season for Stanaway, with a season being spent at …Keep reading

Marc Marquez has admitted that circumstances at Phillip Island played into his hands perfectly as he went fastest on a curtailed first day of the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix.Marquez led his brother and Gresini Ducati team-mate Alex in a 1-2 in second practice after the morning FP1 session was abandoned due to heavy rain.With the skies darkening above the oceanside track at the start of the …Keep reading

Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia said he felt “calm” throughout second practice for the Australian Grand Prix despite spending most of the incident-filled hour in apparent danger of missing out on a place in Q2.After an early technical problem forced him to switch bikes as dark clouds threatened to drench the Phillip Island track at any moment, Bagnaia was then interrupted by a red …Keep reading

F1 drivers have voiced differing opinions on the series getting rid of the extra point for achieving the fastest lap.On Thursday ahead of the USGP, the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council announced various tweaks to F1’s regulations, with the bonus point for the fastest lap disappearing from 2025 onwards.The rule to award the fastest race lap by a driver from the top 10 was introduced in 2019 to add …Keep reading

An Erebus Motorsport data engineer has been axed from the team after being charged by the police on counts of assault and making a false report.The 20-year-old man – who has not been named in the police report – had initially claimed that he had been assaulted by three men on William Street in the early hours of Monday morning, following celebrations for his team’s Bathurst 1000 victory with …Keep reading

Mercedes has reassessed its 2025 Formula 1 car plans and now intends to make changes in several areas, George Russell has revealed.The team’s struggles since the summer break prompted a deep review of its W15 design over recent weeks, especially as it commits to its challenger for next year.And off the back of what it has learned from that work back at its Brackley factory, Russell has said that …Keep reading