December 11, 2024

For some time, across the way from the decades-old 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway oval, there’s been a fence covered in black tarps. Friends in NASCAR told me they’d passed it countless times without paying any mind, thinking it was just construction. But had they looked, they would’ve caught a glimpse of a hint peeking over the fabric: the corner of a race track. That hidden track …Keep reading

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur is expecting Lewis Hamilton to enhance the Scuderia’s mindset as it keeps working towards a first Formula 1 world title since 2008.Ferrari fought for this year’s constructors’ championship with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz until the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where its 21-point deficit on McLaren proved to be too large to overcome as it …Keep reading

The FIA has revealed the future pathway for the World Rally Championship with the release of the 2027 technical regulations and a new-look points system to be introduced next year.The World Motor Sport Council has confirmed the new look ‘WRC27’ cars will be more versatile and built to a cost cap of €345,000 in a bid to encourage more teams and manufacturers to compete.Reducing costs …Keep reading

“Wow” – was initially all McLaren team boss Andrea Stella could muster when Motorsport.com raised the subject of his squad’s bulletproof reliability in Formula 1 2024 ahead of the Abu Dhabi finale.A discipline as scientific as motorsport does not really leave room for superstition, but the timing of our discussion was complex and so Stella’s brief incredulity was understandable. To …Keep reading

Hyundai has been fined €25,000 and issued a further suspended €25,000 fine for breaching regulations at the World Rally Championship season finale in Japan.A lengthy stewards’ hearing that concluded on Tuesday deemed that rear differential cases on the i20 N Rally1 cars driven by new world champion Thierry Neuville and team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen “were found to be not in compliance with …Keep reading

Newly crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Martin has left the door open for a potential reunion with Ducati in the future.The Spaniard said he is open to working with Ducati again despite his relationship with the Borgo Panigale marque having been fractured by its decision to snub him for a factory ride.Martin was the initial favourite to step up to the seat occupied by Enea Bastianini this year, only …Keep reading

Comtoyou Racing, which won the Spa 24 Hours this year in an Aston Martin, is seriously evaluating an assault on the DTM in 2025.The Belgian squad has been holding talks with both Aston Martin Racing and DTM promoter ADAC to enter the Vantage GT3 in the championship next year.”We want to get into the series,” Comtoyou team manager Francois Verbist told Motorsport.com’s sister title …Keep reading

Fernando Alonso has claimed new Formula 2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto is the best rookie on Formula 1’s 2025 grid.Next year, Andrea Kimi Antonelli will make a highly-anticipated debut with Mercedes, Oliver Bearman and Jack Doohan will follow up on their 2024 cameos with full-time drives at Haas and Alpine respectively, while Bortoleto has been signed by Sauber alongside Nico Hulkenberg.On top of …Keep reading

Max Verstappen has conceded he sympathises with Sergio Perez’s struggles this year and insisted his Red Bull team-mate is “not an idiot” in the face of “harsh” criticism.Perez’s position with the Milton Keynes-based outfit has been hanging by a thread for the majority of the season despite signing a new contract during the campaign, with a number of disastrous qualifying runs leaving his race …Keep reading

Hours after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz was struggling to hold back the tears. A monitor was wheeled out into the paddock to display a farewell video Ferrari had produced as a send-off after the Spaniard’s four years at Maranello.All team members were wearing a special cap that Ferrari had produced for the occasion, with Sainz wearing his backwards so the embroidered “Grazie Carlos” …Keep reading