December 30, 2024

The checkered flag is waving on 2024, and what was an exciting season for the IndyCar series. This year saw the first back-to-back Indy 500 champion crowned since Helio Castroneves accomplished the feat back in 2002. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou also nabbed his own back-to-back victory — taking home the Astor Cup as the season champ for a second year in a row. The North American premier …Keep reading

The 2025 Dakar Rally promises to be one of the most exciting in recent history, with several manufacturers and drivers capable of winning the famous Touareg trophy.The rally-raid will begin on 3 January with the Prologue in Bisha and conclude on 17 January in Shubaytah after 12 stages and more than 5,000 kilometres of running across Saudi Arabia.Here’s a list of drivers considered to be …Keep reading

A lot of attention has gone to Ferrari and the cursed Barcelona floor upgrade that sent it back to the drawing board over the summer, but behind the Scuderia in F1’s midfield RB suffered a similar fate.After an encouraging start RB also introduced a new floor at June’s Spanish Grand Prix, an upgrade which actually turned out to make the car slower. The team payed the price against …Keep reading

The number #1 will return to the World Rally Championship for the first time since 2022 with new champion Thierry Neuville set to adopt the number for the 2025 campaign.The Hyundai driver in recent years has become synonymous with the #11 – a number which he first utilised in the WRC in 2013, before adopting it on a full-time basis from 2019.However, next season will see the #1 adorn …Keep reading

KTM could leave MotoGP and its support classes in 2026, as the Austrian manufacturer undergoes a wide-scale restructure under administration.It was on 20 December that a potential exit from MotoGP was publicly mentioned for the first time. In a report presented by Alpenlandischer Kreditorenverband (AKV), following a meeting with the creditors in Austria, it was stated that “in order to reduce …Keep reading

Now that Valtteri Bottas is dropping off the Formula 1 grid in 2025, the unique record he shares with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen is unlikely to be extended.This is the statistic for most podium appearances across any F1 driver triplet arrangement, with Bottas, Hamilton and Verstappen having appeared together in 20 podium ceremonies.This run occurred between the 2018 Spanish Grand …Keep reading

During a record-breaking season of 24 Formula 1 races, there was always likely to be the odd gem of a story that had a short shelf-life before being overtaken on the news agenda.Factor in another blockbuster year for the World Endurance Championship, several u-turns over World Rally Championship’s hybrid future and a MotoGP season that featured endless twists and turns in the title race, and …Keep reading