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Alpine has confirmed it will team up with the Pramac MotoGP squad for the 2025 season, becoming the Italian outfit’s “main partner”.As revealed by Motorsport.com in December last year, the French marque will join forces with Pramac, which won the 2024 MotoGP riders’ championship with Jorge Martin. It meant that Pramac became the first independent team to achieve the feat since 2001 …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton is set to continue his acclimatisation to the Ferrari Formula 1 team at Barcelona over the next 10 days, with five days’ worth of testing on the agenda for the Scuderia.First, Ferrari will run a three-day test from 28-30 January with the SF-23 from the 2023 season, making the most of FIA’s new, more restrictive sporting regulations regarding ‘Testing of Previous Cars’ by F1 …Keep reading

The official start date of the Formula 2 championship is 2017, but the principal training category of future F1 drivers can be considered a continuation of the GP2 Series that ran between 2005 and 2016. After all, F2’s first modern champion Charles Leclerc was crowned after a season in the Dallara GP2/11 that had been used in the previous six seasons of GP2.Of GP2’s 12 champions, Lewis …Keep reading

New Ducati signing Marc Marquez believes it will be “dangerous” to assume the Borgo Panigale marque will remain the benchmark in MotoGP for 2025 and beyond.The Italian outfit had been making major strides since the latter part of last decade, but it was only after the arrival of Francesco Bagnaia in the factory team for 2021 that it became the powerhouse that it is today.Bagnaia won …Keep reading

Yesterday, Nick Tandy was already one of the most decorated sports car drivers of all time. Today, he’s done something no one else has; won the Le Mans 24, Nürburgring 24, Spa 24 and now, the Rolex 24 at Daytona overall. The 40-year-old Briton joined the full-time IMSA WeatherTech season pairing of Felipe Nasr and Laurens Vanthoor in the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 GTP for this …Keep reading

Oliver Solberg has been issued a five-minute penalty for ‘exhibition driving’ at the Monaco Grand Prix circuit’s Fairmont Hairpin on his way to parc ferme at the Monte Carlo Rally.Last year’s WRC2 title runner-up was caught drifting around the famous turn, which is part of one of the rally’s road sections. The offence occurred following the conclusion of the final podium at the World …Keep reading

Porsche held on to victory in the 63rd running of the Daytona 24 Hours after fending off late challenges from Acura and BMW.Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy and Laurens Vanthoor took top honours in the factory #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh after Nasr passed the sister PPM entry of Matt Campbell at the Le Mans chicane with just 22 minutes remaining.Campbell looked set to secure the runner-up …Keep reading

Tommy Milner did not hold back his frustrations after his final stint at Daytona, taking aim at what he described as unsportsmanlike conduct from the Paul Miller BMW team.”That’s not what racing is about. It’s not what sports car racing is about,” he told IMSA Radio. But what happened? Well, with less than three hours to go in the Rolex 24, Milner was in control of the GTD Pro Class in the No …Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier has said claiming a record-extending 10th Monte Carlo Rally victory means “the world” – but has “no idea” if it will be his final appearance at the historic event.Ogier emerged from a dramatic last day to claim victory by 18.5seconds over Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans at the famous asphalt rally, which opened the 2025 World Rally Championship campaign.The eight-time …Keep reading

Porsche led the Daytona 24 Hours with its two factory Penske prototypes with six hours of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship curtain-raiser remaining.The #7 Porsche 963 LMDh with Nick Tandy at the wheel held a narrow advantage of 5.6s over the sister #6 car driven by Matt Campbell as the race hit the three-quarter mark.Penske Porsche Motorsport’s two entries held a clear advantage at …Keep reading