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All to know about the WRC’s newest constructor

RMC Motorsport explained more details about its plan to tackle the WRC in 2027

Autosport

Everything we know about the WRC’s newest constructor

RMC Motorsport explained more details about its plan to tackle the WRC in 2027

Motorsport

Romain Grosjean turns 40 – here’s his career in 10 key moments

As Grosjean celebrates his 40th birthday, let’s look back on his career so far, including F1 highlights and frights

Motorsport

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Pierre Gasly: Missing out on F1 seat after GP2 title was a 'slap in the face'

Pierre Gasly has recalled how missing out on an immediate Formula 1 seat after winning the 2016 GP2 title felt like a 'slap in my face'

Motorsport

Meet James Calado: The British racing driver thriving – and winning – at Ferrari

EXCLUSIVE: A winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans two years ago, Calado now has his sights set on a world endurance title this weekend in Bahrain. Kieran Jackson speaks to the 36-year-old British racer

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When Nico Rosberg won the inaugural GP2 Series title

On 29-30 September 2005, Nico Rosberg clinched the inaugural GP2 championship in style, taking the series’ first-ever double victory in the season-closing Bahrain round

Motorsport

The best American drivers on the road to F1, from GP2 to F2

IndyCar star Colton Herta is taking a gamble and moving to Formula 2 next year; let’s look at previous GP2/F2 drivers from the United States

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Jules Bianchi’s breakthrough F1 season – in his own words

Some people think of Marseille as bandit country. There’s some justification for this. As a port it has many connections… some shady.

Motorsport

Bianchi’s breakthrough F1 season – in his own words

Some people think of Marseille as bandit country. There’s some justification for this. As a port it has many connections… some shady.

Autosport

F2 2025 season preview: The new generation is here

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Formula 2 championship’s inception (then under the GP2 mantle), but there’s another reason why it represents a landmark for the series: F2 has four drivers graduating directly to Formula 1 – something that had not happened since 2010, when the F1 grid…

Motorsport

The new generation of F2 drivers vying to emulate F1's 2025 rookies

Autosport

How Timo Glock’s DTM comeback came about

Former BMW star Timo Glock has explained how he secured a return to the DTM this year after being out of action for the last three seasons.

Motorsport

Top 10: Ranking the best GP2 non-champions

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…

Autosport

What should we expect from Prema in IndyCar 2025?

Callum Ilott believes "there's not really any pressure" on his Prema team to deliver immediate results as a newcomer to IndyCar starting from scratch. But the Italian squad's pedigree as serial winners in every championship it contests, winning the GP2 title at the first attempt with Pierre Gasly in 2016,…

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Podcast: The best F3000 non-champions with David Sears

For almost 20 years, International Formula 3000 served as the main training ground for Formula 1 before it was replaced by GP2 for 2005.

Motorsport

Another F1 figure connected with the Ecclestone era has gone

Another link between Formula 1’s past and present has been severed – for now. Alessandro Alunni Bravi might not be a household name for fans but the announcement that he is to leave Sauber puts even more distance between F1’s corporate present and its past as Bernie Ecclestone’s personal fiefdom.

Autosport

Top 10: Ranking the best F3000 non-champions

The International Formula 3000 championship was born 40 years ago. The final rung on the single-seater ladder before Formula 1 began in 1985 and enjoyed a 20-year run, with future F1 race winners Jean Alesi, Olivier Panis and Juan Pablo Montoya among its champions before the category was replaced by…

Autosport

What is an F1 pay driver? All to know about the controversial tag

Motorsport is one of the most expensive industries in the world as Red Bull paid a staggering $7,445,817 to enter the 2024 F1 season. But costs are also high at a national level with teams paying up to £29,000 for a space on the British GT grid. So it is…

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Top 10: F1 feeder series kings who were overlooked the following year

Theo Pourchaire has become the third driver in succession miss out on a graduation to Formula 1 in the year after winning the Formula 2 title. As with Oscar Piastri (2021) and Felipe Drugovich (2022) before him, the Sauber junior will watch from the sidelines this year, though he will…

Autosport

Top 10: The F1 feeder series kings who were overlooked the following year

Autosport

Vowles: Mercedes F1 "will come back stronger" after losing Hamilton

Last week Mercedes announced the bombshell news that seven-time world champion Hamilton would be departing the team at the end of 2024 to join his former GP2 team boss Fred Vasseur at Ferrari. According to Vowles, Hamilton's shock departure will inevitably be a blow to Mercedes, but he believes all parties…

Motorsport

Vowles: Mercedes F1 team "will come back stronger" after losing Hamilton

Autosport

How Ferrari's British star reached Le Mans-winning heights

Le Mans 24 Hours winner. That’s the tag that’s now nailed firmly ahead of the name James Calado, and has been since Ferrari’s victory in the centenary running of the French enduro last summer. Only it should really be, as the man himself points out, three-time Le Mans winner.

Autosport

The mindset that keeps a prolific F1 talent factory winning titles

A sense of perpetual progress emanates from the Prema Racing factory in Grisignano di Zocco. With a new building housing its endurance racing collaboration with Iron Lynx and Lamborghini nearing completion, a simulator being installed, and freshly delivered parts of the new-for-2024 Formula 2 car waiting for assembly, it’s clear…

Autosport

Friday favourite: The street track gem behind a breakthrough IndyCar result

In his 23 IndyCar starts across four seasons with as many different teams, Luca Filippi showed flashes of the pace that had taken him to six victories in GP2 between 2006 and 2012. That was never more clearly on display than at his favourite circuit in Toronto, where the Italian…

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