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Sportscar ace Richard Westbrook announces retirement from racing

Five-time Le Mans podium finisher Richard Westbrook has called time on a career in which he was a factory driver with Porsche, General Motors, BMW, Aston Martin and Ford.

Motorsport

Friday favourite: When BMW partners hit the ground running

To make a winning start with a brand-new car and team-mate partnership, everything must go right. But Jorg Muller didn’t especially fancy his chances heading into the 1999 Sebring 12 Hours in the Williams-designed BMW V12 LMR after testing at Homestead was blighted by gearbox problems. “The diff always blew…

Autosport

Silverstone aims to host WEC again after 2025 ELMS round

Silverstone has outlined an ambition to again host the World Endurance Championship after a return of the European Le Mans Series to the venue in 2025 was announced last week.

Autosport

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Porsche's Christensen wants to stay in WEC, despite IMSA switch speculation

Porsche driver Michael Christensen said he would like to remain in the World Championship next year despite speculation linking him with a move to the IMSA SportsCar Championship.

Autosport

Multiple Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Lapierre retires with immediate effect

Four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre has retired from the cockpit with immediate effect to concentrate on running his Cool Racing team.

Autosport

Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Lapierre retires with immediate effect

Four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre has retired from the cockpit with immediate effect to concentrate on running his Cool Racing team.

Motorsport

ELMS returns to Silverstone in 2025

Silverstone will host a round of the European Le Mans Series next season as international endurance racing makes a return to the United Kingdom after an absence of six years.

Autosport

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Magnussen to return to Formula Ford action in Walter Hayes Trophy

Ex-Formula 1 driver and four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jan Magnussen will return to Formula Ford 1600 in the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone next month.

Autosport

Magazine: Norris dominates but Verstappen does enough

Lando Norris’s supremacy at the Singapore Grand Prix and the 2024 Formula 1 title fight get top billing in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (26 September).It was hard to decide on the angle for this week’s cover. On the one hand, Norris put in one of the most dominant…

Autosport

Magazine: Piastri shows his class in Baku

A fantastic Azerbaijan Grand Prix and superb victory for Oscar Piastri leads this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (19 September).If anyone had still been in any doubt that Piastri is the real deal, they must surely have revised their view following last weekend’s race. As Jake Boxall-Legge shows in our…

Autosport

Magazine: Sensational Goodwood and Newey to Aston Martin

A superb Goodwood Revival and Adrian Newey’s move to Aston Martin make the cover of this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (12 September).There’s no doubt that Newey is the greatest Formula 1 designer of his generation and possibly of all time. Several teams tried to gain his services after he…

Autosport

Why the recent past represents historic racing's fast-growing future

Racing for sports-prototypes and GT cars from up to five years ago is not historic in the true sense, yet it is the fastest growing element of the overall historic racing industry.

Autosport

Magazine: Ferrari’s special day at Monza

Charles Leclerc’s brilliant home win for Ferrari and questions over McLaren’s lack of team orders dominate this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (5 September).Even for non-Ferrari fans, a victory for the legendary team in the Italian Grand Prix is special. While we’ll have to see whether the SF-24’s latest upgrades…

Autosport

WEC COTA: AF Corse Ferrari sneaks past Toyota for win

Ferrari took its first victory in a regular World Endurance Championship race with the customer AF Corse-run 499P driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman at Austin.

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WEC COTA: Giovinazzi leads Ferrari 1-2 in FP2

Ferrari returned to the top of the World Endurance Championship timesheets for the first time since the Le Mans 24 Hours in second free practice for this weekend’s Austin round.

Motor1

Steve McQueen's Porsche 917K 'Le Mans' Movie Car Is Up For Sale

It’s been restored to its original spec from 1971’s Le Mans movie.

Motor1

This Incredibly Rare Mercedes Streamliner Is Going to Auction

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is selling some incredibly important cars in the coming months. Most valuable is this ex-Moss and Fangio Mercedes.

Autosport

The backstage partner in a triple crown clean sweep

At face value, the cars that won this year’s Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix and Le Mans 24 Hours share little beyond their Ferrari badges.

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Toyota to race hydrogen car alongside existing LMH in 2028 WEC

Toyota is planning to race its proposed hydrogen combustion Hypercar class contender alongside its existing GR010 HYBRID in the 2028 World Endurance Championship.

Autosport

Friday favourite: The giant-killing Porsche that conquered Spa

It takes something truly special for long-time Porsche factory ace Marc Lieb to overlook the 911 GT3 RSR as his favourite car. Such is his passion for the machine in which he took a remarkable against-the-odds GT2 class win in the 2005 Le Mans 24 Hours with Mike Rockenfeller and…

Autosport

What to look out for at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

One of the highlights of the annual motorsport calendar is upon us, as the great and good of Formula 1, sportscar racing, rallying and more descends on West Sussex for a four-day celebration of the cars and stars that make racing special.

Motorsport

Acosta: First half of rookie MotoGP season "4.5/10"

KTM protege Pedro Acosta has given himself a 4.5 grade out of 10 after the opening half of his rookie MotoGP season. Tech3 GasGas rider Acosta made a storming debut in MotoGP at the start of the year, as he outperformed all his KTM compatriots and finished on the podium…

Autosport

Magazine: Spanish Grand Prix review and Super Touring special

Now things are getting interesting. Yes, Max Verstappen won again last weekend, but McLaren’s pace at a circuit many expected to be prime Red Bull territory suggests we have some fine Formula 1 battles to come in 2024. Lando Norris’s early fight with Verstappen in Spain – hard but just…

Autosport

Vanthoor claims Kubica pushed him off on purpose in race-ending Le Mans clash

BMW driver Dries Vanthoor believes AF Corse Ferrari rival Robert Kubica deliberately pushed him off the track while trying to lap him during the night at last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours.

Autosport

Why satisfaction of Ford Mustang's debut Le Mans podium matched 2016 GTE Pro win

An LMGT3 class podium on the new Mustang GT3's Le Mans 24 Hours bow was an "equivalent" achievement to the Ford GT's debut win in 2016, its car builder says.

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