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Hill stays as WSR eyes expansion to four or five

Newly crowned British Touring Car champion Jake Hill will remain at the West Surrey Racing BMW team for 2025, when the squad could expand to as many as five cars.Hill, whose clinching of the BTCC crown at the Brands Hatch finale last month represented his first championship title of any…

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Porsche to not change its approach for WEC finale in Bahrain

Porsche has insisted that it is not going into Saturday’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain with a conservative approach as it looks to seal the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles.

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BTCC drops hybrid to mandate 100% sustainable fuel from 2025

The British Touring Car Championship has dropped hybrid and introduced 100% sustainable fuel for the 2025 season.

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Phil Hanson joins AF Corse for FIA WEC season 2025

Briton Phil Hanson will race the ‘customer’ Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar run by AF Corse in next year’s World Endurance Championship.

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Bourdais returns to WEC in Bahrain finale with Cadillac

Sebastien Bourdais will join the factory Cadillac team for the final round of the 2024 World Endurance Championship in Bahrain early next month.

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The talent spotters that moulded Piastri into an F1 winner

"Oscar's brain is a supercomputer," says Oscar Piastri's early mentor, James Sera, who helped the McLaren driver navigate his early career in his native Australia. It is an unusual response when asked about the McLaren Formula 1 driver's most crucial characteristics.

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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.

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Hill wins as Ingram and Sutton collide

The seas parted for Jake Hill to take victory in the first race of the British Touring Car Championship finale at Brands Hatch and put him in the box seat for the title.

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Sharp wins GB3 title as Collards secure British GT crown

Rodin Motorsport’s Louis Sharp clinched the 2024 GB3 Championship in last weekend’s deciding race at Brands Hatch. The British-born New Zealander, who is one of four finalists for this year’s Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award, followed in the footsteps of Luke Browning by winning both the British Formula 4…

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How a traditional British GT tenet is again proving the difference maker

British GT has always been a series for the ‘gentleman driver’ – the non-professional competitor in a driver line-up who often funds the race seat. While their professional counterparts are all usually separated by no more than a few tenths, the quality of the amateur can vary significantly, so they…

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Jota set to skip Bahrain WEC test as focus switches to factory Cadillac programme

Jota is not expected to take part in the World Endurance Championship’s post-season test in Bahrain as it switches focus to its factory programme with Cadillac.

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Ferrari aiming to get clarity over WEC restarts after failed Spa appeal

Ferrari is hopeful of a clarification of rules governing World Endurance Championship restarts after the loss of its appeal against the failed protest of the results of May’s Spa round.

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Porsche: Toyota has made it “easier” for us to win 2024 WEC titles

Porsche driver Matt Campbell believes Toyota has made it “easier” for the German manufacturer to win the World Endurance Championship this year.

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Sharp on verge of GB3 title with Donington double as Collards win in British GT

Louis Sharp produced a near-perfect weekend at Donington Park to give himself clear daylight in the GB3 title race heading into the deciding round at Brands Hatch later this month.

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Alpine concedes definitive Le Mans engine fix unlikely this year

Alpine appears unlikely to introduce the engine upgrade to overcome the problem that resulted in the early retirement of both its cars at the Le Mans 24 Hours this season.

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Alpine concedes definitive WEC engine fix unlikely this year

Alpine appears unlikely to introduce the engine upgrade to overcome the problem that resulted in the early retirement of both its cars at the Le Mans 24 Hours this season.

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BTCC seeks two new teams for 2025, set to introduce cap

British Touring Car Championship organiser TOCA is targeting two new teams for the 2025 season, but is capping its grid at a maximum of 24 cars. The series has dropped from 27 cars last year to an average of 20 this term. While TOCA chief Alan Gow was always adamant that…

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Ferrari laments "helplessness" in WEC battle with Toyota in Brazil

Ferrari has expressed “frustration and a sense of helplessness” at its inability to challenge for a podium in Sunday’s Interlagos round of the World Endurance Championship.

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Ben Hunt: Horner's pre-Goodwood F1 test drive an uplift in Red Bull positivity

Even for someone who has experienced 381 starts in Formula 1, it is interesting how the nerves can still get to you. Christian Horner has been at all of Red Bull's races and overseen its 120 victories and 277 podiums. But until just under a week ago, he had never…

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WEC Sao Paulo: Toyota dominates to defeat Porsche

Toyota dominated at Interlagos on the way to a second World Endurance Championship victory of the season on Sunday.

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WEC Sao Paulo: Kobayashi claims pole in Toyota 1-2

Toyota claimed its first pole position of the 2024 World Endurance Championship campaign as it blocked out the front row for Sunday’s Sao Paulo 6 Hours.

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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.

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WEC announces 2025 calendar, Le Mans clashes with F1 Canada, Imola retained

The Le Mans 24 Hours is scheduled for 14-15 June, with the pre-event Test Day on the preceding Sunday. It means the race will clash with the F1 Canadian GP and IndyCar's St Louis round at Gateway.

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BTCC Thruxton: Hill tops practice from Ingram

The diminutive Kentishman was quick out of the blocks in the early-morning FP1 session to whisk his West Surrey Racing-run Laser Tools BMW 330e M Sport around the Hampshire speedbowl with a lap that for a long time stood half a second clear of the opposition.

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Banning tyre warmers at Le Mans an "unsafe" choice, say Ferrari WEC drivers

Teams across both Hypercar and LMGT3 categories will not be allowed to artificially heat their tyres in the blue riband round of the World Endurance Championship on 15-16 June as per the updated sporting regulations for 2024. The WEC had originally imposed an outright ban on tyre warmers at the…

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