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It’s been a long time since Formula 1 has experienced an accident as ferocious as Romain Grosjean’s at the start of last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, particularly one that involves fire. The state of his Haas, immediate inferno and damage to the bar

Romain Grosjean has paid tribute to the halo cockpit-protection device for saving his life in his horrifying Bahrain Grand Prix crash, which has sparked an investigation from Formula 1 and the FIA. Grosjean’s Haas hit the barrier with such force – it

The factory Audi team will quit Formula E at the end of the 2021 season in favour of a return to topflight sportscar racing in addition to an all-electric Dakar Rally entry in 2022. Although the German marque will supply powertrains to customer team

Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen is set for a switch to sportscar racing in 2021 with Chip Ganassi Racing’s revived IMSA team, Autosport has learned. The 28-year-old Dane is understood to be one of the full-time drivers in Ganassi’s single Cadil

Recently crowned seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will miss this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix after testing positive for COVID-19. Hamilton reported mild symptoms on Monday, the day after his victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, after

Recently crowned FIA Formula 3 champion Oscar Piastri will stay with Prema Racing for his step up to Formula 2 in 2021, and it looks certain that Ferrari junior Robert Shwartzman will stay in the Italian team’s line-up alongside him. Australian Piast

For the second year in a row, BMW Andretti racer Maximilian Guenther departed Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo as the fastest driver in Formula E pre-season testing. Guenther’s unmatched effort in the new BMW iFE.21, set on the final day of running i

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Any doubts racing fans had about the halo have had them answered at the Bahrain Grand Prix. It might not be aesthetically pleasing (I must admit I wasn’t a big fan), but without doubt it saved Romain Grosjean’s life. The pictures of the crash barrier

Once it was clear that Romain Grosjean had emerged relatively unscathed from what was a truly horrifying crash at the start of the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix – and the barrier his Haas VF-20 had pierced had been replaced – someone had to actually win it

Normal service resumed in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix. For the first time since September’s Russian GP, it was back to a track that’s a regular on the F1 schedule, and the pack was back to its usual tricks for keeping the tyres in the perfe

Autosport’s hopes of an action-packed start to first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix are not high. It has rained ahead of the opening support series practice sessions – Porsche Sprint Challenge Middle East and Formula 2 – and this pandemic-delayed

Starting on the soft Pirelli tyre was always going to be a gamble in a two-stop race, especially given the Bahrain circuit’s propensity for delivering high tyre wear, but Carlos Sainz Jr pulled it off. Sainz was saddled with a lowly 15th-place grid s

Racing Point’s hopes of winning the battle for third in the constructors’ championship were dealt a major blow after a late retirement denied Sergio Perez a well-deserved podium finish. Perez sat third after passing Valtteri Bottas before the first c

The number of places George Russell lost off the line after starting 14th, which the British racer put down to a sensitivity problem with Williams’s start system that has caused the team to be inconsistent at this critical phase all season.

Pierre Gasly pulled off an audacious one-stop strategy to finish sixth for AlphaTauri, using the early red flag to save a pitstop and get rid of the medium tyres. After moving up to seventh prior to the red flag – but having to take the restart in ni

Renault showed promise in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix, but neither driver had the race pace to realistically challenge for anything other than the lower points positions. Daniel Ricciardo, who was shuffled back to sixth for the second start

Ferrari is continuing to explore updates to its SF1000 as it looks to enter 2021 in much better shape than it began this year. It has tried a small change to its front wing endplate to control where the trailing vortices are deposited around the fron

Toyota sealed a Le Mans 24 Hours hat-trick on the way to claiming a third World Endurance Championship title, and Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez finally took the crown after a trio of seasons together. But ‘three’ wasn’t the most i

Aston Martin won races in the first season for its second-generation Vantage GTE in 2018-19. What was new for its second campaign was an ability to take victory in GTE Pro in the dry. That allowed Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen to reprise their 2016

The Gilles Villeneuve of the British Touring Car Championship took home the ultimate prize in 2020 after a sensational display throughout this oddest of seasons, his otherworldly natural talent, car control and racecraft allied to an insatiable appet

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R1 Dan Cammish R2 Colin Turkington R3 Ash Sutton Cammish profits from Turkington/Sutton contact in opener to take the lead and beat the BMW home, but the Honda struggles with ballast from there on as Turkington dominates race two. Sutton, 26th and la

BRITISH FORMULA 4 LUKE BROWNING PORSCHE CARRERA CUP GB HARRY KING MINI CHALLENGE NATHAN HARRISON GINETTA JUNIOR TOM LEBBON GINETTA GT4 SUPERCUP WILL BURNS Even now, what happened in the British Formula 4 finale still seems barely believable. It was a

Penned by eminent motorsport writer Maurice Hamilton, Formula 1: The Official History soundly documents the championship’s key moments and is a great entry point for fledging racing fans to get enthused by the grand prix scene. A Race with Love and D

SAKHIR (BHR) 28-29 NOVEMBER ROUND 11/12 Callum Ilott had a 22-point deficit to Mick Schumacher at the top of the table going into the penultimate round of the FIA Formula 2 Championship in Bahrain. And, in a characteristically tongue-in-cheek respons

FUJI (JPN) 29 NOVEMBER ROUND 8/8 Honda sensationally snatched the Super GT crown away from Toyota in a scintillating season finale at Fuji when Ryo Hirakawa ran out of fuel exiting the final corner. Hirakawa was in position to take the crown after do

CANARY ISLANDS (ESP) 26-28 NOVEMBER ROUND 5/5 M-Sport WRC2 driver Adrien Fourmaux scored his first ERC win as one of only a handful of drivers not to opt for full slicks during the rain-hit and decisive opening loop on Friday. After reaching the over

FUJI (JPN) Naoki Yamamoto/Tadasuke Makino Team Kunimitsu (Honda NSX-GT) CANARY ISLANDS (ESP) Adrien Fourmaux/Renaud Jamoul M-Sport Ford WRT (Ford Fiesta Rally2) BUENOS AIRES (ARG) Rubens Barrichello (below) Toyota Gazoo Racing YPF (Toyota Corolla) Fo

Newly crowned World Endurance champion Mike Conway and 1992 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Mark Blundell are to team up to race a famous Group 2 Ford Escort next season. Conway and his manager Blundell will campaign the car originally built by Broadspeed an

The Goodwood Members’ Meeting has been pushed back to mid-May for next season as the circuit’s operators plan to run all three of its main events in 2021. Neither the Members’ Meeting, the Festival of Speed nor the Revival took place this year in the

The late Mike Bell’s collection of historic racing and performance road cars will be offered without reserve at Classic Car Auctions’ next live online sale on Saturday, 12 December. The former Mitsubishi Ralliart engineer, who died of cancer this yea

Perennial British GT Championship nearly-man Phil Keen will make the switch from Barwell Motorsport to fellow Lamborghini customer team WPI Motorsport for next year’s campaign. The 37-year-old has been a stalwart of Barwell’s British GT programme sin

British GT team bosses are split over the decision to scrap the Silver-Silver class in GT3 and replace it with a Silver-Am classification from next season. This year, all-Silver crews finished first and second in the standings and won five of the nin

The Classic Touring Car Racing Club has decided to introduce prize money for its most successful drivers next season. The club operates a number of different tin-top categories in association with the British Automobile Racing Club and has recently a

Five Ginetta racing regulars have become the first drivers to sign up to the new-for-2021 Ginetta GT Academy. Assetto Motorsport drivers Martin Wills, Robin Grimwood and Julian Wantling, and SF Racing’s Shawn Fleming and Gary Wager, will all move fro

The BRDC British F3 Championship will award next year’s champion with a two-day test in an FIA Formula 3 car to aid their climb up the motorsport ladder. The new initiative coincides with the introduction of a teams’ championship, with each squad’s t

Excool, manufacturer of advanced data centre cooling equipment, has partnered with the British Racing & Sports Car Club to launch a new sports-prototype series for 2021. The brainchild of Excool’s Duncan Williams, an ardent sportscar racer, the Zeo P

“Everybody involved in British motorsport knows how important British F3 has been and we are delighted to get it back.” Those words, spoken by MotorSport Vision chief executive Jonathan Palmer, were published in the 31 March 2016 issue of Autosport m

Throughout the 2020 BRDC British F3 season a total of 24 drivers took part in at least one race and, while nearly half were British, the remainder came from across the globe, including the US, Brazil, Malaysia, Argentina, India, Australia, Belgium, T

FERNANDO Live coverage of sporting events isn’t the be-all and end-all anymore. It will bring a certain audience, and a consistent and sizeable one at that. But a behind-the-scenes, fly-on-the-wall documentary that uncovers the ‘human story’ might ju

Jonathan Palmer has a brief moment in his Williams-Ford FW08C during practice for the 1983 European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch – the penultimate race of the season, organised in the wake of three of the year’s scheduled events being cancelled. The ne

Autosport mourned the loss of World Rally star Richard Burns this week 15 years ago. Burns had been in the fight for the 2003 WRC crown when he blacked out during Rally GB. He was immediately diagnosed with an astrocytoma and never drove again. Despi

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