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Hyundai’s Ott Tanak drew first blood as the 2025 non-hybrid World Rally Championship Rally1 cars and new tyre supplier Hankook made their competitive debut in Monte Carlo. The 3.28km Route de la Garde stage offered the first opportunity for the crews to compete against each other in the less powerful but 87-kilo lighter and more agile Rally1 cars. It also provided the first barometer for ...Keep readingView the full article
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The tiny hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is England’s only native dormouse. Just three inches long and under an ounce in weight, it used to be common, especially in southern England, in forests with a dense understory of hazel, ivy, and honeysuckle, which allows the mice to climb into the thickets to nest in safety. But the population of hazel dormice has plummeted in recent years, mainly through the loss and fragmentation of woodland and hedgerows. One possible habitat for them is the enormous woodland adjacent to the Goodwood Estate and motorsports park—which itself is adjacent to the headquarters of Rolls-Royce Motorcars. To investigate the possibility of a resident hazel dormouse community, apprentices at Rolls-Royce, with input from the estate’s forestry managers, designed and constructed a series of nest boxes—from quarter-sawn oak, no less—which will be monitored to prove, or disprove, the presence of the mice. I’d suggest the company offer these for sale to the public as well at a premium, complete with the Rolls-Royce stamp, to provide yet more habitat and raise money for further conservation efforts. (I might also suggest they investigate something a bit more suitable than bungee cord to secure it to the tree.) View the full article
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Getting extra seat time might be risky for full-time Cup drivers, but Joe Gibbs Racing is learning that it might be worth it. View the full article
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The 2025 specification World Rally Championship cars without hybrid power are much "simpler" and "a lot easier" to drive, according to Hyundai Motorsport's Ott Tanak. The WRC will usher in new technical regulations this season after the FIA decided to remove hybrid power from Rally1 cars, which will also now run on a new control tyre supplied by Hankook. As a result of the regulation change ...Keep readingView the full article
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Autosport is 75 years old in 2025 and a new-look Autosport Awards will kick off the celebrations. The Awards has moved from its traditional December slot at Grosvenor House Hotel to the Roundhouse in January. But some of the history, including a selection of the key Awards, remains – and the stars often attend the event to receive their Awards in front of motorsport luminaries. The ...Keep readingView the full article
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Autosport is 75 years old in 2025 and a new-look Autosport Awards will kick off the celebrations. The Awards has moved from its traditional December slot at Grosvenor House Hotel to the Roundhouse in January. But some of the history, including a selection of the key Awards, remains – and the stars often attend the event to receive their Awards in front of motorsport luminaries. The ...Keep readingView the full article
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Thierry Neuville says the hunger for a second World Rally Championship title is stronger than ever heading into the Monte Carlo season opener as the defending champion for the first time. Neuville will begin his title defence this week in Monte Carlo after finally achieving his ultimate dream last season, as he cast aside the tagline of being the championship’s perennial runner-up. The ...Keep readingView the full article
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Defender has announced the model with which it will compete in the upcoming 2026 Dakar Rally in the Stock category. The British manufacturer announced at the start of this month that it will enter the Dakar next year, although it remained to be known with which model it would do so. On Monday, Defender revealed its OCTA model as the vehicle with which it will lay the foundations of its ...Keep readingView the full article
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New World Rally Championship tyre supplier Hankook is “100% confident” in its product ahead of its competition debut in Monte Carlo despite drivers feeling its winter tyres require more development. The Korean firm has taken over as the WRC’s control tyre supplier this year following the end of Pirelli’s four-year stint, which concluded at the end of last season. Since winning the ...Keep readingView the full article
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M-Sport has taken the covers off its newly liveried Ford Puma that will contest the 2025 World Rally Championship, ahead of next week’s Monte Carlo opener. The British squad has revealed a new navy blue colour scheme featuring a continuation of its association with energy drinks giant Red Bull and technology company SafetyCulture. M-Sport will once again filed two full-time entries. It has ...Keep readingView the full article
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New technical regulations and a change of tyre manufacturer has made preparations for the challenging Monte Carlo Rally among the most demanding for World Rally Championship teams in recent times. Not since the introduction of the Rally1 cars in 2022 has the WRC undergone such significant changes, heaping even more importance on teams to do the best job possible with their Monte pre-event ...Keep readingView the full article
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The World Rally Championship will expand to 12 Rally1 cars for the second round of the season in Sweden next month. The release of the entry list for the 13-16 February event marks the largest Rally1 field since Rally Catalunya in 2022, where 12 top-flight cars were also entered. Privateers Lorenzo Bertelli and Jourdan Serderidis will bolster the Rally Sweden entry, with the former driving a ...Keep readingView the full article
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Being among the World Rally Championship’s top flight, traversing the start ramp in Monte Carlo’s glitzy Casino Square in front of thousands of fans, is the stuff of dreams for any rally driver. Next week the WRC’s latest top class debutant Josh McErlean will turn that into a reality after a whirlwind off-season that has resulted in the Irishman landing a dream full-time Rally1 opportunity ...Keep readingView the full article
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The Dakar Rally has been held in several countries since its inaugural edition in 1979, but no driver had managed to lift the Touareg trophy on home soil until Yazeed Al-Rajhi this year. The Saudi driver won an atypical 2025 event in which a number of favourites fell by the wayside early on, with Carlos Sainz Sr and Sebastien Loeb being the most high-profile departures. Emerging winner in ...Keep readingView the full article
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The Brand Partnership of the Year is an award that recognises a brand that has made highly effective use of a motorsport platform to convey its brand message and to add value to the team, driver or series it has partnered with. The winning sponsor’s activation will have shown high levels of creativity, scope and execution and will be announced at the Autosport Awards in London on January ...Keep readingView the full article
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The Brand Partnership of the Year is an award that recognises a brand that has made highly effective use of a motorsport platform to convey its brand message and to add value to the team, driver or series it has partnered with. The winning sponsor’s activation will have shown high levels of creativity, scope and execution and will be announced at the Autosport Awards in London on January ...Keep readingView the full article
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Yazeed Al-Rajhi outgunned factory Toyota rival Henk Lategan in a customer Hilux to claim an against-the-odds victory in the Dakar Rally. With newcomers Ford and Dacia still finding their feet in cross-country rallying and last year’s winner Audi having pulled out of the competition, the 47th edition of Dakar was effectively an all-Toyota affair. But while the Japanese manufacturer fielded ...Keep readingView the full article
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Daniel Sanders put in a dominant performance on his factory KTM to claim a maiden victory in the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. In one of the most one-sided bikes contests in recent history, Sanders led the bikes category from start-to-finish in the two-week marathon, outgunning Honda rival Tosha Schareina by a comfortable margin of 8m50s . It marked the 20th victory for KTM in the world’s ...Keep readingView the full article
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The Daytona 500 on FOX is one month away. Check out the early odds for NASCAR's "Great American Race." View the full article
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Toyota driver Ty Gibbs isn't as experienced with dirt racing as some of the other big NASCAR names (like Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell) taking on the Chili Bowl Nationals this week. But the challenge has him fired up. "It's been fun," he told Motorsport.com. "Every time I've gotten in the car, I feel like I learn a lot. I've had a blast. I wish I could do more ... I'd love to do ...Keep readingView the full article
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Recently-retired 2017 Cup champion Martin Truex Jr. will enter the 2025 season-opening Daytona 500 and pursue a piece of NASCAR history. Truex stepped away from his ride in the #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at the end of the 2024, with Chase Briscoe moving over from Stewart-Haas Racing to take his place, but will aim to make his 694th career start in Cup by teaming up with Truck Series ...Keep readingView the full article
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Recently-retired 2017 Cup champion Martin Truex Jr. will enter the 2025 season-opening Daytona 500 and pursue a piece of NASCAR history. Truex stepped away from his ride in the #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at the end of the 2024, with Chase Briscoe moving over from Stewart-Haas Racing to take his place, but will aim to make his 694th career start in Cup by teaming up with Truck Series ...Keep readingView the full article
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New Hyundai signing Adrien Fourmaux says he already feels “quite comfortable” within his new World Rally Championship surroundings heading into next week’s Monte Carlo season opener. Fourmaux emerged as the key player in the driver market after deciding to move from M-Sport-Ford to Hyundai, where he will pilot the Korean marque’s third i20 N Rally1 entry on a full-time basis. The ...Keep readingView the full article
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Martin Truex Jr. will attempt the 67th running of the Daytona 500 in the No. 56 Toyota -- a throwback to his Michael Waltrip Racing days. He will be driving for TRICON Garage in the Truck Series team's Cup debut. Longtime partner Bass Pro Shops will sponsor the effort, Joe Gibbs Racing will offer technical support, and Truex will reunite with former crew chief Cole Pearn. Truex has started ...Keep readingView the full article
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Ford driver Mattias Ekstrom was fastest in the penultimate stage of the Dakar Rally on Thursday, while Overdrive’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi took a decisive lead over factory Toyota rival Henk Lategan. In what was the last major test of the 2025 Dakar, competitors had to traverse 275km of dunes through the famous Empty Quarters in Saudi Arabia before halting for the night at Shubayth. Lategan ...Keep readingView the full article
