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Having already survived to fight another season in 2015, challenges are abound for the Manor F1 team going into 2016, writes Matt Somerfield. The structure of the team was dealt a blow late in the season with the announc...

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The new Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup will have a prize fund worth in excess of Euro300,000 its inaugural season in 2016

As the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga - Episode VII: The Force Awakens - finally hit the screens worldwide, let's look back at a time when film director George Lucas, Darth Vader, Chewbacca and a slew of Stormtr...

Part of being a Formula One driver involves shooting promotional clips for team sponsors. Although Williams' Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas are very safe pairs of hands when it comes to racing, we are less sure about t...

Romain Grosjean admits he has taken a career risk by leaving Lotus and joining Formula 1 newcomer Haas for next season

The winner of next year's British Rally Championship junior category will receive a subsidised entry into the Drive DMACK Trophy series that supports the World Rally Championship

©Herweg / xpb.cc Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says the German manufacturer's 2015 success in motor racing does not come down to one miracle solution, but relies on a series of factors that includes "outstanding" ...

Phil Keen and Jon Minshaw have become the first drivers to sign up to Barwell Motorsport's attack on the British GT Championship with a pair of new Lamborghini Huracan GT3s

Takuma Sato and Jack Hawksworth will stay with AJ Foyt Racing for the 2016 IndyCar Series

Carlos Sainz admits he is concerned that Toro Rosso could be left behind next season as F1 rivals improve their engines over the course of the year. The Faenza-based squad will switch from Renault to Ferrari power units ...

Jaguar says its tie-up with Williams Advanced Engineering will be key to ensuring it is successful when it joins the Formula E grid next season

 XPB Images Daniel Ricciardo says former Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel needed to head for pastures new after his low-key 2014 season. Having been comprehensively outshone by the Australian last year, the four-tim...

Triple MotoGP™ World Champion, Jorge Lorenzo, discussed his rivals while looking ahead to the 2016 season.

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– Daniel Ricciardo says he is not yet contemplating whether he will stay at Red Bull or depart at the end of his contract, as he focuses on helping the team return to the front of the grid.Ricciardo, whose deal expires...

South African Raoul Hyman is closing on a seat at leading team Carlin for next season's Formula 3 European Championship after a starring performance in Valencia testing this week

 XPB Images McLaren Group CEO Ron Dennis says his team is "working night and day" in its bid to recover from a torrid 2015 campaign. The British squad reunited with power unit supplier Honda and welcomed back double wo...

Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne and team boss Maurizio Arrivabene are all too aware that the easy bit, if you can call it that, has been achieved

 XPB Images Aston Martin has elected to delay the decision regarding its potential return to Formula One until January 2016, according to several sources. The British marque was briefly linked to Red Bull earlier this ...

– Renault endured a troubled 2015 season by making mistakes in three key areas, according to the French manufacturer's Director of Operations, Rémi Taffin.After taking three victories in 2014, the only non-Mercedes wi...

Why does Bernie Ecclestone feel the manufacturers have too much power?The new rules introduced at the start of 2014 turned Formula 1 from an aero-dependent sport into an engine formula. With Ferrari and Mercedes powering...