Sports Car News

Perry McCarthy somehow made it all the way to Formula 1 despite starting out at 21 years old with no previous experience of competing in either karts or cars. Permanently…

For the first time since 2018, Aston Martin is making an appearance at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. The British manufacturer will team up with TF Sport and put works drivers…

Nobody will ever again experience the exhilaration of winning Le Mans in Porsche 917, swerving pile-ups and skating through treacherous rain. But Richard Attwood can offer the next best thing:…

Sky Tempesta has swapped Ferrari for Mercedes but performance isn't the main factor in the decision

On a sunny early January day in the Black Forest a new era began in earnest for the king of sports car racing. The car that will carry the aspirations…

Over more than 120 years of motor racing, many drivers have served long, rewarding careers. Few, though, have spent 19 consecutive seasons with the same front-running team. As Oliver Gavin…

It’s not often a music group gains the endorsement of motor-sporting legends, but both Walter Röhrl and Olaf Manthey have loaned their support to a new piece by soft-rock band…

Alex Lynn was as surprised as anyone when he lost his Sebring 12 Hours team-mate Kevin Magnussen to Formula 1 in the run-up to the Florida classic last weekend. As…

The French pitcrew couldn’t work out how Richard Brooks was repeatedly roaring past the pits with lit cigarette in hand, all while tackling the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours. It…

NASCAR, IMSA and the ACO have announced that a Next Gen Cup car will compete at Le Mans in 2023

Could you be on the Glickenhaus Le Mans pitwall via virtual reality? It's founder thinks it could be soon be possible

I first heard of Vic in 1962 through my world-class rally navigator friend, also from Burnley, Mike Wood, when he declared “this fellow Elford’s pretty quick”! In 1967 I followed…

One step back to take two forward? It’s easy to dismiss a return to the GT ranks as lost momentum when top-class prototypes are where you want to be, but…

If you could race it, Vic Elford would race it — fast. One of the most versatile drivers in motor sport history has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 86, after a career racing just about anything

If the biggest race in sports cars is your thing and you have a spare €6m (£5m) in the bank, then you might just want to shelve any holiday, DIY…

Peter Whitehead pitted his Cooper-Jaguar T38 at Le Mans in 1955 just after a catastrophic chain of events had catapulted Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR through the crowd at 6.26pm.…

"Happy hour 1.40pm – 1.40pm. Race… What race? Toothbrushes $25, AA meeting 1.41pm. Free beer.” It might not pull in the size of crowd that Le Mans does, but the…