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MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has joined forces Team WRT for this year's GT Challenge World Europe campaign

The cut-and-thrust of American racing means that late safety cars are a common feature. So NASCAR and IndyCar have developed ways of ensuring that races rarely end with a procession to the finish line

May 29, 1960 Monaco Driver briefing before the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix. From left, standing: Wolfgang von Trips (Ferrari), Jo Bonnier (BRM), Roy Salvadori (High Efficiency/Cooper), John Surtees (Lotus), Graham…

F1 Retro October 1999 With January tending to be more about off-road antics than Formula 1, now is an appropriate time to look back on an expert all-rounder who appeared…

Another season, and another Toyota double at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the World Endurance Championship. Yet a continuation of the Japanese steamroller in the face of limited…

Ever since the ‘rear-engined revolution’ – which Cooper led through 1957-60 – the immense majority of truly purebred racing cars have had the engine behind the driver. The beneficial reasons…

Various images – both officially and unofficially released – of Porsche's new LMDh car have appeared, whilst the German marque has also announced its first two drivers in the category

After being voted by Motor Sport readers into the Hall of Fame as our next 'Le Mans Legend', Allan McNish looks back on a glittering career

Valentino Rossi has tested an Audi R8 LMS GT3 car as he continues his plans to switch to sports car racing. The nine-time motorcycle world champion is said to be…

When the first GTLM race was run at Daytona in 2014 during the Rolex 24, Tommy Milner was driving a bright, yellow #4 Chevrolet Corvette, race engineered by Chuck Houghton.…

The Mercedes 300 SLR '722' steered to victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia by Stirling Moss was given one final blast through London to the home of its pilot

Kamui Kobayashi will take charge of Toyota’s Hypercar programme in a joint team principal/driver role from next year. The 35-year-old ex-F1 racer, who won at Le Mans this summer, will…

135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 5 Ferdinand Porsche has featured once already in this series, but for most the name is more commonly associated…

James Calado seemed set for F1 at once upon a time but now, as he tells Damien Smith, life couldn't be better winning WEC GT titles for Ferrari with one eye on its Hypercar future

At the end of a year in which Honda of Japan have shone so brightly in Formula 1, let’s spool back some 30 years to the Group C World Sportscar…

Fans of that age-old rivalry between Porsche and Ferrari got a dose of nostalgia during the FIA World Endurance Championship season finale in Bahrain recently when the two marques went…

June 10, 1973 Le Mans, France Kremer Racing’s groovy-liveried Porsche 911 Carrera RSR was driven by Erwin Kremer, Paul Keller and Clemens Schickentanz at Le Mans ’73. The race was…