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Wales Rally GB will have to fight for a slot on next year’s World Rally Championship calendar, as Motorsport News understands its absence could be for the long rather than short term. After the Covid-19 axe fell on Britain’s World Rally Championship

A definitive WRC calendar should exist in a matter of days. When it’s published it will be the culmination of a lot of hard work and stress. The make-up of a traditional WRC schedule follows a back-and-forth format with the circus switching between E

It’s a mantra which is often trotted out in motorsport that if a competition car looks right, then it tends to go right. Well, there is also the fact that if a racing machine sounds right, then it will immediately win a place in the hearts of fans.

The cancellation of Wales Rally GB has had ramifications for the British Rally Championship which has been scrapped with too few rounds remaining on its schedule. The West Cork, Tendring & Clacton and Ulster rallies had all previously been cancelled

What prompted the decision to cancel? “It’s been very, very clear by Mark Drakeford [Welsh First Minister] there could be a resurgence [of Covid-19 cases in the autumn] and we simply can’t be making a commitment we may have to withdraw from.” Was c

Two-time World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm will return to competitive action next month in a Legends Race at the RallyX Nordic season-opener at Holjes in Sweden. He will compete against other former drivers with a Hyundai i20 Supercar run by his

Austrian firms Kreisel Electric and Baumschlager Rallye & Racing plan to debut an all-electric car in the opening round of their national rally championship next January. The Skoda Fabia REX will be fitted with the twin-motor, four-wheel-drive 500kW

Organisers of the Formula 1 World Championship could be forced into a Euro-centric calendar as the Japanese, Singapore and Azerbaijan Grands Prix have all been called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Singapore andAzerbaijan have faced serious di

Formula Ford 1600 team Cliff Dempsey Racing has been bought by its long-serving mechanic Andy Low, and is renamed Low Dempsey Racing. The deal for Low to buy the team from Cliff and Michelle Dempsey was struck at the end of 2019. Cliff was keen to pa

The Mini Challenge’s JCW 2020 championship calendar has been reduced from eight rounds to five following competitor feedback. Consultation with the British Touring Car Championship-supporting category’s stakeholders revealed financial and logistical

Which event or stage in your career are you most proud of? “I think there’s a few. If I had to pick one it would probably be that stage win in Rally Germany 2017. It probably should have never happened but it did and I don’t think many others have w

“Is this a quiz? What’s our prize if we win?” quips Mark Higgins, less than a minute into our phone call. The competitive edge that yielded him three British Rally titles hasn’t faded. But it’s not just Motorsport News he’s addressing; brother Da

Judging Jon Armstrong’s career to date is difficult. On the one hand it’s been a great success as he’s fought and beaten some of the best young drivers in the world. But on the other hand it’s been excruciating, not yet delivering the goods his talen

I first got involved working in motor racing I believe in August 1975, and it was rather by chance! It was through a then boyfriend, who was marshalling. I went to a race meeting at Silverstone and was quite happy to spectate, but they were very sh

While the racing and rally cars have been locked away since March, all motorsport fans have missed the sights and sounds of their favourite machines. Motorsport News has set out on a task to find the best-sounding racer of all time. It is no easy job

There could only be one candidate this week. In this Motorsport News we have ranked motorsport’s best-sounding engines, with the exhilarating rotary-powered Mazda 787B a worthy winner. We do our best to describe its noise but, of course, no prose can