WRC/Rally/Raid Race of Champions returns for 2022 with snow format The Race of Champions will return after a three-year absence at the start of 2022 with its first-ever event on snow and ice. We recap its history and give our verdict on where it fits into the current scene and what we want to see from its comeback
MotoGP Hospital warns Gresini’s COVID condition ‘still serious’ The latest update from the hospital treating MotoGP team owner Fausto Gresini for COVID-19 has emphasised that his condition is “still serious” after recent more optimistic statements
Formula 1 Bring Back V10s: A famous crash and a seismic driver/team split Our classic Formula 1 stories podcast tackles the 1989 French Grand Prix – scene of Mauricio Gugelmin’s famous crash but also an era-defining driver market move
Formula 1 Video: Exclusive interview with WFG judge Montoya While judging The World’s Fastest Gamer competition, Juan Pablo Montoya joined The Race for an exclusive interview featured in our latest video
IndyCar No talk, just action: Penske and IndyCar’s equality pledge In the past 12 months, major organisations have been compelled to take a stand against inequality. Amid lots of empty promises, Penske and IndyCar have backed up their words with actions
Formula 1 Why Perez feels like a ‘dog finding a new family’ at Red Bull Not that long ago a 2021 Formula 1 drive looked lost to Sergio Perez, now he’s got one of the most coveted seats on the grid. But the challenge ahead is not to be underestimated
IndyCar Unpicking IndyCar’s two-day Sebring test Our American Editor Jack Benyon rounds up all the latest from IndyCar’s two-day Sebring test, where Alexander Rossi topped the timesheets
Formula 1 Magnussen: IMSA test showed soul ‘airplane’ F1 is lacking Former Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen says his first test in the Ganassi-run Cadillac IMSA prototype has showed him that modern F1 “lacks a bit of soul”
Prototype Series Mardenborough moving on after ‘frustrating’ Nissan exit Jann Mardenborough is seeking out a future role with a new manufacturer after recently losing his position in the NISMO Nissan Super GT ranks
Formula 1 Which F1 drivers would make the best team bosses? Which Formula 1 drivers would make the best team bosses? You gave us your suggestions, and our writers gave their thoughts on them
IndyCar De Silvestro back to Indy with Penske-supported female-led team Simona de Silvestro will return to IndyCar to contest the Indianapolis 500 with a new female-led team created with support from Penske
Formula 1 Can Mercedes’ newest junior be its next Ocon or Russell? Mercedes has snapped up a new driver for its junior roster – but it’s perhaps not a name you would expect. What are his F1 chances?
MotoGP Why Honda’s new boy will be ‘shaking’ before his first test Several Honda MotoGP riders have come and gone without success so Pol Espargaro is rightly nervous ahead of his first outing on the RC213V – but his track record suggests there’s no need to be
Formula E The beginner’s guide to Formula E’s tech war There’s a ferocious tech development war between manufacturers in Formula E, yet the cars are partly one-make. How does that work? What can teams actually develop and change themselves? What makes one Formula E car ‘good’ and another ‘bad’? Sam Smith explains
Formula 1 Verstappen ‘driving style’ myth is a trait of greatness Are recent Red Bull F1 cars designed around Max Verstappen at the expense of others? Scott Mitchell explains why it’s no more than a myth
Formula 1 Podcast: The battle of the F1 rebrands Two Formula 1 teams go into 2021 with new identities, and so far Aston Martin is making a more sure-footed job of launching its fresh era than Alpine. We discuss them both in our latest podcast
Formula 1 The ‘enlightenment’ of a modern F1 rookie Nicholas Latifi was always destined to spend his debut Formula 1 season in the shadow of George Russell – but that doesn’t undermine his Williams efforts given the scale of the task at hand
IndyCar Marco Andretti steps back from full-time IndyCar Marco Andretti has chosen not to contest the full IndyCar season and instead focus on the Indianapolis 500 in 2021
Formula 1 Red Bull closing on Honda engine deal with fresh freeze talks Renewed discussions over an early Formula 1 engine development freeze mean Red Bull is closing on a deal to take over Honda’s engine from 2022 onwards
Formula 1 Video: How Ferrari plans to come back from disaster In our latest video, we assess Ferrari’s plan for coming back from its 2020 Formula 1 disaster and ask how likely it is to work
MotoGP KTM becomes first MotoGP manufacturer to sign up through 2026 KTM has become the first MotoGP manufacturer to officially sign on to the series through to 2026, following an ultra-successful 2020 season
IndyCar Should Grosjean be looking at an IndyCar drive? A potential Romain Grosjean IndyCar move is back in the news. Matt Beer evaluates whether its a move Grosjean should be considering in the wake of his huge Bahrain F1 crash
Formula 1 Spanish GP guaranteed for 2021 with new Barcelona F1 deal Formula 1 and the Barcelona circuit have finalised the deal to keep the Spanish Grand Prix on the calendar in 2021, with a view to working on a longer-term agreement
Formula E McLaren signs ‘option to enter’ Formula E for Gen3 McLaren has repeated its desire to race in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship when it enters its third rules set at the end of next year
Formula 1 Aston Martin must not become F1’s bad guy ‘Team Silverstone’ enters a new era with Aston Martin different to any other iteration – but it must preserve its trademark charm, says Edd Straw
Formula 1 Every Red Bull F1 driver ranked As Red Bull heads into 2021 with two new faces in its pair of Formula 1 teams, we rank every driver to have raced for one of its squads in F1 so far
Formula 1 Podcast: Honda’s 2021 chances and other listener questions We answer your 2021 Formula 1 questions in our podcast, with Honda, Red Bull, Lance Stroll and Haas featuring strongly
Formula E Inside a racing driver’s quarantine period The last 12 months have been all about isolating, quarantining and locking down with travel a logistical nightmare. This is how one driver living on the other side of the world kept his career going
IndyCar Button reveals failed McLaren-linked 2021 IndyCar plan Jenson Button says he was set to race in IndyCar this year with Arrow McLaren SP before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted plans
Formula 1 Video: 10 F1 driver moves that nearly happened Our video tells the story of 10 Formula 1 team and driver moved that nearly happened but didn’t quite come to be
Formula 1 The stand-in tracks we want to see in 2021 The 2020 season was made better for the addition of lots of different circuit choices, even if it was done out of necessity amid a COVID-19 ravaged calendar. Our writers pick the tracks they want to see in 2021 if the disruption continues
Gaming RLLR esports team takes first-ever win with Ellis Jr Kevin Ellis Jr took only his second ever race win in the Porsche Esports Supercup for the all-new Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Esport team – the team’s first-ever esports event
Formula 1 Why F1’s calendar greed risks a NASCAR kind of problem You can have too much of a good thing – a lesson Formula 1 is on the edge of learning the hard way as its calendar balloons further each year, says Scott Mitchell
Formula 1 Video: What went wrong for BMW Williams? BMW and Williams joined forces with some lofty Formula 1 ambitions that never really came to be. Our video explains what went wrong
Formula 1 Button ‘almost’ made Ferrari F1 move in 2013 Jenson Button has revealed how close he came to racing for Ferrari in Formula 1, with a possible move eight years ago progressing as far as contracts being drawn up
Formula 1 The last time an F1 megastar didn’t sign a contract Formula 1’s biggest star beginning the new year without a signed contract with their team isn’t unprecedented. Ayrton Senna and McLaren’s 1993 impasse was rather more dramatic than Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes’ current situation, as Mark Hughes explains
IndyCar Ferrucci joins NASCAR part-time amid uncertain 2021 future Santino Ferrucci will race part-time in NASCAR in 2021, driving for Sam Hunt Racing in the second-tier Xfinity Series
Formula 1 Steiner: Nikita knows he’s done wrong – it can’t happen again Haas Formula 1 team boss Guenther Steiner addresses how the Nikita Mazepin controversy has been handled in the latest of his regular columns for The Race, and shares his early impressions of Mick Schumacher
Formula 1 Video: 2021 F1 driver line-ups ranked from worst to best The Race’s writers rank the 2021 Formula 1 driver line-ups in our latest video – with some surprising results
MotoGP MotoGP team owner Gresini out of coma after COVID-19 MotoGP team owner Fausto Gresini is now out of the induced coma he was placed in after contracting COVID-19, but remains ‘moderately sedated’ in hospital
