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F1 to return to Las Vegas in 2023 with Saturday race on 3.8-mile street circuit

Published 31 March 2022
By David Mullen
Las Vegas will play host to the third of three grands prix in the United States next year.

Green Hell & high water: Monteiro races N24 (vid)

Jeremy Hart was in the Honda Racing pit garage at the fearsome Nürburging 24 Hours to capture ex-F1 driver Tiago Monteiro's race on film.
Published 21 October 2020
2020 Le Mans preview

The Le Mans 24 Hours race is finally here

This weekend marks the running of the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, the iconic endurance race that has been held (almost) annually since 1923.
Published 18 September 2020
Extreme E announces daring driver format

Mixed-sex driver pairings for Extreme E

Extreme E, a forthcoming pure-electric off-road racing series, has announced a first-of-its-kind racing format.
Published 30 April 2020
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That was super sport: Alistair Weaver's Caterham Supersport...

For the past two years I’ve been doing what so many drivers dream of but for all sorts of reasons never get round to: racing a car.
Published 14 January 2016
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Le Mans countdown: our guide to the world's toughest...

Cars hitting 200mph in the dark, gentleman racers taking on F1 stars, and thousands of British fans: it could only be Le Mans
Published 08 June 2015
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Man vs machine: we race the Audi RS 7 driverless car...

Audi has built one of the world's fastest driverless cars, an RS 7 that can tackle a racetrack at up to 149mph without missing a gear or a bend, but...
Published 03 November 2014
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News: James Dean killed in his Porsche Spyder 59 years...

Fifty-nine years ago today (September 30), a promising young Hollywood actor gunned his nine-day-old Porsche 550 Spyder, a car he nicknamed the Little...
Published 30 September 2014
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Codemasters gets back to winning formula with Grid:...

You couldn't accuse games developer Codemasters of not listening to its fans. Just a year after launching Grid 2, it is about to launch a successor...
Published 13 June 2014
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News: Traffic police cuts make street racing easier...

There is a group of drivers who see something very different when they look through the windscreen. Motorways are test tracks, tunnels are exhaust...
Published 11 December 2012