Stoffel Vandoorne joins Peugeot WEC team as reserve driver
The announcement follows Vandoorne leaving the Mercedes Formula E outfit with which he won the 2021/22 title to join DS Penske, which is part of the same Stellantis automotive group as Peugeot. The 30-year-old will take the place vacated by British driver James Rossiter, who announced his decision to step down from racing last year […]
Who needs a big year in MotoGP in 2023?
Preparations for the 2023 MotoGP season will kick up a gear this month with the first pre-season test of the year taking place in Malaysia. The 22-rider grid has had just one day of 2023 running up to this point, coming in the post-Valencia Grand Prix test last November, with the 10-12 February Sepang test […]
Ex-Audi boss Gass joins JOTA to lead WEC Hypercar programme
Gass, who was head of motorsport at Audi in 2017-20, will lead the British operation’s assault on the top category of the 2023 WEC as team principal of Hertz Team JOTA. He joins the reigning LMP2 champion team from Audi where he was moved into an undisclosed role after being replaced as head of its […]
Alpine announces full driver line-up for two-car WEC LMP2 attack
The Signatech run-Alpine team will run two rebadged Oreca 07-Gibson cars in the LMP2 class of the WEC this year, a transition season for the team before it returns to the Hypercar category in 2024 with an LMDh contender. Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao, who raced for the team with a grandfathered LMP1 car alongside […]
Ranking the best GT500 line-ups for the 2023 SUPER GT season
5. Koudai Tsukakoshi/Nobuharu Matsushita #17 Real Racing Honda Real Racing’s pairing goes into a second season together this year, but slides two positions on these rankings compared to 12 months ago. That follows a 2022 campaign in which Matsushita didn’t quite deliver on the immense promise that he had shown in his debut GT500 season […]
Who needs a big year in MotoGP in 2023?
Preparations for the 2023 MotoGP season will kick up a gear this month with the first pre-season test of the year taking place in Malaysia. The 22-rider grid has had just one day of 2023 running up to this point, coming in the post-Valencia Grand Prix test last November, with the 10-12 February Sepang test […]