Audi vs Lancia film release date and history
The intense battle between Lancia and Audi at the 1983 World Rally Championship will feature in a new movie by Lionsgate. Race for Glory: Audi vs Lancia focuses on the true life events of the intense rivalry between the two marques as they competed for the manufacturers’ title. Directed by Stefano Mordini (The Invisible Witness and […]
2024 F1 car will be “front-to-back” new
Alpine logged two third places this season, but slipped from fourth to sixth in the world championship. The team has accepted there’s little to be gained from developing the current car, and has focused instead on wholesale changes for next year’s model. Like other teams it also faces the challenge of creating a 2024 car […]
Rabat secures full-season WSBK seat with Puccetti Kawasaki
Rabat, who made sporadic appearances with Manuel Puccetti’s eponymous squad between 2021-23, will step up to ride the outfit’s sole Kawasaki Ninza ZX-10RR next year. As part of the programme, the Spaniard will get to take part in two pre-season tests at Jerez and Portimao in January before the championship gets underway at Phillip Island […]
Gear of the Year: Dale’s choice
My gear of the year is the Sigma 14mm F1.4 Art lens: a big, heavy and glorious ultra-wide prime lens with a fast aperture. I know, I know. I did it again. I picked another fast, ultra-wide lens as my Gear of the Year. At this point, you could call it a trend. If you […]
Piastri expects McLaren to be “fighting for more” in F1 2024
Following a difficult start with the MCL60 the Woking outfit introduced a successful series of updates from mid-season onwards that moved the car up the pecking order. Rookie Piastri logged two podium finishes in grands prix plus a sprint race victory, while his team-mate Lando Norris made the top three on seven occasions. Piastri hopes […]
Martin “deserves” factory Ducati MotoGP team promotion
Martin fought Francesco Bagnaia all the way to the final race of the 2023 season on his Pramac Ducati, but ended up 39 points short after a crash in the Valencia Grand Prix handed the title to the ltalian. Had Martin won the championship, he would have been automatically promoted to the factory team in […]
Aston Martin reveals expanded factory driver roster for 2024
Nurburgring 24 Hours winner David Pittard, GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup champion Mattia Drudi and Henrique Chaves, a class winner at the Le Mans 24 Hours, have been added to the Aston Martin Racing roster for 2024. They join stalwart AMR drivers Marco Sorensen and Nicki Thiim, who have been re-signed on new long-term […]
TTArtisan Releases an RF APS-C 10mm F2
TTArtisan released an intriguing 10mm F2.0 for APS-C systems. It’s manual focus and manual aperture but it’s 10mm F2.0 so there’s that. Because there are no electronics, Canon ignores it as if it does not exist and so it’s available for the RF mount. Unfortunately, it has a fair amount of tangential astigmatism which makes […]
Ye joins Ferrari as factory driver ahead of expected AF WEC drive
The news follows last week’s announcement that he has left Porsche’s stable, having previously been nominated as a ‘Selected Driver’ by its Asia Pacific motorsport arm. He most recently drove a Porsche 963 LMDh entered by the German marque’s customer team Jota in WEC’s Hypercar class this year, but wasn’t included in the British outfit’s […]