New Zealand driver steps up from successful Visa Cash App Racing Bulls stint to replace Mexican Pérez.
Liam Lawson has been rewarded for his encouraging Visa Cash App Racing Bulls displays this season in the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship with an Oracle Red Bull Racing seat for 2025 alongside four-time world champion Max Verstappen. Here is all you need to know:
How would an F1 driver would perform in a NASCAR-style stock car? How about on a dirt, oval track? Now, live on the Red Bull Motorsports YouTube channel, those questions are put to the test. Visa Cash App RB drivers Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson unlearned all they know about open-wheel F1 racing as they paired with NASCAR pros Shane van Gisbergen and Connor Zilisch in Austin, TX to try their hand at naturally aspirated V8 stock car racing. Check it out here: F1 Drivers vs. Stock Car.
Shane van Gisbergen has revealed a seven-race Sprintcar schedule that will see him race at three New Zealand speedways.
Across December and January, the NASCAR star will race at Western Springs, Baypark, and Waikaraka Park. (more…)
Hayden Paddon benefited from people power to top the order on the opening stage of Rally Islas Canarias, round two of the 2024 FIA European Rally Championship.
With 8000 fans filling the Gran Canaria Arena, plus thousands more watching from the outdoor sections of the 1.80km SSS1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Paddon delivered the ultimate display in precision driving to set the benchmark time of 1min 30.5sec aboard his Pirelli-equipped Hyundai i20 N Rally2.
I wasn’t sure how this street race in Chicago would turn out. While hoping for the best, I was on the fence not only about the drivers’ ability to not turn this into a crashfest into Turn 1, but also thought this much-hyped event was nothing more than another NASCAR gimmick to drive eyes onto the sport even for a brief period of time.
Carson, California. Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA) and Deluxe Corporation have expanded the Porsche Deluxe Female Driver Development Program with two more drivers, Chloe Chambers and Madeline Stewart. Chambers represents the Cayman class, which uses the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport, while Stewart will carry the banner for the class utilizing the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Type 992 race car. Chambers and Stewart join Sabré Cook as the 2023 recipients of the Porsche Deluxe Female Driver Development Program scholarship.
It’s foot to the floor time in the FIA European Rally Championship this week (19 – 21 May) with Poland’s high-speed gravel stages providing the latest challenge for the ERC stars and their cars.
And with the ERC turning 70 this season it’s only fitting that the second oldest rally in the world is part of the 2023 schedule, kicking off a three-event run of flat-out gravel events.
Yoann Bonato is a two-time winner in the FIA European Rally Championship after a sublime drive to victory at Rally Islas Canarias on Saturday.
With fellow Frenchman Benjamin Boulloud co-driving, Bonato started leg two 11.0sec in front of European championship leader Hayden Paddon. He eventually triumphed by 36.9sec following a day dominated by the changeable weather conditions – and some seriously close competition throughout the field.
Yoann Bonato underlined his status as an asphalt ace during an action-packed opening leg of Rally Islas Canarias, the second FIA European Rally Championship round of the season.
The flying Frenchman, armed with a Michelin-equipped Citroën C3 Rally2, was sensational throughout Friday’s six sealed-surface stages that totalled 88.72 kilometres and proved a tough task for the ERC regulars and their Spanish championship counterparts.
AUCKLAND – Dave West Motorsport, a race team competing in the New Zealand Supertruck Racing Championships, is building a custom Freightliner M2 Supertruck with an Allison 4500 Series™ fully automatic transmission as part of an attempt on the New Zealand and World land speed records for heavy trucks over both 0-500 metres and 0-1,000 metres. (more…)
