The latest McLaren road car might be the most well-known example of a F1 race team diversifying away from pure track action – but McLaren is certainly not the only team travelling down that road.
So there we were, sat high up in the grandstands at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire, watching touring cars whizzing round part of the banking and onto the infield section, thinking to ourselves ‘we want to see this oval used properly’. Champ Car came to Britain – isn’t it about time the IndyCar Series…
The glamour, the adrenaline, the waiting place in the history books – there’s something very special about a land speed record as one British team is currently hoping to prove. Even when your steed of choice is a lawnmower. Driven by Sir Malcolm Campbell’s grandson.
Luca Filippi and Vladimir Arabadzhiev took the honours in the opening weekend of the Auto GP championship, a re-branded version of last year’s Euroseries 3000 offering big cash prizes to winning drivers.
Signature Racing team-mates Edoardo Mortara and Marco Wittmann lead the F3 Euro Series standings after their closest rival, ART’s British driver Alexander Sims, suffered a weekend to forget in Hockenheim.
Its drivers keep on winning – and now Germany is to host this year’s Race of Champions as well as regularly supplying the annual motorsport event’s most successful entrants.
The McLaren group has unveiled a management restructure as its chairman Richard Lapthorne announced his resignation, almost exactly one year after he was appointed, saying that his work at Woking was complete.
A wet weekend at the Motorland Aragon circuit saw Red Bull F1 reserve Daniel Ricciardo convert two pole positions into two third-place finishes and top the points standings after Formula Renault 3.5’s first meeting of the year.
Oliver Turvey is the latest young driver to join McLaren’s prestigious development programme, thereby moving as close as anyone ever comes to a guarantee of following Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton into Formula One.