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Legendary rally specialist Prodrive is set to build a fully road legal version of its BRX Dakar Rally Raid car for general sale, with a prototype slated for the end of this year.

Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers and best-known brands, is taking the extraordinary step of re-branding itself for the North American market, to Voltswagen. Although this might sound like something you’d expect to read this coming Thursday — April Fool’s Day — it actually appears to be a genuine thing that’s really happening.

Just like Formula One, Formula E has a new safety car for the 2021 season, and it too is British. However, a big V8 wouldn’t really fit the image of the series, so the new car is — appropriately — an EV.

The line between real-world motorsports and its virtual equivalent continues to get blurrier by the day, as Dirt Rally and DIRT series developer Codemasters has now launched its own rally team.

The very first race of the lengthy 2021 Formula One World Championship will get underway this weekend. There’s 23 races between now and December to determine who’ll be taking home the two trophies — driver and constructor championships — and it’s surprisingly difficult to call.

Lamborghini’s first SUV, the Urus, has recorded a rather unusual land speed record, taking a class win at an event called Days of Speed. The record, which now sits at 70.9mph, doesn’t seem all that impressive until you realize that it’s for a one kilometer standing start… on ice.

If you were particularly taken by Aston Martin’s 2021 F1 Safety Car, as revealed earlier in the month, there’s some good news: you can now get your hands on one.

Gran Turismo will be sponsoring a rather unusual race car this summer, as renowned drifter Daijiro “Dai” Yoshihara takes on one of the most famous point-to-point races in the world: Pikes Peak.

The newest addition to the F1 calendar, Saudi Arabia, has revealed the track which will host its grand prix later this year. It’s called the Jeddah Street Circuit and, as the name rather suggests, it’s a track crafted from the roads around the country’s second-largest city, Jeddah.

Alpine has revealed the car it hopes will capture the overall victory at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, which it calls the A480.

With the official Formula One pre-season testing getting underway in Bahrain today, Haas F1 has finally taken the covers off its 2021 challenger, the VF-21. Like the rest of the grid, the 2021 Haas is effectively the same car as the 2020 machine underneath, but some things are a little different this season.

As revealed earlier in the year, this season’s GT World Challenge Europe will break some new ground. For the first time in any motorsports series anywhere in the world, teams can earn points towards the real championship in virtual racing. Fanatec and the Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), which governs the series, have now revealed exactly how this will function when the series gets underway next month.

Ferrari has revealed its 2021 Formula One World Championship contender, the SF21. It’s the ninth of the ten teams to reveal its car for the upcoming season, with Haas thus far only revealed its 2021 livery applied to a 2020 machine, and the unveiling comes just ahead of the only pre-season test of the year, at Bahrain this coming weekend.

Following on from January’s reveal of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season entry list, the FIA and ACO have announced the full 62-car entry list for the delayed 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Toyota Gazoo Racing has issued a questionnaire to prospective customers for the new GR Super Sport, digging into their interests, intent and history of sports car ownership. The brief survey, originally revealed on Reddit, appears very much like a set of questions that will determine who’ll be allowed to buy one of the $1m+ hypercars when they hit the showrooms.

Aston Martin will mark its return to F1 this year after a 60-year absence by also becoming an official supplier of F1’s safety and medical cars.

After a troubled recent history, the famous Williams F1 team is set to start a new era this season, and has unveiled the car it hopes will revive its fortunes this year. It’s called the Williams FW43B, and as the name rather suggests, it’s an evolution of the 2020 FW43.

Netflix has released a new trailer for the third season of its award-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary series, Formula 1: Drive to Survive.

The organizing body of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), has announced that it is postponing this year’s race by a little over two months.

Aston Martin will be making its return to the F1 grid this season after 60 years away, and has today unveiled the car it will use for the 2021 season. It goes by the name of AMR21, and it has quite the weight of expectation behind it.