Red Bull’s junior F1 team, Scuderia AlphaTauri, has become the second team to reveal its 2021 challenger. The car, officially known as the AT02, follows on from last year’s race winning AT01, and AlphaTauri hopes it will propel the team to the front of the midfield.
McLaren is the first of the 2021 season F1 manufacturers to reveal its car for the year ahead, in an unusual event held at the brand’s headquarters in Woking, UK.
One of the most entertaining and controversial of 2020’s hastily arranged esports events will return in March, as the NASCAR Pro Invitational comes back for a second season.
The first race in the new Hypercar era of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) will take place in Portugal in April, after the championship’s organizers dropped Sebring from the calendar.
The relationship between Nissan and GT Academy seems to be well and truly over, as the brand appears to have all-but ended its relationship with the sole remaining driver. Jann Mardenborough, who won the competition in 2011 and has been part of the brand’s Super GT campaign in recent years, no longer has a spot in the factory GT500 GT-Rs for 2021.
Toyota has become the first brand to reveal its Le Mans Hypercar in full. Sticking with Toyota’s naming scheme for its World Endurance Championship vehicles, but shaking things up a little to reflect the fresh start for the category, the car is called the GR010 Hybrid.
After a highly chaotic 2020 season, with new grands prix and, for the first time, multiple races at the same venue, F1 fans might have been looking forward to a more stable 2021. That doesn’t look like it will be the case, as the sport is already making changes to its previously announced schedule.
There’s set to be a new name on the Formula E grid from next season, as McLaren Racing has announced it has signed an option to join the electric racing series.
GT Sport’s first world champion Igor Fraga has put in an eye-catching performance during the Formula 3 post-season test at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Making his debut for his new Hitech team, for which he’ll drive in 2021, Fraga completed almost 150 laps, and recorded the fifth fastest lap of anyone during the two-day test.
Engine supplier Honda has announced it will withdraw from Formula One at the conclusion of the 2021 season. The surprise move, announced this morning, brings to an end Honda’s return to F1 which started in 2015.
This past weekend’s 24 Hour of Le Mans was the end of an era. After a history stretching back more than 25 years, the Le Mans Prototype (LMP) effectively bowed out as the event’s top category.
It’s fair to say that this year’s racing calendar hasn’t exactly gone to plan. That’s why we’re about to settle down for one of our favorite 24 hours of racing of the year in mid-September — for the first time since 1968 — rather than its more common summer time slot.
After picking up his first point of the season last weekend, GT Sport World Champion Igor Fraga could have been forgiven for some optimism in Barcelona this week. Indeed in our exclusive interview, the Brazilian was looking forward to more progress and putting the memories of the first few races behind him.