
Prodrive Set to Build Road Legal, 500hp+ Rally Raid Car – and It’s Coming to Gaming
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.

Forza Horizon 4 Teases Two New Cars Ahead of Series 34 Update
The live stream for the next Forza Horizon 4 series update is almost upon us — it goes live at 1730 UTC on Thursday April 1 — but already we have a pretty decent clue for what cars S34 will bring.

[Updated] Volkswagen Rebrands to Voltswagen for North America – For Just One Day
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.

MINI Becomes the Official Safety Car of Formula E
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.

Codemasters Launches Its Own Junior World Rally Championship Team
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.

GT Sport Daily Races: The Real Deal
A new set of GT Sport Daily Races is available today, and will see players head to three of the game’s real-world circuits. You’ll be using two GT Sport’s core vehicle classes — Gr.3 and Gr.4 — as well as a recent addition to the game in this week’s trio of events.

Formula One and NASCAR Coming to Rocket League in May
Rocket League players will soon be able to get their hands on official machinery from Formula One and NASCAR as the extremely popular car-based game enters its third season this spring.

art of rally Coming to Xbox Game Pass This Summer
Uniquely styled rally game art of rally will make the jump to consoles this summer, with a launch on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass — allowing mobile players to get a taste of the title too.

GT World Challenge Esports Sprint and Endurance Series to Run on Three Continents
The Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), the organizing body behind many of the global GT3 race series, has announced three new esports series to run across this year, each consisting of two parts, in an expansion to its esports offering in 2021.

2021 Formula One World Championship Predictions: Who We Think Will Finish Where
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.

Forza Horizon 4 Season Change: Winter Warp Speed
As snow returns to the UK, a new week of Winter is back up and running in Forza Horizon 4. Racing does not stop as more new events and content are now available.

DIRT 5 Update 4.00 and Uproar Content Pack Arrive March 30
A new major update is coming for DIRT 5 next week, bringing with it some more content for everyone as well as a DLC pack that’s a blast from the series’ past.

Gran Turismo Sport Update 1.64 Brings Sport Mode Changes
The latest update for Gran Turismo Sport, version 1.64, is now with us, and as expected it lands very firmly on the housekeeping side of things. It weighs in at a mere 158MB, which rather hints at a small selection of changes rather than oodles of content.

Romain Grosjean Partners Back Up With Haas for 2021 F1 Esports
Although he left the Haas F1 Team at the end of the 2020 Formula One World Championship season, Romain Grosjean will be joining forces with the team once again, this time in F1 Esports.

Gran Turismo Sport Game Update Arrives March 25
Gran Turismo Sport is shortly going to get its second update this year, and the second in just over four weeks, according to a new in-game announcement.

Lamborghini Urus Sets New Ice Speed Records for an SUV
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.

Gran Turismo Sport’s FIA World Tour to Remain Online in 2021
Information received by Gran Turismo Sport FIA Certified Online Championship World Tour drivers has indicated that the 2021 season will be an exclusively online series and not return to the live event format of 2018 and 2019.

Aston Martin Vantage F1 Edition is an F1 Safety Car for the Road
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.

GT Sport Daily Races: Business in the Front, Party in the Back
The first new GT Sport Daily Races of spring (or autumn if you’re reading this in the southern hemisphere) bring up a pair of one-make road car races for the classic front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout to get your teeth into for the next week. There’s two fictional circuits in the mix, and a blast from the past event based on a real-world endurance race too.

DHL Race the Stars Forza Tournament Pits You Against America’s Top Racing Drivers
If you’re at a loose end this weekend, and you’re resident in the USA, you could fire up Forza Motorsport 7, have a quick race against Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, and walk off with a brand new gaming chair.