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New Extreme H series will use hydrogen fuel cell powertrain; share chassis and venues with Extreme E. Extreme E bosses will launch the world’s first hydrogen-powered off-road motorsport series, called Extreme H, in 2024. It will effectively be a ...

Off-Road Hydrogen-Powered Racing Series Extreme-H Plans To Kick Up Dirt In 2024

After a successful first season of the all-electric off-road series Extreme E, the organizers of the race are planning to add a whole new segment called Extreme H in 2024. As the first hydrogen-powered off-road series, it will race at ...

Is It Time For Perodua To Go Back To Motorsports - We Think So!

It is perhaps a lesser-known fact to many, that Perodua actively competed as a fully-fledged racing team, particularly in the local rally scene for much of their early years as a company. However, unlike its biggest rival Proton – who ...

Choosing between Maruti Gypsy & Mahindra Thar for rallying

While I’m open to buying a used Gypsy, I already own a Thar; hence the confusion. BHPian Christian recently shared this with other enthusiasts. Hi there, I’ve recently been going through a rabbit hole of the Rally scene in ...

Forza Horizon 5 takes you and the AMG Project One on a Mexican adventure

The Xbox console’s phenomenally successful Forza Horizon video game is moving to Mexico for its fifth instalment, and both the teaser video and longer gameplay video look jaw-droopingly good. The Horizon series is Forza’s open-world alternative to the regular ...

Taking A Subaru WRC Car To Breakfast

The Brekkie Recce Last week I gave you all an insight into the goings on at Autosportif, a workshop based in Bicester, UK that specialises in the restoration and upkeep of Group A and WRC Subarus The Autosportif team work on some ...

Aston Martin’s racing simulator is the ultimate addition to any gaming cave

You can spot those who are serious about racing simulators by the rig set-up that graces the gaming room. Rather than a pathetic controller or joypad, dedicated virtual racers fashion a cockpit that includes realistic pedals, a force feedback steering ...

Aston’s £70,000 computer racing chair: all the details

Yesterday Aston Martin told everyone that it was releasing a racing chair for eSports and that it would cost £58,000 plus local tax. The company didn’t really say much more than that. It didn’t even mention the massive curved telly ...

Classic Formula 1 car breaks Goodwood lap record at Speedweek

The Goodwood Motor Circuit lap record was sent tumbling over the weekend by a classic Formula 1 car. A 1989 Arrows A11 driven by Nick Padmore set a time of one minute 9.914 seconds around the track in West ...

Bugatti teases new ‘0.67’ Le Mans hypercar

Bugatti has released some images of a car that appears to be a racing version of the Divo, itself a hardcore version of the Chiron. Only 40 Divos are set for production, each featuring measures to reduce weight, improve aerodynamics ...

Record-breaking top speed attempt to be rerun following online controversy

Shelby Supercars North America will make a second attempt to claim the title of fastest production car after discrepancies appeared between video footage and GPS data. The company had claimed a GPS-verified 316.11mph, but social media users quickly noted that ...

First BAC Mono R delivered in classic WipEout gaming livery

The first BAC Mono R has been delivered to a customer in Europe, wearing what the firm calls “one of the most unique and outrageous liveries ever produced by the company”. The design is inspired by the classic PlayStation game ...

Lewis Hamilton tests positive for COVID-19

Lewis Hamilton, soon to be Sir Lewis Hamilton if speculation is to be believed, has contracted COVID-19. The highly contagious virus that has plagued the world has also made itself known in the F1 paddock. Serigo Perez and Lance Stroll ...

Isle of Man TT 2021 cancelled because of Covid-19 pandemic

The Isle of Man TT 2021 has been cancelled, with the local government citing the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The event, which sees motorcycles racing on public roads on the island, was scheduled for May 29 to June ...

Watch a Subaru Impreza jump a speedboat in latest physics-defying Gymkhana stunt video

The Gymkhana video series is back with another round of crazy tyre-smoking stunts that this time include jumping a car across a river while a speedboat cruises below, and playing chicken with a Red Bull aerobatics plane. The car in ...

Audi ditches Formula E, eyes Le Mans return and Dakar debut

Audi announced its intentions to return to sports car racing and enter the Dakar rally in 2022 at the expense of its Formula E programme. The shock move will see the company return to sports car racing after leaving the ...

2020's Worst Automotive Christmas Gifts

Christmas is a time of great cheer, much joy, overindulgence in food, booze, and whatever else people enjoy. It’s also, happily, a time where people show how much they care for each other with presents! And, while most people ...

Lewis Hamilton crowned 2020 BBC Sports Personality of the Year

Lewis Hamilton has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for a second time in his career, after a season which saw him overtake Michael Schumacher for the highest number of race wins. The public voted the Mercedes-AMG ...

Iconic Bugatti racers visit London workshop

Bugatti has a prestigious racing history that stretches back a century. Ettore Bugatti’s vision of the most perfect automobiles lives on today, but the last time the prancing elephant hit the race track was back in the 1990s. The last ...

This Mitsubishi Mirage Evo Is Ready To Rally

Team Ralliart New Zealand has put up the first pictures of its newly minted Mirage Evolution – a rugged-up, rally version of the Mitsubishi hatchback that will debut next weekend’s stage of the New Zealand Rally Championship. Ever wondered what a Mirage would ...

Rally fans rejoice: the Ford Mk2 Escort has been reborn and can be yours for £78k

The 1970's Ford Mk2 Escort is back and a brand-new UK-built version of the iconic rally car can be yours, but they don't come cheap. MST Cars in North Wales is producing unofficial versions of the iconic Escort rally cars ...

Aston Martin ditches Vantage racers to focus on F1

Aston Martin has pulled the plug on its factory Vantage racing project to concentrate on F1 in 2021. The Racing Point F1 team is owned by Aston chairman Lawrence Stroll, and will be rebranded as Aston Martin for next year’s ...

McLaren Sabre 2021: will the Senna replacement race at Le Mans?

McLaren is working on a replacement to its radical Senna hypercar to sit at the top of its Ultimate Series product line-up. Spy photographers have snapped a camouflage-covered car undergoing testing near the firm’s headquarters in Surrey, suggesting that development ...

Carroll Shelby’s own Cobra 427 heads for auction

The AC/Shelby Cobra 427 is one of the most famous, and most desirable sports cars of the 1960s, meaning whenever one of the few originals comes to market, car people tend to get excited. But news that Carroll Shelby’s personal ...

Ineos buys into Mercedes-AMG F1 team

You’re likely most familiar with the Ineos name for its up and coming take on the original Land Rover Defender. The rugged off-roader is indeed keenly awaited, however, the company is actually one of the world’s leading chemical brands by ...

Audi RS Q E-Tron EV Wants To Conquer The Dakar Rally

Come January 2022 Audi will return to the Dakar Rally with an electric off-road monster called the Audi RS Q E-Tron. This outrageously aggressive machine is the latest thing to emerge from Audi’s racing skunkworks. And apart from looking like the ...

Porsche 911 GT3 (992): track-focused sports car previewed ahead of 2021 debut

Porsche has unveiled its new 992-generation 911 GT3. Well, sort of. The company let a select few drive a prototype version of the track-honed sports car, which is almost identical to the car we’ll see in showrooms next year. The ...

Classic Land Rover Defender lives on with Bowler CSP 575

As incredibly impressive as the all-new Land Rover Defender is, there are still plenty of people loyal to the now defunct classic Defender. The good news is that the iconic model will get a new lease of life in the ...

Bugatti Bolide: does it confirm a Le Mans return?

Bugatti has been churning out teaser images in the past few days, building us up for what looked like a track-only version of its Chiron hypercar. Well, now the car has been revealed and it seems as though the French ...

Bugatti '0.67': will the French marque take on Toyota at Le Mans?

In recent years, the Le Mans 24 Hour race has been dominated by the likes of Toyota, Porsche and Audi but back in the early 1900s, when the now-legendary event was new on the scene, it was a different picture. ...

508 plug-in is Peugeot’s most potent production model ever

A new division of Peugeot called PSE, for Peugeot Sport Engineered, has created its first production model, a 355bhp plug-in hybrid 508 with 355bhp and a 0-62mph time that puts it well into proper performance car territory. And because it’s ...

R8 'Green Hell' is Audi's tribute to Nürburgring 24hrs

Audi has unveiled the special edition R8 Green Hell, which looks like a lot like something the Incredible Hulk would drive at weekends. Built to celebrate the success of the R8 LMS GT car in Nürburgring 24 Hours, which it ...

Toyota Teases The White Hot AWD Yaris GR-4 (Again)

Toyota has been teasing another hot Yaris for months now, purportedly called the GR-4 (at least in prototype form). In fact, a premiere had been slated to coincide with the Australian leg of the World Rally Championship. Circumstances, however, meant ...

ITV to broadcast BTCC until end of 2026

Fans of British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) rejoice: ITV has secured a deal to keep broadcasting it until the end of 2026. The five year deal, signed with race organiser TOCA, will start in 2022 and will mean ITV has ...

McLaren releases ‘spy shots’ of 2021's hyper hybrid

McLaren has released some camouflaged shots of a car that will become its first series production hybrid when it’s released next year. The company is calling it a ‘High Performance Hybrid’ (HPH) supercar, and while it won’t be the first ...

Lotus Evija hyper car makes dynamic debut at Goodwood Speedweek

COVID-19 has directly disrupted just about every element of life. From family gathering to sporting events, the global pandemic is responsible for a year like no other. Goodwood’s famed Festival of Speed and glorious Revival events were amongst the casualties, ...

BRM V16 Grand Prix cars to be reborn

Continuation cars are all the rage these days, and considering how characterless many modern cars are, we can see why. Better than simply looking at old photographs to reminisce, why not have a new-old Aston Martin or Jaguar built to ...

Exclusive: Bugatti Bolide’s designer secrets revealed

27 year-old Nils Sajonz is head of special projects at Bugatti design and one of the key people that developed the 1825bhp 8.0-litre W16 ‘designer bullet’ that is the Bolide (literally translating to “racing car” in French). The technical demonstrator in ...

F1 2021: why Red Bull dropped Alex Albon for Sergio Perez

It has finally been confirmed: Sergio Perez will partner Max Verstappen at Red Bull next year, with the under-performing Alex Albon being demoted to test and reserve duties. So why did Red Bull go for Perez over Albon? Team principle ...

Land Rover Defender to play supporting role in 2021 Dakar Rally

A pair of Land Rover Defenders will be making an appearance as support vehicles for the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team as it competes in the gruelling 2021 Dakar Rally. The two Defender 110 models will be used to support the ...

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