Motorsport News

MotoGP has announced stricter set of rules about the use of aerodynamic fairings for the 2019 season, as well as for the electronic aids of the bikes.

Team McLaren's racing director, Eric Boullier has resigned with immediate effect. Also, the racing outfit has had a shake-up in its top management.

The 2019 Formula 1 season is still eight months away but the organisers of the premier motorsport event want to give fans a headstart in planning their travels for next year. F1 has announced that the 2019 Australian Grand Prix will be held between March 14-17, for the season opener. The Australian GP organisers have shifted the event earlier by a week, as opposed to the second-last week of March that has been hosting the Grand Prix for the past two years.

The 21st edition of the JK Tyre FMSCI National Racing Championship will see an all-women driver's racing team competing for the first time in a big push towards female representation in Indian motorsport.

The world of motorsport woke up one day to the news that an electric vehicle had just shattered the Pikes Peak Hill Climb course record. The internet stood divided. On one side, you had the petrolhead who refused to even acknowledge the fact that the Volkswagen ID-R, which incidentally is a purpose built hill climb beast powered by electricity had shattered the record and on the other, you had a whole bunch of new-age enthusiasts who defended the electric and hybrid car like it was a certain religious prophet's second coming. A new breed of petrolhead .... Ummm.... Gearhead ..... no ... lets just use the general term.... 'Car enthusiast' has emerged. And we shall call them 'Electroheads' - and you heard it here first!

It was a dramatic, crash-filled race at the Red Bull Ring in Austria and Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen took his career's fourth win in the 2018 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix. The young racer managed to keep it together even as the top contenders retired at different stages of the 71 lap race, including both the Mercedes-AMG drivers Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton, as well as Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel made it to the podium in second and third place respectively with Vettel retaking the lead the championship lead from the British driver.

With 5 minutes and 19.55 seconds on the stopwatch Timo Bernhard crossed the finish line of the Nurburgring-Nordschleife at the wheel of the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo.

Robocar, the world's first autonomous race car, was designed by Daniel Simon and weighs 1,350 kg and is powered by four 135kW electric motors used to power each wheel, for a combined 500-plus horses.