Seven podiums and third overall made for Maro Engels strongest DTM campaign yet, 16 years on from his debut. The leading light of Mercedes GT roster led its four-strong contingent home in nine of 16 races as it clinched the manufacturers crown, while in GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup he never finished lower than fifth to secure the title with Lucas Auer. Treading a track limits ... Keep reading
He perhaps didnt exhibit his raw speed too often, but Felipe Nasrs partnership with Porsche Penske Motorsports and Dane Cameron led to a well-earned third IMSA title. The Brazilian was a model of consistency, and fast when he needed to be. Highlights included two wins holding off Tom Blomqvists Cadillac in the thrilling final stages at Daytona and duelling Renger van der Zande at ... Keep reading
Should we have been surprised that Matt Campbell emerged as the best driver in Porsche Penske Motorsports #5 entry in this years World Endurance Championship? Probably not. It may have been his first WEC prototype campaign, but he was no stranger to the 963 after a year in IMSA or the series from past GTE campaigns. He was on it from the get-go, taking pole at the Qatar season-opener, and ... Keep reading
Kyle Larson had one of the strongest seasons in the NASCAR Cup field, winning a series-leading six races. He nearly won the regular season title despite missing a race while making his Indianapolis 500 debut and secured a NASCAR crown jewel at Indy later in the year by winning the Brickyard 400. But his most impressive victory came at Bristol, where Larson led 462 of 500 laps in the iconic ... Keep reading
A regular in the Autosport Top 50 down the years, the elder Vanthoor sibling reasserted his claim to be one of the worlds top sportscar drivers. He impressed again at the wheel of Porsches 963 LMDh it should be pointed out that this was only his second full season of prototype racing and was rewarded with a world title. PLUS:Ranking the top 10 Hypercar drivers of the 2024 ... Keep reading
In his final year racing an Audi, Kelvin van der Linde put together an excellent DTM campaign but came up short to Mirko Bortolotti after leading into the final race. Nobody managed more than his three victories, a virtuoso performance to win by 15.2s at a sodden Nurburgring the years most dominant margin. The jovial South African also impressed his Abt team in the curtailed Nurburgring ... Keep reading
On the face of it, Esteban Ocons second-place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix might be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but its easy to overlook a handful of other impressive moments in a difficult final season with Alpine. Ocon led a decent portion of that Interlagos race, and this performance was supplemented with 10th in Miami with a still-awful car and ninth at the ... Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera only contested seven WRC rallies in 2024, exchanging his title defence for a partial campaign to recharge his batteries and expand his horizons, but the two-time champion led them all. The 24-year-old won more events than anyone, surpassing the tally achieved in his 2023 title run, and could easily have racked up seven wins without crashes in Sweden and Portugal. But there was ... Keep reading
An insolvency administrator has put KTM's shares in MV Agusta up for sale, as the Austrian auto giant continues to reel in from a financial crisis. KTM's parent company Pierer Mobility AG had acquired a 25.1 per cent stake in MV Agusta in November 2022, before taking over the majority of the company in March of this year. Now, its entire 50.1% stake in the Italian motorcycle company is being ... Keep reading
Alpines struggles with an overweight and undercooked car at the start of 2024 hurt Pierre Gasly but, when the A524 started to improve, the Frenchman shone. A stretch of four points-scoring finishes from Monaco to Austria gave Alpine hope that it could reverse the arrears, but it was in a series of late-season improvements where Gaslys year picked up. He followed team-mate Esteban ... Keep reading
Colton Herta enjoyed a renaissance campaign in 2024 after two consecutive years mired in 10th. Andretti Globals 24-year-old leading man won twice, ending a 41-race drought dating back to 2022 with a masterful drive in Toronto, while taking a further four podiums and three poles. Read Also: IndyCarThe top 10 IndyCar drivers of 2024 Herta closed out the year with a ... Keep reading
Less than a lap-and-a-half separated Nick Cassidy from a maiden and deserved Formula E title, but he instead ended up third after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The Kiwi hit the ground running upon joining Jaguars works team, taking three podiums from the off including victory in Jeddah. Another podium streak and another win in Berlin put Cassidy on the cusp of the title, but ... Keep reading
Oscar Piastri enjoyed a great second F1 season and made a valuable contribution to the end of McLarens long wait for a constructors title. With a slight race pace disadvantage to Lando Norris last year, Piastri picked up his game and claimed his first grand prix victory in Hungary albeit with a bit of a team orders muddle. His second win in Baku came in much more salubrious ... Keep reading
For the fourth consecutive season, Mitch Evans entered Formula Es final round with a realistic title shot but came up just short. A combination of car problems early on, including a software issue resulting in Misano retirement, restricted strong results and left him playing catch-up. He won in Monaco after Jaguars strategic masterclass, while the Shanghai triumph improved his title ... Keep reading
Nico Hulkenberg led the line admirably for Haas as the American team stepped up its performance for 2024. Brilliantly consistent in the first 10 races, all but one of his finishes in those were inside of the ninth-10th-11th bracket, then he took advantage of Haas upgrades to finish sixth in the Austrian and British Grands Prix. The German scored points in all but one of the last seven rounds ... Keep reading
Back to winning ways in 2024 after 946 days without gracing an F1 podiums top step Lewis Hamiltons emotional Silverstone victory was the highlight of his season, but he was excellent in qualifying and on the orthodox two-stop strategy at Spa too. Hamiltons in-race tyre management remains top class, as his pace while rising in Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi showed, plus how he held off Max ... Keep reading
Sebastien Buemis latest appearance in this list isnt just down to his heroics in the last knockings of a WEC campaign that secured Toyota the manufacturers crown. PLUS:How never-say-die Toyota salvaged WEC manufacturers' glory in Bahrain The chance of a repeat of the 2022 and 2023 drivers titles for the Swiss and his team-mates disappeared early in the season, but then Buemi ... Keep reading
After finishing runner-up in 2023, Mirko Bortolotti went one better by delivering his maiden DTM crown with a consistent campaign. There was only one win, a well-judged wet-dry affair at the Red Bull Ring, but nobody eclipsed the SSR Lamborghini Huracan drivers tally of seven podiums. He showed steel too, fending off a train of cars headed by chief rival Kelvin van der Linde for second at ... Keep reading
Gabriel Bortoleto continued to emulate Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Oscar Piastri in 2024, following up his rookie Formula 3 title with becoming Formula 2 champion at the first attempt. The target was to quickly adapt to F2s new Dallara, and the Brazilian suffered a slow start to the year with reliability woes in Jeddah and getting tangled with Pepe Marti in Australia, before a run of ... Keep reading
Across five Formula E races in the second half of the 2024 season, Antonio Felix da Costa took four wins spanning Berlin, Shanghai and Portland where he doubled up. Even after losing an earlier victory at Misano, due to an illegal throttle pedal spring that offered no tangible advantage, the Portuguese ended the campaign with the most wins of any driver. Read Also: Formula ... Keep reading
He was agonisingly close to becoming the first driver to win back-to-back titles in NASCAR's knockout format, but there was still plenty to be proud of for Ryan Blaney in 2024. It was a year that mirrored his championship season in many ways, including how the final two races went. Despite losing the title fight, his drive in the closing laps at Phoenix was still mightily impressive, erasing a ... Keep reading
Despite continuing to be overlooked by Red Bulls lead Formula 1 team, Yuki Tsunoda showed great maturity over 2024, with three seventh places the highlights of his year in Australia, Miami and Brazil. He also managed his best F1 qualifying result to date with third on the grid in slippery conditions at Interlagos, and over the season outscored both Daniel Ricciardo and Liam Lawson to assert ... Keep reading
Qualifying was where George Russell gained an important edge at Mercedes in 2024, which he put down to his confidence rising in situations where the pressure is on.He ended up with a small but still significant 0.148s advantage over a driver with 104 F1 poles in Lewis Hamilton. Their head-to-head split ended up as 24-6, with only Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas having better. From strong ... Keep reading
George Russell has implored FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to express what his goal is with motorsports governing body, amid the ongoing tension between the Emirati former rally driver and Formula 1 racers. The 2024 F1 season finished with the Grand Prix Drivers Association still awaiting a formal response to its request for its members to be treated as adults in a ... Keep reading
Joey Logano is now a three-time Cup champion, becoming just the 10th driver to ever win that many titles. His season was an odd one in truth, but something weve come to expect from the Penske Ford man. He was very quiet in the regular season, winning just once to make the playoffs. But when the time came, he did exactly what he needed to do in order to advance through each round. At ... Keep reading
