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Venturi Grand Prix Formula E Team will be the final team in the first season

With the announcement of the Venturi Grand Prix Formula E Team, the 2014/2015 Formula E season has its complete grid of 10 teams each with two cars. The Venturi Grand Prix team has been created by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Gildo Pallanca Pas...

It could have changed the drivers' championship in 2012 and 2008

The F1 Strategy Group and Formula One Commission decided at their meeting on Monday, December 9, that the final race of the 2014 calendar at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit will award double points. The decision is in hopes of keeping the champ...

It will be testing this week at Sebrig

has unveiled its 2014 World Endurance Championship racer, and despite the major change in rules, the car does not look that much different on the outside and keeps the same R18 E-Tron Quattro moniker.  The 2014 E-Tron Quattro is still ve...

It follows several other automotive locations in Street View

Google Street View has added another automotive attraction to its service. This time it is the McLaren Technology Center in Woking, Surrey, England. Unfortunately, it might be the most limited among the automotive locations so far. The tour is...

It will visit 10 cities in 2014 and 2015

The Formula E racing series is moving along and has just had its first season calendar ratified by the FIA and announced its ninth team of ten.  The official schedule will take the series to ten cities in Europe, Asia, North America and S...

Maxime Martin will also join the BMW DTM team

Portuguese driver António Félix da Costa has had a very good day for his racing career with the simultaneous announcements that he will be a reserve driver for Red Bull Racing in Formula One and a driver for the BMW DTM team next sea...

The final two series that we cover have their final races this weekend

This is the end of the Weekend Motorsports Preview at least for this year. There are two races this weekend, and they are both finales. The Asian Le Mans Series ends its inaugural season, and the Australian V8 Supercar Championship comes to an end...

It has not committed to a return to factory supported rallying

Toyota has built a prototype Yaris WRC car based on its Yaris R1A rally car to decide whether it wants to make a return to the World Rally Championship. The prototype rally car is being built by Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Germany that also runs...

The car will start competing in 2015

Skoda has announced development of a new R5 class rally car based on the Fabia, and it will have it ready for the 2015 rally season. The car is being developed as a successor to the quite successful Fabia Super 2000 rally car that will continue to...

The current rules allow the engines with little modification

Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of non-F1 motorsport, says that Ferrari is investigating entering the World Endurance Championship in the LMP1 class using a version of its 2014 Formula 1 turbocharged engine. He is clear that Ferrari’...