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Formula 1 owner Liberty Media Corp. is buying the motorcycle racing league MotoGP World Championship from Bridgepoint and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as part of a $3.8 billion (€3.5 billion) deal.
Hyundai's first electric hot hatch, the Ioniq 5 N, will get the opportunity to prove its mettle on the track later in 2024. The company unveiled a race-ready model called Ioniq 5 N eN1 Cup that will compete in a new category named eN1 that was created exclusive for electric vehicles.
After France's ACO racing organizing body created new rules for the Hypercar class in World Endurance Racing, manufacturers like Toyota, Glickenhaus, and eventually Cadillac, Ferrari, and Porsche created traditional-looking top-class race cars. Peugeot did not, debuting its 9x8 single-seater with an unmistakable headlight signature and an unmistakable rear end that went without a wing, its concept focused on ground-effects aero instead of silhouette aero. The aft aero consideration was a small airfoil between two vertical strakes hanging off the back of the bodywork, its location making it more like a long ducktail spoiler or Gurney flap. With two years of racing in the World Endurance Championship completed, it appears the consensus at Peugeot Sport HQ is that a more traditional approach is needed; the 9x8 scored points, but outside of a third-place finish in Monza last year, usually finished toward the back of the class. The new 9x8 for the 2024 WEC season returns to the old ways of a rear wing.
Two beastly machines emerged from the mad-science realms of the UTV world last year: Can-Am's Maverick R3 and Polaris' RZR Pro R Factory. Minnesota outfit Polaris introduced the latter as the chosen rig for an industry-first factory-backed race team, and it won out of the gate. Team driver Brock Heger won three of the four races in the SCORE series, including the Baja 1000, driving off with the series' Pro UTV Open Class Championship and getting Polaris the Manufacturer's Championship. Moving into this year, a modified version of the first-gen Pro R Factory won its class at the Dakar Rally as part of Sebastien Loeb Racing, then Heger piloted the standard factory rig to victory in the Desert Race at the King of the Hammers. For this weekend's San Felipe 250, the first race in SCORE's 2024 schedule, Polaris introduced the second-gen RZR Pro R Factory, improved with expertise and parts from car-based motorsports.
MELBOURNE, Australia — For the third Formula 1 Grand Prix in a row, controversies off the track are threatening to overshadow the almost predictable action on it.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen wants to stay with Red Bull until the end of his contract in 2028 amid rumors of a switch to Mercedes, even as he admits to actively avoiding knowing any more than he does about the ongoing turmoil at the team.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Turns out Ferrari's Carlos Sainz didn't need to “raise his hand” and have another driver take his place during the first two practice sessions for Sunday's Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
Ford Performance is returning to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 2024, but this time it's not bringing a van. It will compete in the 102nd edition of the event with a heavily-modified F-150 Lightning that looks much lower and considerably wide than the stock model.