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NO SHORTAGE OF GREAT COMPETITION cars this year. McLaren’s MCL39 dominated the balance of the 2025 Formula 1 season, albeit facing tough competition at times from a resurgent Red Bull Racing’s RB21 (i

IN MANY WAYS, MOTORSPORT IN 2025 was business as usual. McLaren was once again the team to beat in Formula 1, with Max Verstappen’s Red Bull the looming and ever-present threat to Lando Norris and Osc

By tradition, the World Rally Championship should have been decided in a thick soup of mud and mist, the sport’s top stars slithering through treacherous British forest roads on a good old Rally GB wi

DAY TWO, 12 CILINDRI, AND the first drive of the day. The Ferrari’s V12 feels omnipotent, its eight-speed auto seamless. Steering perhaps a little quick for nondescript French roundabouts, ride height

We often have big-name speakers at Autocar’s Great Women and Drivers of Change events, both intended to promote the automotive industry and recognise thriving careers within it, but sometimes it’s the

30 years ago, Colin McRae flew, drifted and slid his way from WRC frontrunner to sporting megastar