After much speculation and conversation behind closed doors, Audi has officially announced its entry into Formula 1. The announcement comes a few days after the sport confirmed its new engine regulations post-2025, on the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix. The direction of the sport towards synthetic fuels to achieve carbon neutrality as opposed to […]
The world of rally racing is highly stratified with its various formats, championships and vehicle classifications. At the very top of four-wheel rallying, we have the WRC (World Rally Championship). After a long time, the sport is getting significant technical updates for the cars that were confirmed and approved back in 2020, and the three […]
For the second year running, most of the top formats in motorsport had the title decided well before the end of the 2021 Formula 1 season. This year, it’s more understandable as it went down to the wire for F1 with the last race in mid-December. While the Auto Loons does not follow these other […]
The Dakar Rally is one of the most iconic endurance rallies in motorsports. It used to be known as the Paris-Dakar Rally when it was started in 1978 but hasn’t been actually been held in Africa or Europe since 2008 and was hosted entirely in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Audi is part of rally history […]
The pure-electric single-seater racing series of Formula E has been buzzing around since 2014. Since its inception, various carmakers have joined the competition with the most recent high-profile addition being Porsche. It’s also undergone a generational update as a racing series in 2018 with cars that looked way cooler and had more nearly double the […]
There might still be one race left in the 2020 Formula 1 calendar but a host of other motorsports have already wrapped up for the year this past weekend. While the Auto Loons doesn’t usually cover other forms of motorsport for simple lack of resources, it’s worth skimming through the year’s results. Here’s a quick […]
No, I don’t actually follow the World Endurance Championship or any endurance format racing series with much attention. However, I’m always impressed by the engineering involved and the human spirit behind committing to a ludicrous exercise just to push our the limits of man and machine. Of the many races in the world of endurance […]
Racecar liveries can sometimes be as iconic as the cars that wear them, whether by winning races and championships or simply by winning the hearts of the fans. Porsche is one such name in motorsports that has many, many iconic championship-winning cars over its decades of racing. From the 917s, rally-specials, GTs and 911s that […]
After another 24 gruelling hours of racing and 385 laps around Circuit de la Sarthe, the 87th edition of the 24Hours of Le Mans and the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship came to an end. The overall WEC championship has been dominated by Toyota Gazoo Racing with a 1-2, for the #8 and #7 drivers […]
The Formula E race hosted by Chile in the city of Santiago offered a lot of excitement for the second year in a row. Its tight 2.4 kilometre layout with a mix of concrete and tarmac makes it a challenging race, especially with the new, faster Gen2 cars. High temperatures made things even more difficult […]
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