Motorsport

The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) has extended its strategic partnership with Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), creator and organiser of the Le Mans endurance motor-racing event, to continue their joint efforts to advance sports car racing around the world.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has confirmed the removal of the German Grand Prix from the 2015 Formula One calendar amid claims from the motor-racing series’ reigning world champions, Mercedes, that they tried to retain the race.

Germany looks set to be without a Formula One race this year for the first time since 1960 after Hockenheim managing director Georg Seiler said today (Tuesday) that the motor racing circuit has given up hope of staging the country's grand prix in the 2015 season.

Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Ron Walker has hit out at New South Wales Premier Mike Baird’s plan to lure the country’s Formula One race from Melbourne to Sydney as the opening weekend of the 2015 season of the motor-racing championship got underway today (Friday).

Media companies Liberty Global and Discovery Communications have secured minority shareholdings in Formula E, the electric car-racing championship.

Northern Irish businessman Stephen Fitzpatrick has been confirmed as the principal investor, and effective owner, of the Manor Marussia Formula One outfit, as the revived team declared itself ready to race for the 2015 season of the motor racing championship.

World Rally Championship organiser WRC Promoter has targeted a return to China and Japan as a priority for the motor racing series.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has offered advance revenue payments to Sauber, Force India and Lotus to aid cash flow problems at the motor racing teams ahead of the start of the 2015 season next week.

The Manor Marussia team is set to return to the Formula One grid this season after motor racing’s global governing body, the FIA, today (Friday) approved its entry to the 2015 championship.

American healthcare entrepreneur Brad Hollinger has increased his interest in the Williams Formula One motor racing team to 10 per cent after exercising an option to buy more of the stake held by Toto Wolff, executive director of business at rival outfit Mercedes.

Formula E has announced the introduction of eight manufacturers for the second season of the all-electric motor racing championship, as the series seeks to encourage innovation in electric vehicle technology.

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The World Rallycross Championship has struck a multi-year deal with the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) and German touring car motor racing series the DTM to stage an event at the Hockenheimring circuit in Germany.

Sports lawyer Oliver Weingarten has tackled some of the most significant deals in sport, including Formula One’s Concorde Agreement and the English Premier League’s six-year battle against YouTube. He now represents teams in motor sport’s burgeoning Formula E.

Manor Grand Prix Racing’s hopes of returning to the Formula One grid have been boosted by the news that its creditors have approved taking the company out of administration and transferring it back to directors.

Formula E has announced that London has been granted an extra round of the inaugural season of the motor racing championship as organisers revealed that the final event of the campaign will take place on a circuit within the grounds of Battersea Park.