Cars

Alpine has revealed the car it hopes will capture the overall victory at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, which it calls the A480.

With the official Formula One pre-season testing getting underway in Bahrain today, Haas F1 has finally taken the covers off its 2021 challenger, the VF-21. Like the rest of the grid, the 2021 Haas is effectively the same car as the 2020 machine underneath, but some things are a little different this season.

As revealed earlier in the year, this season’s GT World Challenge Europe will break some new ground. For the first time in any motorsports series anywhere in the world, teams can earn points towards the real championship in virtual racing. Fanatec and the Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), which governs the series, have now revealed exactly how this will function when the series gets underway next month.

Ferrari has revealed its 2021 Formula One World Championship contender, the SF21. It’s the ninth of the ten teams to reveal its car for the upcoming season, with Haas thus far only revealed its 2021 livery applied to a 2020 machine, and the unveiling comes just ahead of the only pre-season test of the year, at Bahrain this coming weekend.

Following on from January’s reveal of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season entry list, the FIA and ACO have announced the full 62-car entry list for the delayed 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Toyota Gazoo Racing has issued a questionnaire to prospective customers for the new GR Super Sport, digging into their interests, intent and history of sports car ownership. The brief survey, originally revealed on Reddit, appears very much like a set of questions that will determine who’ll be allowed to buy one of the $1m+ hypercars when they hit the showrooms.

Aston Martin will mark its return to F1 this year after a 60-year absence by also becoming an official supplier of F1’s safety and medical cars.

After a troubled recent history, the famous Williams F1 team is set to start a new era this season, and has unveiled the car it hopes will revive its fortunes this year. It’s called the Williams FW43B, and as the name rather suggests, it’s an evolution of the 2020 FW43.

Netflix has released a new trailer for the third season of its award-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary series, Formula 1: Drive to Survive.

The organizing body of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), has announced that it is postponing this year’s race by a little over two months.

Aston Martin will be making its return to the F1 grid this season after 60 years away, and has today unveiled the car it will use for the 2021 season. It goes by the name of AMR21, and it has quite the weight of expectation behind it.

In the second of today’s two F1 car launches, the technically new Alpine outfit has revealed its A521 contender for 2021. It’s the first ever F1 car to wear the brand’s name, marking Alpine’s debut in the sport this season.

Defending seven-time world champion Mercedes-AMG has revealed the car that most will expect to take the 2021 title too.

After a 50 year absence from top class sportscar racing, Ferrari is set to return as an official entry in the Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) category in 2023.

Red Bull is the latest team to unveil its car for the 2021 Formula One World Championship, taking the covers off the RB16B today.

The Alfa Romeo team has become the third to reveal its car for the upcoming 2021 Formula One season, which it calls the C41.

Red Bull’s junior F1 team, Scuderia AlphaTauri, has become the second team to reveal its 2021 challenger. The car, officially known as the AT02, follows on from last year’s race winning AT01, and AlphaTauri hopes it will propel the team to the front of the midfield.

McLaren has taken the covers off its newest supercar overnight, revealing the “Artura” in full for the first time. It’s a relatively familiar shape on the outside, but the Artura is packed with new technology, including a brand-new engine, and based on a totally new platform.

The latest model in the Porsche 911 GT range has arrived, in the shape of the new 992-generation GT3. Boasting the usual race car-derived technology, the GT3 represents the entry level of Porsche’s highest performance 911s, and it’s quite the high bar for the subsequent models.

McLaren is the first of the 2021 season F1 manufacturers to reveal its car for the year ahead, in an unusual event held at the brand’s headquarters in Woking, UK.