Motor Sports

Motorsport Australia's CEO says he is disappointed Targa will "go it alone" with the tarmac rally event without waiting for his organisation to implement new regulations following four competitor deaths in two years.

Targa Australia rejects claims it is ignoring attempts to improve race safety by proceeding with next year's Tasmanian event, saying if Motor Sports Australia releases recommendations in time, it will try to implement them. 

Oscar Piastri fumes at Ferrari's Carlos Sainz after a crash on lap 1 ends his race.

Red Bull has won a record 12 consecutive Formula 1 races, and are looking to make it lucky 13 in Belgium.

Targa will devise its own rules and regulations for the popular tarmac rally in the wake of four deaths in the past two years.

Underlining his enormous potential, Australia's Oscar Piastri earns his first top-three place in an F1 race in his rookie season, with only reigning world champion Max Verstappen finishing ahead of the 22-year-old.

Alpine sit sixth in the F1 constructors' championship, well down on their performances a year earlier.

Kai Allen may be fast on the track, but his rise from racing go-karts at the age of eight to sitting at the wheel of a V8 Supercar at this year's Bathurst 1000 has been equally quick.

McLaren has made a surge up the grid in the past two races, with Piastri claiming fourth and fifth in Britain and Hungary.

Hayden Pullen used to entertain fans on the race track, but now he's taking to the skies as an aerial stuntman.

Hayden Pullen, 55, was no stranger to speed when he took a joy-flight with an ex-military pilot and decided he didn't want to "fly straight ever again". These days the race track tends to be somewhere below him — but he hasn't forgotten the thrill of burning rubber.

The Melbourne-born McLaren driver finished fifth in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Red Bull has broken the Formula 1 record for the most consecutive wins by a constructor.

Australian Daniel Ricciardo is stepping into arguably the slowest car on the grid for the Hungarian Grand Prix, and he has his work cut out for him if he is going to score points.

Lewis Hamilton is on pole in F1 for the first time since 2021, pipping Max Verstappen in Hungary by the barest of margins.

Hugo Holmes took off on his motorcycle before he could even ride a bike, and since then he has two national and an international title to his name on the flat track circuit. 

Targa Australia says it has been forced to "suspend all future motorsport-based events" in the wake of sweeping rule changes enforced by Motorsport Australia following a horror run of deaths — with one veteran competitor saying it is a "very sad day".

F1 is a cut-throat sport that wants immediate success. Daniel Ricciardo could be winning races again but he has to show speed in a slower car, writes Michael Doyle. 

Daniel Ricciardo will be back and racing for the remainder of the 2023 Formula One season.

F1 championship leader Max Verstappen takes another pole position at Silverstone, but the McLaren team comes up big with hometown hero Lando Norris and Australia's Oscar Piastri to start second and third at the British Grand Prix.

What will it take to pave the way for female V8 supercar drivers to compete in Australia's biggest motorsport events?

Alyce Tippett was introduced to motorsport through go karts at a young age. Since then she has progressed to racing on circuits like Pheasant Wood at Marulan and Wakefield Park at Goulburn.

After a string of recent high-profile environmental protests at sporting events, Formula 1 drivers warn that a similar disruption at this weekend's British Grand Prix could put lives at risk.

New Zealand native Shane van Gisbergen bursts onto the NASCAR scene in stunning fashion, holding his nerve on the wet on the streets of Chicago to win his series debut.

Hundreds of punters tried their luck at the silverware in the north-west Victorian sandhills.