2018

Son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher heads into 2018 with new pressure on his shoulders

Daniel Ticktum's single-seater racing career was almost over before it had even started after a crazy day at Silverstone in 2015 during his British F4 days

Callum Ilott Briton bounced back from the disappointment of being dropped by the Red Bull junior programme in some style last season

Nirei Fukuzumi graduates to F2 with Arden after finishing third in the GP3 standings behind ART team-mates George Russell and Jack Aitken in 2018

Aiming to stop George Russell in F2 in 2018 is fellow Brit Jack Aitken after narrowly missing out on the GP3 Series title last year

2018 promises to be a huge season for the Mercedes F1 junior.

A name that looks destined to be on the F1 grid in the not-too-distant future...

With the junior single-seater season set to kick-off with F2 in Bahrain this weekend, Lewis Larkam picks out 10 rising junior talents who look set to make their mark in 2018.

Alex Brundle has secured a full-time switch up to LMP1 with the Manor Racing-run CEFC TRSM Racing Ginetta squad for the 2018-19 World Endurance Championship super season.

John McPhee travels to Argentina for the second round of the Moto3 championship believing he and his CIP KTM have the potential to challenge for the race win after an impressive fight-back through the field in Qatar.

Sergey Sirotkin is hoping “to start everything from zero” at the Bahrain Grand Prix to ignite Williams’ 2018 Formula 1 campaign after a frustrating debut in Australia.

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Having left the Qatar MotoGP season-opener empty-handed, scoring points will be the first priority for Aleix Espargaro and Scott Redding in Argentina this weekend.

Both Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley will be hit by early Honda power unit component changes at the second race of the 2018 Formula 1 season after the Japanese manufacturer detected a mechanical problem in Australia.

The FIA have created a new rule for the World Rally Championship which sees any drivers who misses their given start slot for the Power Stage will not be eligible for bonus points.

After the eye-catching 2018 F1 opener in Australia, there are talking points aplenty both on and off the track heading to Bahrain for the second round. 

Having kicked off his 23rd grand prix season with a close podium finish in Qatar, Valentino Rossi moves on to Argentina feeling he can 'try to fight' for a tenth MotoGP title this season.

Defending Argentina MotoGP winner Maverick Vinales heads the 2018 event confident he will have 'many possibilities to win' after a set-up breakthrough in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix.

McLaren’s racing director Eric Boullier says while the team waits for car upgrades over the next two races it will aim to maximise its current package as it targets the Formula 1 front-runners.

Five-time World Supersport champion Kenan Sofuoglu will sit out the next two rounds in order to recover from injury and will be replaced by Sheridan Morais at Aragon and Assen for Puccetti Kawasaki.

Force India F1 test driver Nicholas Latifi returns to DAMS for his third full Formula 2 campaign in 2018 which begins this weekend in Bahrain.

Mercedes chief Toto Wolff has explained the processes the defending Formula 1 world champions have undergone to avoid its Australian Grand Prix disaster which saw Lewis Hamilton lose out to Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari.

Suzuki is hoping the first daylight MotoGP race of the season, in Argentina this weekend, can shed more light on 'where they stand' after promising speed from Alex Rins in Qatar.

Ferrari has opted for a more aggressive tyre selection than chief Formula 1 rival Mercedes for the Chinese Grand Prix later this month, selecting two additional sets of the Ultrasoft compound for the race in Shanghai.