The sister company of the McLaren Formula 1 team has won the right to supply the Formula E battery from the 2018/19 season.McLaren Applied Technologies has been tasked with providing the battery that will allow the championship to scrap its mid-race car swaps.Related StoriesIt has been granted an initial two-season...

Force India Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg has vowed to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours after being denied the opportunity to defend his 2015 victory with Porsche.Hulkenberg collected a Gregor Grant Award at the Autosport Awards last Sunday for becoming the first active F1 driver in 24 years...

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton scooped a 2015 Autosport Awards double by claiming both the British Competition and International Racing Driver prizes.With Hamilton unable to attend the event, the awards were collected on his behalf by Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff."Maybe I might take them home," Wolff joked. "My...

BRDC Formula 4 champion Will Palmer earned the 2015 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award at the climax of this year's Autosport Awards in London.Palmer will receive a test in a McLaren Formula 1 car, £100,000 [$150,000], full BRDC membership and an Arai GP-6 RC carbon crash helmet.The 18-year-old is younger brother...

Volkswagen's Polo R World Rally Championship car was crowned the Rally Car of the Year at the Autosport Awards.The German brand has dominated the WRC since returning in 2013, and added its third consecutive manufacturers' crown and drivers' title for Sebastien Ogier to its records this year. Ogier won eight...

World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier was crowned Rally Driver of the Year at the Autosport Awards.Ogier romped to a third straight WRC title in 2015, taking the championship in Australia in September with three events to go, with his seventh victory of the season. The French driver won the finale...

Toro Rosso's teenage Formula 1 sensation Max Verstappen secured the Rookie of the Year title at the 2015 Autosport Awards in London.Verstappen vaulted straight into F1 this year in only his second full season of car racing, after a 2014 Formula 3 European Championship campaign, and aged just 17 when...

Elizabeth Thompson has become the inaugural winner of the Autosport Williams Engineer of the Future award. Thompson, who is currently studying for a Masters in Engineering Science at Oxford, wins a two-year contract to work for Williams. She will start her job once her degree course is completed in 2016,...

The first active Formula 1 driver to win the Le Mans 24 Hours in more than two decades, Nico Hulkenberg has received a Gregor Grant Award at the Autosport Awards.The Force India F1 driver won the sportscar classic in June with Porsche, and received the Autosport accolade from the last...

Reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon and 2015 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race winner Juan Pablo Montoya are among the nominees in the International Racing Driver of the Year category of the Autosport Awards.The awards in 12 categories – eight voted on by Autosport subscribers online and four selected by...