Victor Martins will make his debut during a Formula 1 race weekend when he takes part in FP1 for Williams at the Spanish Grand Prix.Williams has two drivers currently competing at the front in Formula 2, with Martins and Luke Browning, and the latter now leads the championship. Browning took...

Williams has signed experienced test and development driver Oliver Turvey from McLaren to help develop its new simulator.Turvey has been part of the McLaren setup for more than a decade and has combined those duties with a long spell in Formula E from 2015 until 2022. As well as a...

Volkswagen has confirmed it will walk away from the World Rally Championship at the end of this season.The German manufacturer will focus its efforts on customer-based competition, with its Golf TCR and Beetle GRC rallycross car. It will return to rallying following the development of an R5-specification Polo in 2018,...

Volkswagen is rumored to be on the verge of pulling its World Rally Championship program in similar fashion to sister-marque Audi's World Endurance Championship withdrawal last week.While the German manufacturer celebrated a fourth successive WRC title in Wales on Sunday, its future will be discussed at a group board meeting...

Volkswagen has started work on a long-term plan to keep it in motorsport until at least 2022.The manufacturer is looking at extending its World Rally Championship program while considering other avenues of motorsport. VW scaled down its WRC operation in line with post-emissions scandal budget cuts but focused its spending...

Sven Smeets has been announced as McLaren Formula 1 signing Jost Capito's successor as Volkswagen Motorsport director and head of its World Rally Championship effort.Former co-driver Smeets moved from Citroen to Volkswagen when the German team began its WRC program in 2012. Having worked initially as team manager, he was...