Andrew founded raceweek in 2019 to bring more attention to junior motorsport categories. He runs the site alongside a career as a full-time news journalist and has attended 12 grands prix.
F4 Asia Pacific Cup
16 year-old Melbournian Emerson Harvey has taken to social media to announced his selection as Team Australia’s wildcard entry in the Formula 4 Asia Pacific Cup. Harvey, who made his debut in the CAMS PAYCE Australian Formula 4 Championship this year, was crowned ‘Rookie of the Round’ at the
WSeries
W Series Racing Director Dave Ryan has said the fledgling woman-only series is “not proactively recruiting” and has already had more than 40 applicants for the eight available seats in the 2020 season. In a Q&A posted on the W Series website, Ryan described the preparations underway for
S5000
Experienced Australian open-wheel outfit Team BRM has committed to a two-car team for at least the first two years of the new S5000 series. The Adelaide based team, who boast eight Australian F3 championships and six Gold Star/Australian Drivers Championships, will run Formula One race-winner Rubens Barrichello when the
S5000
John Martin, Luis Leeds and Beau Beaton are the first drivers to be announced for the S5000 driver test and evaluation day, to take place at Phillip Island on Wednesday this week. 19-year-old Leeds comes fresh from securing his crown as Australian Formula 4 Champion earlier this year, and has
Weekend Preview
Welcome to your Weekend Preview for 24-25 August 2019. Here’s your look at the Aussies who are competing around the world this weekend. When we last saw Aussie teenager Josh Smith, he was on a high. He had just taken out the fourth round of the Formula 4 South
F3 Asia
The F3 Asian Championship certified by FIA has announced its schedule for the 2019/20 season, its first as an official ‘Winter’ series. The five-round, 15-race series will run from December 2019 to February 2020, at four different circuits across the Middle East and South East Asia. The move to
S5000
The Australian Racing Group (ARG), promoters of both TCR Australia and S5000, have announced that series manufacturer Garry Rogers Motorsport (GRM) is now ready to take orders and arrange lease deals for the inaugural S5000 season. ARG are billing the new open-wheel series as “Australia’s fastest motorsport category”, and
Toyota Racing Series
The Castrol Toyota Racing Series (TRS) and Toyota GAZOO Racing New Zealand have welcomed a change to the FIA Super Licence system which means drivers can now collect points towards a Formula 1 drive from two different categories per year, given that the two do not overlap. The FIA World
The FIA has published the June decisions of the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC), which include the announcement of a new ‘international, multidisciplinary sporting event”: the Motorsport Games. The FIA press release reads as follows: The Council approved the ‘FIA Motorsport Games’, a new international, multidisciplinary sporting event that will
Formula 4 SEA
Australian Josh Smith has taken the overall victory in Round 4 of the Formula 4 SEA Championship — fueled by Petron - at Buriram International Circuit, with one race victory and three second-place finishes. Smith said: It was a perfect week for me, I finished in the top two in every
British Formula 4
Australian Bart Horsten has jumped to fourth in the F4 British Championship certified by FIA — powered by Ford EcoBoost after taking two podium positions in an interrupted race weekend at Croft Circuit in Yorkshire. The Arden Motorsport driver had achieved a race win and two podium finishes coming into the
Euroformula Open
New Zealander Liam Lawson, alongside teammate Yuki Tsunoda, and Team Motopark boss Timo Rumpfkeil, have spoken to Formula Scout about the clash at Spa this weekend that cost the team a points haul and an almost-certain podium sweep of the round. Lawson said: “We’ve been struggling all weekend with