Mark Smith

Despite a dire opening two rounds, Bobby Thompson fought back to secure the 2017 VW Racing Cup title in the second half.

Jamie Bond was taken out in a first lap pile-up that brought out the red flag, yet took the restart to win in the opening race from Brands.

VW Golf driver Toby Davis took pole ahead of the VW Racing Cup’s Triple header from Donington Park.

Monisha Kaltenborn says there is no excuse for the Swiss team not to be good next year, with the introduction of the new regulations in 2017, Sauber will hopefully improve from a troubled 2016 campaign.

Technical Director Mark Smith has left the Sauber F1 Team on the eve of the new Formula 1 season.

Mark Smith has become the Technical Director for the Sauber F1 Team, with the experienced Briton praising the Swiss team’s facilities in Hinwil.

Ahead of the 2015 Milltek Sport Volkswagen Racing Cup, The Checkered Flag takes a look at this seasons teams and drivers in the series’ 15th running.

Former BTCC driver Mark Smith is to return to the race track after nearly a decade away in 2015, competing in the Milltek Sport Volkswagen Racing Cup. Smith, 49, from…

Heikki Kovalainen was disappointed to see the first day of Formula One action in five weeks almost completely washed out by heavy rain at Spa

Caterham had hoped for big gains in today’s race at Silverstone following a major upgrade package to the car. However, the team’s two drivers, Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov endured very different afternoons.

Heikki Kovalainen said that he had high hopes before qualifying that he could get his Caterham into Q2 and, in the end, only missed out on seventeenth place by a few hundredths of a second.

Heikki Kovalainen, or rather the Renault engine in the back of his Caterham, was responsible for a premature end to this morning’s free practice session in Monte Carlo.

Both Caterham drivers are taking plenty of positives from today’s Bahrain Grand Prix after Vitaly Petrov finished the race sixteenth, with team-mate Heikki Kovalainen one place behind.

Caterham are celebrating an excellent qualifying session today in Bahrain after Heikki Kovalainen beat Michael Schumacher to get into Q2.

The two Caterham drivers had differing emotions after the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today: Vitaly Petrov was celebrating a decent driver to eighteenth place whilst Heikki Kovalainen was disappointed after finishing twenty-third and last of the race finishers.