Motor Sport - Season 8

The MSA British Rally Championship blasts back with a new breed of cars, stars and classes for the 2016 season, including the first four-wheel-drive competition since 2011

Coverage of the MSA British Rally Championship continues with a new breed of cars, stars and classes for the 2016. The championship's top category features four-wheel-drive competition for the first time since 2011, as the new R5s take on the S2000s at the front of the field. Ten manufacturers will be represented in the first round, including Ford, Renault, Subaru and Toyota, contesting the six gravel stages. BRC returns to the Circuit of Ireland for the Round 2, where the tight, twisty roads provide a real technical challenge for the drivers, and guarantee dramatic racing for the spectator.

After an eight-week hiatus, the British Rally Championship storms to the fast and challenging forest roads of Dumfries for the fourth round of the series - the RSAC Scottish Rally.

The grid chock-full of the modern interpretation of the classic small car hits the Rockingham circuit in Northamptonshire for rounds six and seven of the championship. Can Max Blandon continue his dominance and make it seven wins in a row?

Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium is a 4.352 mile, 20-turn roller coaster of tarmac in the Ardennes, where the drivers can once again enjoy racing at a legendary Formula 1 Grand Prix track. As the season enters its second half, there is all to play for in both the GT3 and GT4 championships.

Highlights from the Nicky Grist Stages, as the British Rally Championship heads to the famous Epynt military ranges, bordering Carmarthenshire and Powys, to take on 45 miles of challenging gravel roads on day one, and 55 miles of fast and undulating tarmac on day two.

Lee McKenzie and John Hindhaugh have the best of the action from round four of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship at Germany's notorious Nürburgring.

As the grid full of the remixed iconic small car heads to Brands Hatch's Indy Circuit, veteran Chris Smith finds himself in fourth place in the points, but yet to score a win in the JCW machines. Will he be able to do the business in this triple-header at the Kent circuit?

First run in 1957, this sprint over the MSA-approved 1000 yard course against the clock is set to challenge no less than 200 competitors in 2016. The course record stands at 40.42 seconds set by Jack Woodhouse in a Lotus 20/22. Can it be beat?

Highlights of the penultimate weekend at Snetterton of the British GT Championship. Although Aston Martin are currently leading the way, their rivals are closing in fast, so there's still everything to drive for.

The Volkswagen grid heads to Norfolk for rounds ten and eleven over the long straights and varied and challenging turn combinations of Snetterton race circuit. At Spa-Francorchamps last time out, Phil House and Dennis Strandberg took the honours, but Bobby Thompson and his Power Maxed Polo R still lead the championship, for now at least.

Caterham Motorsport heads to Oulton Park in Cheshire for the latest rounds, and with the season drawing to a close the drivers are setting their sights on the championship trophy.

An opportunity to relive some of the greatest events in the history of the Francorchamps 24 Hours in the touring car era, as well as the Spa 1000 km with prototypes and GTs covering the period 1952, Aston Martin DB2, to 1993, Peugeot 905. Some 216 race cars, including emblematic winning models like the Ferrari 250 LM, Ford GT40 and the Porsche 962, are divided up into six grids, Classic Endurance Racing 1 and 2, Group C Racing, the Heritage Touring Cup, Trofeo Nastro Rosso, Sixties' Endurance, to put on an action-packed, nine-race show in which the drivers tend not to go easy.

The British Rally Championship heads to Ulster, Londonderry, which features 143 miles over 16 stages of bumps, jumps, fast sections, smooth tarmac and really tight, technical sections. If that weren't challenging enough, thrown into the mix are some night stages where there's only a narrow window, highlighted by the spotlights in which to work. It promises to be a cracker.

Lee McKenzie and John Hindhaugh present the best of the action from a new addition to the race calendar. It's Mexico City in round five of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship.

The mini challenge heads to Oulton Park in Cheshire for its latest rounds, and with all the classes in attendance it will be action all the way.

The finale of the championship fires into action at Donington Park and despite a season-long battle it's too tight to call as both GT3 and GT4 champions are to be decided here this weekend.

GT Academy is an exciting documentary-style reality show that gives motor sport fans across the globe the opportunity to go from armchair video gamer to professional racing driver. GT Academy is the ultimate driving school, combining gruelling challenges at the spectacular Yas Marina Formula 1 Circuit in Abu Dhabi, with high profile judges and mentors presiding over exciting tests of stamina, skill and endurance. Winners from each competition are invited to take part in the intensive driver development program, where they have the opportunity to qualify for an international race license and race for Nissan professionally. This series follows their progress. Who will make it as a professional racing driver?

Round 6 of the FIA World Endurance Championship features the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas. Last time out in Mexico, former F1 driver Mark Webber and his Porsche team took a drama-filled race, so the other teams will be looking to push back. Lee McKenzie and John Hindhaugh have all the highlights from Austin, Texas.

Rally Isle of Man is known as one of the toughest on the world circuit, with some of the fastest and most demanding roads in any location. In its 53-year history it has gained global reached and stars have queued up to take it on, including world champions Colin McRae, Richard Burns, Henri Tolvonen and Ari Vatanen. This year the rally constitutes a round of the FIA European Rally Trophy, which stands to make it a hotly contested race with plenty of action.

GT Academy is an exciting documentary-style reality show that gives motor sport fans across the globe the opportunity to go from armchair video gamer to professional racing driver. GT Academy is the ultimate driving school, combining gruelling challenges at the spectacular Yas Marina Formula 1 Circuit in Abu Dhabi, with high profile judges and mentors presiding over exciting tests of stamina, skill and endurance. Winners from each competition are invited to take part in the intensive driver development program, where they have the opportunity to qualify for an international race license and race for Nissan professionally. This series follows their progress. Who will make it as a professional racing driver?

The VW Racing Cup heads to Donington Park for the next round.

GT Academy is an exciting documentary-style reality show that gives motor sport fans across the globe the opportunity to go from armchair video gamer to professional racing driver. GT Academy is the ultimate driving school, combining gruelling challenges at the spectacular Yas Marina Formula 1 Circuit in Abu Dhabi, with high profile judges and mentors presiding over exciting tests of stamina, skill and endurance. Winners from each competition are invited to take part in the intensive driver development program, where they have the opportunity to qualify for an international race license and race for Nissan professionally. This series follows their progress. Who will make it as a professional racing driver?

The Protyre Ginetta GT5 Challenge visits Donington Park for the final round of the season. The title may have been decided last time out, but second place in the championship is still all to play for.

Lee McKenzie and John Hindhaugh have the best of the action from Shanghai in the penultimate round of the championship.

Graham Little and Jeremy McWilliams present coverage of the annual Sunflower Trophy event, where British Superbike riders take on the best Irish short circuit racers at Bishopscourt Racing Circuit.

Lee McKenzie and John Hindhaugh present the best of the action from Shanghai in the eighth and penultimate round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Highlights from the biennial event celebrating the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours across the period 1923-1993, including 550 classic race cars on track, 1000 drivers, 10 former winners of the race including the latest, Romain Dumas.