Strada Car News is an independent motorsport and racing publication, founded in 2017 and published by Strada Media Ltd. We cover the sport and the machines built to win it — Formula 1 and open-wheel, endurance and sportscars, rally and off-road, GT racing, and the historic cars that still draw crowds at Goodwood and Monaco. The name is a small joke we've kept: strada is Italian for road, and the road is where most of us first fell for this.
We are a European publication at heart, with a UK base and contributors scattered across the continent and beyond. That gives us a particular flavour — we care about the championships, the regulations, the engineering arguments, and the human stories behind the timing screens, told without the breathless hype that fills so much of the racing internet.
Who writes here
Strada is a small team of four working contributors, each owning a beat they actually know:
- Luca Fontana — Formula 1 and open-wheel. Based in Modena, Luca writes on regulations, power-unit politics, and the junior single-seater ladder that feeds the grid.
- Harriet Vance — endurance and sportscar racing. Writing from the UK, Harriet follows the WEC, Le Mans, IMSA, and the Hypercar era's long arc, with a soft spot for class battles nobody televises.
- Kenji Mori — rally and off-road. Reporting from Japan, Kenji covers the WRC, gravel and snow craft, Dakar, and the engineering compromises that make a rally car survive a stage.
- Sofia Reyes — historic racing and features. Based in Barcelona, Sofia writes our longer-form pieces and historic-racing coverage, from pre-war machinery to the cars that defined the 1980s and '90s.
What we do
We report and analyse racing across series, year-round. That means race weekends and testing, technical explainers, regulation deep-dives, driver and team features, and the occasional unfashionable opinion. We try to be the publication you read after the headlines, when you want to understand why something actually happened. We write for people who can read a lap chart and want more than a results table.
What we don't do
Our independence is the whole point, so we're specific about it:
- No sponsored content. Nothing you read here was paid for by a brand, team, or series. We don't run advertorials dressed as articles.
- No affiliate links. We don't take a cut when you buy something we mention, so we have no reason to mention things for the wrong reasons.
- No republished team or manufacturer PR. Press releases are a starting point for reporting, never a finished article with our byline on top.
- No paddock-access-for-coverage deals. We will not trade favourable coverage for credentials, hospitality, or early embargoed access. If that costs us a press pass now and then, so be it.
How Strada stays afloat
Independent journalism has to be paid for somehow, and we've chosen the honest, boring way: our readers. Strada is reader-supported. We don't sell your attention to advertisers or your data to anyone.
The other part of how we keep the lights on is our small shop. We publish a handful of PDF guides and video courses — priced between $49 and $299 — covering things like reading race strategy, understanding modern aerodynamic regulations, and the craft of rally pace notes. They're made by the same people who write the site, and buying one directly funds the next season of coverage. That's the entire business model: good work, paid for by the people who value it.
If that sounds like the kind of publication you've been looking for, you're in the right place. Welcome to Strada.