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Sources have confirmed to Motorsport.com's Matt Weaver that Cleetus McFarland (real name: Garrett Mitchell) is set to compete full-time in the ARCA Menard's Series next year. George Siciliano, better known as Squirrel McNut online, will be full-time in 2027 as well.
Motorsport.com understands that an announcement is expected this week, with George in a Rette Jones Racing car and Cleetus driving ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff believes George Russell has struggled to get the most out of Mercedes’ W17 this season due to a “difficult” operating window, with the Briton only finishing eighth in last weekend’s United States Grand Prix.

Kimi Antonelli moved to the brink of his first world title with a superb drive in the United States Grand Prix. But as the Italian champion elect celebrated a commanding victory in Austin, others didn’t have much to write home about. Lawrence Barretto selects his winners and losers at the Circuit of The Americas.

Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has dismissed the narrative that drivers can blame poor performance on the championship's new 2026 regulations, insisting the all-time greats successfully adapt to any machinery.
F1 introduced a major regulation change in 2026. While several drivers have struggled to extract consistent pace from the new generation of cars, Coulthard argued that a driver's ...Keep reading

George Russell's long-term future at Mercedes has been questioned following the United States Grand Prix.
Russell entered the 2026 Formula 1 season as one of the favourites for the title. But after winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese sprint race, the Briton watched as his team-mate Kimi Antonelli became the youngest driver to lead the championship.
After winning ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has explained the reasoning behind asking Oscar Piastri to wave Lando Norris past in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.
Piastri and Norris locked out the fourth row of the grid at the Circuit of The Americas, having failed to challenge the Mercedes, Red Bulls and Ferraris in Q3.
However, over the first seven laps of the race, Piastri lost one second ...Keep reading

This October's NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway was certainly a memorable one, and pretty much all title contenders encountered issues except for the one already sitting atop the standings.
This race featured a bizarre opening stage where three cars drove off to a 40+ second lead amid fuel-saving shenanigans, a very persistent lapped car that nearly won the race, championship ...Keep reading

Andrea Stella believes that McLaren matched the performance of Ferrari and Red Bull during the United States Grand Prix, despite Lando Norris eventually slipping to fifth last weekend.

Colton Herta is watching IndyCar’s European expansion from a unique vantage point.
Now competing in Formula 2 with Hitech and serving as Cadillac Formula One Team’s test driver following his fourth FP1 outing at last weekend’s United States Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas, the nine-time IndyCar race winner remains closely connected to the American open-wheel paddock. Last Friday ...Keep reading

Chase Elliott said the decision to withdraw his name from the NASCAR Cup Series most popular driver award to encourage a posthumous victory by Kyle Busch was inspired by his father before him.
In 2001, Bill Elliott withdrew his eligibility after winning the award 15 of the previous 17 seasons in response to the death of the Dale Earnhardt on the final lap of the Daytona 500. Despite his immense ...Keep reading

Ducati believes Aprilia got “unlucky” with weather changes over the Australian Grand Prix weekend, citing the RS-GP’s superior pace in dry conditions.
Aprilia was expected to dominate proceedings at Phillip Island after Marco Bezzecchi led a 1-2-4-5 result for the Noale-based manufacturer in Friday Practice. But Saturday’s running didn’t quite go as it had expected, with Ducati’s ...Keep reading

Red Bull's Laurent Mekies admits that Kimi Antonelli and Mercedes were "faster than us" in last weekend's United States Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen could only finish third.

The United States Grand Prix weekend was something of a mixed one for Ferrari, and in the end a solid second place was not quite enough for Charles Leclerc, who made it clear that he wanted more.

Kimi Antonelli pulled off a sensational victory from 19th at the Italian Grand Prix, but Formula 1’s champion-elect reckons his dominant performance from pole in Austin was even better.
The Mercedes driver was forced into a back row start at Monza in September due to a change of power unit, yet the rapid Italian still scythed through the field to take victory.
That gave Antonelli his ...Keep reading

Austin Hill is one of the most impressive drivers at drafting tracks in the secondary level of NASCAR, earning four wins at Daytona, two at Talladega, and five at the reconfigured Atlanta.
While still fairly new to the Cup Series, he got to showcase some of that superspeedway prowess this weekend. Driving the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, he qualified on the outside of the front ...Keep reading

Mercedes has poked fun at Kimi Antonelli's awkward reversing mishap in Austin, sharing in-car footage of the moment on its TikTok account with the caption, "Championship leader BTW."
The short clip shows the 20-year-old at the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé. As he backed up the electric vehicle, he misjudged the space and made contact with the wooden fencing behind him.
The video ...Keep reading

Martins Sesks remains tight-lipped on his World Rally Championship future after claiming a confidence-boosting victory in the European Rally Championship season finale.
The M-Sport-Ford WRC driver produced an impressive display on Portugal’s famous gravel stages on his way to victory at Rally 6 Cities North of Portugal, after receiving a call to join the Team MRF Tyres squad.
Sesks built ...Keep reading

Rosanna Tennant, Guenther Steiner and Damon Hill discuss teenager Kimi Antonelli's phenomenal performance in winning the US Grand Prix.

Franco Colapinto has responded to Jeremy Clarkson’s comment that he would give the Alpine Formula 1 driver a grid penalty for being Argentinian.
Clarkson was a guest of Alpine’s at the United States Grand Prix and gave an interview to Sky Sports F1 on Saturday, in which he joked: “Franco’s got a grid penalty for being Argentinian. Probably. Well, I’d give him one for that. But anyway ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya was "surprised" by George Russell's penalty at the United States Grand Prix, claiming the Mercedes driver did not gain an advantage from the incident.
Russell was handed a five-second penalty for leaving the track at Turn 12 and rejoining ahead of McLaren's Oscar Piastri on the opening lap at the Circuit of the Americas. He went on to finish eighth ...Keep reading