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At Indianapolis Raceway Park this weekend, Nick Sanchez will make his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start of the 2026 season, driving the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet.
Sanchez has had an interesting year, to say the least. After a surprising split from Big Machine Racing in the off-season, he started the year with AM Racing. Unfortunately, that team shut down early in the year, and ...Keep reading

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou moved one step closer to a fourth consecutive - and fifth overall - IndyCar Series title after throttling to victory in Monday’s Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway. 
The Spaniard’s conquest came after holding off Team Penske’s trio, led by oval maestro and local boy Josef Newgarden, who won at the 1.33-mile concrete oval ...Keep reading

McLaren have announced that Leonardo Fornaroli will make his second F1 practice outing in Hungary this weekend, with the team also set to run a batch of upgrades on the MCL40.

The quest to maximise aerodynamic outwash around the front tyres – to direct the airflow away from the underfloor and floor edges around the front of the car, in order to increase the underfloor performance – is very much related to the problem suffered by Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes at Silverstone.

Audi team boss Allan McNish hailed Gabriel Bortoleto's "cool and clean performance" after the Brazilian delivered an eighth-place finish at Spa-Francorchamps, securing a significant result for the team at the Belgian Grand Prix.

The McLaren Formula 1 team will finally trial its upside-down rear wing at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, where it unleashes a significant upgrade package to improve its competitiveness.
McLaren has long earmarked this weekend's Budapest round as its next major opportunity to add performance to the MCL40, a car which it admitted has been two to three months behind in terms of aero ...Keep reading

McLaren junior Leonardo Fornaroli will get his second opportunity of 2026 to take part in a grand prix weekend, deputising for Oscar Piastri in FP1 at the Hungaroring.
The highly-rated Italian, who is the reigning F2 champion, took over Lando Norris' MCL40 in Barcelona last month, and will now get his second practice outing with the squad at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, taking over ...Keep reading

Nick Yelloly admitted that the impending departure of Acura from the IMSA SportsCar Championship leaves him with a “bittersweet” feeling, as he prepares to join Ford in the World Endurance Championship next year.
The Briton joined the factory Meyer Shank team at the start of the 2025 IMSA season after two years with BMW, teaming up with veteran Renger van der Zande in the #93 Acura ARX-06 ...Keep reading

In a display of patience, racecraft, and rapid oval adaptation, Mick Schumacher delivered the strongest performance of his young IndyCar Series career, securing an eighth-place finish in the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway.
The 27-year-old German rookie, driving the #47 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, systematically sliced through the field on the ...Keep reading

Eight rounds into the 14 events of the 2026 Formula 2 season, three Formula 1 juniors have emerged as clear title contenders – with another one a dark horse.
Red Bull Junior Team member Nikola Tsolov currently leads the standings on 161 points from Alpine Academy racer Gabriele Mini (134), Rafael Camara (125) from the Ferrari Driver Academy, and Alpine’s Alex Dunne (108).
Campos ...Keep reading

Find out who topped the Power Rankings table after the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.

The Belgian Grand Prix provided further evidence that Haas has been left behind in Formula 1’s midfield development race, with Racing Bulls, Audi and Alpine all pulling ahead, and Williams currently providing the main competition.

We look at the betting markets to see who bookmakers expect to win at the Hungaroring.

Fernando Alonso insists his Formula 1 future will not depend upon Aston Martin’s performance over the remainder of 2026, but whether he can enjoy driving the current hybrid cars.
The Spaniard’s future has become a major talking point in recent months, with his contract with the Silverstone-based squad due to expire at the end of the year.
Aston Martin is banking on a major upgrade at ...Keep reading

After months dominated by headlines about departing personnel – with reports surrounding Paul Monaghan's expected move to Cadillac still continuing – two more positive stories emerged for Red Bull during the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
First of all, the Milton Keynes-based team managed to convince Tom Hart not to complete his move to Williams and instead remain with Red Bull ...Keep reading

Former Renault F1 driver and F1 TV analyst Jolyon Palmer takes a close look at the Frenchman's weekend at Spa – and what it tells us about Red Bull's progress this year.

Ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, news surfaced that Max Verstappen had taken his first steps into driver development by giving backing to Dries van Langendonck. But who is the 15-year-old that has caught the attention of a four-time World Champion?

Mercedes is still trying to figure out why George Russell had more energy deployment issues at Formula 1's Belgian Grand Prix despite tweaking his driving style, after he kept losing time to his team-mate on the straights.
Russell's side of the Mercedes garage has been mystified by a lack of energy deployment and hence top speed on power-sensitive circuits, which already manifested itself in ...Keep reading

Honda has officially confirmed the signing of Fabio Quartararo on a two-year contract, several months after securing the Frenchman as the cornerstone of its new MotoGP project.
As previously revealed by Motorsport.com, the deal was finalised at the end of January, although several factors delayed the announcement until the summer break.
One was the manufacturers' agreement not to make any ...Keep reading

Mercedes might enforce team orders if Kimi Antonelli and George Russell risk losing victory due to their wheel-to-wheel action, its Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff stated.
The Silver Arrows took their eighth victory of 2026 when Antonelli won Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, but Wolff has previously made it clear that he was displeased by the team losing out to Ferrari on two ...Keep reading