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McLaren Racing has promoted Gregoire Saucy to a full-time race seat in its MCL-HY Hypercar for the team’s debut in the World Endurance Championship in 2027.
The young Swiss driver, who began his sportscar career driving the Oreca LMP2 for United Autosports in the European Le Mans Series and the Le Mans 24 Hours, joined the Woking-based team’s driver line-up a couple of years ago ...Keep reading

Esteban Ocon's career as a Formula 1 race driver is over - at least for the foreseeable future - after falling out with Haas. Andrew Benson looks at what the future holds for the Frenchman.

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc and his wife, Alexandra Leclerc, have welcomed their first child together.
The couple, who tied the knot in a private Monaco ceremony in February 2026, announced the new arrival on social media. They shared a photo of the newborn’s legs and feet in pink knitted leggings and white socks with the caption, “Bianca. 3.11.26.”
After finishing fourth ...Keep reading

The factory Aprilia MotoGP team confirmed on Wednesday that Jorge Martín will travel to Qatar to try to race, despite not having recovered from the fracture to the radius in his right arm. 
The Spanish rider suffered a high-speed crash two weeks ago in the Australian Grand Prix sprint, while fighting Marc Marquez for victory. He fractured his right wrist in the accident, which automatically ...Keep reading

Ahead of the race weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez – at 2,286 metres above sea level, by far the highest circuit on the Formula 1 calendar – the discussion in the paddock largely revolved around one subject: how much of a challenge Mexico City would pose for the 2026 power units.
Several manufacturers feared severe turbo lag, especially now that the MGU-H is no longer there to ...Keep reading

Chris Medland runs through the biggest talking points as F1 heads to Sao Paulo for Round 20 of the 2026 season.

Valtteri Bottas endured a big shunt at the Mexico City Grand Prix, the Finn careering off and into the barriers at high speed midway through the race.

Honda have revealed why Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll both retired after five laps of the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola divulge how Mercedes managed to get their front wing upgrade to work from Austin onwards.

Daniel Ricciardo has delved into the reasons why he has been staying away from the Formula 1 paddock.
Ricciardo’s F1 career ended after the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix, when the RB driver was replaced by Liam Lawson after enduring a tough campaign thus far.
In the past two years, the Australian has stayed away from the limelight, spending more time at home and less on planes, though he did ...Keep reading

There's really not much reason to think otherwise: it looks increasingly likely that this could be the end of Esteban Ocon's active Formula 1 career. A career blessed with plenty of highlights, a handful of podiums and a victory scored behind the wheel of a car that wasn't capable of winning on merit.
He made a lot of the opportunities that came his way - not just on the track, but throughout ...Keep reading

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted to ‘letting George Russell down’ at Formula 1’s Mexico Grand Prix, with the Briton’s bid for victory derailed within seconds by a technical issue.
Russell was starting from the front row alongside Lewis Hamilton at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, and his initial getaway was good enough to retain that position and take the polesitter’s ...Keep reading

Crowning a 20-year-old World Champion is exactly the kind of legacy-defining achievement that forces an executive to evaluate their long-term future. For Toto Wolff, that evaluation is a daily routine.
Following Kimi Antonelli's historic title clinch at the Mexico City Grand Prix, the Austrian executive faced inevitable questions about his own longevity at the helm of the Brackley squad. A ...Keep reading

The 20-year-old Italian is the youngest F1 world champion ever

We look at the betting odds and analyse the chances of the five drivers most likely to win at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace.

Having a podium-capable car means much less if you spend 71 laps hopelessly trapped in dirty air.
That was the reality for McLaren at the Mexico City Grand Prix. A difficult Saturday qualifying session left the Woking garage entirely on the back foot, completely negating the raw race pace of its machinery. Because the thin air at high altitude makes cooling a nightmare and aerodynamically ...Keep reading

The opening lap of the Mexico City Grand Prix featured an intense, intra-team battle within Ferrari.
Battling for the race lead, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton traded heavy, aggressive blows through the opening sequence of corners. The scarlet cars squeezed each other to the absolute limit, ultimately resulting in an off-track excursion and a time penalty for the Monegasque ...Keep reading

NASCAR Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer took to SiriusXM Radio on Tuesday to explain the rationale behind a pair of penalties to Carson Hocevar and Josh Berry for brake checking over the weekend at Martinsville Speedway.
First and foremost, the decision to issue the $100,000 fine to Hocevar and the $50,000 fine to Berry, plus 25 driver points each, came down to SMT data. NASCAR could ...Keep reading

Cadillac test driver Colton Herta will conduct his sixth Friday practice session of the Formula 1 season at this weekend's Brazil Grand Prix to collect his missing FIA superlicence point required to race in the series.
Herta, who has been building up for an F1 campaign with private testing, FP1 sessions and a troubled F2 campaign, needs 40 points to obtain the required FIA superlicence ...Keep reading

The Brackley garage experienced the absolute extremes of motorsport at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez. While the team successfully crowned the youngest world drivers' champion in Formula 1 history on Sunday, the engineering brass was simultaneously forced to publicly apologise to the other side of the garage for a mechanical failure.
Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin was quick to ...Keep reading