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At Silverstone, Lando Norris became the sixth driver in history to make Q3 in 40 consecutive Grands Prix weekends.

Justin Allgaier now has six wins in the 2026 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts season, but the most recent victory came in a wildly unpredictable way. Restarting fifth in double overtime, he survived the chaos to claim his 34th career win.
It was a JR Motorsports 1-2, with Carson Kvapil narrowly snagging second right at the finish line. Parker Retzlaff was third, William Sawalich fourth, and Anthony ...Keep reading

In addition to a meeting with Shane Van Gisbergen and Austin Hill, NASCAR officials also called Zane Smith and Carson Hocevar into the Cup Series hauler to address their rivalry and what happened on Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.
Smith and Hocevar crashed on Lap 32, following a sequence of hard racing between them, resulting in both having their cars severely damaged. Since then, Smith has ...Keep reading

Ryan Blaney will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday night's NASCAR Cup race, driving the No. 12 Team Penske Ford. This is Blaney's 14th career pole and his second of the 2026 season.
Blaney's pole lap was 30.815s, 0.036s clear of Penske teammate Joey Logano, who will join him on the front row in the No. 22 Team Penske Ford.
And while he was happy with the pole, Blaney knows there are ...Keep reading

Jeremy Clarke captured pole for the Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
It was a furious fight for the top spot, with Clarke prevailing with a 1m07.904s flying lap in Inter Europol Competition’s #43 ORECA LMP2 07 on the 10-turn, 2.459-mile natural terrain road course. It marks Clarke’s fourth career pole, but first at the track widely recognized as ...Keep reading

As detailed earlier in the week, NASCAR officials met with Shane Van Gisbergen and Austin Hill on Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway to discuss the increasing tensions between them over the past month.
While this is a bit of a rivalry that began during their time in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, the past three weeks have heightened the animosity. Van Ginsbergen was leading the race ...Keep reading

The McLaren Hypercar completed its first public laps with the reigning Formula 1 World Champion Lando Norris at the wheel of the V6 turbo-powered LMDh that is set to challenge for wins in the World Endurance Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2027 onwards.
The 26-year-old took on the 1.16-mile hillclimb at the Duke of Richmond’s estate twice on Friday. On Saturday, McLaren ...Keep reading

Thomas Annunziata earned a big win in Friday's ARCA Menards Series race at Lime Rock Park. The 21-year-old led 59 of 68 laps and won by nearly ten seconds, but things did not go nearly as smoothly in Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race.
He qualified fourth, making just his second start in the Truck Series. He also ran this race one year ago, finishing 15th. But this year, he had a ...Keep reading

For the first time in 40 races, Grant Enfinger has captured the checkered flag in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. Winning at Lime Rock Park, Enfinger secured his 13th career victory with CR7 Motorsports.
Enfinger took the lead on the final restart, and then held off Landen Lewis to claim victory at the Connecticut road course. Lewis finished second in his career-best finish, while Kaden ...Keep reading

Will Stevens pipped Jack Aitken in the final moments of qualifying to lead a front-row lockout for Cadillac at the World Endurance Championship’s Six Hours of Brazil.
Aitken appeared on course to take pole position in the #38 Jota Cadillac V-Series.R after topping the opening segment of qualifying and finding another four tenths in Hyperpole.
But moments after the Briton pulled into the ...Keep reading

The 6 Hours of Sao Paulo, the Brazilian round of the World Endurance Championship, will host an initiative by the FIA that extends the discussion on safety beyond the race track. During the event, the organisation will highlight companies certified under the FIA Road Safety Index, an international programme that assesses the maturity of road safety management in corporate and logistics ...Keep reading

Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner has questioned why Mercedes would attempt to sign four-time champion Max Verstappen, suggesting that team boss Toto Wolff is "too smart" to make such a move.
Verstappen's future has been the subject of intense speculation in recent weeks. In addition to his dislike of the new regulation cars, the Red Bull driver has also faced issues with ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has voiced his frustration over Formula 1's increasing reliance on software, arguing that drivers are being unfairly penalised by complex energy management systems rather than being rewarded for raw pace.
Speaking to Neil deGrasse Tyson on the StarTalk podcast during the Miami Grand Prix weekend, the seven-time champion shed light on the challenges presented by the series' ...Keep reading

MotoGP riders have said that the new grid layout introduced at today's Sachsenring sprint race has done what it was intended to do: reduce the risk of accidents. 
The first start under the new rules was remarkably tidy, although undramatic in equal measure. With more space between the grid slots and rows, differences between starting positions and the running order on the first lap were ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez believes he can best hope for a third-place finish in Sunday’s German Grand Prix unless he is able to make a step overnight, despite going unchallenged for victory in the sprint.
While Marquez has been the fastest rider so far this weekend at the Sachsenring, setting the fastest lap on Friday before topping both qualifying and the sprint on Saturday, the factory Ducati star ...Keep reading

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Christian Eckes is racing with an injury this weekend at Lime Rock Park.
On the FOX Sports 1 broadcast, it was revealed that Eckes suffered a Grade 3 Lateral Sprain in his left foot on June 19 following the Truck race at the San Diego street course.
While leaving the track, Eckes is said to have stepped in a hole and his left foot rolled the wrong way. He ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi's factory Aprilia team colleagues Paolo Bonora and Jorge Martin have offered the beleaguered rider a vote of confidence despite his latest major setback.
The Italian was injured in a qualifying crash at the Sachsenring this morning, ruling him out of the ongoing German Grand Prix weekend.
Having been on top of the world when he won his home grand prix at Mugello in May ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez believes MotoGP’s new starting grid rules made it quite difficult for riders to gain position at the start of the German Grand Prix sprint.
The Gresini rider lined up second on the grid for Saturday’s half-distance race at the Sachsenring but was unable to get the jump on his brother Marc Marquez, who led comfortably from pole position on his factory Ducati. 
There were few ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez leads a front row lockout for Ducati at the German Grand Prix after claiming his third pole position of the 2026 MotoGP season on Saturday.
Lining up alongside on the front row will be his brother Alex Marquez, will Fabio di Giannantonio starting third for VR46.
However, the biggest news from the Sachsenring weekend concerned Aprilia after factory rider Marco Bezzecchi broke his ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles has admitted that the Grove outfit's current rate of car development is insufficient to meet its ambitions of progressing up the Formula 1 grid. 
Following a challenging British Grand Prix, the team has launched an intensive two-week review to evaluate its upgrade programme.
During the latest episode of The Vowles Verdict, the Williams boss reflected on ...Keep reading