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Bristol delivered an instant classic on Saturday night, with Joey Logano charging from fourth to first on the final restart while Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar brawled in the pits.
The Penske driver was showered with boos while Hocevar was met like a conquering hero by a sea of fans when he exited the track. In the background of all that, the championship fight has further tightened with a ...Keep reading

Era Motorsport used an aggressive fuel-saving strategy to earn its first LMP2 victory of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Sunday, winning the Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 
Co-drivers Christian Rasmussen and Nick Boulle took the LMP2 class win in the #18 Oreca 07 Gibson on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course. Rasmussen finished 15.004s ahead of Harry ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has urged Williams Formula 1 junior Will Green to prioritise finding the limits over consistency as the 13-year-old prepares to graduate from karting to single-seaters.
Green was announced as a Williams Racing Academy driver in December 2024 and recently became the 2026 Karting European Championship junior champion.
Speaking in an interview conducted by the teenage karting ...Keep reading

Factory World Rally Championship driver Esapekka Lappi has announced plans to stop his professional rallying career for now.
The two-time WRC rally winner and 15-time podium finisher revealed his decision to take a break from rallying during a Skoda Finland press conference ahead of this weekend's Porvoon Autopalvelu Ralli - the final round of the Finnish Rally Championship, which Lappi is due ...Keep reading

Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner believes four-time champion Max Verstappen will fail to win a single grand prix during the 2026 F1 season, arguing that Red Bull's package is not competitive enough.
Verstappen currently sits sixth in the standings with 145 points, 147 points behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli. The Dutchman's best results so far this year have been ...Keep reading

Chris Medland runs through the biggest talking points as F1 heads to Azerbaijan for Round 15 of the 2026 season.

Here are all the timings – along with all the additional information you need – for the 15th Grand Prix weekend of the 2026 season from the Baku City Circuit in Azerbaijan.

Mercedes Formula 1 development driver Doriane Pin has set a five-year target to secure a race seat on the F1 grid.
Speaking in a recent Mercedes In Convo With Kids interview, the French driver confirmed her long-term career goals and her belief that female drivers can reach the championship. When asked where she sees herself in five years' time, Pin responded directly: "In Formula 1.
"That ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta's KTM crew chief Paul Trevathan says his rider can still improve following his first MotoGP win on Sunday - but dares not think about just how much potential lies untapped. 
It was an emotional win for Trevathan and Acosta, who described the New Zealander as a father figure in the aftermath of the triumph at Spielberg.
They have worked together since Acosta stepped up to the ...Keep reading

Ugo Ugochukwu claimed the F3 title in the final race of the season in Madrid, after he and title rival Freddie Slater began the race level on points.

Audi Formula 1 driver Gabriel Bortoleto says his manager, two-time champion Fernando Alonso, is exactly the same behind the scenes as he appears in the media.
Bortoleto is now in his second season in the championship, having made his F1 debut in 2025 with Sauber before Audi formally took over the Swiss team at the start of this year. During his rise through the motorsport ranks, the Brazilian ...Keep reading

Former Alpine Formula 1 team principal Otmar Szafnauer has warned that Cadillac's operational structure is not geared towards winning a championship.
Following a prolonged and highly publicised entry process, General Motors, under its Cadillac brand, joined the F1 grid at the start of the 2026 season as the 11th team.
While the team opened a European facility in Silverstone to tap into the ...Keep reading

Until this weekend, KTM's last MotoGP victory had come courtesy of Miguel Oliveira, in the 2022 Thai Grand Prix - a race heavily affected by rain. That same Sunday at Buriram, Pedro Acosta finished 16th in the Moto2 race. It was his first season in the intermediate class, before being crowned champion the following year (2023) and making his MotoGP debut in 2024. 
A lot has happened ...Keep reading

McLaren has released behind-the-scenes video footage of Lando Norris's recent hypercar test in Portugal.
Following his third-place finish at the Spanish Grand Prix at the new Madring circuit last weekend, the 2025 Formula 1 champion made his way to Portimao to test the Woking outfit's 2027 MCL-HY, which will compete in the World Endurance Championship next year.
After arriving with McLaren ...Keep reading

Ott Tanak made a victorious competitive return to rallying by claiming victory on his American Rally Association National Championship debut at Overmountain Rally Tennessee.
The 2019 world rally champion piloted a factory-supported Toyota GR Corolla Rally RC2 car at the gravel rally in what was the Estonian’s first competitive outing since last year’s World Rally Championship season finale ...Keep reading

All the key BBC coverage details for the Spanish Grand Prix, which takes place from 24-26 September.

Charles Leclerc has explained why he refrained from trying to copy Lewis Hamilton’s driving style when extracting the most out of Ferrari’s 2026 Formula 1 car was tricky.
As Formula 1 switched to new regulations for this season, Leclerc sometimes struggled with the Scuderia’s SF-26. After the Monegasque noticeably outperformed team-mate Hamilton last year, their head-to-head has been a ...Keep reading

Staff from the Aston Martin and Mercedes Formula 1 teams have gone head-to-head in the annual charity football match to raise funds for two charities.
The match, which is hosted at Brackley Town Football Club's St James Park and has been held since 2022, pits the neighbouring Northamptonshire squads against one another to raise funds for local and mental health charities.
The Silverstone ...Keep reading

Luca Marini admitted that he is fortunate to have avoided serious consequences after flying debris from Fabio Quartararo’s Yamaha struck him in the chest at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Qualifying a distant 15th on the grid, Marini spent much of Sunday’s race outside points-scoring position, even as Johann Zarco showed Honda had the pace to finish inside the top 10.
As Quartararo dropped ...Keep reading

During several weekends this Formula 1 season, Verstappen has complained that the Red Bull car gets worse over the course of a session or race. It usually happens at the rear axle, including during qualifying at Monza, where Verstappen called the RB22 "a car made of paper".
Notably, the four-time world champion added that he has been complaining about this internally for years. According ...Keep reading