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For a good hour and a half, Max Verstappen and his team-mate Lucas Auer were able to dream of victory in Sunday’s race of the 24h Nurburgring Qualifiers. After a brilliant performance in the opening phase, the Formula 1 star led the race with a gap of nearly 30 seconds, but an unscheduled pit stop eliminated all hopes of a win for the duo.
After the 10th lap, Verstappen unexpectedly headed ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson is eager to join his Formula 1 rivals in contesting other racing championships, with Supercars being one series he’d “love” to try.
Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll are two drivers to have gone GT racing this year after growing frustrated with the 2026 F1 regulations, and Lawson was mooted for something similar.
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Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard believes it was a "natural development" for Mark Webber to take a step back from his trackside role as Oscar Piastri's manager.
The Australian driver announced a change-up in his personal team ahead of the 2026 season. While Webber is still his manager, he took a step back from his trackside support role and put his focus on commercial matters ...Keep reading

Peugeot is set to reignite its ambitions in the World Endurance Championship with a new car, which will aim to finally mount a sustained challenge for the title through to 2029.
There has been talk for several months about the French manufacturer's future plans. After introducing a major update to the 9X8 LMH in 2024, it has continued to struggle against its rivals in the Hypercar class, even ...Keep reading

All three Brawn BGP 001 chassis were brought together for the first time at the Goodwood Members' Meeting.
Jenson Button, who won the 2009 drivers' championship with Brawn GP, was reunited with the machinery in his first appearance at the Members' Meeting. 
The story of Brawn GP is one of the most fascinating in the history of Formula 1, with it becoming the centre of the Brawn: The ...Keep reading

Exactly two years ago, on April 17, Kimi Antonelli drove a Formula 1 car for the first time, during a Mercedes test at the Red Bull Ring in the rain. Today, at the start of his second season in the top series, the young Italian already has two wins and leads the championship. The road to the end of the season is still long, but daring to dream is allowed – that is how ambitions are ...Keep reading

The Kondo Ferrari #45 (Perel/Marschall/Vermeulen) will start the second race of the 2026 24h Nurburgring Qualifiers from pole position. In top qualifying, Thierry Vermeulen set the fastest time with 8:10.275 minutes – though by the smallest possible margin.
David Jahn, the pole-sitter from Saturday’s race, missed Vermeulen’s time by just one thousandth of a second in the Gamota BMW #23 ...Keep reading

Aston Martin have had a tricky start to the 2026 season, but with Adrian Newey at the helm, they certainly have the expertise in play to turn things around. A myriad of issues have curtailed plenty of sessions for Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll already this year, but there were signs in Japan last time out that some of those problems are starting to be solved…

Arvid Lindblad is only three rounds into his F1 career, but the British youngster has already made an impression – reaching Q3, scoring points and mixing it with some of the sport’s biggest names. Midway through the April gap, he sat down with selected media, including F1.com, to review the journey so far…

Former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt has revealed that Ayrton Senna had been interested in joining the Maranello outfit in 1995.
During an appearance on the High Performance podcast, Todt explained that the Brazilian driver was a primary target during the early stages of Ferrari's ambitious rebuilding phase in the 1990s.
"Ferrari was not successful at all, and they were dying to try to ...Keep reading

Logan Sargeant has been through an eventful period. In 2024, he lost his Williams Formula 1 seat midway through the season to Franco Colapinto, bringing his F1 career to an end after fewer than two full campaigns.
Since then, Sargeant has sampled a range of motorsport categories, from IndyCar to IMSA’s LMP2 class. He had also been set for a move to the European Le Mans Series through a deal ...Keep reading

Christian Krognes once again demonstrated his skills on the Nordschleife in second qualifying on Sunday for the 2026 24h Nurburgring Qualifiers, setting the fastest lap. On a drying track, the Norwegian driver in the Walkenhorst Aston Martin #34 (Krognes/Thiim) posted a best time of 8:18.515 minutes, closing out the session.
After heavy rain overnight, the track was wet at the start of ...Keep reading

Matt Payne scored a second, dominant win of the Ruapuna Park Supercars weekend, to give Ford a sweep of all four races on New Zealand’s South Island.
After taking pole position for the second time, Payne won the start and, after an early safety car, just drove away from the field. To add to the party that Grove Racing will have on the way back to its Melbourne base, Kai Allen came through to ...Keep reading

Taylor Gray is now a two-time race winner in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. Driving the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, he held off a charging Sheldon Creed in the No. 00 Haas Factory Team Chevrolet as Kansas Speedway.
"First of all, thank you to everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing," said Gray in Victory Lane. "How about  (crew chief) Jason Ratcliffe? That pit call was awesome. I knew we had ...Keep reading

There was a look of relief on the face of Felix Rosenqvist after snatching pole position for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Sitting 14th in the championship standings with zero top 10 finishes through the opening four rounds of the 2026 IndyCar season, there was a sense of urgency for the 34-year-old Swedish driver to simply find a way to get a breakthrough and help boost the confidence ...Keep reading

After a tough start to his Cadillac career, things should start getting better for Bottas.

Felix Rosenqvist will lead the field to the green flag after winning pole for Sunday’s Acura Grand Prix of Long beach.
The Swede, driving the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda, put together a strong flying lap of 1m07.4635s around the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit to claim the top spot. It’s the seventh pole of his IndyCar Series career.
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Carson Kvapil started Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts from pole position, but his day ended just three laps into the event. The wreck was something you'd expect to see at a superspeedway, not a 1.5-mile intermediate track...
Driving the No. 1 JR Motorsports Chevrolet, Kvapil was running second and battling three-wide with JRM teammates Justin Allgaier and William Byron.
Byron was to ...Keep reading

The youngest ever British F1 driver is looks forward to a lifelong dream of racing at Silverstone.

Renger van der Zande held steady through multiple late restarts to give Acura Meyer Shank Racing the home race victory in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. 
The Dutchman, driving the #93 Acura ARX-06, was undeterred despite Frederick Vesti (#31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R) applying consistent pressure on the restarts, taking the checkered flag by 0.818s on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary ...Keep reading