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Four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen will contest the second round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) on Saturday 21 March.
He will be driving the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 entered by Winward under the Verstappen Racing banner and will share the car with GT3 specialists Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon. Both drivers are representing Verstappen Racing in the GT World Challenge ...Keep reading

Audi team principal Jonathan Wheatley leaves with immediate effect after an approach from Aston Martin.

Mercedes has appointed Bradley Lord as its deputy team principal to support Toto Wolff in the management of the Formula 1 team.
Lord joined the Mercedes F1 team in 2013 as communications manager and most recently worked as team representative and chief communications officer for the Brackley squad.
During his 13-year stint with the team, Lord's responsibilities have increased, according to ...Keep reading

Jonathan Wheatley is leaving the Audi Formula 1 team with immediate effect, ahead of his impending move to Aston Martin.
Motorsport revealed on Thursday that Adrian Newey was set to step down from his team principal duties, which he assumed under three months ago, to focus on technical matters – and would be replaced by Audi team boss Wheatley.
The decision was made amid Aston Martin’s ...Keep reading

Opel will take over the DS entry into Formula E’s Gen4 era, as Stellantis reshuffles its brands’ involvement again.
The group was involved in Formula E with DS Automobiles, which entered the series in 2015-16, and Maserati, which took over the Venturi outfit ahead of the Gen3 era.
Maserati’s time in the world championship was short-lived, as the team was renamed Citroen ahead of the ...Keep reading

The persistent rain falling on the Goiania Circuit has delayed the start of theMotoGP Brazilian Grand Prix weekend and raised concerns about whether the event can be completed normally.
The first practice session for the Moto3 class was scheduled to begin at 9am local time in Goiania (12pm GMT) on Friday, but the heavy rains that have been battering the area since Monday returned early in the ...Keep reading

Dozens of inmates from nearby prisons have been deployed to assist with clean-up efforts at the Autodromo Internacional Ayrton Senna ahead of MotoGP’s return to Brazil this weekend.
The heavy rains that fell on the Goiania circuit on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon affected the facilities, especially in the dirt areas of the service roads, where large amounts of mud have built up and ...Keep reading

March 20, 2016 remains one of those days when Formula 1 frightened us, but also demonstrated its continuous progress in safety and its determination to always go further. It was 10 years ago, during the Australian Grand Prix, and a shocking crash sustained by Fernando Alonso is still vivid in some memories.
On lap 17 of the race, while battling for 19th place at the wheel of an underperforming ...Keep reading

Tyler Reddick continues to lead the championship standings, 61 clear points over 23XI Racing teammate Bubba Wallace. Denny Hamlin is the latest driver to visit Victory Lane, winning at Las Vegas and jumping up to fourth in the standings.
NASCAR now heads to Darlington where Hamlin is also the defending race winner. All three national divisions will be competing this weekend with Trucks on ...Keep reading

Pierre Gasly believes the Alpine Formula 1 team has the required potential to challenge the likes of McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull in the 2026 season.
After spending the 2025 campaign as a clear backmarker, the Enstone-based outfit ended its engine programme, switching to Mercedes powertrains. It fully focused on its 2026 car early on last year and appears to have bounced back into the ...Keep reading

Sky Sports Formula 1 commentator David Croft has issued a stark warning about Aston Martin's major vibration issues.
The Briton said during the Sky Sports F1 Show that it could take months for the Silverstone outfit to fix the issues.
"Months," he said when asked how long it could take Aston Martin to fix the vibration issues, which caused two-time champion Fernando Alonso to lift his hands ...Keep reading

Jenson Button has shared how he would “love” to drive F1’s latest generation of cars – the new Aston Martin ambassador admitting he is also “a little bit jealous” of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll getting to work with design legend Adrian Newey.

Carlos Sainz admits he has no regrets over leaving McLaren for Ferrari at the end of 2020, despite losing the chance of possibly becoming a Formula 1 World Champion at his former team.

Former Formula 1 driver and F1 TV pundit Jolyon Palmer has shot down claims that Lewis Hamilton may have mixed emotions after Kimi Antonelli's Chinese Grand Prix win.
The seven-time champion made the blockbuster move from Mercedes to Ferrari at the start of 2025, leaving behind the team he had spent 12 seasons with and claimed six of his seven championship titles to fulfil a lifelong dream of ...Keep reading

Heavy rain in Goiania has left MotoGP riders wary of a potentially “super dirty” track,  although the true extent of the conditions will only become clear when practice begins on Friday.
MotoGP is making a long-awaited return to Brazil after a 22-year absence, with a heavily-renovated Autodromo Internacional Ayrton Senna hosting the second round of the season.
However, the race week ...Keep reading

After two races, Oliver Bearman sits fifth in Formula 1's 2026 drivers' championship – and has remarked upon his pleasure of the balance in Haas' VF-26 chassis.
While only early days, Bearman has been one of the most impressive performers in the early stages of the season, scoring all of Haas' 17-point total thus far as team-mate Esteban Ocon has endured a less fortuitous run.
After ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton suggested his longtime Formula 1 team, Mercedes, may still benefit from a “party mode” in qualifying – a theory McLaren’s Lando Norris rebuffed.
Mercedes was comfortably fastest in all three qualifying sessions so far this year, with the Silver Arrows always increasing the gap to the competition throughout qualifying – nearly six tenths on average so far ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner has called out Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff for "self-promotion" after Kimi Antonelli scored his maiden Formula 1 victory at the Chinese Grand Prix.
After the Italian driver took the chequered flag at the Shanghai International Circuit, Wolff came over the team radio to congratulate him. "'He’s too young. We shouldn’t put him in a Mercedes. Put him in a smaller team ...Keep reading

Andrea Reggiani will join Lamborghini as head of motorsport following stints at Ferrari and Dallara, it has been announced.
The Swiss-Italian engineer has been brought in to replace Maurizio Leschiutta, who departed the Volkswagen Group brand at the end of December after just one year in the role.
Following Leschiutta’s exit, Lamborghini’s chief technical officer Rouven Mohr had been ...Keep reading

MotoGP returns to Brazil after a gap of 22 years, with a renovated Goiania circuit hosting the second round of the 2026 season on 20-22 March. The event replaces Argentina as the championship's only stop in South America.
Goiania is the second shortest track on the calendar, only fractionally longer than the Sachsenring in Germany, and features 14 corners.
To help riders adapt to the 3.8km ...Keep reading