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Formula E will bring together 10 influencers and content creators in Jeddah on Sunday, as the Evo Sessions return after a successful trial run in 2025.
The concept of inviting high-profile online personalities to drive Formula E machinery was originally conceived to plug a massive gap in the 2024/25 calendar. As part of that initiative, several familiar names, including YouTuber Mr Beast ...Keep reading

Rally Sweden is renowned for being one of the fastest on the World Rally Championship calendar, as crews thread their way through snowbank-lined stages. This year, that might not be the case, and they will have to be extra careful.
Snow levels in the lead up to the event, held approximately 300km south of the Arctic circle in Umea, have been reduced compared to previous editions since Rally ...Keep reading

On day two of Formula 1's first official pre-season test, held in Bahrain from February 11-13, here are the key figures to remember.
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Rising World Rally Championship star Martins Sesks has set out two key objectives ahead of his return to rallying’s tip tier at Rally Sweden this weekend.
Sweden’s snow stages mark the start of Sesks’ seven-round partial programme with M-Sport-Ford that includes the same line-up of rallies (Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Sardinia) and the possibility of a run at the ...Keep reading

Netflix has released the trailer for Drive to Survive Season 8 ahead of its release on the streaming platform on 27 February 2026.
The eighth season will cover the on and off-track stories of the 2025 season, and the trailer has shared a hint of what's to come from the docuseries. It starts with footage from the F1-75 show in London. "This is the moment we have all been waiting for," McLaren's ...Keep reading

Four-time world champion Max Verstappen says the new cars in Formula 1 this year are "not a lot of fun".

Former Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko claims that the Milton Keynes outfit must continue to provide four-time champion Max Verstappen with a competitive power unit if it wants to keep him happy.
Red Bull parted ways with Honda at the end of 2025 and launched Red Bull Powertrains in collaboration with Ford, coinciding with the introduction of the new regulations in the championship ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen slammed Formula 1's new generation of cars after sampling the 2026 Red Bull in Bahrain testing, saying they are "not fun to drive" and "FE on steroids".
On day two of the first three-day Bahrain test, Verstappen hosted his first proper press conference of 2026, having completed 136 laps on Wednesday before handing over the car to team-mate Isack Hadjar today.
Verstappen and ...Keep reading

In 2013, James Hinchcliffe earned his firs of six IndyCar wins at the St. Petersburg street course. 13 years later, he will be racing again at the site of that first triumph, but in a very difficult kind of race car -- or truck.
Hinchcliffe will pilot the No. 77 Chevrolet Silverado for Spire Motorsports in the first-ever NCTS race at St. Pete on February, as part of IndyCar's opening weekend ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc was fastest on day two of Formula 1’s 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain, pipping world champion Lando Norris who completed the most mileage.
The Ferrari driver set a 1m34.273s early in the morning session with his time on softs subsequently going unbeaten - 0.511s quicker than the medium-running McLaren, which was fastest on day one.  
But Norris’ time also came in the ...Keep reading

Lance Stroll was extremely downbeat after Aston Martin’s tough start to pre-season testing for the 2026 Formula 1 campaign - claiming “we’re four seconds off”.
The Silverstone outfit was four days late to the first collective shakedown of the year in Barcelona before Stroll completed just 36 laps on day one of this week’s Bahrain test - only Franco Colapinto had fewer.
That was the ...Keep reading

IndyCar announced a multi-year commitment that will see Chevrolet and Honda continue as the official Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for the sport.
The new agreement will begin in 2027 and run for “multiple years,” according to the press release. Both manufacturers will also be involved in the development of the engine and competition rules that are set to be implemented with the ...Keep reading

Lance Stroll says Aston Martin are four seconds off the pace in the run-up to the new Formula 1 season.

Carlos Sainz has insisted that while it was frustrating to miss the Barcelona shakedown, he has not lost any confidence in Williams.
Williams decided to skip the private testing at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, "following delays in the FW48 programme."
"Yeah, frustrating. Obviously, I'm not going to hide away from the fact that I would have loved to be in Barcelona to get those three ...Keep reading

Alpine will withdraw from the World Endurance Championship Hypercar class at the end of the 2026 campaign after just five seasons in the category.
The French marque joined for the first year of Hypercar racing in 2021 and has contested every season since, bar 2023, but with minimal success winning just three races.
It also hasn’t been very profitable as a brand during that period, with ...Keep reading

Dacia has confirmed that it will compete in the entire 2026 World Rally-Raid Championship before bringing its project to a close at the season-ending event in Abu Dhabi – ruling out a return to the Dakar in 2027.
The tracks had barely cleared in the desert following the latest triumph for Dacia at the 2026 Dakar when the brand decided to bring the curtain down on its rally-raid adventure ...Keep reading

Fermin Aldeguer will sit out MotoGP’s season-opening Thailand Grand Prix on 1 March as he continues to recover from a femur fracture.
Although Aldeguer had already been declared unfit for the first pre-season test at Sepang earlier this month, he hadn’t ruled out the possibility of returning to action in Buriram following his crash in January.
But on Thursday, Gresini Racing announced ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc was the pacesetter during the second morning of pre-season testing in Bahrain, heading Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly at the top of the timesheets.

The 2026 Formula 1 regulation change has brought all kinds of challenges to the drivers given the cars are now totally different from their predecessors. A chassis, for example, is approximately 32kg lighter with significantly less downforce, while the power unit is much more reliant on electric energy having a near-50:50 split alongside the internal combustion engine.
It is the changes to the ...Keep reading

This is not the start Aston Martin had hoped for in the 2026 Formula 1 season. After falling behind in the Barcelona shakedown, the team was expected to recover the mileage and valuable time lost in Spain due to issues with assembling the car. However, she first day in Sakhir did not go smoothly and the Silverstone-based team had to give up a large part of the session due to technical problems ...Keep reading