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Chip Ganassi Racing has officially signed 20-year-old Argentinian driver Alessandro de Tullio for the 2027 Indy NXT by Firestone season. De Tullio will pilot the #10 AstroPay entry following a series of productive offseason test sessions with the championship-winning organization.
In addition to his full-time Indy NXT duties, the 20-year-old Argentinian will serve as a reserve driver for Chip ...Keep reading

Three-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo has likened Marc Marquez to Formula 1 stars Ayrton Senna and Max Verstappen amid his brilliant form during the 2026 season.
Mistakes by Marco Bezzecchi and an untimely injury for Jorge Martin, the two riders representing the factory Aprilia team, have considerably eased Marc Marquez's path towards a 10th world title. That is despite the Ducati ...Keep reading

The Sao Paulo Grand Prix last weekend proved to be a day of celebration for Mercedes, as the German manufacturer secured the 2026 Constructors' Championship.

Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa had already established their credentials in sportscar racing, but their names were etched into history last week following their success in the 2026 World Endurance Championship.
The Toyota trio were crowned the 2026 Hypercar champions at the Monza 6 Hours finale, following a season in which the Japanese manufacturer comfortably outshone the ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has delved into what gives him such racecraft when it rains in Sao Paulo, after another remarkable drive in Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix.
Among tracks that have been on the calendar since the beginning of his career, Verstappen has his highest podium-finishing rate at Interlagos – and Austin – with eight top-three results in 11 races.
Three of these were starring ...Keep reading

Andrea Stella says McLaren is aiming to finally make "peace" with what has historically been a difficult race for the team in Las Vegas.
The Sao Paulo Grand Prix was a successful weekend for McLaren, with Lando Norris showing a dominant level of performance with his third win of the season, and team-mate Oscar Piastri showing a strong uptick in pace.
Las Vegas is usually a very different ...Keep reading

Maverick Vinales ended the Qatar Grand Prix weekend just as concerned as he had started it, admitting he was considering stepping away again because of his left shoulder injury.
The KTM MotoGP rider will undergo an extensive series of medical examinations to establish the extent of the problem.
Vinales has experienced a dramatic change in fortunes over the last 18 months.  At the 2025 ...Keep reading

Ollie Bearman finished 17th in Sao Paulo on Sunday and afterwards cut a despondent figure as he revealed how pleased he was to be heading home after a tough triple header.

Rene Rosin ran Antonelli from F4 up to F2 with the legendary PREMA Racing team, and says the potential was clear from the young Italian's earliest days in the sport.

McLaren's Oscar Piastri is missing the pressure of fighting for the Formula 1 world championship amid what has been a difficult 2026 season.
The Australian led the drivers' standings for a lot of last year before he eventually finished third behind team-mate Lando Norris and Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Although he missed out on the championship last year, it was a successful end to the ground ...Keep reading

Audi's eighth place in the constructors' championship doesn't quite tally with the competitiveness of its car, but circumstances have contrived to keep the team falling short of the points in 2026. Between them, Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto have notched up ten 11th-place finishes.
Often the issue has been poor starting performance which costs the drivers track position away from the ...Keep reading

The question of what might happen in a wet race has vexed Formula 1's stakeholders since before the beginning of the season. It's also prompted some unnecessarily hysterical commentary throughout the year, peaking in the run-up to last weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, where rain for qualifying and the race was a virtual certainty for the first time this season.
Although the ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia has successfully undergone surgery to repair two fractures sustained in his right foot during Saturday's MotoGP sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix.
He will now begin his rehabilitation as soon as possible, with no definitive return date yet set. However, the initial target is to recover in time for the next round of the 2026 MotoGP season in Portimao on 20-22 November ...Keep reading

Lando Norris returned to the top step of the podium in Brazil, but what did the Sao Paulo Grand Prix signal in the markets ahead of the trip to Las Vegas?

 Daniel Ricciardo says Max Verstappen will "go down as one of the best ever", and admits he cannot comprehend what Red Bull has achieved in its first season building its own power units.
Ricciardo was Verstappen's team-mate at Red Bull from 2016 until the end of 2018, and is now an ambassador for Ford, whose partnership with Red Bull Powertrains made its race debut this season.
The ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch is the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver, joining Dale Earnhardt as the only drivers to ever win the award posthumously. Chase Elliott had won the award every year between 2018 and 2025, but withdrew his name from consideration and urged his fans to vote for Kyle this season.
On the red carpet for the NASCAR Award's banquet in Miami, his wife Samantha spoke about just how ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch is the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver, becoming just the second driver to ever win the award posthumously, joining fellow Richard Childress Racing driver and seven-time Cup champion Dale Earnhardt, who won the award after his death in a crash at the end of the 2001 Daytona 500.
Busch received 261,612 votes according to the NMPA, with Kyle Larson earning the second-most ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri says he misses the pressure of fighting for the Formula 1 world championship.
The McLaren driver led the standings for much of last year and was in a season-long battle against his team-mate Lando Norris for the title. A late-season challenge from Red Bull's Max Verstappen saw Piastri finish third in the standings, while Norris secured the title and Verstappen finished ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris has questioned Charles Leclerc's penalty after the Brazilian Grand Prix, which cost the Ferrari driver seventh place.
Leclerc tapped the left rear of Liam Lawson's Racing Bulls car at Turn 12 on the penultimate lap of the race at Interlagos. The Monegasque driver was handed a five-second penalty after the race, which dropped him behind Lawson to ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says he would walk away from Formula 1 if he ever stopped believing he was the best driver in the field.
The four-time world champion has not won the title since 2024, with Lando Norris taking the championship win last year and Kimi Antonelli wrapping up the 2026 championship in Mexico earlier this month.
But speaking to the media before the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Verstappen ...Keep reading