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Losail International Circuit and the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) are continuing preparations for the Qatar Formula 1 and MotoGP grands prix, despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the geopolitical situation in the Middle East.
The conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran has already heavily disrupted the calendars of international championships. The WEC was ...Keep reading

Ultimately, Shane Van Gisbergen isn't blaming missing out on the Chase for the Championship due to what happened on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway but instead the entire body of work this season.
Some of it within his control and some of it not.
Van Gisbergen entered the regular season finale with a 31-point lead and even extended it with a Stage 1 victory in which Ryan ...Keep reading

Team Penske is swapping the pit crews for Ryan Blaney and Austin Cindric, as both drivers begin the 2026 Chase for the championship.
Blaney, the 2023 NASCAR Cup champion, is the No. 2 seed in the reset standings, while Cindric is the No. 15 seed. 
Blaney has had issues on pit road all year, even in his most recent win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The No. 12 pit crew was ranked 32nd ...Keep reading

Following a high-drama finish at The Milwaukee Mile that saw a potential victory slip away on the final restart, Chevrolet has formally addressed the mechanical glitch that triggered heat-of-the-moment frustration from Team Penske’s David Malukas.
Malukas appeared poised for a breakthrough win during Race 1 before a mechanical hiccup on the late-game restart with 19 laps to go left him ...Keep reading

This weekend's CARS Late Model Tour event at Florence Motor Speedway in South Carolina is going to have some very notable entrants. The race takes place on Friday, September 4. The NASCAR Cup Series is racing at Darlington Raceway this weekend, just a few miles down the road from Florence.
Shane van Gisbergen will make his CARS Late Model stock car debut, driving the No. 51 Hettinger Racing car ...Keep reading

NASCAR fans saw a bit of chaos during the final lap at Daytona this weekend, where two wrecks brought out a yellow flag that ended the race before the cars crossed the finish line.
A first scrum caught a large numbers of cars, scattering those that got through the wreckage for one final chase to the finish. In that second sprint, the No. 47 of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got into the No. 12 of Ryan ...Keep reading

Ahead of the NASCAR regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway last weekend, action movie star Tom Cruise confirmed that Days of Thunder, the story of fictional NASCAR driver Cole Trickle, will be back for a sequel in June of 2028. The original film released in 1990, and remains ever-popular among NASCAR fans.
Speaking on 'The Pat McAfee Show' in a new interview this week, Cruise ...Keep reading

Red Bull have head-hunted former Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough to become their head of racing from 2027.

It was a long weekend for the fans and everyone in the paddock with Mother Nature pushing the majority of the action at The Milwaukee Mile to Sunday.
The first of two races on the 1.015-mile oval was interrupted by rain after 90 of 250 laps on Saturday and originally rescheduled to conclude early Sunday morning ahead of Race 2. However, the rain continued to play its annoying part, leaving Race ...Keep reading

F1.com's Lawrence Barretto assesses the current state of the F1 driver market after the likes of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris signed contract extensions.

F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne likens some of the current crop of Formula 1 racers to drivers from the sport's history.

The Red Bull Formula 1 team has confirmed it has hired long-time Aston Martin engineer Tom McCullough to replace McLaren bound Gianpiero Lambiase as head of racing.
Lambiase will join McLaren in 2028 to become its chief racing officer, reporting into team principal Andrea Stella. The Briton is currently serving a dual role at the team as Max Verstappen's race engineer, dovetailing those duties ...Keep reading

Pirelli has revealed the trophies for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix, continuing a multi-year partnership with the Pirelli HangarBicocca Museum of Contemporary Art, which is entering its sixth year.
Created by the artist duo known as Vedovamazzei - Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino - the trophies are titled "FRAGILE". Made via a 3D printing process using nylon powder, the trophies are ...Keep reading

The 210th different winner in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series is Ryan Preece, breaking through in his 249th career start at Daytona International Speedway. 
The victory came on the same weekend where another Ryan -- Ryan Sieg, earned his first NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series win in his 424th career start. That's a record for the secondary level of NASCAR, but what about Cup?
Well ...Keep reading

Carson Hocevar was in contention to win at Daytona on Saturday, but when he made what he hoped would be the race-deciding move for the lead, he instead wrecked, bringing out the yellow flag and sending the race to overtime.
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, Hocevar seemed somewhat bewildered by how the scene played out.
"These noses have a lot more lift, and I was a lot tighter on ...Keep reading

The McLaren Formula 1 team will introduce the H-Wing, its own version of the rotating rear wing, at this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
McLaren had been working on its own interpretation of the upside-down rear wing, which rotates 180 degrees between cornering mode and straight mode, for some time after seeing Ferrari introduce it during winter testing.
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After starting the 2026 Formula 1 season strongly, Haas admits that it has been overtaken and out-developed by its rivals this year. However, team boss Ayao Komatsu and driver Oliver Bearman both remain hopeful that it can catch back up with the pack “soon”.
Haas has traditionally started the season strong, and continued this tradition in 2026 when it picked up points in the first three ...Keep reading

Alpine reserve driver Paul Aron will get behind the wheel again during Free Practice 1 at the Italian Grand Prix.

Mahindra may have been the last manufacturer to begin the test programme for its Gen4 challenger, but there is optimism within the camp that it will be able to catch up to its rivals, even if it ends up starting the 2026-27 Formula E season on the back foot.
The Indian manufacturer pulled off one of the most remarkable transformations in Formula E history, going from being the slowest ...Keep reading

Rinus VeeKay was on a mission at The Milwaukee Mile, carving through the field from 24th on the grid to claim a third-place finish in the rain-suspended two-part Race 1 after executing a bold pass on Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin with just four laps remaining in the 250-lap contest.
The performance marked the 25-year-old Dutchman’s first podium since his runner-up result at Toronto last ...Keep reading