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Formula 1 will return to Africa in the early 2030s after Rwanda agreed a 10-year deal to host an African Grand Prix. President Paul Kagame, the country’s officials and the circuit’s designers explain what they are building – and why.

Former Renault F1 driver and F1 TV's expert analyst Jolyon Palmer delves into the detail of Hamilton's race under the Singapore lights.

Abel Motorsports announced Niels Koolen will join the team for the upcoming 2027 season in Indy NXT.
Koolen, 25, moves to Abel Motorsports after spending the past two years with Chip Ganassi Racing in IndyCar’s top developmental series. Preparations for the new campaign begin at the annual Chris Griffis Memorial test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on October 16, followed by an additional ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen is set to make his long-awaited debut in GT World Challenge Europe [GTWCE] this weekend. With two of the regular drivers for his Verstappen Racing team, Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon, competing in the rescheduled World Endurance Championship (WEC) round in Barcelona, which replaces the cancelled Qatar race, the Formula 1 superstar will take the wheel himself.
Verstappen ...Keep reading

13 Autosport will return to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2027, continuing its GTD program with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R and an unchanged driver lineup of Orey Fidani, Matt Bell, and endurance driver Lars Kern. Fidani and Bell will once again contest the full WeatherTech Championship season, with Kern rejoining the squad for the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup ...Keep reading

Four-time Indy car champion Sébastien Bourdais and British motorsport icon Sir Stirling Moss headline the second group of inductees selected to the "Class of 75," an elite list honoring the most successful drivers in the history of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. The complete roster of 75 drivers is being revealed in five batches of 15 between September and January, leading up to the ...Keep reading

IndyCar driver and Fox Sports pit reporter Jack Harvey announced Tuesday morning that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
The 33-year-old Briton shared the news on social media, expressing determination to tackle the health challenge while keeping his professional motorsports goals on track for the upcoming season.
Harvey has balanced dual roles in recent years, spending the last two seasons ...Keep reading

How Rwanda has succeeded where Morocco and South Africa, among others, have failed by agreeing a deal to stage the African Grand Prix.

Valtteri Bottas was again hindered by Cadillac’s well-documented brake issues in Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix, although the veteran has described the problem as “almost solved”.
Brake overheating has been an issue throughout the season on the MAC-26, causing four retirements on top of the occasional loss of performance due to the required management.
F1’s new team brought ...Keep reading

Our Ask Me Anything team explain what 'papaya rules' are for F1 team McLaren.

Max Verstappen was in a class of his own in Singapore last weekend, as he finally claimed victory at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. But who else impressed our Power Rankings judges? Check out the latest scores and overall leaderboard below...

Jorge Martín managed to turn his weekend around at the Indonesian MotoGP Grand Prix. The Spanish rider lost the lead in the overall standings on Saturday, when a mistake by Aprilia in setting his tyre pressures and an error of his own whilst trying to reclaim the lead he had been forced to cede to Marc Marquez saw him drop to fourth place, whilst the reigning champion clinched victory in a ...Keep reading

Following initial smoothness tests on the oval and road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in August and September, IndyCar’s new IR-28 chassis officially faced its first true durability test on the grueling bumps of Sebring International Raceway.
On Monday, five-time and reigning IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou took the wheel for Honda-powered Chip Ganassi Racing, completing 43 laps ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has conceded it cannot improve its Formula 1 car handling characteristics ‘without fundamental changes’ that will not be possible until 2027.
While every F1 driver has needed to adapt to the new generation of cars and engines in order to extract the maximum performance, often applying unnatural or unusual techniques never used in their entire ...Keep reading

The Formula 1 paddock is a massive magnet for high-profile celebrities, but few A-list appearances have generated as much hilarious viral drama as Kim Kardashian's ongoing saga with Mercedes' Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
While attending the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix to support Scuderia Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, the reality TV billionaire ran into the young championship leader on the Singapore ...Keep reading

Every time a team principal looks mildly stressed on television, Formula 1 fans immediately open Photoshop and start pasting Christian Horner into their team kit.
Over the last few months, the Maranello rumour mill has gone into overdrive. Between Ferrari's messy strategy calls and Horner casually calling the Scuderia a "dream job" in an earlier interview, half the paddock seemed convinced he ...Keep reading

Adrien Fourmaux is confident of competing in the World Rally Championship next year despite uncertainty over his 2027 plans.
For the last two years, Fourmaux has been driving for the Hyundai factory team, although the Korean marque is yet to declare its pathway for next year. 
Hyundai has already ruled out building a new car built to the WRC27 technical regulations, but has invested in ...Keep reading

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi has rejected claims that its 2026 MotoGP bike has been developed too heavily around Marc Marquez, to the detriment of its other riders.
With just five rounds remaining in the season, Marquez is now the only Ducati rider inside the top-five in the standings, with VR46's Fabio di Giannantonio more than a 100 points adrift of him in sixth.
That is a striking ...Keep reading

Managing the immense pressure of a Formula 1 championship battle requires finding ways to disconnect between race weekends. For Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, unwinding ahead of the United States Grand Prix apparently involves taking one of the rarest, most expensive, and most aggressive road cars ever built for a casual drive through Casino Square.
Just days after a gruelling ...Keep reading

Classic Formula 1 cars are racing around the Port of Nice, and the footage doing the rounds on Instagram is the clearest look yet at how Bradley Cooper's Ocean's prequel plans to put motorsport on screen once again. As you can see, the working harbour has been transformed into an early-1960s European road course. If you wanted proof that this film is treating its racing seriously, this is ...Keep reading