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Following on from McLaren’s 1966-inspired livery for the British Grand Prix, F1.com takes a look at some of our favourite throwback designs.

A host of familiar faces will be driving some iconic cars at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend.

Martins Sesks and Teemu Suninen joined Lancia for a development test in Finland to help the Italian brand optimise its new Ypsilon Rally2 car for upcoming gravel rallies. 
Lancia headed to Finland’s fast gravel roads this week to prepare for the World Rally Championship’s visit to the nation, which will host round 10 of the championship (30 July- 2 August. That rally will also mark the ...Keep reading

Johann Zarco will have to serve a double long lap penalty when he finally returns to MotoGP action following his heavy crash at the Catalan Grand Prix in May. 
The sanction was announced ahead of this weekend's German Grand Prix, which will be the fifth successive race the injured Zarco has missed since the Barcelona incident.
Zarco, who is targeting a September return to racing aboard the ...Keep reading

What is the secret of Nicki Thiim at the Norisring? The Comtoyou driver took both pole positions and both race wins at his favorite track in his Aston Martin - the same venue where he had celebrated his only DTM victory until then in the SSR Lamborghini in 2024. And he did so despite a Balance of Performance (BoP) adjustment on Sunday and success ballast in the second race. This was last achieved ...Keep reading

Toyota’s Gazoo Racing arm has announced plans to field a hydrogen-powered prototype in the 2027 Dakar Rally.
Christened the DKR GR FC Hilux, the car incorporates fuel cell technology into the pick-up that has become the benchmark in the World Rally-Raid Championship. 
It will be entered in the Dakar Future Mission 1000 category, which is reserved for experimental vehicles and new ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell has warned that Formula 1 drivers face a completely unpredictable challenge when there is finally a wet race this season, admitting it is virtually impossible to properly prepare for running the 2026 machinery in wet conditions.
Russell was speaking following a dramatic but dry British Grand Prix at Silverstone, where he salvaged a second-place finish despite ...Keep reading

Germany will play host to the final round before MotoGP's now traditional summer shutdown.
Marc Marquez is easily the most successful grand prix rider at the Sachsenring, having won 12 races at the 3.6km venue across all classes. The track's anti-clockwise layout is expected to play to his strengths again, making him the favourite for victory this weekend.
Further, the Ducati rider arrives ...Keep reading

KCMG has announced an unusual car-sharing arrangement involving Giuliano Alesi and Seita Nonaka for next week’s Super Formula triple-header at Fuji Speedway.
The Toyota-powered team revealed on Thursday that Alesi, the son of Formula 1 cult hero Jean, will drive the team’s #9 car for Rounds 6 and 7, while Nonaka will contest Sunday morning’s sprint race, the replacement for the cancelled ...Keep reading

The recurring questions about when Pato O’Ward could make the leap to Formula 1 will come to an end, as the Arrow McLaren team driver in IndyCar revealed on Conor Daly's Speed Street podcast that aspirations of reaching the great circus are no longer on his radar, so his objective is completely in the American-based IndyCar Series."I’m grateful for the experiences and everything I’ve learned ...Keep reading

Earlier in the weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, when asked about his championship chances under the new Chase for the Championship format, Chase Briscoe said he would need to start winning in bunches.
Why?
After running thousands of simulations, NASCAR stated that nearly 70 percent of eventual champions started the final 10 races from inside the top five. That is because the top-16 in the ...Keep reading

Giancarlo Fisichella carried the mantle for Italian drivers in Formula 1 from the mid-nineties through to the late noughties. He won three races in that time and was the last Italian Grand Prix winner until Kimi Antonelli ripped up the record books at the start of 2026.

Ultimately, NASCAR Cup Series managing director Brad Moran said the sanctioning body didn’t see anything that quite arose to a penalty regarding the various on-track incidents involving Shane Van Gisbergen, Austin Hill, Zane Smith and Carson Hocevar on Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.
On Lap 48, Hill was spun hard into the wall off the nose of Van Gisbergen, and the Richard Childress Racing ...Keep reading

Spire Motorsports announced that Chase Elliott will drive the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado at North Wilkesboro, making his first start in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series since the 2023 season-opener at Daytona. HendrickCars.com will sponsor the effort.
This race was scheduled to be one of Kyle Busch's 2026 Truck appearances with Spire, before his unexpected passing last month.
The No. 7 Spire ...Keep reading

Cadillac entered the world of F1 this season fully aware of what a tough ask it is to be competitive in such a fast-moving sport. They expected to be at the back initially – and while that has proven largely true, the team have already shown real signs of progression.

Although Red Bull topped the initial internal combustion engine rankings – something that is partly due to how each manufacturer has chosen to run its power unit during the opening Formula 1 races of 2026 – the newcomer still appears to be lacking on the electrical side.
According to Max Verstappen, that becomes particularly apparent at energy starved circuits, where energy management plays ...Keep reading

Tech3 CEO Guenther Steiner has explained why MotoGP's current fixed-fee arrangement with manufacturers will remain in place, despite all five bike brands pushing for a share of the championship's profits.
The MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group (MotoGP SEG), along with Ducati, Aprilia, KTM, Honda and Yamaha, recently agreed a new commercial contract for the years 2027 to 2031.
The contract was ...Keep reading

This week, two moments of apparent payback have dominated discourse in the NASCAR world, with Shane van Gisbergen vs. Austin Hill and Zane Smith vs. Carson Hocevar. No penalties were issued for other moment of frustration.
In Zane's situation, he actually ended up wrecking himself in the process of bumping Hocevar into the wall, and ultimately finished behind the driver who drew his ...Keep reading

Last weekend’s British Grand Prix victory was almost a moment of relief for Charles Leclerc, who had been looking for answers to the set-up changes introduced after the sprint in an effort to regain the feeling he had lost with the SF‑26. It is a win that carries a far deeper meaning than his smile on the podium suggests, as his gaze settles on a trophy almost weighted by the difficult weeks ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell has insisted that he "didn't really lose faith" during a challenging start to his 2026 campaign.
While the British driver won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese sprint race, he endured a series of unlucky moments as his teenage team-mate Kimi Antonelli took the championship lead.
After winning the sprint race in Shanghai, he faced car ...Keep reading