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Williams has added ex-Mercedes Formula 1 engineer Dan Milner to its senior leadership team, as he steps into the role of chief engineer of vehicle technology to oversee the team's car development programmes. 
Milner left Mercedes earlier this year having spent 14 years at the team, most recently as the chief engineer of research and development. 
He also held previous roles leading the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 feeder series Formula 2 will join the weekend schedule at May's grands prix in Miami and Canada, F1 and governing body the FIA have jointly confirmed.
Like F1, F2 was scheduled to run in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia this month, rounds which have been called off due to the US-Israel war on Iran.
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2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin has revealed that Mercedes plans to give her a private test in a Formula 1 car. 
The French driver, who was backed by the Brackley outfit throughout her campaign in the all-female racing series, signed with Mercedes as a development driver in 2026. 
After impressing during her simulator duties, Pin revealed that the plan was for her to test an F1 ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports analyst Martin Brundle has argued that while Max Verstappen's exit from the championship would be a huge loss, F1 would "move on".
The four-time champion has hinted that he could retire from F1 earlier than expected after failing to enjoy the new regulations. He is under contract with Red Bull until the end of 2028, but could activate a performance clause ...Keep reading

Ford says it may wait until the end of the year before finalising the remainder of the driver roster for its 2027 Hypercar programme in the World Endurance Championship.
The American manufacturer has so far signed just three names for its return to the top echelon of sportscar racing, with Logan Sargeant, Sebastian Priaulx and Mike Rockenfeller leading development of its as-yet-unnamed LMDh ...Keep reading

Ollie Bearman has been a standout performer in 2026 for Haas so far, but the Briton has strong links with Ferrari.

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Red Bull's Gianpiero Lambiase, Max Verstappen's race engineer, agrees to join McLaren from 2028.

Aleix Espargaro suffered a serious crash last Tuesday in Sepang, where he was on track with the entire Honda MotoGP test and development team. The Spanish rider posted a photo and an explanation of what happened on his social media.
"On Tuesday, during the test here in Sepang, I suffered a very serious crash,” he explained in the post.
“As a result, I had several contusions and four ...Keep reading

Choose what you think is the best-looking F1 car in history from our shortlist of 13, spanning the 1950s to 2025.

Lance Stroll says Aston Martin’s ongoing woes in Formula 1 played a role in his decision to enter this weekend’s GT World Challenge Europe event at Paul Ricard.
The Canadian will take advantage of an unexpected gap on the F1 calendar to contest the opening GTWCE Endurance Cup event of 2026, driving Comtoyou Racing’s Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo with Roberto Merhi and Mari Boya. It will ...Keep reading

Red Bull driver Isack Hadjar says Formula 1 overtakes are now possible with similar pace, while they previously required the attacking car to be much faster.
F1’s new power unit era features more electrical power and therefore a much greater emphasis on energy management.
In turn, energy management means drivers get to overtake much more easily as they slow down earlier before corners, and ...Keep reading

Harry Benjamin, Alice Powell & Andrew Benson answer your questions.

Harry Benjamin, Alice Powell and Andrew Benson tackle your questions in this Q&A special.

In a Wednesday night legal filing, Spire Motorsports and co-owner Jeff Dickerson responded to Joe Gibbs Racing’s motion for expedited fact discovery with retorts that the Toyota flagship organization’s posture has devolved into a series of hypotheticals.
“In a case that is supposed to be about JGR’s ‘crown jewels’ and ‘secret sauce,’ JGR’s primary focus in the preliminary ...Keep reading

Overall, Chris Gabehart, through his legal counsel, is objecting to the latest expedited discovery motions made to the court from former employer Joe Gibbs Racing but also says he is making efforts to recover the deleted texts with Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson at the center of the latest legal wrangling.
Big picture, the Gabehart legal team wants these latest series of motions denied because ...Keep reading

A first Ferrari podium for Hamilton, but Mercedes’ strong start to the season has seen his chances dip.

Richard Bowman has been named NASCAR's first director of Artificial Intelligence. 
"Excited to share that I’m now Director, AI at NASCAR," Bowman said in a Linkedin post. "Even in my relatively short time here, it has been clear that this is an organization willing to engage seriously with both the opportunities and responsibilities that come with AI. I’m grateful for the chance to help ...Keep reading

Legacy Motor Club has confirmed Michael Guttilla  as the team's new president, effective immediately. 
Guttilla has two decades of experience working with the global engineering firm, Multimatic. He filled the role of  Vice President of Engineering and R&D and Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing. His career also took him to General Motors and Mechanical Dynamics Inc.
Most recently ...Keep reading

NASCAR now has a five-year sample size of data that concluded there is no doubt a better way to do superspeedway racing using the NextGen car but it needs to determine a pathway of getting there.
In the short term, the Sanctioning Body is adjusting stage lengths to combat fuel saving strategies used by teams since the debut of this car, but it will also target regulation changes during a winter ...Keep reading