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George Russell says Formula 1 "would not want to lose" Max Verstappen - but would "understand" if the four-time world champion decided to leave the sport.

Following the postponement of the Qatar 1812km, the 2026 World Endurance Championship season gets underway at Imola. It was at the Italian circuit that factory BMW driver Robin Frijns secured his best Hypercar result in 2025, finishing second.
During this week's Prologue — also held at Imola due to the war in the Middle East — the updated BMW M V8 Hybrid showed strong pace with the ...Keep reading

Nigel Mansell has praised Lewis Hamilton for his work at Ferrari, claiming the seven-time Formula 1 champion is "fired up again" after a difficult first year with the squad.
Hamilton joined Ferrari in 2025 after a 12-year stint with Mercedes, during which he won six of his seven titles. While his first year at the Maranello outfit proved troublesome as he adjusted to the new team, the Briton ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen says he fully backs race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase's future move to McLaren and says Lambiase had discussed his Red Bull exit with him before agreeing to it.
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The Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola will open the 2026 World Endurance Championship on 17-19 April.
With the Qatar 1812km moved to later in the year due to the Iran War, the season will now get underway with three European races in quick succession.
Ferrari is the favourite for victory at its home race after a dominant 2025 campaign in which it won both WEC titles and ...Keep reading

Twenty five years ago Ralf Schumacher scored his first F1 victory, in San Marino, making a little bit of history for himself and BMW Williams, but just how good a driver was Michael's younger brother?

1976 F1 World Champion James Hunt was never one to play by the rules, as his fashion pushed back against the expectations placed on F1 drivers at the time.

Red Bull have announced a series of organisational changes within their technical department.

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Few would dispute that Marco Bezzecchi is the rider to beat in the 2026 MotoGP season, with Aprilia now having the reference bike on the grid ahead of Ducati.
The numbers speak for themselves. Riding the factory Aprilia RS-GP, the Italian has won the last five full-length races in the premier class, taking victory in the final two grands prix of 2025 and all three held so far in 2026. In ...Keep reading

Sky Sports Formula 1 analyst Martin Brundle has claimed that George Russell will be concerned about his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli. 
The Italian driver took the lead in the drivers' standings after his second win at the Japanese Grand Prix, becoming the youngest driver in the history of the championship to do so. 
While Russell started the season off on a high note, winning both ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and current Sky Sports analyst Karun Chandhok believes that Red Bull's senior leadership, including team principal Laurent Mekies, faces a big challenge to bring an end to "brain drain" within the team. 
The Milton Keynes outfit has suffered a number of high-profile exits in recent years, including Adrian Newey, Jonathan Wheatley, Helmut Marko and Rob ...Keep reading

2007: Grosjean wins F3 Euro Series title
Romain Grosjean’s promising early career, with a French Formula Renault title as a sophomore in 2005 earning him a spot in the Renault Driver Development academy. He graduated to the F3 Euro Series with the Signature outfit, taking 13th as a rookie.
In 2007, he joined the dominant ASM (now ART) squad, where his team-mates were Kamui Kobayashi, Nico ...Keep reading

BBC Sport explores the financial reality of two drivers with experience of trying to climb the motorsport ladder to reach Formula 1.

Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell is feeling confident for the upcoming Miami Grand Prix after the April break has proved a "good reset" for him. 
The Briton suffered two troublesome race weekends at the Chinese and Japanese Grands Prix. While he won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese sprint race, he finished second and fourth in the aforementioned grands ...Keep reading

Red Bull Racing has recruited Racing Bulls' deputy technical director Andrea Landi into a senior position, with Dan Fallows now starting his role as the sister team's technical director.
On Friday, Red Bull announced it had promoted its long-time head of performance engineering Ben Waterhouse into a more senior role. Waterhouse moves to the position of chief performance and design engineer ...Keep reading

There is a massive sense of anticipation at Peugeot's World Endurance Championship squad for the coming 2027 season. That is when further Evo jokers are finally expected to eliminate the remaining weaknesses of the 9X8 - remnants of an unfortunate timeline of events from the project's early phases in 2020, including the LMH-LMDh convergence.
But before then, a full season remains on the ...Keep reading

Kai Allen has written his name into the Supercars history books by taking out the first of four races at Ruapuna Park, near Christchurch in New Zealand.
In the 37-lap race held over from last Sunday’s cyclone-affected Taupo meeting, the 20-year-old steered his Grove Racing Ford Mustang to a narrow 0.742s win.
He held out 2023 champion and points leader Brodie Kostecki (Dick Johnson ...Keep reading

1992 Formula 1 champion Nigel Mansell has urged George Russell to "stamp the authority" within Mercedes after his team-mate Kimi Antonelli took the lead of the drivers' standings. 
Russell had a commanding start to the season, winning the Australian Grand Prix and Chinese sprint race. But after two troublesome grands prix in China and Japan, and two wins for his team-mate, the Italian driver ...Keep reading

Despite being yet to score points this season, there are several reasons to back the German driver.