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McLaren's Oscar Piastri is missing the pressure of fighting for the Formula 1 world championship amid what has been a difficult 2026 season.
The Australian led the drivers' standings for a lot of last year before he eventually finished third behind team-mate Lando Norris and Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Although he missed out on the championship last year, it was a successful end to the ground ...Keep reading

Audi's eighth place in the constructors' championship doesn't quite tally with the competitiveness of its car, but circumstances have contrived to keep the team falling short of the points in 2026. Between them, Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto have notched up ten 11th-place finishes.
Often the issue has been poor starting performance which costs the drivers track position away from the ...Keep reading

The question of what might happen in a wet race has vexed Formula 1's stakeholders since before the beginning of the season. It's also prompted some unnecessarily hysterical commentary throughout the year, peaking in the run-up to last weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, where rain for qualifying and the race was a virtual certainty for the first time this season.
Although the ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia has successfully undergone surgery to repair two fractures sustained in his right foot during Saturday's MotoGP sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix.
He will now begin his rehabilitation as soon as possible, with no definitive return date yet set. However, the initial target is to recover in time for the next round of the 2026 MotoGP season in Portimao on 20-22 November ...Keep reading

Lando Norris returned to the top step of the podium in Brazil, but what did the Sao Paulo Grand Prix signal in the markets ahead of the trip to Las Vegas?

 Daniel Ricciardo says Max Verstappen will "go down as one of the best ever", and admits he cannot comprehend what Red Bull has achieved in its first season building its own power units.
Ricciardo was Verstappen's team-mate at Red Bull from 2016 until the end of 2018, and is now an ambassador for Ford, whose partnership with Red Bull Powertrains made its race debut this season.
The ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch is the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver, joining Dale Earnhardt as the only drivers to ever win the award posthumously. Chase Elliott had won the award every year between 2018 and 2025, but withdrew his name from consideration and urged his fans to vote for Kyle this season.
On the red carpet for the NASCAR Award's banquet in Miami, his wife Samantha spoke about just how ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch is the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver, becoming just the second driver to ever win the award posthumously, joining fellow Richard Childress Racing driver and seven-time Cup champion Dale Earnhardt, who won the award after his death in a crash at the end of the 2001 Daytona 500.
Busch received 261,612 votes according to the NMPA, with Kyle Larson earning the second-most ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri says he misses the pressure of fighting for the Formula 1 world championship.
The McLaren driver led the standings for much of last year and was in a season-long battle against his team-mate Lando Norris for the title. A late-season challenge from Red Bull's Max Verstappen saw Piastri finish third in the standings, while Norris secured the title and Verstappen finished ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris has questioned Charles Leclerc's penalty after the Brazilian Grand Prix, which cost the Ferrari driver seventh place.
Leclerc tapped the left rear of Liam Lawson's Racing Bulls car at Turn 12 on the penultimate lap of the race at Interlagos. The Monegasque driver was handed a five-second penalty after the race, which dropped him behind Lawson to ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says he would walk away from Formula 1 if he ever stopped believing he was the best driver in the field.
The four-time world champion has not won the title since 2024, with Lando Norris taking the championship win last year and Kimi Antonelli wrapping up the 2026 championship in Mexico earlier this month.
But speaking to the media before the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Verstappen ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has been to see the aid operation at Egypt's border with Gaza, two days after racing at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
The seven-time world champion arrived in El Arish, in Egypt's North Sinai region, on Tuesday, and was met at the airport by the region's governor, Khaled Megawer.
The local governorate said he was shown around the Rafah crossing and the Egyptian Red Crescent's ...Keep reading

FOX Sports' Jamie Little will no longer appear in the broadcast booth as a play-by-play for the NASCAR Truck Series or ARCA Menard's Series. However, she will continue in her role as a pit reporter for NASCAR and IndyCar.
"Starting next season, my focus will be on the NASCAR Cup Series pit road and select IndyCar races," Little said in a statement on Tuesday. "My kids are still young and ...Keep reading

Various Ford stars from around the world will join together for a special charity race under the lights at Daytona International Speedway, taking place on Wednesday, November 11.
Six teams with some of the biggest names in Ford Racing will race to honor each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces as part of Veteran's Day, going head-to-head in Mustang Dark Horse Rs.
The race will take place from 8 ...Keep reading

For A.J. Foyt Racing, the 2026 season in the IndyCar Series was a textbook example of resilience through fluctuating form.
The legendary squad remained a persistent, hard-racing mid-field threat through a turbulent year. 
Santino Ferrucci once again spearheaded the #14 Chevrolet, with a challenging run that featured four top 10s en route to finishing 17th in the championship standings with ...Keep reading

NASCAR Cup Series start Ryan Blaney suffered an undisclosed injury on Monday evening, requiring medical attention. The Team Penske Ford driver just won the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, ending the year fourth in the final standings with four victories.
As a result of the fall, Blaney will skip Tuesday's end-of-the-year NASCAR Award's banquet, and has withdrawn from Wednesday's Ford ...Keep reading

Races like the Sao Paulo Grand Prix show everybody why Lando Norris is a World Champion, writes former Renault F1 driver Jolyon Palmer.

Find out who featured at the top of the Power Rankings table after the Sao Paulo Grand Prix weekend.

Mick Schumacher will head into his sophomore IndyCar campaign without undergoing surgery on his left wrist, opting instead to continue with conservative treatment and physical therapy.
The German driver, who has switched from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to Meyer Shank Racing for the 2027 season, had been managing the issue since the opening round of the year in St. Petersburg.
Following a ...Keep reading

In a July edition of Denny Hamlin's podcast, Actions Detrimental, Hamlin was speaking about the then-struggling Hendrick Motorsports.
"They need to have a Snickers," Hamlin said of HMS during the summer. "They've not been themselves in a while."
Well, after beating Hamlin and the rest of Joe Gibbs Racing to the championship in November, the No. 5 team took a photo with Kyle Larson, Jeff ...Keep reading