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Fernando Alonso scored Aston Martin's first points since August with a P8 finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

Laurent Mekies has reflected on Max Verstappen’s triumph in the Bahrain Grand Prix, which marked the first win for Red Bull Ford Powertrains.

Oscar Piastri has given his take on an eventful Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, where McLaren appeared to lack the pace of some of their rivals.

Michael Lamonato assesses how Red Bull's upgraded RB22, unveiled in Baku, secured the team their first win of the season with Max Verstappen behind the wheel.

The Sepang International Circuit recorded the largest crowd in its history as 261,000 fans attended the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, with 103,000 visitors on race day.
After the Bahrain Grand Prix was postponed in April due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, it was rescheduled for 4 October, with Malaysia hosting the event.
The race weekend was the first time Formula 1 had ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta described the Japanese Grand Prix as his first “tough” race in a “really long time”, as a “strange” issue left him struggling in seventh place.
Fresh off his maiden MotoGP win at the Austrian Grand Prix, Acosta endured a relatively lacklustre weekend at Motegi, despite showing strong pace over a single lap to qualify on the front row.
Racing the hard rear tyre ...Keep reading

"72, mate! 72!", Verstappen said over the team radio immediately after crossing the finish line at the Sepang International Circuit.
It logically refers to the Dutchman’s number of Formula 1 victories, but this 72nd win prompted more emotion than many of the 71 that came before it. Of course, Verstappen has experienced much more special moments in his F1 career, and his previous victory in ...Keep reading

Koji Watanabe, the long-time boss of Honda's racing activities under HRC, will retire on 1 January 2027, with Keiichi Yasuda appointed as his successor.
A long-time Honda employee after first joining the Japanese marque in 1987, Watanabe became the head of Honda's racing division in 2022. In that time Watanabe oversaw the company's merger of its four-wheel and two-wheel divisions as well as its ...Keep reading

The restraint Marc Marquez has shown while celebrating his last two sprint podiums has led many to wonder about the reason behind his serious expression. The explanation lies in his explicit desire to avoid sharp swings in his adrenaline levels, allowing him to conserve his energy throughout a grand prix weekend.
Marquez’s attitude has changed as much as his daily routine since the ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen's victory at Sepang was an historic one. Twenty years from now, when a new generation of Formula 1 fans flicks through the history books, they may well wonder what a bizarre season 2026 must have been for the Bahrain Grand Prix to be hit by so much rain that the start had to be delayed.
But that's not what I mean.
It has been a very long time since a Ford engine last won an ...Keep reading

You know how you try to watch a series you like, but it’s sort of a boring episode with a lot of nothing going on – at least in the beginning – and you fall asleep in front of the TV? And have trouble sleeping through the night afterwards...
Well, that could have been one of the problems last night for Formula 1 fans around the world who had to endure an almost hour-long break in the ...Keep reading

A look at the killing of Damilola Taylor, shedding fresh light with new testimony.

Kyle Larson didn’t win the battle on Sunday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway but Kyle Larson and Cliff Daniels took a tremendous step towards winning the war with how they rallied in the South Point Casino 400.
Despite an awful first half, in which they scored only a single stage point, they nearly won the race and still extended their points lead to 40 at the halfway mark of the Chase for ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin had high expectations for Las Vegas, and it was hard not to after earning pole position in a Joe Gibbs Racing 1-2-3-4. Ultimately though, it was a day he'd like to soon forget.
He led the first 39 laps of the race, but after the first caution for Zane Smith spinning, Hamlin never returned to the lead. 
The decision to pit put him back outside the top five and left him needing ...Keep reading

The stage was set for Christopher Bell to jump up the Chase standings with a strong finish on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
After the top two drivers in the Chase, Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin, both struggled in the opening stretch of the race, the potential was there for Bell to gain ground and elbow his way into championship contention with a win at the South Point 400.
Instead, Bell ...Keep reading

Austin Cindric had another strong finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, taking fourth place in the South Point 400 to secure his second straight top-five of the Chase.
While Cindric was in the hunt for much of the race, it was Chase Briscoe who took the checkered flag with Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick the most threatening cars to take the win from him in the late laps.
Still ...Keep reading

No one can say Kyle Larson didn't give it his all in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He charged from fourth to second in the closing laps, and smashed into the wall on the final lap. Tyler Reddick was collected in the melee, but somehow, neither lost any positions.
Larson was ripping the top, trying to pull off a similar feat to his protégé Corey Day in Saturday's NASCAR ...Keep reading

Chase Briscoe held off late charges from Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick on Sunday to take the checkered flag at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The win was a meaningful one for Briscoe, as he had let a similar opportunity slip through his fingers last week at Kansas. In that race, Briscoe made a pass on Larson to take the lead with 30 laps left after the No. 5 had been dominating all day, only for ...Keep reading

After rallying back from one lap down to finish second, Kyle Larson extended his championship lead over Denny Hamlin from +26pts to +40pts as the 2026 NASCAR Cup Chase crosses the halfway point. Hamlin finished 16th after an early spin derailed his day.
Battling power steering issues, Christopher Bell finished 23rd but he remains third in the standings, now 55 points behind.
With his big win ...Keep reading

Chase Briscoe earned his seventh career NASCAR Cup Series win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, crossing the line 1.3 seconds ahead of Kyle Larson, but there's a lot more to the story than that.
On the final lap, Larson crashed into the wall at the exit of Turn 4, collecting Tyler Reddick in the process. Somehow, Larson limped across the line in second and Reddick spun through the infield grass ...Keep reading