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Oliver Bearman believes Haas cannot extract much more performance from its 2026 Formula 1 car, following the United States Grand Prix.
Bearman displayed encouraging Friday pace at the Circuit of The Americas, with 11th and 10th in the opening two free practice sessions, before slipping down the order – to the extent that he qualified just 16th.
The Briton explained this was down to finding ...Keep reading

Toprak Razgatlioglu has conceded he is going through "a difficult time" after his MotoGP season was ended early by shoulder surgery.
The Turkish rider was absent from the Australian Grand Prix and will miss the final rounds, including the important test scheduled in Valencia for 1 December, the first full test using bikes under the new 2027 regulations.
Razgatlioglu crashed during FP2 at ...Keep reading

We have looked at the betting markets for Qualifying at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and assessed the chances of the leading contenders for pole.

Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola delve into the upgrades Ferrari introduced at the United States Grand Prix.

Valtteri Bottas described the Cadillac Formula 1 team as struggling to understand its issues, after he retired from Sunday’s United States Grand Prix.
Bottas suffered his ninth retirement of the season at the Circuit of The Americas, a surprisingly high number for a driver whose pre-2026 DNF rate was 11%.
Of those nine, eight were linked to technical problems, and that was the case again ...Keep reading

The last MotoGP rider to find out where he would be racing next season was Diogo Moreira, who had to wait until the Japanese Grand Prix to receive confirmation that he would be joining Honda’s factory team. The Brazilian, already officially crowned this year’s best rookie, sat down with Motorsport.com at Phillip Island for an interview that reveals the ambition with which he is embracing his ...Keep reading

Lando Norris' new race team LN4 Fusion has been granted a place on the 2027 Formula 2 grid.
The squad has been selected as the only new team for the next three-year cycle, joining 10 incumbents from the beginning of next season.
When announced that the team had been created in September, Formula 3 and Formula 4 conquests were revealed but LN4 Fusion still faced an application process to join ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez has called on MotoGP to better protect its younger riders, warning that efforts to improve the spectacle have also increased the risk of injuries.
The Gresini rider made that comment during last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, where six of the 22 full-time riders were declared unfit to race, including four due to injuries.
His remarks also came amid mixed reactions ...Keep reading

One of the most remarkable moments on Sunday in Austin did not take place on the track itself, but rather in the Formula 1 paddock after the US Grand Prix. During the usual post-race media sessions, both Aston Martin and Red Bull’s representatives were asked about a subject that had very little to do with the race at the Circuit of the Americas – quite the opposite, in fact.
Both Aston ...Keep reading

Audi has announced Thomas Fuhr will become CEO of Audi Formula Racing GmbH, the Neuburg-based division developing its F1 power units.
Fuhr will sit at the head of the Neuburg plant as an addition to the current team, which Audi says will allow chief technical director Stefan Dreyer to "focus fully on leading the technical development of Audi’s Formula 1 power unit".
Meanwhile, COO ...Keep reading

The FIA has announced a wide-ranging partnership with Amazon Web Services as it aims to upgrade its digital capabilities.
AWS will join as its Official AI and Cloud Computing Partner, as the governing body will use AWS's suite of AI tools to improve its capability to produce future technical regulations.
The FIA also runs its aerodynamic simulations on AWS’s High Performance Computing ...Keep reading

At Talladega, Chevrolet got exactly what they wanted as Kyle Larson's five-point advantage in the championship ballooned up to +73pts after his first-ever superspeedway win.
Chevrolet drivers also managed to sweep the top six positions, and most impressively, did so with five different race teams. The manufacturer hasn't finished 1st through 6th in a Cup race since Phoenix Raceway in November ...Keep reading

Despite finishing on the podium, Max Verstappen was disappointed after the United States Grand Prix. Talking after the race, the Dutchman said his Red Bull team was "just a little average" as he faced the wrong tyre choice, power unit problems as well as radio issues.
The Dutchman finished third at the Circuit of the Americas, 17.5 seconds behind Kimi Antonelli, after winning the previous two ...Keep reading

NASCAR threatened a good portion of the field during the first stage of Sunday’s Cup Series race with a black flag if they did not pick up the pace and meet minimum speed.
In the name of fuel saving, everyone except the three RFK Racing drivers began puttering around the 2.66-mile superspeedway, and that triggered race control with automatic notifications of cars that were below minimum ...Keep reading

Mercedes chief Toto Wolff revealed a jibe at Pastor Maldonado that helped him get his place on the team, as the Austrian businessman gave a comparison between the star Mercedes drivers and the then-Williams driver.
Wolff was a shareholder and executive at Williams in 2012, when Maldonado took a surprising victory in the Spanish Grand Prix. At the time, Mercedes had won just once since returning ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 team chief Toto Wolff has rejected former Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko's claim that George Russell will never get another shot at the F1 title.
Russell currently sits 123 points behind his team-mate and current championship leader Kimi Antonelli in the drivers' standings.
While speaking to Sky Sports Deutschland ahead of the United States Grand Prix at the ...Keep reading

Former Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko has become an investor in an Austrian artificial intelligence start-up that lets people leave personal messages to be delivered to loved ones after they die.
The 83-year-old, who stepped down from his role at the Milton Keynes outfit at the end of last season after more than two decades with the company, was unveiled as a backer of Lebensstimmen ...Keep reading

Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has confirmed that the team is not in "serious conversations" when it comes to supplying another Formula 1 team with power units. This includes Aston Martin.
The Silverstone-based team has struggled with its power unit performance all season as its works partnership with Honda has been strained. Now, there are reports of Aston Martin potentially looking ...Keep reading

The telemetry inside the Mercedes garage after Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas pointed towards the Brackley squad waiting to pack up for a miserable, point-less weekend. The car was off the pace, the drivers were complaining about the balance, and the recent aerodynamic upgrades looked like a massive misstep.
Fast forward to Sunday afternoon, and 19-year-old Andrea Kimi Antonelli ...Keep reading

Carson Hocevar went behind the wall during the red flag with five laps to go in last weekend's NASCAR Cup event at Talladega, and somehow returned to the race without losing a single lap.
Now, teams cannot work on cars under the red flag, but the Spire Motorsports team still managed to get the No. 77 back into the race in time for the final restart, where they battled back to an impressive top ...Keep reading