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The 20-year-old Italian is the youngest F1 world champion ever

The 20-year-old Italian is the youngest F1 world champion ever

We look at the betting odds and analyse the chances of the five drivers most likely to win at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace.

Having a podium-capable car means much less if you spend 71 laps hopelessly trapped in dirty air.
That was the reality for McLaren at the Mexico City Grand Prix. A difficult Saturday qualifying session left the Woking garage entirely on the back foot, completely negating the raw race pace of its machinery. Because the thin air at high altitude makes cooling a nightmare and aerodynamically ...Keep reading

The opening lap of the Mexico City Grand Prix featured an intense, intra-team battle within Ferrari.
Battling for the race lead, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton traded heavy, aggressive blows through the opening sequence of corners. The scarlet cars squeezed each other to the absolute limit, ultimately resulting in an off-track excursion and a time penalty for the Monegasque ...Keep reading

NASCAR Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer took to SiriusXM Radio on Tuesday to explain the rationale behind a pair of penalties to Carson Hocevar and Josh Berry for brake checking over the weekend at Martinsville Speedway.
First and foremost, the decision to issue the $100,000 fine to Hocevar and the $50,000 fine to Berry, plus 25 driver points each, came down to SMT data. NASCAR could ...Keep reading

Cadillac test driver Colton Herta will conduct his sixth Friday practice session of the Formula 1 season at this weekend's Brazil Grand Prix to collect his missing FIA superlicence point required to race in the series.
Herta, who has been building up for an F1 campaign with private testing, FP1 sessions and a troubled F2 campaign, needs 40 points to obtain the required FIA superlicence ...Keep reading

The Brackley garage experienced the absolute extremes of motorsport at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez. While the team successfully crowned the youngest world drivers' champion in Formula 1 history on Sunday, the engineering brass was simultaneously forced to publicly apologise to the other side of the garage for a mechanical failure.
Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin was quick to ...Keep reading

Spire Motorsports suspended Carson Hocevar earlier on Tuesday, preventing him from competing in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and now NASCAR itself has added its own punitive actions.
In response to the aggressive brake checking against Austin Cindric over the course of multiple laps on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR has fined Hocevar $100,000 and issued a 25-point ...Keep reading

F1 team Haas says Estaban Ocon will "no longer compete on its behalf in the 2026 world championship" after he was dropped for the Mexico Grand Prix.

As Lewis Hamilton gears up for this Sunday's Sao Paulo Grand Prix, he will be preparing to make his 400th Grand Prix start in Formula. To mark the milestone, F1.com revisits his first F1 test with McLaren as fellow Briton Alex Lloyd, who he tested alongside that day, recalls his first-hand account of the outing which kicked off Hamilton’s journey to seven world titles…

Rafael Camara’s F1 debut with Haas has been brought forward to the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Despite a great deal of progress over the past four years, the NextGen car remains a work in progress regarding how it races on short tracks and specifically one like Martinsville Speedway.
With each Goodyear tire softening effort, aerodynamic tweak or horsepower increase, the Sanctioning Body is still trying to reproduce something similar to what the Gen6 produced or even the O’Reilly Series ...Keep reading

The Haas F1 team has decided Esteban Ocon will not race again for the squad, with 2027 debutant Rafael Camara getting an early debut this weekend on home soil.
Following increasingly strained relations between Ocon and the team, a heated argument in Mexico proved the final straw that made team principal Ayao Komatsu decide to bench the Frenchman. Reserve driver and Toyota protege Ryo Hirakawa ...Keep reading

Carson 'Hurricane' Hocevar has been the story of the 2026 season, making headlines almost every week.
Some of those moments were positive, like his epic Talladega win and post-race celebration, or his fan outreach and incredible merchandise sales. He made the Time 100 list for 'Most Influential People in Sports' and even attended the Met Gala.
However, there's been plenty of negativity as ...Keep reading

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has explained how “different” it felt watching Kimi Antonelli become Formula 1 world champion compared to his record-breaking years with Lewis Hamilton.
Antonelli clinched his maiden title in Mexico on Sunday to become F1’s youngest ever world champion at the age of only 20, thanks to a dominant 2026 with four rounds still remaining.
The Italian achieved it in ...Keep reading

Will Lamborghini stalwart team Grasser and star driver Mirko Bortolotti switch to McLaren in 2027? There has been speculation about it in the DTM paddock for weeks - and now colleagues at MOTORSPORT aktuell have also reported on a potential brand switch by the team to McLaren.
According to information from Motorsport-Total.com, this scenario is very likely despite Grasser's 12-year Lamborghini ...Keep reading

Carson Hocevar will not take part in this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Spire Motorsports -- not NASCAR -- have taken action against their own driver, suspending him for one race.
Controversy has followed Hocevar all season, and last weekend at Martinsville, he intentionally brake-checked Austin Cindric multiple times until he delivered race-ending damage to ...Keep reading

Lone Star Racing is stepping up to a full-time campaign in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class for the 2027 season, expanding beyond its long-standing role as an Endurance Cup entry.
The Texas-based squad, founded by Dan Knox and led by A.J. Petersen, will field the #80 Mercedes-AMG GT3 for rising Dutch talent Lin Hodenius and Irish sports car and ...Keep reading

After Ayrton Senna's Honda NSX was sold at auction, we look at some of the remarkable road cars with links to Formula 1 legends that have gone under the hammer.