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Red Bull Team Principal Laurent Mekies feels that the squad took a "step back" during a tough Dutch Grand Prix weekend, with Max Verstappen crashing out while substitute Liam Lawson claimed P7.

Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso has been branded the GOAT (greatest of all time) by fans following a points-paying finish at the Dutch Grand Prix.
After a challenging start to 2026 for Aston Martin, which resulted in four grand prix retirements for Alonso and seven for his team-mate Lance Stroll in the first half of the season, the Silverstone outfit introduced extensive upgrades at ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff says his squad "hasn't got the money" to develop its 2026 car as much as McLaren and Ferrari are doing.
Both McLaren and Ferrari have made significant progress in recent months by piling on upgrades to their respective cars, which has turned both into multiple race winners.
Meanwhile, a more conservative upgrade plan at Mercedes, with little ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has disagreed with Kimi Antonelli and George Russell for saying McLaren now boasts the best car in Formula 1 - arguing it’s his driving that’s making the difference.
The reigning world champion has won the last two grands prix – Budapest and Zandvoort – from pole thanks to a heavily-upgraded MCL40, which went winless in the opening 10 rounds.
Those early races in ...Keep reading

KTM has finally been able to 'revitalize' its MotoGP engines following reliability issues in the 2026 MotoGP season.
In a 'surgical' operation that began last Monday at the brand's engine production centre in Munderfing, just over three kilometres from Mattighofen, its engineers and technicians opened the engines that caused so many headaches during the first part of the season.
During the ...Keep reading

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has clarified what led to Lewis Hamilton’s radio outbursts during a tough Dutch Grand Prix weekend for the Formula 1 outfit.
The Scuderia finished off the podium for a second, consecutive race as Hamilton took fourth with team-mate Charles Leclerc in fifth – the reverse of Budapest – and it is clear what the defining moments were for Ferrari during Sunday’s ...Keep reading

Nico Hulkenberg admits that he was "a passenger" in his near-miss with Audi team mate Gabriel Bortoleto following the Brazilian's high-speed spin in the Dutch Grand Prix.

After a promising start, McLaren's Oscar Piastri slipped backwards to a lonely P6 finish in the Dutch Grand Prix.

Lando Norris made it back-to-back Grand Prix victories in 2026 with his triumph in the Dutch Grand Prix.

Alpine Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly has blamed his underwhelming Dutch Grand Prix result on Racing Bulls’ team tactics in Sunday’s race, amid their tight battle in the constructors’ championship.
Gasly was on form in Zandvoort, where he qualified and finished eighth in the sprint – ‘best of the rest’, in other words – although he took just 11th on the grid for the main race.
A ...Keep reading

Mercedes has officially decided its championship leader Kimi Antonelli will start from the back of the grid at the upcoming Italian Grand Prix after it decided to give the Italian a new power unit, exceeding his allowance for the year.
Drivers are allowed to use up to four power units for the season, but Mercedes' reliability woes over the first half of the campaign meant it has always been a ...Keep reading

Enea Bastianini will join Aprilia’s stable in the 2027 MotoGP season, racing for its satellite Trackhouse team.
In a series of coordinated announcements on Monday, Tech3 KTM said that Bastianini will leave the squad at the end of the year, before Trackhouse revealed that it has signed the Italian on a two-year deal.
The seven-time grand prix winner will take the place vacated by Ai Ogura ...Keep reading

On 31 August 2025, Oscar Piastri won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, while Lando Norris retired with an oil leak. Faced with that bitter disappointment, Norris said all he wanted to do was "grab a burger and go home". He was 34 points behind Piastri in the championship, and my own race report that day carried a headline asking whether Zandvoort had effectively decided the title.
What a ...Keep reading

Liam Lawson's third race at Red Bull was exactly what Red Bull would have wanted from Liam Lawson. Solid qualifying, right behind Max Verstappen. No big mistakes and strong pace in the race. Points. He finally proved he deserved to be in that seat...
It's just that his third race at Red Bull wasn't Suzuka in April 2025, but Zandvoort some 17 months later.
So, how should we interpret ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch's week started with some exciting news, as Hendrick Motorsports named him as the driver of its No. 48 Chevrolet for the 2028 NASCAR Cup season (NCS).
Unfortunately, the good news didn't carry over into the race weekend for the sole NCS Rookie of the Year candidate. Driving the No. 88 Trackhouse Chevrolet, Zilisch crashed out of the event after 222 laps of racing.
Zilisch was ...Keep reading

Sunday's NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway got off to an eventful start thanks to some wild weather.
Initially, the race's start was bumped up by an hour in an attempt to avoid some bad weather coming through the area. Instead, the bad weather decided to arrive early too, forcing the race to be delayed until close to its original start time.
After Carson Hocevar spun out on the ...Keep reading

Josh Berry has been very fast lately in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford, rising with the rest of Team Penske, whom they are closely aligned with.
But for Berry, it's not just about ending his 2026 season on a high note. The 35-year-old is racing for his future in the sport, as the Wood Brothers will replace him with Jesse Love in 2027.
Berry doesn't know what he'll be doing next year ...Keep reading

With just one perilous regular season race remaining at Daytona, the race to the Chase for the Championship looks like this:
Austin Cindric +44Shane Van Gisbergen +31--Ryan Preece -31Brad Keselowski -66
Let's go ahead and state the obvious. For Keselowski to get that last spot, he's going to need everyone above him to wreck out early and he's most likely going to need to win at ...Keep reading

Bubba Wallace matched his best finish of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, earning his second runner-up finish of the year.
It was almost a whole lot more, though, as Wallace closed in on eventual race winner Ryan Blaney in the final ten laps. With about five laps to go, Blaney got held up under the lapped car of Cole Custer, and Wallace was suddenly only a couple of ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell left New Hampshire with a strong fourth-place finish on Sunday, but the solid performance did not come without drama.
After a two-tire pit stop, Bell went to get back to racing, but his front-tire changer Blake Houston had not cleared out of his position, and wound up being knocked down by the No. 20 car.
It was a simple timing mistake, but that didn't make the scene any ...Keep reading