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Cadillac made its debut in front of its home fans at the Miami Grand Prix, but what was the reception to Formula 1's newest team?

Pol Espargaro says Guenther Steiner was left puzzled by MotoGP’s approach to injured riders, admitting he “doesn’t understand” why bikes can remain in the garage during a race weekend.
Tech3 rider Maverick Vinales was forced to miss last month's Spanish Grand Prix after undergoing surgery on his shoulder to recover a loose screw. No replacement could be finalised in the build-up to the ...Keep reading

McLaren F1 team boss Andrea Stella thinks further changes to the power unit regulations are still required, but the timelines involved are pushing any tweaks to 2028 rather than next year.
F1 recently agreed on a first set of refinements to improve the qualifying spectacle and reduce the extreme closing speeds seen over the first few races of the 2026 rules era. Last weekend's Miami Grand Prix ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Laurent Mekies isn’t concerned about Isack Hadjar’s tough Miami Grand Prix, as he felt mistakes on both sides contributed to his nightmare weekend.
Having struggled to match Max Verstappen’s pace in the upgraded Red Bull F1 car, Hadjar qualifying and finishing in ninth place in the Miami sprint while the Dutch driver qualified and finished in fifth, the ...Keep reading

NASCAR has taken action against Ryan Preece following the incident between him and Ty Gibbs on Sunday in the Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
Preece, the driver of the No. 60 RFK Racing Ford, was issued a $50,000 fine and the deduction of 25 driver points under Sections 4.3 and 4.4.A in the NASCAR Rule Book, which detail ‘wrecking or spinning another vehicle, whether or not that ...Keep reading

Joe Gibbs Racing is asking the Western District of North Carolina and the Judge (Susan C. Rodriguez) overseeing the case to allow an amended refiling of its lawsuit against Chris Gabehart and Spire Motorsports.
This second proposed amended lawsuit now claims that the success Spire has obtained this season in the NASCAR Cup Series is a result of hiring Gabehart as ‘Chief Motorsports ...Keep reading

In addition to his full-time NASCAR Cup Series schedule, Carson Hocevar will also chase points in the FloRaing Night in America Dirt Late Model championship this summer.
The FNIA series is a star-studded midweek Super Late Model championship that avoids conflicts with both the World of Outlaws and Lucas Oil Dirt late Model Series for 11 races at 10 venues to air on streaming platform ...Keep reading

Josh Williams was initially slated to drive the No. 92 DGM Racing Chevrolet in this weekend's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS) race at Watkins Glen International. 
Williams has been driving the car in every NASCAR O'Reilly race this year (but DNQed at COTA and Phoenix), and sits 28th in the standings.
However, DGM announced on Tuesday that Williams will not be driving the car at ...Keep reading

After two seasons in the World Endurance Championship, Valentino Rossi has stepped away from the series, and while it's a loss for some fans BMW believes the series is more than capable of absorbing that loss.
Rossi’s raced for BMW's customer WRT team in the LMGT3 category in both 2024 and 2025, but was absent from the entry list this year. The MotoGP legend had become a major crowd-puller ...Keep reading

Former F1 Driver Jolyon Palmer assesses how George Russell will respond following Kimi Antonelli's barnstorming Miami weekend.

Kimi Antonelli converted his third successive pole position into a third successive Grand Prix win at the Miami International Autodrome. But who else joined him in the top half of the Power Rankings charts? Check out the latest scores and overall leaderboard below...

After a tough start to the 2026 Formula 1 season, McLaren was back on form in Miami with drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finishing the race in second and third respectively. But that might not have been enough for the reigning world champion, who questioned whether his team had “maximised everything” in Florida.
The fourth round of the 2026 campaign saw McLaren roll out a raft of ...Keep reading

Photos of a distressed Maverick Vinales published on social media this weekend hinted at bad news regarding his return at the French MotoGP. Now, after undergoing surgery in early April to remove a screw that had been fixing his left shoulder, the Tech3 rider has been advised to miss the race at Le Mans.
After undergoing surgery related to the injury he sustained last July, Vinales’ first ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli is currently the standout figure in Formula 1 – and he is rewriting the series’ record books. While drivers before him had managed to secure either their first three pole positions in succession or their first three grand prix victories in succession, no one had ever combined both streaks. Antonelli has now achieved exactly that.
“It's a cool stat,” ...Keep reading

Red Bull made a significant step forward during the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix weekend. Max Verstappen’s fifth place on Sunday does not fully reflect the overall picture, but that result is mainly due to his spin on the opening lap, and the early pit stop that followed.
In terms of pure pace, Red Bull made a much stronger impression than in Japan, where Verstappen did not even make it into ...Keep reading

Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has reflected on the Miami Grand Prix as the team show signs of progress.

The Italian teenager is the new favourite to win the Drivers’ Championship, but can he handle the pressure at the top?

Jay Penske’s eponymous squad looks set to remain in Formula E following the departure of DS Automobiles, with an announcement regarding its Gen4 plans expected soon.
The American business magnate has been part of the all-electric championship since its inception in 2014, with the team that was originally known as Dragon Racing evolving into the factory DS Penske squad in 2021.
However ...Keep reading

Former MotoGP and WorldSBK star Andrea Iannone will return to full-time competition in the new FIM Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup, a support series that features races across six MotoGP weekends.
The FIM Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup debuted this season as its own championship within the programme at MotoGP grands prix. The first event took place at the United States GP and saw nine ...Keep reading

Ott Tanak taking on a role to help develop Toyota’s 2027 World Rally Championship car will provide useful information and reduce workload for the team's current drivers, says Sebastien Ogier.
Toyota has enlisted the services of 2019 world champion Tanak to help carry out valuable testing and develop the Japanese brand's all-new car built to the WRC’s new technical regulations that will ...Keep reading