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Stefano Domenicali, President and CEO of Formula 1, has shared his thoughts on the 2026 season so far, as well as looking ahead to the sport's future plans.

Halfway through the 2026 Formula 1 season, the new technical regulations – with a much greater emphasis on electric power and energy management – continue to divide opinion among fans and drivers.
F1 says its fanbase has responded largely positively to the races so far, according to its Formula 1 Fan Voice programme. This consists of a group of 60,000 fans who rate the entertainment value ...Keep reading

Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali says the 2026 championship will end in Europe if the conflict in the Middle East makes it impossible to hold the season-closing races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

In arranging for Malaysia to host the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix, Formula 1 has creatively resolved one of the problems generated by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
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But two more are looming, as is the deadline for making a decision on them: Qatar and Abu Dhabi, the rounds currently scheduled after ...Keep reading

As a team owner and former racing driver, Vincent Vosse has always come across as a friendly and approachable figure in the sportscar paddock. The Belgian routinely makes time to talk to journalists about important matters, and has always shown openness to discuss controversial and heated topics. 
His answers are always direct and politically correct, even though the GT World Challenge Europe ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez believes the 2026 MotoGP title fight has been kept unusually close by frontrunners making more mistakes than in the past.
MotoGP is set for an intense championship battle in the second half of the season, with the top five riders in the standings separated by just 24 points ahead of next week’s British Grand Prix.
It is the closest points gap between the top five riders 11 ...Keep reading

To celebrate Fernando Alonso's birthday, let’s look back on some of the two-time World Champions funniest moments

There had been doubts over its speed on fast gravel rallies, but Hyundai Motorsport is confident it can challenge for podiums in Finland this week and at the remaining World Rally Championship rounds.
Fast gravel roads is where the Hyundai i20 Rally1 car has spent a fair chunk of its testing and development, with Finland the location of Hyundai's permanent test base since 2022. However, this ...Keep reading

Ferrari hasn’t quite had the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens would put it, so far in the 2026 Formula 1 season, but team principal Fred Vasseur still views the first 11 rounds of the year as following a twofold pattern.
Ferrari has held second in the constructors’ championship ever since the opening round of the campaign, but has been challenging Mercedes’ ...Keep reading

BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson analyses the five key things we've learned from the 2026 season so far.

Back in 2018, Kyle Larson got himself in a bit of trouble with the NASCAR community when he expressed a desire to retire from the Cup Series to pursue a full-time winged Sprint Car championship at some point before his 40th birthday.
He first teased the timeline during an interview on the Open Red podcast and then followed it up with this exchange on social media.
 
Naturally, there was ...Keep reading

This isn’t ordinary from Hendrick Motorsports but in fairness, Corey Day is no ordinary prospect.
The last time Rick Hendrick signed off on a multi-year development project of any kind was Chase Elliott in 2011. This was five years before the eventual 2020 champion even reached the Cup Series.
Prior to that, the only other recent examples of such endeavors were Landon Cassill in 2007 and ...Keep reading

After falling off the schedule from 2021 through 2023, the Brickyard 400 has been back as a NASCAR Cup race for the last three years now. However, some -- including third-generation racer Kyle Petty -- believe that it should not be counted among the crown jewel races of NASCAR.
Petty even took it a step further, noting that he was never in favor of NASCAR going to Indianapolis, even before the ...Keep reading

With a third team and fifth different driver standing on the top step of the podium in Budapest, the betting markets are about to get more competitive.

Mercedes have shared some more insight into George Russell’s disastrous start at the Hungarian Grand Prix, explaining how he was left with “much too little throttle” when the red lights went out “through no fault of his own”.

What a weekend for Lando Norris, who took his first victory as reigning champion in Budapest, on a weekend he put together almost perfectly.

Claiming a first World Rally Championship win won't make this week's homecoming Rally Finland "any easier", according to Sami Pajari, who said he cannot “underestimate the competition".
After dominating the first fast gravel event of the WRC season in Estonia, Pajari will now be viewed as one of the favourites to challenge for victory on home soil. The factory Toyota driver heads into the ...Keep reading

The IndyCar Series took a monumental step into its future with the first official look at the Dallara IR-28 - the brand-new chassis and aerodynamic package set to usher in a new era of open-wheel racing in 2028. Replacing the long-serving DW12 platform, the IR-28 features an aggressive visual overhaul, a purpose-built safety structure, significant weight reduction, and refined aerodynamics ...Keep reading

Corey Heim is a special driver, and I think we were already aware of that even before his recent Cup victories. He's won 26 Truck races in less than 100 starts, and toppled various records there en route to his 2026 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series title.
But there's always an adjustment period when a rising star moves up to Cup, right? Well, maybe not for Heim. 23XI Racing being a top-level team ...Keep reading

The excitement surrounding KTM's signing of Johann Zarco ahead of the 2019 MotoGP season was matched only by the shock created by his abrupt dismissal just a few months later, with the championship already underway, after the Frenchman accepted he could not adapt either to the RC16 or to the way the company operated.
The Zarco episode was the first clear indication of KTM's distinctive approach ...Keep reading