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Former Alpine Formula 1 team principal Otmar Szafnauer believes McLaren will establish itself as Mercedes' main rival by the end of the 2026 season.
Speaking on the High Performance Racing podcast alongside broadcaster Jake Humphrey, Szafnauer assessed the shifting competitive order at the front of the grid following Lando Norris's back-to-back wins at the Hungarian and Dutch Grands ...Keep reading

The details in a Formula 1 driver contract is highly-guarded information, but often the length of the deal is released to the wider world.
Here is how long each F1 driver contract is believed to be and therefore what moves could be possible and when in the future.
McLaren
Lando Norris – 2030
The reigning F1 world champion recently announced a new four-year contract with McLaren which ...Keep reading

What was supposed to be an entertaining evening ended in hospital for Ralf Schumacher on Saturday after the former Formula 1 driver was injured during TV entertainer Stefan Raab's celebrity jet ski world championship.
Schumacher suffered a shoulder injury in a crash and will now require surgery.
The event at the regatta course in Duisburg had started promisingly for Schumacher. In the ...Keep reading

Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner says Lewis Hamilton 'didn't help himself' with his frustrated team radio messages during the Dutch Grand Prix. 
The seven-time champion fumed on team radio, urging the Maranello outfit to allow him to pass team-mate Charles Leclerc, who was on a different strategy. When the team eventually called Leclerc into the pits, Hamilton claimed ...Keep reading

Over the past week, three-time Grammy Award winner Bradley Cooper and a major film crew have been filming in Monaco, shooting scenes for the upcoming Ocean's Eleven prequel.
With part of the story set against the backdrop of the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, the famous street circuit was transformed back to the 1960s between 24 and 28 August, with replica vintage Formula 1 cars on track.
The ...Keep reading

Former Alpine F1 racer and current Haas reserve Jack Doohan explains why seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher is his F1 idol.

Nigel Mansell drove a wide range of cars across his F1 career, from Lotus machines he struggled to qualify in to the Williams FW14B with which he ultimately claimed the Drivers’ World Championship title.

Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli tells F1.com’s Lawrence Barretto about how experience has benefitted him this season and what he is looking forward to about his home race at Monza.

When Toto Wolff held his annual media session with a select group of Dutch journalists at Zandvoort, one of the topics that came up was how a Formula 1 team can get the maximum out of a driver and, related to that, how much freedom a team principal should give a star driver.
The most recent example is Max Verstappen and the considerable freedom he is given at Red Bull, for instance with his ...Keep reading

Lando Norris insists he remains entirely confident that McLaren can successfully make the necessary changes to its current challenger to fight for the 2026 Formula 1 championship.
Speaking to Sky Sports after announcing his contract extension with McLaren until the end of 2030, the British driver discussed the Woking outfit's potential in its current championship campaign.
While McLaren ...Keep reading

Mercedes is deciding when George Russell will take an engine change penalty across the remainder of the 2026 Formula 1 season, with the team bracing for him to follow what Kimi Antonelli will face at the Italian Grand Prix.
The F1 world championship leader is poised to serve a back-of-the-grid penalty for a full power unit change at his home round at Monza due to unreliability earlier this ...Keep reading

Three-time Formula 1 champion Sir Jackie Stewart believes modern grand prix drivers can be more aggressive racers by taking advantage of the series' vastly improved safety standards.
Speaking in an interview with his grandson, Lucas Stewart, the 87-year-old reflected on his relentless push to improve motorsport safety during the 1960s and 1970s.
"They are more preventive in safety, but at ...Keep reading

 
The opening round of the WSK Final Cup at the Franciacorta Karting Track features approximately 320 entries across the MINI, OKNJ, OKN, OKJ, and OK categories, marking the first of three rounds that will conclude the season with two additional November events - featuring the addition of KZ2 - at the South Garda Karting in Lonato (22 November) and the Leonard Circuit Viterbo (29 ...Keep reading

Ryan Preece certainly enjoyed the new NASCAR Cup Series superspeedway package on Saturday night but of course he did.
“I mean, yeah, I won,” Preece said. “I like it. Did you like it?”
That’s a question better asked for his peers, starting with his team owner Brad Keselowski, who preceded him during post-race press conferences.
“Honestly, I could not tell a difference,” ...Keep reading

Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi will start the Aragon Grand Prix from pole position after beating reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez (Ducati) by just under a tenth of a second in qualifying.
The two title contenders will be joined on the front row of the grid by Gresini's Alex Marquez.
British GP winner Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse) will head the second row of the grid from the factory Aprilia ...Keep reading

The regular season is over, and Denny Hamlin sits atop the reset championship standings. Gone is his 89-point lead, replaced with a 25-point buffer. In fact, the entire top 16 is separated by just 100 points. Hamlin scored 1,027 points in the regular season before being reset to 2,100 as the No. 1 seed. 
Ryan Preece secured the 16th and final spot in the Chase standings after earning his first ...Keep reading

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas has unveiled a simulation of the new Adelaide street circuit, which will host the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix from next year.
The project, which is expected to be completed around November 2027, when the race is scheduled to take place, represents an investment of close to €60million (A$96m), Malinauskas revealed.
The circuit will be built in the ...Keep reading

It was going to be a big ask for Ryan Preece to make up 31 points on Shane van Gisbergen, especially since SVG won Stage 1 while Preece was sliding through the infield grass.
However, Preece fought back through the field and won the race -- his first victory in 249 career NASCAR Cup starts. The 'win and you're in' format may be gone, but the amount of points on offer for race wins was more ...Keep reading

Ryan Preece didn’t hear no bell.
It’s the end of the first stage and the No. 60 went from leading the race with a chance at 10 stage points to sliding across the grass and watching Shane Van Gisbergen win the segment instead.
Preece stayed in the gas and finished eighth, but it was still a significant swing in points, Preece going from a 31-point deficit to 38 points with three quarters ...Keep reading

When the white flag flew, Zane Smith was leading the NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona. Making his 107th career start at the top level of the sport, he was hoping to become the 210th different winner in Cup Series history. However, that ultimately went to Ryan Preece.
On the final overtime restart, Smith was leading with Ryan Blaney pushing. Ryan Preece restarted up top with Tyler Reddick ...Keep reading