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Laurin Heinrich snatches Laguna Seca win with last-lap pass after epic duel

Motorsport - 22 hours 56 min ago
Laurin Heinrich put on a furious charge that ended with a last-lap pass to win it for customer outfit JDC-Miller MotorSports at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
The 24-year-old German chased down Whelen Cadillac’s Earl Bamber and the two battled, with the race-winning sequence happening with a brave move in Turn 3 that kept them side-by-side before Heinrich secured the top spot in Turn 5 ...Keep reading

Official race results: NASCAR Cup 2026 at Texas Motor Speedway

Motorsport - 23 hours 8 min ago
Chase Elliott led 87 of 267 laps (more than any other driver) to win Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. He beat Denny Hamlin and Alex Bowman in a four-lap sprint to the checkered flag.
11 different drivers led laps during the race, which featured several incidents as well. In the end, 20 cars finished on the lead lap and four drivers (Heim, Gibbs, Logano, Bell) recorded ...Keep reading

Lionel Messi congratulates Kimi Antonelli after Miami GP win

Motorsport - 23 hours 23 min ago
Football legend Lionel Messi congratulated Kimi Antonelli in the Mercedes hospitality unit after his Miami Grand Prix triumph.
The Italian driver delivered another strong performance around the Miami International Autodrome, converting his third pole position of the 2026 Formula 1 season into his third win.
Mercedes shared a video of the 19-year-old back with the team as he recovered from ...Keep reading

Chase Elliott holds off Denny Hamlin to win Texas NASCAR Cup race

Motorsport - 23 hours 24 min ago
Hendrick Motorsports now has two wins in the 2026 season, and both are courtesy of Chase Elliott. The driver of the No. 9 HMS Chevrolet now has 23 career wins, and his second Texas win in the last three years.
He finished just ahead of Denny Hamlin in second and Alex Bowman in third. Tyler Reddick, who was charging with two fresh right-side tires, finished fourth, with Chris Buescher ...Keep reading

Martin Brundle Miami GP grid walk goes viral with bizarre Jimmy Fallon moment

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 23:44
Martin Brundle's Sky Sports grid walk ahead of the Miami Grand Prix has gone viral on social media after a bizarre interview with The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.
As the former Formula 1 driver weaved his way through the Miami GP grid, he was met with an excited Fallon, who instantly recognised him. But when Brundle asked Fallon for some funny comments, the American took the microphone from ...Keep reading

Antonelli 'stupendous' and Leclerc's 'lairy final lap' - driver ratings

Formula 1 at the BBC - Sun, 2026-05-03 23:33
BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator Harry Benjamin rates how the drivers performed during the Miami Grand Prix.

Why Liam Lawson wasn't penalised for flipping Pierre Gasly in Miami GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 23:24
Liam Lawson has avoided a penalty for clashing with Pierre Gasly during the Miami Grand Prix because his Racing Bulls suffered a gearbox failure moments before the crash.
On lap five Gasly went to overtake Lawson into the Turn 17 hairpin and was hit by the Racing Bulls driver, sending the Alpine into a flip and landing partly on the barriers. Both drivers were OK but retired from the race due ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen given penalty for crossing pit exit at F1 Miami GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 23:04
Max Verstappen has been handed a five-second penalty for crossing the pitlane exit line at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix but retains his fifth place due to an even bigger penalty for Charles Leclerc.
Verstappen, who had dropped down the order after spinning at the start, made an early pitstop on lap 6, capitalising on an early safety car that had come out for the separate accidents of Isack ...Keep reading

How AO Racing created “Sketchy”, the latest dinosaur Porsche fan favourite

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 23:02
Finding AO Racing on the starting grid of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is easy: Just go the biggest crowd. Albeit only in its fourth year, Rexy and her pink sister Roxy have captured the hearts of millions of fans.
At Laguna Seca, it was time to welcome the latest creation from PJ Hyett and Gunnar Jeanette: Sketchy, a character with a white base and frazzling lines that represent ...Keep reading

After lucky escape, Joey Logano’s car gets destroyed in pit road incident

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 22:45
Joey Logano went from feeling immense relief after a lucky escape to seeing his race end on the slowest part of the race track: pit road. 
The defending Texas winner was running up inside the top 15 when William Byron went spinning in front of him. Byron got on the throttle, keeping his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet off the wall, but also bringing it back down the track in front of ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc handed huge Miami GP penalty after battle with Max Verstappen and George Russell

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 22:38
Charles Leclerc has been handed a 20-second post-race time penalty for a last-lap incident at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix.
Leclerc suffered a high-speed spin on the final lap of the Miami race, avoiding a huge accident but still suffering front-left car damage after tapping the Turn 3 wall.
As a result Leclerc lost a podium finish to Oscar Piastri, and he then desperately attempted to ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell wrecks from lead in Stage 1 at Texas, ending his race

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 22:14
Christopher Bell started Sunday's race in seventh place, and after the first pit stop cycle, he found himself in position to challenge for the race lead.
Battling his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, he took the lad and led several laps. As he encountered heavier lapped traffic in the final 15 laps of the stage, Denny Hamlin got back alongside him and they battled back-and-forth.
While those two ...Keep reading

Isack Hadjar explains how he went from “flying” to hitting the wall in Miami GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-03 22:08
Isack Hadjar felt he was “flying” during the opening laps of the Miami Grand Prix and that speed lured him into losing focus and crashing out early on.
The Red Bull driver was forced to start from the pitlane after being kicked out of qualifying for his car floorboards being too big, a mistake the team owned up to and apologised to the French driver before the race.
Read ...Keep reading

Verstappen admits regret over strategy call in Miami

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc over the line to P5 in a dramatic conclusion to the Miami Grand Prix.

Gasly and Lawson explain their Miami GP collision

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Pierre Gasly was flipped upside down following contact with Liam Lawson in the Miami Grand Prix.

Watch the highlights from Miami as Antonelli beats Norris

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Kimi Antonelli recovered from a chaotic opening lap to clinch his third Grand Prix win of the season in Miami.

Leclerc admits final lap spin in Miami 'all on me'

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Charles Leclerc admits that his dramatic spin on the final lap of the Miami Grand Prix "is all on me" as the Ferrari driver lost out on a potential podium to finish sixth.

‘No excuses’ after missing out on Miami win – Norris

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Despite being "gutted" to miss out on a victory at the Miami Grand Prix, Lando Norris was also able to take the positives after claiming second place for McLaren.

Antonelli overjoyed with record-breaking Miami win

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli expressed his pride and satisfaction after a hard-fought run to victory in the Miami Grand Prix – becoming the first driver in F1 history to win his first three races from his first three pole positions.

Verstappen gets your Driver of the Day vote in Miami

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-03 21:53
Starting second and finishing fifth may not sound like a great result, but Max Verstappen fought tooth and nail to achieve that in a Red Bull that appeared no match for the machinery ahead of him.

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