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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.
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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.
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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

By Ryan Blaney standards, this wasn’t even a stereotypical radio meltdown after a pit road gaffe, but his response to it was vintage.
The Team Penske No. 12 had just won the second stage on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway when a slow pull on the left front cost him 13 positions. Blaney, who had experienced an above average number of pit woes this spring was frustrated but more level ...Keep reading

Entering New Hampshire, Ross Chastain was still a longshot in the battle to make the 2027 NASCAR Cup Chase, but his chances are now officially over.
Just 41 laps into the race, Chastain took his No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet behind the wall, and his day was over. Chastain finished 36th (last), scoring just one point. It was also Chastain's first last-place finish of the 2026 season.
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The McLaren star made it back-to-back wins in 2026 after also winning in Hungary before the summer shutdown.

It only took one bad weekend for Kyle Kirkwood to hit reset. 
Instead of letting a costly mistake from his last outing linger, where he unacharacteristically crashed out in Markham, the 27-year-old Florida native channeled that frustration into a relentless week of preparation and turned it into a masterclass on the streets of Washington, D.C.
Driving the #27 Andretti Global Honda, Kirkwood ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin leaves New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a 77-point lead over race winner Ryan Blaney, which is enough for him to clinch the No. 1 seed in the Chase. The top 13 drivers in the championship standings have all clinched Chase spots now.
Going into Daytona, Bubba Wallace in 14th will be 75 points up, which is basically safe with a maximum of 76 points possible in a single race. Austin ...Keep reading

Alex Palou entered the Washington D.C. race weekend with a 133-point lead, and secured pole position for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. However, an uncharacteristically messy day for Palou opened the door for Kyle Kirkwood to make big gains as he captured the checkered flag.
Kirkwood is now 91 points behind Palou with just three races left in the 2026 IndyCar season.
Christian Lundgaard ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and F1 TV analyst Jolyon Palmer believes George Russell is feeling the heat within Mercedes, claiming that the Briton is "still not there" compared to team-mate Kimi Antonelli following the Dutch Grand Prix.
Mercedes secured a double podium at Zandvoort, finishing second and third behind McLaren's Lando Norris. But the late team order instructing Russell to yield track ...Keep reading

Ryan Blaney made a two-tire call work, securing his 20th career NASCAR Cup Series win and his third of the 2026 season. Blaney also went back-to-back at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, repeating his 2025 performance.
Blaney beat Bubba Wallace to the checkered flag by just half-a-second, with Josh Berry finishing third.
Blaney also led the most laps, spending 115 of 301 laps out front, and ...Keep reading

Even after a mid-race pit stop snafu cost him dearly, Ryan Blaney rebounded to earn the NASCAR Cup win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS), leading 115 of 301 laps. This is Blaney's 20th career win and his third of the 2026 season.
"Yeah, that made it difficult," said Blaney about the two-tire call that put him out front. "No, it was a good call after our issue on pit road. We did two at ...Keep reading