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Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell has opened up about skipping his media duties after the Mexican Grand Prix last weekend.
The Briton left the Mexico City circuit shortly after the race on Sunday, having congratulated his team-mate Kimi Antonelli on clinching his maiden world championship. Mercedes was fined €5000 by the FIA for his absence, but team principal Toto Wolff had given ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell will lose five places on Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix grid as he takes his sixth internal combustion engine of the season.
Following a brace of power unit related issues earlier this year, the latest arriving after a failure at the Bahrain GP in Malaysia, Russell was always going to require a sixth ICE before the end of the year.
With Lewis Hamilton's ...Keep reading

Ferrari believes abolishing the contentious Balance of Performance should be the “final goal” for the World Endurance Championship’s rulemakers as they work towards finalising the framework for the 2030 Hypercar regulations.
Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s global head of endurance, argued that the move to a unified platform to replace the current LMDh and LMH divisions has removed the need ...Keep reading

Set to part ways with Cadillac following this weekend's World Endurance Championship finale in Monza, Sebastien Bourdais expressed clear frustration regarding the current FIA driver categorisation rules, which he feels leave experienced veterans like him with few viable options.
The 47-year-old Frenchman will not be a part of Cadillac's Hypercar roster in 2027, with the factory Jota team ...Keep reading

Six full-time drivers will make way for junior, test and reserve drivers during FP1 at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, whilst another rookie makes his debut

Oscar Piastri joined other members of the paddock in remembering Williams’ first World Champion, Alan Jones.

Nico Rosberg knows a thing or two about racing Lewis Hamilton wheel to wheel in sister Formula 1 cars.
The pair were team-mates for four years at Mercedes with an intense rivalry, and now Hamilton competes for Ferrari alongside Charles Leclerc – which has become tense at times, amid disagreements over team orders and on-track clashes.
Hamilton ended up in the gravel at the start in Monza ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz says he has "good memories" of battling Charles Leclerc at Ferrari while offering his perspective on his former Formula 1 team-mate’s fight with Lewis Hamilton in the Mexican Grand Prix.
The Ferrari drivers had a fierce battle for the lead on the opening lap at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with Leclerc attacking Hamilton through the opening corners. The sequence ended when ...Keep reading

New World Rally Championship constructor RMC Motorsport has teased an element of its new car revealing that it is making “strong progress” ahead of its expected debut next year.
Earlier this year the experienced Spanish team, working in partnership with FIA member club Real Federacion Espanola de Automovilismo (RFEDA), announced plans to design and develop an all-new car built to the ...Keep reading

Red Bull extend Alan Permane's contract as boss of their second team until the end of 2031.

The 2026 World Endurance Championship has been the first challenging season Ferrari has faced since the beginning of its Hypercar programme.
After winning the Le Mans 24 Hours on three consecutive occasions between 2023-25, the Prancing Horse had to settle for a fifth-place finish this time around. 
In fact, Ferrari has scored just one victory so far in 2026 - a result it inherited after ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez heads into this weekend's Qatar Grand Prix with a 44-point advantage over Jorge Martin and a 67-point advantage over Marco Bezzecchi, and with three rounds remaining, he has his first opportunity to secure the MotoGP world title at Lusail.
But his championship lead could have been smaller had he not won at Sepang last Sunday.
Marquez overtook his younger brother, who had ...Keep reading

Ferrari arrived at Interlagos facing a problem that, until just a few weeks ago, would have been difficult to imagine in quite this form. After a long season spent chasing competitiveness, the team finally appears to have found many of the answers that had been missing with its SF-26 Formula 1 car.
The results from the last few grands prix confirm that progress, but just as the Scuderia has ...Keep reading

Alan Permane has signed a long-term contract extension that will see him remain Team Principal and Co-CEO Sporting of Racing Bulls through to the end of 2031.

The MotoGP field for the Qatar Grand Prix has been severely depleted by Yamaha's withdrawal from the event.
The Japanese manufacturer elected against sending its personnel to Doha due to the ongoing geopolitical situation in the Middle East. The decision affects both its factory squad and Pramac, ruling out four riders: Fabio Quartararo, Alex Rins, Jack Miller and Toprak Razgatlioglu's ...Keep reading

It has been quite the week for Kimi Antonelli.
After celebrating his record-breaking world title on the Mexico Grand Prix podium, where he was hoisted aloft by Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, and at the post-race party, the Italian was whisked away for sponsor commitments on Monday in the Mexican capital.
Antonelli then flew to Sao Paulo overnight for a very special gathering with the ...Keep reading

Red Bull has given Alan Permane a new contract as the Racing Bulls Formula 1 squad’s team principal.
Permane will retain the reins of the Faenza-based outfit until the end of the 2031 season.
A stalwart of the current Alpine squad, where he worked from 1989 to 2023 in various capacities including race engineer and sporting director, Permane joined Racing Bulls (then known as RB) ahead of ...Keep reading

F1.com's Mike Seymour rounds up all the big talking points ahead of the 2026 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

McLaren will introduce new upgrades for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix this weekend, with Lando Norris stating he wants "to believe that we can still make improvements" to this year's car.

All Kimi Antonelli needed to do at the Mexico City Grand Prix was finish ninth. Instead, the new world champion chose to clinch the title with a late-braking lunge on Charles Leclerc into Turn 1, and not everyone at Mercedes was comfortable watching it.
Speaking on the Nu Silver Arrows Radio Show, Antonelli revealed that some members of the team questioned why he had taken the risk, with the ...Keep reading