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Mick Schumacher crashes out of Markham IndyCar race after strong start

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 18:11
Mick Schumacher’s promising Markham IndyCar weekend ended with a crash during Sunday’s race. The RLL driver crashed without contact at Turn 4, clipping the inside wall as he was chasing down the lead pack.
 
Update: After returning to the pits, Schumacher spoke to reporters and confirmed the incident was a driving error.
"We weren't even pushing hard. We had a really good car," said ...Keep reading

Formula E London E-Prix: Pascal Wehrlein takes second title despite zero points in season finale

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 15:52
Pascal Wehrlein has become the 2025-26 Formula E world champion despite finishing outside of the points in the London E-Prix as Taylor Barnard won the frantic season finale.
The Porsche driver has now joined Jean-Eric Vergne as the all-electric championship’s only two-time series champions after Wehrlein took his first in the 2023-24 London finale.
He took this year’s title despite ...Keep reading

DTM Nurburgring: Wittmann wins for BMW after AMG meltdown

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 14:28
The smiling winner of the second DTM race at the Nurburgring is Marco Wittmann: the Schubert BMW driver, who started from sixth on the grid, benefited from his rivals’ mistakes after the start and at the first pit stop to snatch his third DTM victory in the Eifel overall.
"A superb race," Wittmann said happily on ProSieben. "A very wild race, especially in the early stages, but we were able ...Keep reading

Joey Logano is winning "4 the haters" amid 'Mickey Mouse champion' criticism

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 14:05
Joey Logano has proven countless times throughout his career how dangerous it is to underestimate him, and yet, many still do. 
When the Team Penske star came out of nowhere to win the 2024 NASCAR Cup title, many were upset at the format for allowing him a driver with a 17.1 average finish to become champion.
And while there's plenty to be said about the inherit issues with the now-defunct ...Keep reading

Honda reveals timeline to become a "top competitor" in F1 again

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 14:00
The first months of Honda's partnership with Aston Martin have been downright painful, but the Japanese manufacturer is now looking ahead again.
Honda’s F1 project looks completely different from its glory years with Red Bull in terms of personnel, which led Honda to realise in January that the start of this new era would be problematic – even more problematic than expected, as general ...Keep reading

F1 2026 mid-season grades: Mercedes' early dominance evaporates as reliability woes strike

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 12:30
After four years in the doldrums with a tough to tame ground-effect car, Toto Wolff's Mercedes empire was desperate to strike back. The combined efforts of its chassis team in Brackley and its power unit division in Brixworth came up with a rocket ship, but enduring reliability problems are taking its grade down to A-.
The good
Mercedes came out of winter test as the odds-on favourite for ...Keep reading

DTM Nurburgring: ‘Mamba’ bites with pole as Thiim hits back

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 11:00
Day of revenge in the DTM at the Nurburgring: Winward-Mercedes driver Jules Gounon, who has had a difficult season so far, secured his first pole of the season in Sunday qualifying in just under 20 degrees and with initial fog.
The Frenchman even set a new lap record with 1:25.062, the previous mark having been held by Mirko Bortolotti from 2023 (1:25.118). McLaren youngster Ben Dorr finished ...Keep reading

BMW’s ascent from an also-ran to WEC title contender

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 10:56
BMW has emerged as a serious World Endurance Championship contender in the third year of its Hypercar programme. Robin Frijns and Rene Rast lead the Hypercar standings at the halfway point of the season, while BMW itself sits second in the manufacturers’ standings, behind only Toyota.
It’s a major turnaround from where the German brand was just last season in the WEC, when it ended up ...Keep reading

9 times superhero movies made it onto the F1 grid

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-08-16 10:52
From DC Comics to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, films and figures from the world’s biggest superhero movies have been collaborating in Formula 1 for over two decades.

How Red Bull’s 2026 season has played out so far

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-08-16 10:52
With Red Bull currently sitting fourth in the Constructors’ Championship, we dissect their season so far in their half term report.

How do psychologists help Formula 1 drivers be at their best?

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-08-16 10:52
We pitched some hypothetical scenarios to Hintsa Performance psychologist Robbie Anderson about how to best manage a driver through various situations – and how people can apply these lessons to daily life.

The best drives of the 2026 F1 season so far, according to our writers

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 09:29
Formula 1’s competitive order was shaken up in 2026 with the roll out of sweeping new regulations across the chassis, aerodynamics and power units. Mercedes came out on top, with it now leading the constructors’ standings and Kimi Antonelli is on top in the drivers’ championship.
But the team hasn’t been bulletproof this year, and strong performances from drivers up and down the grid ...Keep reading

Dale Earnhardt's grandson Wyatt Miller flips wildly in crash, but drives away

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 05:56
At Bark River International Raceway on Saturday afternoon, Wyatt Miller was driving a Pro Spec truck in the Championship Off-Road Series.
The 14-year-old grandson of NASCAR's greatest icon, Dale Earnhardt Sr., (and nephew of Dale Earnhardt Jr.) was running third when his truck bit into a rut at a fast right-hander, and it quickly rolled. The No. 73 Chevrolet rotated three times in the dramatic ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin breaks down pit struggles that cost No. 11 team

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 05:24
Denny Hamlin's homecoming weekend and Richmond Raceway unfortunately didn't end in victory lane.
The No. 11 team battled for a fourth-place finish with a blistering final stretch on the track, but two brutal pit stops made it impossible for Hamlin to ever truly contend for the race win against the top duo of Joey Logano and Chase Briscoe.
Hamlin explained his team's struggle in the pit lane ...Keep reading

Shane van Gisbergen falls to Chase bubble but actually gains ground at Richmond

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 05:03
Shane Van Gisbergen started Saturday's NASCAR Cup race at Richmond outside the top 30 in the running order. With Austin Cindric ended up having his best run of the 2026 season, it was looking as if the three-time Supercars champion was in for a rough night.
However, SVG actually left Richmond three points further up from the cut-line than he was at the start of the 400-lap race ...Keep reading

Austin Cindric: Richmond was the 'kick in the ass' we needed

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 04:56
It was a big night for Team Penske at Richmond Raceway on Saturday, with Joey Logano taking the checkered flag and Austin Cindric finishing in third.
Cindric was in need of a strong showing, coming off of a 29th-place showing in Iowa and not having secured a top-10 finish since May. With the No. 2 car sitting on the bubble of the Chase standings in 16th place heading into the race, there was ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell says finish was 'better than we deserved' after Richmond gamble

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 04:23
Christopher Bell was clearly tired of coming in second place.
Heading into the final long run at Richmond Raceway on Saturday night, Bell and Tyler Reddick were the only two cars in contention to run an alternate strategy, attempting to close out the race on one stop while the rest of the leaders planned for two.
It did not work out.
While Bell briefly led as the leaders took their extra ...Keep reading

Complete NASCAR Cup points standings after Richmond 2026

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 04:22
With just two races left before the Chase reset, Denny Hamlin holds a 115-point lead in the championship. After the reset, it will be reduced to just 25 over whoever is second. After Richmond, that driver is now Ryan Blaney, who jumped back ahead of Ty Gibbs.
The biggest mover in the standings was easily Joey Logano, rocketing up four positions to ninth after winning the Cup race at Richmond ...Keep reading

Chase Briscoe 'frustrated' after second-place finish at Richmond

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 03:59
Joey Logano held off a late charge from Chase Briscoe through the final laps at Richmond Raceway on Saturday night to take the checkered flag.
Briscoe had been the most dominant car on the track for most of the night, leading for 171 of 400 laps, but a strong long run from Logano in the third stage flipped the lead late in the race. Briscoe closed the gap all the way up to the finish, but was ...Keep reading

Official race results: 2026 NASCAR Cup at Richmond

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-08-16 03:57
At Richmond, Team Penske's Joey Logano held off a charging Chase Briscoe to earn his second win of the 2026 season, his third at Richmond Raceway, and the 39th of his Cup career.
Briscoe crossed the line just a few car lengths behind, while Austin Cindric finished third in his best result of the entire season.
Logano led 95 of 400 laps, and was one of ten different drivers to take a turn out ...Keep reading

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