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In the latest Lights to Flag we caught up with the Italian racer to reflect on a long and distinguished career in Formula 1.

Fabio Quartararo says he will no longer help Yamaha with development work pertaining to the 2027 MotoGP season after being denied a chance to test Pirelli’s new tyres.
The 2021 champion made that comment following last weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix, where he felt he was reduced to the role of a “test rider” as Yamaha evaluated several new components.
Quartararo is leaving Yamaha after ...Keep reading

McLaren’s win in Zandvoort, its second in a row after Budapest, highlighted a key point: the updates introduced on either side of the summer break did more than restore the aerodynamic load the car had been missing. They also enabled the team to take a decisive step forward.
At the Barcelona Grand Prix, for instance, McLaren’s strengths had already begun to emerge, and the same was true at ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia says he feels “humiliated” after reaching “one of the lowest points of my sporting career”, saying he sees “no way out” of his current struggles in MotoGP.
The factory Ducati rider endured a wretched weekend in MotorLand Aragon, failing to score a single point after finishing 11th in the sprint and crashing out of Sunday’s race.
Bagnaia had been showing rapid ...Keep reading

When Ferrari took to the track in February at the official start of winter testing in Bahrain, the Scuderia's 2026 challenger immediately turned heads.
The SF-26 featured an intriguing vane behind the exhaust pipe on day one, internally named FTM, and the next day it debuted an even more eye-catching rear wing that rotated 180 degrees between cornering mode and straight mode, quickly dubbed the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 broadcaster Will Buxton has called out Williams for "overpromising and underdelivering" in 2026, admitting he remains surprised by Carlos Sainz's decision to sign with the Grove outfit over Audi.
Despite bold claims throughout 2025, Williams has struggled in the 2026 season. It arrived at pre-season testing in Bahrain on the back foot, having missed private testing in Barcelona. It ...Keep reading

All the key BBC coverage details for the Italian Grand Prix, which takes place from 4-6 September.

The Aragon Grand Prix added another twist to the MotoGP title fight, as Marc Marquez claimed an emphatic victory over his 2027 team-mate, Pedro Acosta.​But he wasn’t the only ‘winner’ from a fascinating weekend in Spain, where a wide gulf in performance separated some title contenders.
As the second half of the season truly begins, a competitive picture is beginning to emerge, with ...Keep reading

A selection of images from the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, which has hosted more Formula 1 races than any other circuit.

David Malukas blamed a Chevrolet engine issue for costing him his maiden IndyCar victory at The Milwaukee Mile after a hesitation on a late restart handed the win to Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward.
Driving the #12 Team Penske Chevrolet, the 24-year-old Chicago native started third in the resumed Race 1 following a fourth-place finish in Race 2. An off-strategy pit call put Malukas into the ...Keep reading

Pato O'Ward etched his name into racing lore at The Milwaukee Mile by sweeping the Milwaukee doubleheader to become the first IndyCar driver since Rick Mears in 1981 to win two races on the same day.
By taking both checkered flags in his #5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, the 27-year-old Mexican driver became just the seventh driver in IndyCar history to accomplish the feat, joining a seven-driver ...Keep reading

Sébastien Ogier has publicly apologised to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and Paraguayan President Santiago Peña for an “out of line interaction” at Rally Paraguay.
The reigning world rally champion posted an apology on social media related to an interaction on Saturday, in which he raised his concerns about the World Rally Championship. Ben Sulayem was in attendance at Rally ...Keep reading

Five championships in six years. Four consecutive titles. The youngest five-time champion in American open-wheel history. Yet as 29-year-old Alex Palou sat in the post-race press conference at The Milwaukee Mile having just clinched the 2026 IndyCar Series championship with a race to spare, the Spaniard admitted the scale of what he has achieved has not fully registered with him.
"I can't. It's ...Keep reading

Alex Palou will enter the Laguna Seca finale with the IndyCar crown already in his hands, as he clinched the championship with a fifth-place and tenth-place finish on Sunday.
While the championship has been locked up, the battle to be the best of the rest is fully on. Christian Lundgaard has moved up into the runner-up spot, just two points clear of Kyle Kirkwood and four points clear of Pato ...Keep reading

Pato O'Ward delivered his own version of a ‘Daily Double’ after winning the rain-impacted opening race to sweep the doubleheader round at The Milwaukee Mile. 
The 27-year-old Mexican made the winning move on a late restart with 19 laps to go, diving to the inside of Team Penske’s David Malukas before going on to win by 1.7535s in the #5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. Race 2 had been completed ...Keep reading

Pato O'Ward won both Milwaukee races on Sunday, and he now as 12 career wins with three of those taking place in the 2026 season.
O'Ward won the first race of the day (which was actually Race #2 on the weekend schedule) with Scott McLaughlin and Christian Lundgaard joining him on the podium.
In the second race of the day (which was actually Race #1), O'Ward snatched the lead from David ...Keep reading

Hayden Paddon says his run to second at Rally Paraguay "felt like a win” and provided an answer to those who “thought we were a bit of a joke of a signing”.
The New Zealander returned to the WRC's top flight this season for the first time since 2018 after Hyundai signed the driver alongside Dani Sordo and Esapekka Lappi to share its third factory i20 N Rally1 car.
Hyundai initially ...Keep reading

Sami Pajari admitted he had not realised he had made WRC history by winning Rally Paraguay, as well as put the Toyota driver firmly in the hunt for a maiden World Rally Championship title.
Pajari and co-driver Marko Salminen came through one of the most attritional rallies in recent memory to become the first crew in WRC history to claim their first three WRC wins back-to-back.
The Finnish ...Keep reading

Scott McLaughlin turned a near-disastrous start into one of his best showings of the season at The Milwaukee Mile, executing a bold strategy to lead 28 laps and capture a runner-up result in Race 2. However, the driver of the #3 Team Penske Chevrolet was far more focused on the aggressive defense of backmarkers than his own recovery to finish on the podium. 
Starting eighth, the 33-year-old ...Keep reading

Alex Palou's relentless march toward IndyCar history hit a brief pause at The Milwaukee Mile, but the reigning and four-time series champion remains on the absolute precipice of an unprecedented era of dominance.
Starting from the pole in the second race of Sunday’s doubleheader, the 29-year-old Spaniard appeared poised to lock up the season title early. Driving the #10 Chip Ganassi Racing ...Keep reading