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Williams Formula 1 team principal James Vowles believes the Grove outfit is demonstrating clear progress relative to its midfield rivals, despite a bittersweet 2026 Canadian Grand Prix.
Following an encouraging performance boost at the Miami Grand Prix earlier this month, Williams arrived at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve hoping to capitalise on its recent upgrades. While the underlying pace of ...Keep reading

Red Bull secured its first podium finish of the year in Montreal, although Saturday did not suggest that outcome was on the cards. Max Verstappen qualified only sixth and was critical afterwards, particularly when speaking to the Dutch media in the paddock.
A day later, the picture turned out to be more positive than expected, although Verstappen stressed that the result in Canada was not a ...Keep reading

With his third career victory at the Chicago Street Course in 2025, Shane van Gisbergen became the winningest foreign-born driver in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series.
Of course, NASCAR is a deeply American form of auto racing, so non-Americans winning isn't exactly commonplace. Until the top level of the sport raced in Mexico City in 2025, there hadn't been a points-paying Cup race outside ...Keep reading

George Russell might have endured a heartbreakingly premature end to his fight for the Canadian Grand Prix win with Mercedes team-mate and championship rival Kimi Antonelli, but he remained very much on-message in praising the impact of Formula 1’s controversial new technical regulations.
Russell got off to a sluggish start from pole position but passed Antonelli for the lead at the final ...Keep reading

George Russell has issued an apology to the FIA and marshals after throwing the headrest of his Mercedes W17 out of the car when he retired from the Canadian Grand Prix. 
Following a tense and exciting battle with his team-mate Kimi Antonelli for first position, Russell retired from the race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when he encountered power unit issues. 
After losing what could have ...Keep reading

Finishing fifth in the Canadian Grand Prix, Isack Hadjar achieved his best result with Red Bull so far, but things could have ended much worse.
Engaged in a fierce battle with Charles Leclerc after the pitstops, the Frenchman put up a very borderline defence at the end of the back straight, with the Monegasque driver narrowly avoiding a crash.
While the Ferrari driver subsequently got ...Keep reading

Have you ever wondered what the drivers of the past would think of today's racing cars? Imagine Jackie Stewart or Bruce McLaren discovering the aerodynamic downforce and complexity of modern Formula 1 machinery. Or picture Olivier Gendebien or Henri Pescarolo climbing into the cockpit of a modern Hypercar prototype, having come from an era when endurance racing rewarded mechanical sympathy just ...Keep reading

Even after another top five finish, Tyler Reddick's massive lead in the championship shrunk slightly from 129 points over Denny Hamlin to 122 points. Chase Elliott is no longer third in points after an early exit from the Charlotte race.
13 of the top 16 positions in the standings changes after Sunday's marathon event, and the outlook going into the second half of the regular season suddenly ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella has explained the team felt it was the right call to put both of its driver on intermediates at the start of the Canadian Grand Prix. 
Light rain had hit Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve all morning, but conditions improved ahead of the 4pm local start, with the vast majority of the grid starting on slicks.
Sharing the second ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton returned to the scene of his maiden Formula 1 victory and made another breakthrough of sorts – his best grand prix result for Ferrari after a turbulent 17 months at the Scuderia.
Hamilton had the better of team-mate Charles Leclerc for most of the weekend in Montreal, though he fell behind him in the sprint race. Starting fifth on the grid for the grand prix, he passed ...Keep reading

McLaren's race ultimately unraveled after starting both drivers on intermediates for the Canadian Grand Prix.

We’ve all done it, haven’t we? Promised we’d be a better version of ourselves, stop moaning, start running - or decide we need to spend more time with our parents, after all. We do that mostly around New Year’s time. We “start fresh”, “turn the page” and do whatever else you might call it.
But as always, it’s about how we stick to our own promises, not about declaring ...Keep reading

The spoils of victory for winning the Coca-Cola 600 are heading back to Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Technically, Daniel Suarez of Spire Motorsports won the rain-shortened classic on Sunday night at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on a gutsy two-tire call by crew chief Ryan Sparks but so much of their identity runs through the late Kyle Busch.
For one, Spire now races out of the old Kyle Busch ...Keep reading

It has been quite a while since I last wrote a column. Back in September 2025, Oscar Piastri’s title hopes began to unravel just as my spine decided to turn sitting at a desk into pure misery. Now I’m back - and it feels a little as though I’ve woken up inside a time machine.
You could almost believe it’s 2014, 2015 or 2016 all over again. The "new Formula 1" is once more defined by ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli took a huge step forward in the F1 title battle during the Canadian Grand Prix, as the Italian made it four Grand Prix wins on the bounce. While on the other side of the Mercedes garage, team mate George Russell lost crucial ground after a retirement.

It was a very long day for Katherine Legge, but she saw it through to the very end as she became just the sixth driver in history to start the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.
She joins a list that includes Tony Stewart, Robby Gordon, John Andretti, Kurt Busch, and Kyle Larson.
After a career-best qualifying effort in the Indy 500, her fifth appearance in the historic ...Keep reading

For the first time in 82 races, Daniel Suarez is back in Victory Lane, winning one of the biggest races on the schedule.
After crew chief Ryan Sparks gambled with a two-tire call, Suarez did an incredible job holding off a fleet of Toyota drivers through multiple restarts before rain finally ended the race, 27 laps short of the full 600-mile distance.
This is Suarez's third career win, and ...Keep reading

Daniel Suarez now has three wins in the NASCAR Cup Series, including one in a crown jewel. The Mexican-born driver won the 67th running of the Coca-Cola 600, holding off the Joe Gibbs Racing duo of Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin when the rain hit.
The race was called 27 laps shy of the full distance, and Suarez went to Victory Lane with the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet.
Suarez led ...Keep reading

The finish of the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500 is what dreams are made of.
Just ask Felix Rosenqvist. 
The 34-year-old Swedish native restarted third in a green-white one-lap shootout and pulled off a masterful charge for the ages by going side-by-side with Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) teammate Marcus Armstrong before reeling in Team Penske’s David Malukas and winning in a photo ...Keep reading

F1's annual visit to Quebec is rarely free of drama or controversy, but by bringing the Montreal race forward in the year May put the race's fate in the laps of Canada's weather gods more than ever. But despite the cold conditions and the threat of rain which never really materialised, the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve served up an absorbing spectacle with duels across the top six, and a costly ...Keep reading