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Kalle Rovanpera and Ott Tanak will rejoin the World Rally Championship next year as part of a six-car Toyota line-up that will see the marque run two teams and different Rally1 car models.
Toyota has announced plans to split its 2027 effort into two teams competing with all-new GR Celica and GR Yaris machinery built to the new technical regulations.
It will feature at least three world ...Keep reading

Dodge is coming back to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2027 with Kaulig Racing but there are caveats aplenty.
The body has been approved, with an unveil scheduled for the Snowball Derby Super Late race in December, but the engine inside of the car is not expected to be a proprietary Stellantis or MOPAR built platform.
Current reporting suggests AJ Allmendinger and Ty Dillon will drive cars powered ...Keep reading

Dodge is returning to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2027, becoming the fourth manufacturer on the grid alongside Chevrolet, Toyota, and Ford. This is a year earlier than most projections, and there will be a tight turn-around for next season.
This was officially announced at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas on Monday evening, and the car will be unveiled at the Snowball Derby in December.
The ...Keep reading

While there was little doubt, Justin Allgaier has made it official that he will once again be competing for the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series title in 2027, driving the No. 7 JR Motorspsports Chevrolet with long-time partner BRANDT.
Allgaier won the 2024 NASCAR O'Reilly championship, and enters this weekend's finale with a 22-point lead as he chases a second crown for the Earnhardt-led ...Keep reading

Formula 1 fans have praised seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton after footage of him congratulating his former Mercedes race engineer Peter 'Bono' Bonnington at the Mexican Grand Prix went viral.
Hamilton worked with Bonnington throughout his time at the Brackley outfit, where he secured six of his seven championships. After the 41-year-old left Mercedes to move to Ferrari in 2025, Bonnington ...Keep reading

The 2026 NASCAR Cup season finale will feature a full field of 40 cars on the grid, and it will be just the fifth race this year to hit the maximum grid size.
Along with the 36 full-time, chartered entries, there will be four open entries as well.
J.J. Yeley will make his 400th career NASCAR Cup start in the No. 44 NY Racing Team Chevrolet, while Casey Mears finally hits career start 500 in ...Keep reading

George Russell says the way his season "unravelled" while Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli marched to the title have been "tough to deal with".

While drivers are put in a position where they essentially have to deny intent or face penalties, the SMT data tells the entire story of Carson Hocevar's aggressive brake-checking, intentionally destroying the front of Austin Cindric's car and ending his race.
On this week's episode of Inside the Race, veteran crew chief Steve Letarte and former driver Jamie McMurray broke it all down with the ...Keep reading

Antonelli may have become F1’s youngest-ever World Champion in Mexico, but the betting markets are already predicting something different for 2027.

The 20-year-old is now the youngest-ever World Champion in F1 history.

Kimi Antonelli has revealed what race number he will use to defend his Formula 1 drivers' title in 2027, having become World Champion last weekend in the Mexico City Grand Prix.

George Russell has shared a heartfelt message after missing media duties following the Mexican Grand Prix. 
The Briton admitted that "2026 was not meant to be my year" in a long message to his fans on social media after his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli claimed his maiden championship at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
Russell entered the 2026 season as a clear favourite to win the ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli's race engineer Peter 'Bono' Bonnington has revealed that a "really stern conversation" helped turn around the Italian driver's rookie Formula 1 season, a year before he became the 2026 world champion.
Antonelli finished third at last weekend's Mexican Grand Prix, which was enough to secure his maiden title. While speaking to F1 TV after the race, Bonnington reflected on how ...Keep reading

Honda Racing Corporation USA (HRS US) has backed Porsche Motorsport’s call for swift progress on the World Endurance Championship (WEC) and IMSA 2030 Hypercar/GTP regulations, stressing that clear guidelines are needed soon to properly plan future involvement.
Newly appointed HRC US president Kelvin Fu — who recently took over the leadership role from David Salters before the Indianapolis ...Keep reading

At the Mexico Grand Prix, Mercedes reaped the reward for the courage it showed in putting the then 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli in the cockpit from 2025 with his world championship triumph in his just second Formula 1 season.
It was courage that not everyone in the Mercedes sphere shared from the outset, as team principal Toto Wolff now reveals.
"We had two sponsors who left us because of it ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and F1 TV pundit Juan Pablo Montoya has argued that there must be "consequences" for Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc after their first-lap battle likely cost Ferrari the win at the Mexican Grand Prix.
Both drivers ran wide when Leclerc attempted to overtake Hamilton, who had started from pole position. Leclerc emerged in the lead, while Hamilton lost a position to Red ...Keep reading

Just one race remains in the 2026 NASCAR Cup season. Kyle Larson is extremely close to locking up the championship, with Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin are a distant -67pts and -70pts behind in the standings, respectively.
And while Martinsville wasn't a perfect race for Larson, his closest rivals faltered as well, and Hendrick Motorsports still ruled the day. William Byron earned his first ...Keep reading

Cadillac Formula 1 team principal Marcin Budkowski has vowed to ensure accidents like the one that ended Valtteri Bottas' Mexico Grand Prix "do not happen again".
Bottas was at top speed entering Turn 1 on lap 46 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rogriguez when his front-left suspension collapsed as he hit the brakes, sending the Finn into a slide and into the TecPro barrier.
Such was the damage ...Keep reading

Ryo Hirakawa admits that making his Formula 1 debut "was my dream" after the Japanese driver finished the Mexico City Grand Prix last weekend, eventually being promoted into the points.

Lawrence Barretto selects his winners and losers at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.