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MotoGP French GP: Jorge Martin leads Aprilia podium sweep

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 13:54
Aprilia scored its first MotoGP podium lock-out after Jorge Martin led factory team-mate Marco Bezzecchi and Trackhouse rider Ai Ogura at the French Grand Prix on Sunday. 
Martin struck a psychological blow by hunting down and passing Bezzecchi, whom he had yet to defeat in a Sunday race this season, cutting the Italian's championship lead to a single point.
This was Martin's first win ...Keep reading

Katherine Legge hopeful she can attempt the Indy 500 and Coke 600 Double in the future

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 13:54
Katherine Legge will start 38th in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen, making her eighth career start and her first of the 2026 season. She is once again driving the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet with sponsorship from e.l.f. Cosmetics.
After she takes the checkered flag at the Glen, the British driver will travel directly to Indiana as practice gets underway for the 110th ...Keep reading

Peugeot youngster Malthe Jakobsen after Spa WEC crash: 'You cannot blame everyone else'

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 13:35
Malthe Jakobsen is adamant that he has to take some responsibility for the collision that forced the #94 Peugeot 9X8 out of Saturday's World Endurance Championship race at Spa.
The 22-year-old had qualified the car he shared with Loic Duval and Theo Pourchaire on pole position, with the trio remaining in the hunt for a podium in the first part of the race.
However, disaster struck the #94 ...Keep reading

Williams F1 confirms “sizeable” upgrade package planned for Canadian GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 13:32
Williams arrived in Miami carrying a substantial upgrade package developed over the five-week break, and left Florida with points on the board and a growing momentum. Now, before the cars land in Montreal, team principal James Vowles has confirmed the upgrade pipeline doesn't stop there.
In a new Vowles Verdict from the Grove team, the former Mercedes strategy director reflected on the scale ...Keep reading

David Croft: Alarm bells will ring if Kimi Antonelli beats George Russell at Canadian GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 13:23
Sky Sports Formula 1 lead commentator David Croft believes that alarm bells will be ringing if George Russell does not beat his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli at the Canadian Grand Prix.
While the Briton won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix from pole position and the Chinese sprint race the week after, he has since been overtaken in the standings by his teenage team-mate. 
After ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz isn’t “going to criticise it anymore” – but still says 2026 F1 rules are “not good enough"

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 13:07
Williams driver Carlos Sainz has been among the more vocal critics of the new Formula 1 regulations, but he now says he’s going to be less negative in public – while still having major reservations.
Ahead of the Miami Grand Prix last weekend, the FIA introduced tweaks to the amount of energy which could be harvested and deployed in qualifying and race scenarios.
Safety and the ...Keep reading

Mekies insists Red Bull will 'happily' poach talent

Formula 1 - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:21
Laurent Mekies offered an insight into Red Bull’s recruitment policy in the wake of the news that Max Verstappen’s long time Race Engineer Gianpiero Lambiase is to leave the team for McLaren.

WRC Portugal: Thierry Neuville inherits lead as Sebastien Ogier suffers penultimate stage puncture 

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:03
Thierry Neuville inherited the Rally Portugal lead with one stage remaining after World Rally Championship title holder Sebastien Ogier suffered a puncture on the penultimate stage.
Ogier headed into stage 22 seemingly on course to score an eighth career Rally Portugal victory, equipped with a 17.3s lead over Neuville.
The nine-time world champion had managed to survive the worst of the wet ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff response to Mercedes intra-team F1 battle predicted: 'Not someone you want to cross'

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:02
Former W Series driver and Sky Sports analyst Naomi Schiff has argued that Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff is not someone who drivers George Russell and Kimi Antonelli would want to cross in team orders discussions. 
Russell was a clear favourite heading into the 2026 season. But after winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese sprint race, his 19-year-old team-mate ...Keep reading

Fred Vesti reveals huge Mercedes F1 simulator push before Miami GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 11:20
Mercedes Formula 1 third driver Fred Vesti has revealed that he completed approximately 1000 laps on the simulator in the impromptu April break ahead of the Miami Grand Prix. 
The five-week break between the Japanese and Miami Grands Prix offered teams an unexpected opportunity to get back to the factory and almost reset before the season resumed. 
"Honestly, I was amazed at how cool the ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton and Franco Colapinto share “wholesome” moment after Miami GP contact: “Good sportsmanship”

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 10:32
A post-Miami Grand Prix moment between Alpine’s Franco Colapinto and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton has earned praise from fans for “good sportsmanship”.
During the opening lap of the race at the Miami International Autodrome, the two drivers collided, resulting in aerodynamic damage to Hamilton’s Ferrari that compromised his race pace.
Frustrated by the contact, the seven-time champion ...Keep reading

Fabio di Giannantonio commits to KTM and opens the door for Nicolo Bulega at VR46

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 10:31
Fabio Di Giannantonio has reached an agreement to race for the factory KTM team in the 2027 MotoGP season - opening the door for Nicolo Bulega at VR46.
The 27-year-old, who until now had been contracted by Ducati while racing for VR46, had set Friday of the French Grand Prix weekend as the deadline to receive an offer from the Italian manufacturer that satisfied his financial ...Keep reading

Robin Frijns relieved after BMW's Hypercar win in WEC: “This was a race we had to win”

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 10:02
Robin Frijns says BMW "had to win" the Spa World Endurance Championship race after an unusual strategic choice handed the German manufacturer a big opportunity.
At Spa-Francorchamps, BMW opted for a very different strategy compared to the other Hypercar teams. The #20 M Hybrid V8 of Rene Rast, Sheldon van der Linde and Frijns took on significantly less fuel during its first pitstop, allowing ...Keep reading

Why Cadillac is "in a massive hurry to find performance" in F1 2026

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 09:49
Cadillac’s Formula 1 debut has been encouraging, but the team is now “in a massive hurry to find performance”, according to Sergio Perez.
Having joined the world championship this year with customer Ferrari power units, Cadillac has been challenging the troubled Aston Martin-Honda squad, which Perez has described as “great motivation” for the team.
At the Miami Grand Prix, the ...Keep reading

David Malukas “getting close” after strong runner-up result at Indy GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 02:34
David Malukas continues to inch closer to that breakthrough maiden win in the IndyCar Series. 
After starting fifth, the 24-year-old Chicagoan catapulted to the front amid a blend of varying strategies following, leading a race-high 27 of 85 laps in the Sonsio Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The potential win was in play, too, until Arrow McLaren’s Christian ...Keep reading

Complete IndyCar championship standings after 2026 Indy GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 01:48
A fifth-place finish was enough for Alex Palou to extend his championship lead, now 27 points clear of Kyle Kirkwood. 
A Lap 1 crash from the outside of the front row proved costly for Pato O'Ward, who fell from fourth to seventh in the standings. 
Christian Lundgaard's victory bumped him from fifth up to fourth in the standings, carving 20 points out of his deficit to Palou. 
Another ...Keep reading

Alexander Rossi furious after IndyCar leaves him stranded on 170mph straight

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 00:38
Alexander Rossi took umbrage with a hybrid issue that left him stranded on the frontstretch of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which was only furthered after Race Control failed to throw a full course caution as he tried to exit his #20 ECR Chevrolet as cars whizzed by at over 170mph. 
After 21 laps during Saturday’s Sonsio Grand Prix, the California native was left stranded on the ...Keep reading

Official race results: IndyCar 2026 Indy GP

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 00:29
The sixth round of the 2026 IndyCar season is over, and Arrow McLaren returned to the top step of the podium with Christian Lundgaard. It was his second career win, and his first in almost three years.
David Malukas, still searching for his first career win, finished second for the third time in his career. He was 4.6 second back of Lundgaard at the checkered flag. Graham Rahal rounded out the ...Keep reading

Christian Lundgaard stuns David Malukas with bold pass to win at Indianapolis

Motorsport - Sun, 2026-05-10 00:15
Christian Lundgaard pulled off a remarkable move on David Malukas to win the Sonsio Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
The 24-year-old Dane made an outside pass with 18 laps to go in Turn 4 en route to securing the second win of his career, and first with Arrow McLaren, by 4.6713s at the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course. The win came on the same track Lundgaard made his ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch takes dramatic NASCAR O'Reilly win with last-corner pass at Watkins Glen

Motorsport - Sat, 2026-05-09 23:47
It was an incredible finish to Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Watkins Glen International. Defending series champion Jesse Love was stretching the fuel while Connor Zilisch was running him down on fresher tires.
Even after slicing through the mud and damaging his car, Zilisch ran Love down, passing him in the final corner on the final lap, snatching the win away for JR ...Keep reading

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