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Lewis Hamilton has said “you don’t expect to go around the outside of a champion” in response to Max Verstappen’s call for him to be penalised for their Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix battle.
The 2021 F1 world title rivals resumed old hostilities in two on-track tussles at the Red Bull Ring, which Hamilton called “good fun” as he successfully held off Verstappen on lap 11 before ...Keep reading

Outside of the very intense NASCAR battle to make the Chase, there is another competition to keep an eye on this summer, and this one has no actual impact on the championship ... but it does award a $1 million prize to the winner and any fortunate fans with a perfect bracket.
The In-Season Challenge got underway at Sonoma Raceway for Round 1 of 5 as part of TNT's summer stretch of Cup races ...Keep reading

Just days after confirming a new two-year MotoGP deal with Ducati, Marc Marquez has revealed that he held what he described as an "informal conversation" with Honda representatives, who explored the possibility of bringing him back to the Japanese manufacturer.
As first reported by El Periodico, the meeting took place on the Friday afternoon of last year's Valencia Grand Prix, the final round ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz claims Williams's performance in the Austrian Grand Prix was "still not good enough", after the Spaniard was forced to retire from last weekend's race.

Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg narrowly missed out on scoring points at the Austrian Grand Prix.

It was another solid outcome for Racing Bulls at the Austrian Grand Prix, with Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad taking home double points for the team.

Michael Lamonato examines how the key pillar of George Russell's victory in Austria was a 27-second window around 24 hours earlier...

In the early stages of the Austrian Grand Prix, fans were treated to an exciting and tense battle between former title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.
Hamilton ran wide at Turn 1 on lap 8, allowing Verstappen to get within a second of the seven-time champion. By lap 11, the battle had intensified. Verstappen made a lunge down the inside of Turn 3 to take second place, but Hamilton ...Keep reading

Trackhouse team principal Davide Brivio believes Ai Ogura and Rul Fernandez deserve all the credit for beating the factory Aprilia team to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix.
Ogura led Fernandez in a historic 1-2 for the American squad in Sunday’s MotoGP race at Assen, with the two Trackhouse riders successfully overhauling polesitter Jorge Martin in the final laps.
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George Russell says he is still trying to gel with his 2026 Mercedes Formula 1 car and tried an "abnormal" driving style to secure the win at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Russell took pole on Saturday and converted it into his second victory of the season on Sunday as he aims to reel in championship leader Kimi Antonelli. With the Italian finishing third, Russell now heads to his Silverstone home ...Keep reading

According to F1 TV analyst Alex Brundle, Racing Bulls has established itself as the "best of the rest" in the current Formula 1 championship.
The Faenza outfit enjoyed a successful weekend at the Red Bull Ring with a double points finish. Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad finished the Austrian Grand Prix in ninth and 10th, collecting three points for the team. 
During an appearance on F1 TV's ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi’s retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix has thrown the 2026 MotoGP title fight wide open.
For the very first time this year, the Italian does not leave a grand prix weekend as the championship leader. Instead, after his third non-score in Sunday races this month, he has dropped to second in the standings, with his Aprilia team-mate Jorge Martin surging to the top spot by seven ...Keep reading

The Dutch Grand Prix capped off a busy month of June in MotoGP, with three rounds taking place in the span of four weeks.
Assen crowned a new race winner in the championship, one with a very bright future in MotoGP, but the manufacturer he represented was once again left facing difficult questions after its factory team failed to deliver. 
Here are the winners and losers from MotoGP’s ...Keep reading

Since Formula 1’s enforced April break, following the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, it has seemed as if barely a race weekend goes by without Ferrari adding upgrades to its SF-26.
As F1 now operates under a budget cap, development is one of many areas of expenditure subject to tight controls. Long gone are the days when leading teams had at least two wind tunnels ...Keep reading

Hankook may investigate developing a bespoke tyre to specifically cope with the extreme Acropolis Rally Greece conditions in the future.
Tyres were once again a hot topic at the latest round of the World Rally Championship, as Greece’s extreme rough gravel inflicted a series of punctures that contributed to the outcome of the rally.
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Marc Marquez is pushing for changes to the gravel traps at TT Circuit Assen following several frightening crashes during the MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix.
While the Netherlands delivered one of the most action-packed rounds of the 2026 MotoGP season, the weekend was also beset by several high-profile incidents.
Most notably, Fermin Aldeguer was ruled out of racing for the rest of the summer ...Keep reading

As Kimi Raikkonen famously said after winning in Austin in 2018: finally. He may have added another word before it, beginning with the same letter, to underline just how long he'd waited since Melbourne 2013.
George Russell didn't have to wait five and a half years for his Spielberg victory. But after everything that's happened over the past three months, it must have felt almost as ...Keep reading

I remember November 2012 like it was yesterday. Fresh out of university, I found myself in a job interview with what is now part of Motorsport Network.
There I was, sitting on a couch at Sendlinger Tor in Munich, facing Germany's chief editor Christian Nimmervoll who was tasked with putting my skills to the test. One of my assignments: write a column on a topic of my choice.
I found one in ...Keep reading

This was a Shane van Gisbergen masterclass but not in the traditional sense.
Typically, if crew chief Stephen Doran gets their Trackhouse Racing No. 97 remotely close to what he needs, Van Gisbergen can do the rest and the gap to second is only as close as the three-time Supercars champion wants to make it.
In the case of Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, the car did not seem particularly close and ...Keep reading

Laurin Heinrich rallied JDC-Miller MotorSports to a third-place finish at the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen after dropping a lap down. However, a victory by rival Jack Aitken meant the German lost ground in the GTP championship.
The #5 Porsche 963 started fifth at Watkins Glen International, but was hit with severe adversity with three and a half hours remaining when co-driver Kaylen ...Keep reading