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McLaren will bring some updates to the upcoming Italian Grand Prix, including a rotating rear wing known as the ‘H-Wing’.

MotoGP has announced the dates for the 2027 pre-season tests, as the championship gears up for the switch to new technical regulations.
As has been the case in recent years, MotoGP will host three official tests through January and February, with Sepang and Buriram again chosen as the host venues.
However, despite sweeping changes planned to engine, chassis and electronics, as well as the ...Keep reading

The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, A2RL, is entering its third year. Two seasons of testing and racing in both virtual and real worlds have seen huge leaps in autonomous race tech, and it’s time to see how circuits outside of the Middle East will adapt to autonomous racing. Now familiar with Yas Marina, the five A2RL Pro Teams, the best of the autonomous best, will face a new challenge at ...Keep reading

On 2 September 2001, Michael Schumacher surpassed Alain Prost’s record of 51 Formula 1 victories, winning the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
Prost had been the record holder since 1987, when he matched Jackie Stewart’s tally of 27, and went on to clinch nearly as many wins from then on, until his 1993 retirement.
The 1993 season, coincidentally, marked Schumacher’s continued ...Keep reading

Jacky Ickx says Genesis is satisfied with the progress it has made in the nascent stages of its World Endurance Championship Hypercar programme, as it works towards its goal of winning the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Hyundai’s luxury car brand entered the top class of the WEC this year, entering a pair of GMR-001 LMDh prototypes developed in conjunction with Oreca. 
It was a major challenge for ...Keep reading

The FIA was wrong to lift the ban on Russian competitors because nothing has changed since it was imposed, the Ukrainian Minister for Youth and Sport says.

The FIA was wrong to lift the ban on Russian competitors because nothing has changed since it was imposed, the Ukrainian Minister for Youth and Sport says.

Argentina's government is clamouring for a Formula 1 race, but any talk of a return to Buenos Aires is premature at best.
Argentinian president Javier Milei vowed he was going to push to bring F1 back to the country after a nearly 30-year hiatus, surfing on the popularity of Alpine driver Franco Colapinto.
Argentina last hosted F1 in 1998 at the Autodromo Oscar y Juan Galvez, which is being ...Keep reading

Long-time Aston Martin figure Tom McCullough will join Red Bull Racing in 2027 as their Head of Racing, it has been announced.

Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola believes his team can “learn a lot” from Marc Marquez, praising the Ducati rider’s "intelligence and ability” in recent races.
Marquez claimed his fourth victory in six grands prix at Aragon last weekend to move up to second place in the championship, splitting the Aprilias of Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi.
While the reigning world champion has ...Keep reading

Losail International Circuit and the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) are continuing preparations for the Qatar Formula 1 and MotoGP grands prix, despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the geopolitical situation in the Middle East.
The conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran has already heavily disrupted the calendars of international championships. The WEC was ...Keep reading

Ultimately, Shane Van Gisbergen isn't blaming missing out on the Chase for the Championship due to what happened on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway but instead the entire body of work this season.
Some of it within his control and some of it not.
Van Gisbergen entered the regular season finale with a 31-point lead and even extended it with a Stage 1 victory in which Ryan ...Keep reading

Team Penske is swapping the pit crews for Ryan Blaney and Austin Cindric, as both drivers begin the 2026 Chase for the championship.
Blaney, the 2023 NASCAR Cup champion, is the No. 2 seed in the reset standings, while Cindric is the No. 15 seed. 
Blaney has had issues on pit road all year, even in his most recent win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The No. 12 pit crew was ranked 32nd ...Keep reading

Following a high-drama finish at The Milwaukee Mile that saw a potential victory slip away on the final restart, Chevrolet has formally addressed the mechanical glitch that triggered heat-of-the-moment frustration from Team Penske’s David Malukas.
Malukas appeared poised for a breakthrough win during Race 1 before a mechanical hiccup on the late-game restart with 19 laps to go left him ...Keep reading

This weekend's CARS Late Model Tour event at Florence Motor Speedway in South Carolina is going to have some very notable entrants. The race takes place on Friday, September 4. The NASCAR Cup Series is racing at Darlington Raceway this weekend, just a few miles down the road from Florence.
Shane van Gisbergen will make his CARS Late Model stock car debut, driving the No. 51 Hettinger Racing car ...Keep reading

NASCAR fans saw a bit of chaos during the final lap at Daytona this weekend, where two wrecks brought out a yellow flag that ended the race before the cars crossed the finish line.
A first scrum caught a large numbers of cars, scattering those that got through the wreckage for one final chase to the finish. In that second sprint, the No. 47 of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got into the No. 12 of Ryan ...Keep reading

Ahead of the NASCAR regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway last weekend, action movie star Tom Cruise confirmed that Days of Thunder, the story of fictional NASCAR driver Cole Trickle, will be back for a sequel in June of 2028. The original film released in 1990, and remains ever-popular among NASCAR fans.
Speaking on 'The Pat McAfee Show' in a new interview this week, Cruise ...Keep reading

Red Bull have head-hunted former Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough to become their head of racing from 2027.

Red Bull have head-hunted former Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough to become their head of racing from 2027.

It was a long weekend for the fans and everyone in the paddock with Mother Nature pushing the majority of the action at The Milwaukee Mile to Sunday.
The first of two races on the 1.015-mile oval was interrupted by rain after 90 of 250 laps on Saturday and originally rescheduled to conclude early Sunday morning ahead of Race 2. However, the rain continued to play its annoying part, leaving Race ...Keep reading