Motorsport

Factory KTM rider Pedro Acosta led the way in the final in-season test of 2025 at Misano, as Yamaha extensively trialled its new V4-powered MotoGP bike.
Acosta was among the first riders to hit the track, grabbing the top spot from the Tech3-run RC16 of Enea Bastianini with a time of 1m32.297s.
Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia all enjoyed stints at the front in the next two hours, before ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says wins will be required from the final rounds of the World Rally Championship season to stand any chance of lifting a third world title.
The Toyota driver headed into last weekend’s Rally Chile sitting second in the standings seven points adrift, but left South America 21 points behind Sebastien Ogier, who shot into the championship lead after taking a fifth win of the ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen is now officially licenced to race GT3 cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, paving the way for the Dutchman to tick off one of his bucket list items.
Verstappen raced a Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 CS at last weekend's four-hour ADAC ACAS Cup, in a car that was detuned as the four-time world champion hadn't yet earned a Permit A that is required to race with high-powered GT3 or GT4 ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s V4-powered M1 won’t solve all its troubles in MotoGP after admitting that he feels “worse” on the new bike than its predecessor.
The 2021 world champion made the comment after finishing 17th in the morning test session in Misano, just over a second off the pace of Gresini’s Alex Marquez.
This was Quartararo's second outing on the new V4 bike Yamaha ...Keep reading

By the time the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been and gone, commenters in Formula 1 will have found something else to poke fun at, or become incensed by, as the Monza affair fades into obscurity.
McLaren's enforced swap between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri became the subject of memes, ire, and light mockery as the team restored the order between its drivers to what it was before its pitstops, as ...Keep reading

Brad Binder believes that striking Misano’s high kerbs at the wrong moment may have caused the unusual chain failures that struck both him and KTM MotoGP team-mate Pedro Acosta over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend.
KTM endured one of its worst-performing weekends of the 2025 MotoGP season at Misano, with Binder ending up as the only rider from its four-strong stable to finish the race and ...Keep reading

The Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi in two weeks will represent Marc Marquez’s first opportunity to seal the 2025 MotoGP world championship.
The Spaniard’s title has looked inevitable since the beginning of the season, but only now can he mathematically put the matter beyond doubt.
Should the factory Ducati rider confirm the championship in Japan, he would take the crown with five race ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 advisor Helmut Marko believes the squad's turnaround at the Italian Grand Prix has unlocked the potential to succeed at its other weaker circuits on the 2025 calendar.
Max Verstappen comfortably defeated the usually dominant McLarens in Monza one year on from one of Red Bull's worst race weekend performances at the same venue, offering hope that the team has finally found a ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans will give it his “best shot” but admits Sebastien Ogier is “going to take some beating” to claim a maiden World Rally Championship title with three rounds remaining.
Evans lost his grip on the championship lead to his Toyota team-mate after losing out in a head-to-head fight for victory in Chile last weekend by 11s. 
The victory was Ogier’s fifth from eight rounds as ...Keep reading

The final European race before a string of flyaways stuck largely to form, with the usual protagonists slugging it out at the front around the switchbacks of Misano.
This being Italy, however, there was a bit of extra emotion for some of those who succeeded. And further down the field, a couple of unlucky folk had a cocktail of negativity come their way.
Winner: Marco Bezzecchi
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DS Automobiles has always attracted the best drivers in Formula E, a specific discipline where experience counts. Over the years, the French manufacturer has entrusted its single-seaters to three-time WTCC world champion Jose Maria Lopez, three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Andre Lotterer, 2021-22 Formula E world champion Stoffel Vandoorne and the drivers who brought it two constructors' ...Keep reading

New Pramac Yamaha signing Toprak Razgatlioglu will get an early opportunity to sample Yamaha’s V4-powered 2026 MotoGP bike ahead of the official post-season test in Valencia, Motorsport.com understands.
Razgatlioglu is currently chasing his third World Superbike crown, and his second with BMW, as the 2025 season runs to a close with the finale at Jerez on 17-19 October.
Once his WSBK ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin enters the second Round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs as the team seeded driver at 26 points above the cutline but may lose two of this over-the-wall crewmembers for the next two races at New Hampshire and Kansas.
This is due to an incident on Lap 385 of the Bristol Night Race on Saturday where Hamlin lost a right front wheel around the time he made contact with AJ Allmendinger ...Keep reading

While all eyes were on the playoff drivers in Saturday's elimination race, Ty Gibbs stole the show as he had the most dominant performance of his entire NASCAR Cup Series career.
Making his 116th career start and still searching for his first win, Gibbs led 201 of 500 laps, but an unforced error denied him a shot at the win. During a critical round of green-flag pit stops with less than 70 laps ...Keep reading

Newly crowned WRC2 champion Oliver Solberg feels he’s done “everything he can” and is now hopeful of a graduation to the World Rally Championship’s top tier next season.
Solberg and co-driver Elliott Edmondson clinched a maiden WRC2 title in style by taking a fifth class win of the year in Chile, driving a Printsport-prepared Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 car.
The triumph is the latest ...Keep reading

Tony Stewart, 54, is still racing long beyond the end of his Hall of Fame NASCAR career. Recently, he claimed the 2025 NHRA Top Fuel regular season crown as he competes in place of his wife,  Leah Pruett, as the couple welcomed their first son Dominic earlier this year.
On Sunday, the three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion was competing in the first round of NHRA's 'Countdown to the ...Keep reading

Brad Keselowski was leading the Bristol Night Race when the final caution flag flew -- an incident he was at the epicenter of as Cole Custer merged onto the track directly in front of him, leading to an incident that left Bubba Wallace wrecked.
However, the caution wasn't a bad thing for Keselowski, who pitted for fresh tires and chose the outside for the restart. That turned out to be a ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier leads the World Rally Championship after defeating Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans to claim his fifth victory of the season and maximum points in Chile.
Seeking a record-equalling ninth world title, Ogier, who is contesting a partial season, boosted his bid after coming through a titanic battle with Evans across Chile’s 16 stages in changeable weather to win by 11.0s.
Ogier ...Keep reading

Saturday's race featured 14 cautions and 36 lead changes, but it ended with another Joe Gibbs Racing driver in Victory Lane. Carson Hocevar, Zane Smith, and Ty Gibbs all had a chance at winning their first win, and several playoff drivers had to sweat as misfortune found them.
Christopher Bell's may seem predictable, but the race was anything but as there were constant plot twists and movement ...Keep reading

Ducati general manager Gigi Dall’Igna has admitted that he has lost patience with Francesco Bagnaia amid his worsening run of form in MotoGP. 
Bagnaia came away empty handed from this weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix after struggling to 13th in the sprint and crashing out of the race while running in eighth place.
This was only the second time this season that he failed to score a point ...Keep reading