Motorsport

Ferrari will head into the 2026 World Endurance Championship with small updates to its title-winning 499P Le Mans Hypercar.
Although the Italian manufacturer has opted against using any additional evo jokers from the five available to it during the initial five-year lifecycle of the car, it is making minor revisions to the aerodynamics of its LMH prototype as it bids for a fourth consecutive ...Keep reading

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has defended the Scuderia’s decision to focus its resources on Formula 1’s new regulations for 2026, despite its slump in performance.
All teams have had tough decisions to make ahead of F1’s new technical era, with their resources limited by the budget cap and aerodynamic testing restrictions.
Vasseur said on Friday that Ferrari switched all of ...Keep reading

The maiden Supercars season to feature a Finals system over-delivered on one thing it was expected to provide: a lot of talking points.
Even as Chaz Mostert and the Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford team celebrated their drivers’ title victory in Adelaide, debate was raging about whether it was a fair result from a flawed system.
How Mostert and WAU won revealed something that few might have ...Keep reading

Let’s start with the clearest point: anyone who takes part in a harassment campaign is directly responsible for it. Whether it’s an anonymous, barely followed social media account or a public figure with thousands of readers, nobody is entitled to pour out crude, idiotic hatred at someone else. There is certainly no justification for such behaviour.
With that premise established, we can ...Keep reading

Formula 2 champion Leonardo Fornaroli has been signed to McLaren's driver development programme, and will occupy a role as the Formula 1 team's test and development driver.
Fornaroli secured back-to-back F3 and F2 titles, following in the footsteps of Gabriel Bortoleto - another former McLaren development prospect - by winning the F3 title with Trident in 2024, before taking the F2 title with ...Keep reading

The 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit trial began in earnest on Monday and included jury selection, opening statements by both parties and the partial testimony of the first witness.
Denny Hamlin.
Between the partial testimony of the co-owner of 23XI, which was conducted by Jeanifer Parsigian, a partner at Winston & Strawn, and the opening statement delivered ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton admitted he "had no idea" that Max Verstappen had won the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix during an eventful interview following the race. 
The seven-time Formula 1 champion endured a tough weekend at the Losail circuit where he was consistently complaining about his Ferrari machinery before finishing outside the points in Sunday's grand prix. But when he was asked about the title fight ...Keep reading

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has celebrated Doriane Pin's F1 Academy championship victory by putting up a billboard-style display at the team's headquarters in Brackley.
The team shared a video of Pin seeing the display for the first time. "SURPRISE! Celebrating Doriane Pin’s F1 Academy title in style at Lauda Drive," it wrote.
 
Pin arrived at Brackley to a warm welcome from the team ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson claimed the 25-lap limit at the Qatar Grand Prix led to a "pretty pointless" race after a safety car on lap 7 left all but two drivers on the same strategy, and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton argued that it was one of the "worst" grands prix strategically.
The safety car was deployed at the Losail International Circuit on lap 7 due to a collision between ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles described the team's fifth place in the 2025 constructors' championship as a "dream come true".
Carlos Sainz secured his second podium of the season with a third-place finish at the Qatar Grand Prix, bringing home 15 points for the team, securing fifth in the constructors' championship ahead of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. 
Reflecting on the ...Keep reading

Aston Martin’s 2026 Formula 1 car will be unveiled on 9 February, the team has announced in a succinct social media post.
Aston Martin simply published “AMR26 arrives”, confirming its upcoming challenger’s name in keeping with its nomenclature, followed by the date of the launch.
The Silverstone-based outfit is the first to announce the date for its 2026 F1 car reveal – Red Bull ...Keep reading

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur said the Scuderia failed to adapt to the mandated tyre pressures at the Qatar Grand Prix, leading to its worst Formula 1 performance of the year.
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton qualified ninth and 18th for the sprint, 10th and 18th for the grand prix, and scored a meagre four points over the weekend – their worst haul this season apart from their ...Keep reading

Valtteri Bottas has poked fun at Red Bull for an error during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend over the team radio.
Yuki Tsunoda's Red Bull race engineer informed the Japanese driver, "Bottas opening behind. Bottas opening behind," to which the 25-year-old quipped, "I didn't know Bottas was driving, mate?" The cameras cut to the Finnish driver in the Mercedes garage looking straight down the camera ...Keep reading

Several Formula 1 team principals says they were "very surprised" to see McLaren make the costly decision not to pit under a lap 7 safety car at the Qatar Grand Prix, which cost Oscar Piastri a certain victory and Lando Norris a podium.
Piastri and Norris were running first and third in the superior McLaren, split at the start by Max Verstappen, when the safety car came out on lap 7 for a ...Keep reading

World Rally Championship drivers feel Rally Saudi Arabia’s unique challenges deserve a place on the calendar, but the event is too extreme for the cars and tyres to host a title decider.
Saudi Arabia made its WRC debut at the weekend after signing 10-year deal with the championship to host the final round for at least five years of the deal. The rally, based out of Jeddah, delivered a ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc revealed that the most exciting part of his race during the Qatar Grand Prix was calculating the championship points in the title battle between Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen.
The Ferrari driver suffered a difficult weekend, along with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Leclerc finished eighth with Hamilton behind in 12th. As he struggled to find confidence and pace ...Keep reading

Martin Brundle argued that McLaren's 'papaya rules' were not to blame for the Woking outfit's Qatar Grand Prix error, but the team just "read it wrong".
McLaren was the only team not to capitalise on the early safety car on the seventh lap of the Qatar Grand Prix. The team claimed at the time that pitting would have limited its strategy for the remainder of the race due to the 25-lap tyre ...Keep reading

Red Bull's talks with Honda over an engine deal to retain its V6 turbo-hybrid powertrains for testing of previous cars running could present a lifeline for Yuki Tsunoda to retain Formula 1 involvement, as he looks set to lose a race drive for 2026.
The team will announce its 2026 driver line-up on Tuesday, but Motorsport.com understands that Isack Hadjar will become Max Verstappen's new ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso claimed there was "a spirit inside the car" which led to a 360-degree spin during the Qatar Grand Prix.
The Aston Martin driver suffered a spin at Turn 10 after losing control of his "hypersensitive" AMR25, which cost him two positions. After starting from eighth on the grid, he managed to get into the top six before the spin and ultimately finished the race in ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has argued that McLaren is so "afraid of making decisions" that it is hampering Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri's drivers' championship fight.
McLaren was the only team not to pit under the early safety car at the Qatar Grand Prix. While the Woking outfit argued at the time that it gave them more flexibility in strategy for the remainder of the race, it ...Keep reading