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In a move the FIA has said will bring more “transparency” to the stewarding practices of Formula 1 race weekends, motorsport’s governing body has made some of its guidelines available to the public for the first time.
Here, Motorsport.com highlights some of the interesting points from the information at hand.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem puts himself front and centre

Mohammed ben ...Keep reading

Formula 1 rolls into the Styrian mountains, which provide the backdrop to the glorious Red Bull Ring. Despite being one of the shortest circuits on the calendar, the home of the Austrian Grand Prix is one of the fastest tracks and always serves up plenty of action that you won't want to miss.
Going into this weekend's race, McLaren’s Lando Norris will be looking to make amends for crashing ...Keep reading

The FIA published its Formula 1 penalty system guidelines, which break down the levels of penalties and points applied for each offence.
The document published is strictly a guideline, much like the F1 racing guideline released simultaneously on the eve of the Austrian Grand Prix, but provides insight into the guidance the FIA stewards get over what penalties are handed out and what each ...Keep reading

The FIA has published this year's updated F1 racing guidelines as well as its penalty system amid calls for more transparency.
F1's racing guidelines, which suggest how the FIA's race stewards might judge on-track incidents, have been the subject of much debate over the past 12 months and have seen substantial changes for 2025 after several high-profile incidents last season and discussions ...Keep reading

Brad Pitt revealed that the plot of F1: The Movie took inspiration from some infamous moments in the championship’s history – notably the 2008 ‘Crashgate’ scandal that rocked the Singapore Grand Prix and resulted in bans from Formula 1 for several members of the Renault team.
At the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed in order to give an ...Keep reading

And then there was one. Perhaps we should not have been surprised to see Carlos Sainz Sr decide not to pursue a late push for the FIA presidency.
After all, last month, Mohammed Ben Sulayem received a timely boost via a letter of support signed by 36 clubs, the majority of which are based in the Americas.
The letter gushed about his leadership, with its signatories “expressing their ...Keep reading

When the Austrian Grand Prix made its world championship debut back in 1964, few would have expected it to be a calendar fixture more than 60 years later. The dreary L-shaped layout of the temporary track on Zeltweg airfield did little to sell anybody on a return to the area. 
Zeltweg briefly held on for sportscar races, but the grand prix circus only returned in 1970 after a permanent track ...Keep reading

Following a triple-header weekend at Pocono Raceway, NASCAR chose to take the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Chase Elliott and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Christopher with them back to the R&D Center for further inspection.
Both cars were fine, but that was not the case for the No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet that took part in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday ...Keep reading

NASCAR's annual All-Star Race offers no points and has no impact on the champion, but one million dollars is plenty of incentive for the drivers to give it their all. Well, it's no longer the only event that offers such a prize as NASCAR introduces an in-season tournament that will span five weeks through the entire broadcast run on TNT.
The driver who prevails in the end will collect the $1 ...Keep reading

Any long-time NASCAR fans know the name Larry McClure, as he was the co-owner at Morgan-McClure Motorsports alongside Tim Morgan and brother Jerry McClure, which operated a NASCAR team from 1983 through 2012. Larry's family confirmed that he passed away on Wednesday at Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Virginia.
McClure's race team won 14 Cup races including three Daytona 500s. They ...Keep reading

The Trackhouse Racing teammates will compete head-to-head in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Chicago Street Course in July. Shane van Gisbergen and Connor Zilisch will both be driving for JR Motorsports that weekend, running the same sponsors but with inverse paint schemes. 
SVG and Zilisch are both Red Bull athletes, but this will be the first time Red Bull has appeared on a JRM car ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz Sr has announced he will not run against Mohammed Ben Sulayem for the FIA presidency.
The two-time World Rally Championship champion had been considering putting his hat in the ring to contest Ben Sulayem in the election later this year - but has now confirmed he will not be a candidate.
Motorsport.com broke the news in May that the Dakar winner, 63, was mulling over a campaign ...Keep reading

The contentious legal battle between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR is not cooling off. This week has been a busy one with Judge Kenneth D. Bell of the Western District of North Carolina striking down the team's request to dismiss NASCAR's countersuit against them.
But the most interesting storyline off the track and in the courtroom involves the battle to obtain financial data ...Keep reading

Helmut Marko says Red Bull will introduce its latest raft of upgrades over the Austria and Silverstone grand prix weekends as it nears the end of its 2025 F1 development.
Red Bull gradually introduced revisions to the floor, sidepods and front wing across the Miami, Imola and Barcelona weekends, and its latest refinements to the 2025 car are set to arrive this weekend at its home race in ...Keep reading

As part of NASCAR's new $7.7 billion dollar broadcast deal, Amazon and Warner Brothers Discovery have become new partners alongside FOX Sports and NBC Sports. Prime Video just ended its five-race run as the Cup Series went to streaming for the very first time.
For this next leg of the season, TNT takes over for their own five-race summer stretch. TNT's stint begins with a Saturday night race at ...Keep reading

Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel says he is in early talks with Helmut Marko over succeeding the Austrian as an advisor to the Red Bull F1 team in the future.
Marko's contract with Red Bull runs until the end of 2026 and the Austrian has yet to confirm whether he wants to continue in his role beyond that season, when he will be 84.
Marko was initially brought in at the start of the ...Keep reading

Arvid Lindblad is set to take part in Friday practice at Silverstone's British Grand Prix, Red Bull's Helmut Marko has confirmed.
The 17-year-old Red Bull talent, who contests F2 with Campos, is being readied to make his grand prix weekend debut next month at Silverstone after acquiring an FIA superlicence and conducting a first fully-fledged test with Racing Bulls at Imola this week.
Briton ...Keep reading

Brad Pitt revealed he wants the chance to improve on his Formula 1 debut after just falling short of his 200mph target during a run in Lando Norris’ 2023 McLaren.
The star of F1: The Movie, Pitt got behind the wheel of a fully-fledged F1 car for the first time as part of a Testing of Previous Cars programme for McLaren at Circuit of the Americas.
Pitt, 61, plays returning racer Sonny Hayes ...Keep reading

Last week, the Kyalami circuit in South Africa announced that its plans to upgrade to FIA Grade 1, required to host a Formula 1 grand prix, had been approved by the FIA. It was hailed as a "defining moment" and a big step towards F1 returning to the country - and with it the African continent - for the first time since 1993.
The approval gives the venue a three-year timeframe to conduct the ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez believes Red Bull contributed to the toxic environment around his side of the garage during the second half of the 2024 Formula 1 season - putting unnecessary pressure on him to deliver results.
Since his abrupt departure from F1, Perez has given few interviews discussing the issues that led to the termination of his two-year contract extension, which was set to run until ...Keep reading