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With Guenther Steiner arriving in MotoGP for 2026, Motorsport.com understands Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are now vying to buy a team in a championship.
Last Friday during the Catalan Grand Prix the acquisition of Tech3 by the Ikon Capital consortium was made official, in a deal that will see Steiner, the former Haas F1 team principal, arrive as new CEO.
Having agreed to the terms of ...Keep reading

A pair of Trackhouse Racing drivers have faced scrutiny overnight following the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at World Wide Technology Raceway and it may warrant a closer look from the Sanctioning Body itself.
During the cool down lap, both Ross Chastain and Shane Van Gisbergen drifted up the track up against the wall and then through the grass while transitioning onto the emergency lane ...Keep reading

The Round of 16 will come to an end after 500 high-intensity laps of racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. Two drivers are locked in, several others can breathe easy, but there is another group who will find sleep difficult in the coming days.
No one wants to be the first to fall in the playoffs, but we've seen everyone from rookies to Cup champions be eliminated after Bristol in the past. Looking ...Keep reading

Race #2 of the 2025 NASCAR Cup playoffs is now behind us, and WWT Raceway (Gateway) featured far more action than most expected. Varying strategies, some tire falloff and a flurry of yellows kept the race somewhat interesting.
However, there was no stopping Joe Gibbs Racing as Denny Hamlin led Chase Briscoe to a 1-2 finish for the team, collecting Toyota its 200th win in the Cup Series. There ...Keep reading

Just a week after his victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Max Verstappen will be back behind the wheel – even though there's no Formula 1 race. Instead, the Red Bull star will fulfil a long-held dream in the Eifel Mountains: competing in an official round of the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS).
The influential Helmut Marko remarked in Italy that Verstappen was so focused on F1 he ...Keep reading

For the past few months the rumour mill has been industriously grinding out stories signalling a variety of ‘next moves’ for Max Verstappen, ranging from leaving Red Bull for Mercedes to quitting Formula 1 entirely.Some were more far-fetched than others but Verstappen was palpably disengaged and disgruntled at grand prix weekends. Arguably the process began last year, when the RB20 slid from ...Keep reading

MotoGP will kick off the 2026 season with a special launch event in Singapore, Motorsport.com has learned.
Dorna, together with all 11 teams, has selected the city-state as the new host for the series’ collective season launch.
Singapore was chosen over Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne, the other two venues that were being considered for the presentation.
It will take over the mantle from ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff’s experience of running a team that dominated the sport for almost a decade, while also managing the internal battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, makes him an interesting observer to hear from following the Italian Grand Prix.
It is no surprise that on Sunday evening, mixed in with questions about Mercedes’ overall performance in ...Keep reading

Enea Bastianini has declared he is “back” after claiming his first podium as a KTM MotoGP rider in the Catalan Grand Prix on Sunday.
Although a mistake in qualifying left him ninth on the grid, Bastianini quickly made amends at the start, jumping to fourth by the end of lap three to put himself in podium contention.
He then set after KTM stablemate Pedro Acosta, passing him on lap 11 ...Keep reading

Lance Stroll is not a man of many words, that much is known. But his appearance in the media pen after Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix on Sunday evening was strikingly uninteresting, even by his standards.
Having just crossed the finish line 18th and last, one lap down on race winner Max Verstappen, Stroll faced a first question suggesting his strategy of running nearly 50 laps on a single set ...Keep reading

The Catalan Grand Prix differed significantly from MotoGP’s form book, as it was the first time since Silverstone that championship leader Marc Marquez didn’t have a clear advantage over the rest of the pack.
This paved the way for his younger brother Alex Marquez to end the weekend on top, but only after giving away what seemed like a sure-shot win in the sprint.
One couldn’t help but ...Keep reading

The Italian Grand Prix resulted in a dominant victory for Max Verstappen, at the track where Red Bull struggled massively last year and where Verstappen described the car as “a monster”. Twelve months on reality looked very different, helped by a specific low-downforce rear wing, a fresh Honda power unit and above all a slightly different approach to the race weekend.
“The car worked ...Keep reading

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says Formula 1's engine manufacturers are aligned in principle on a future move to V8 power units, but felt it didn't make financial sense to fast-track them before 2031.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is a driving force behind the introduction of simpler, cheaper and lighter engines for F1's future power unit formula, and was keen to make the change as early ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has revealed he had been preparing himself mentally for the moment his winning streak would come to an end in MotoGP.
The factory Ducati rider’s reign of nearly 100 days in MotoGP ended in the Catalan Grand Prix on Sunday, as he finished 1.7s behind his younger brother Alex Marquez.
Marc Marquez had gone on an incredible run in the summer following a lacklustre outing at ...Keep reading

Things are starting to look tight for Yuki Tsunoda. Much as we all like the affable Japanese Formula 1 driver, the numbers don’t lie: since stepping up from Red Bull’s B team to the main one, he has managed just nine points, while Max Verstappen has collected 194 in the same period, including three Grand Prix victories. Not even all the Campari in Milan can wash that down.
You can’t help ...Keep reading

With a year’s distance it does look like a total no-brainer, so it’s even difficult to imagine Mattia Binotto could’ve overlooked Gabriel Bortoleto in favour of anyone else through his binoculars. Yet, it really wasn’t.
It was around Monza in 2024 when rumours started to circulate around the paddock about Bortoleto being on Audi’s radar — even before his impressive "from last to ...Keep reading

Much to his father’s chagrin, Denny Hamlin does not do subtle, especially when it comes to celebrating and responding to fan jeers on the frontstretch.
For a bit, it was the ‘I just beat your favorite driver; all of them,’ and then when Dennis Hamlin (Sr.) shot that one down, his son brought up ’11 against the world,’ when he won earlier this season at Martinsville.
His dad really ...Keep reading

Porsche claimed its first World Endurance Championship Hypercar victory of the season in Austin as Laurens Vanthoor, Matt Campbell and Kevin Estre triumphed in a chaotic wet-weather race.
Estre took the lead in the #6 Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh with one hour and 45 minutes to go immediately after the sixth safety car of the race when he was able to put the Porsche’s nose alongside Alessandro ...Keep reading

The countdown has begun
You never say never, but Denny Hamlin seems to know exactly when he is going to retire, which makes seasons like this and victories like Sunday at Gateway all the more rewarding.
Hamlin will turn 45 the week after this season ends, and from the looks of it, that will leave just two more seasons after this one to accomplish all the things he wants before moving onto ...Keep reading

It's been an unusual year for Christopher Bell, who won three of the first four races this season. However, the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota hasn't been to Victory Lane in months — since March, to be exact.
What makes that fact more unusual is his team, JGR, has gone on to win five races with Denny Hamlin and two with Chase Briscoe, including the first two races of the 2025 ...Keep reading