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Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing have dominated the NASCAR Cup at Las Vegas for the last three seasons, which has also been the case in the first four races of the new year. But Sunday showcased the strengths of drivers outside of the Hendrick and JGR-circle like Berry, Suarez, and Preece as they raced towards the front. The plethora of pit road issues for some of the sport's biggest ...Keep reading

Winner: Marc Marquez

Marc Marquez, Ducati Team
Photo by: Ducati Corse

If his Thai GP win on the opening weekend of the season was remarkable only for its sheer dominance, Marc’s defeat of his brother Alex in Argentina was a real testament to his ability to adapt under pressure. Despite being stretched to the limit and losing the lead for much of the race, Marc changed his ...Keep reading

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko was left unimpressed by Isack Hadjar’s behavior after the French Formula 1 driver burst into tears at the Australian Grand Prix.
Hadjar’s misery stemmed from his wet-weather crash on the formation lap of the Albert Park race, which happened as early as Turn 2 and meant he was unable to take his very first grand prix start.
Hadjar was inconsolable on his way ...Keep reading

Red Bull is aiming to introduce upgrades within "three to five races" to cure its main deficit compared to McLaren, says team advisor Helmut Marko.
The team of world champion Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson has started the new season behind defending constructors' champion McLaren, which had already been quickest in Bahrain testing and confirmed its form in the opening Australian Grand ...Keep reading

Joshua Fernandes takes the plaudits as the first-ever leader of the Motorsport: Race our Writers league after a fine opening weekend of the F1 Fantasy competition.
Having deployed the ‘Extra DRS’ chip on race winner Lando Norris, Fernandes bagged 3x points for the man who took the chequered flag at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Teaming Norris up with McLaren as one of the two ...Keep reading

The FIA is imposing stricter load deflection tests for Formula 1 rear wings at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix after analysing Melbourne footage.
As part of a clampdown on teams exploiting aerodynamic elasticity to an undesirable degree, the FIA told teams over the off-season that it would impose stricter loads tests for both front and rear wings.
The front wing clampdown will be ...Keep reading

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has admitted the Scuderia made a mistake in leaving its drivers out on slick tyres for so long when a shower disrupted the late stages of Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix.
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were running in fifth and eighth, 42 laps into an eventful mixed-weather race, as the rain returned.
Leclerc was overtaken by Yuki Tsunoda the ...Keep reading

For the first time in the hybrid era, McLaren travelled to Formula 1's curtain raiser as the undisputed pre-season favourite. It came out of the Bahrain test leading our long-run calculations quite handsomely, and after Friday practice in Melbourne rivals were also putting the papaya squad at least three tenths ahead.
Simulations and calculations are one thing, but on Saturday afternoon McLaren ...Keep reading

It might sound a little strange to suggest that one of the winners from the Supercars races at Albert Park was Cameron Waters.
After all, his clean sweep at Sydney Motorsport Park last month marked Waters as the driver to beat to the championship. Three poles, three wins and three fastest laps in the three races is an achievement rarely seen in a series like Supercars, where the cars are very ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell was hoping to become just the eighth driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win four consecutive Cup races, but it didn't work out that way for the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
The problems began even before the race did, qualifying 13th before being forced to the rear of the field after the team opted to swap out the throttle body. He marched forward in the ...Keep reading

Daniel Suarez now has two runner-up finishes since his most recent victory in the Cup Series, which came just over a year ago at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
In both of his most recent second-place finishes, Suarez had his Trackhouse teammate Ross Chastain behind him on the final restart, but in both situations, it still wasn't quite enough to secure the victory. On Sunday, Chastain did manage to ...Keep reading

Josh Berry has joined an exclusive list of 20 drivers who have found victory lane with NASCAR's oldest team. Piloting the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford Mustang, Berry had to battle around Daniel Suarez to become the newest winner in the NASCAR Cup Series.
"I don't even know what to think," said Berry, who won for the first time in his 53rd start on Sunday. "Just awesome. I love this track. Las ...Keep reading

MotoGP rookie Ai Ogura has been disqualified from Sunday’s Argentina Grand Prix following a technical irregularity on his Trackhouse Racing Aprilia.
The decision means the Japanese rider loses his impressive eighth place, to which he battled from 15th on the starting grid. He also loses the eight points he would have earned.
According to a statement issued by the stewards on Sunday evening ...Keep reading

Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia says his problems getting comfortable aboard the GP25 on the first two weekends of this season are no worse than they were in the early part of 2024. But the Italian understands this season’s issues are costing him more in the light of the competition he faces this year.
The two-time world champion now has a points deficit of 31 to his new team-mate at ...Keep reading

Argentina Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez says he views his brother Alex – not factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia – as his main opponent for this year’s MotoGP world championship.
Alex, who rides a year-old GP24 Ducati for the Gresini team, has finished second to Marc in both sprints and both grands prix so far this season. But this represents the most successful streak of the ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez made it four victories out of four to start the 2025 MotoGP season by winning the Argentina Grand Prix at Termas de Rio Hondo on Sunday. 
The six-time world champion fought a little harder for this win than the previous three, as he lost the lead to Alex Marquez for the middle part of the race following what appeared to be a genuine mistake. But he seized it back with four laps to ...Keep reading

IMSA is only two races into its 2025 season, and already it has presented an impressive 36 hours of racing between four classes, with more than 200 drivers and over 60 cars featuring future technologies — cars you could have in your own garage (just racier). Few series can tout that kind of span or depth, and that’s before the green flag drops at a notoriously difficult Sebring Raceway ...Keep reading

The reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano has experienced a rollercoaster start to the season, hoping to claim his fourth title in 2025.
The Team Penske driver led 43 laps before crashing out of the Daytona 500 due to an argument over space between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and himself. At Atlanta, he led 34 laps before fading late and finishing 12th. He didn't lead any laps at COTA, but he ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell is seeking to become the first person since 2007 to win four consecutive NASCAR Cup Series races, and he recently spoke with the last driver to successfully accomplish the impressive feat – seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson.
“It is still the coolest thing in the world to me that I have Jimmie Johnson in my phone,” said Bell during a media availability over the ...Keep reading