Motorsport

"I've not performed at the level of a world champion. Simple as that."
Lando Norris took some criticism from the media last year for being too hard on himself when speaking about his own imperfections. Yet at the same time, the admission he made in Zandvoort, facing the media on Thursday ahead of the grand prix that would bring him his second career victory, was probably no more than just ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff always said it was going to be strange watching Lewis Hamilton race in the red of Ferrari – and it seems the Mercedes boss has still not quite come to terms with it.
Hamilton, who won six of his seven F1 world championships with Mercedes before leaving for Maranello this winter, struggled on his debut for the Scuderia at the Australian Grand Prix last weekend.
A few ...Keep reading

Wood Brothers Racing is the oldest active team in NASCAR, having competed in the sport's top level since the early 1950s. They were there as the sport transitioned from a small local series to a national spectacle, racing on the beaches of Daytona and later the high banks, but the iconic No. 21 car nearly disappeared from the track completely not so long ago. During the Great Recession ...Keep reading

It’s Friday afternoon of the 12 Hours of Sebring race weekend and Nico Mueller had at this point put 30 laps on the Porsche 963 of JDC Miller Motorsports. Those would be the only laps he’d put on that car before race day as the team prioritized setup for Gianmaria Bruni’s qualifying laps just a couple hours before (9th on the grid for Saturday’s race). The difference was that Mueller was ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez is in favour of allowing MotoGP riders to test their current bike before returning from an injury - but does not want the rule to be introduced right now.
During last weekend’s Argentina Grand Prix, Aprilia lodged a special request to allow its star rider Jorge Martin to test his RS-GP before making a comeback from injury.
The reigning world champion has missed the opening two ...Keep reading

Stefano Domenicali has left the door ajar for a future Formula 1 Thailand Grand Prix after seeing “impressive” plans for a street race in Bangkok.
The F1 CEO travelled to the capital of Thailand after the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and ahead of this weekend’s race in China.
Thailand has been keen to land a place on the F1 calendar for some time and previous prime minister ...Keep reading

The new Ferrari combination of Lewis Hamilton and Riccardo Adami made the airwaves and headlines during and after Formula 1’s 2025 Australian Grand Prix. But they were far from the only new driver/race engineer combo making a high-profile bow in Melbourne.
There was Richard Wood and Liam Lawson at Red Bull, Aston Martin's Andrew Vizard and Fernando Alonso, Josh Peckett and Jack Doohan for ...Keep reading

Will McLaren crush the opposition in China?
McLaren confirmed its status as the clear favourite with what should have been a 1-2 in Melbourne. The changing conditions on Sunday made it difficult to get a good read on the real gap, but the almost four-tenths of a second advantage over Red Bull's Max Verstappen in qualifying tells at least something. One could argue that Albert Park hasn't ...Keep reading

Since the first season of F1 Academy in 2023, there has been a notable growth in the involvement of women and girls in motorsport - whether that be in karting, a career within the industry, or just simply as a fan.
Formula 1 is, and always has been, a male dominated championship. There has not been a female driver to regularly contest F1 since Lella Lombardi in 1976, and only five women drivers ...Keep reading

Ferrari drivers are always the centre of attention in F1 paddocks around the world. But the signing of Lewis Hamilton took the Ferrari craze in Melbourne to another level at last weekend's Australian Grand Prix, with red tifosi hats competing with the papaya-orange-clad supporters of McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris as they witnessed a seven-time world champion gearing up for his debut in ...Keep reading

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