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At the end of June 2024, an option lapsed that would have otherwise tied rising star Kai Allen to Dick Johnson Racing. At the time, Allen was the defending Super2 champion, and he went on to take third in the series and also raced at Sandown and Bathurst for DJR as an endurance co-driver, alongside Will Davison. 
What was strange about this relationship, however, was what happened next. It was ...Keep reading

The Aston Martin F1 team has launched its driver academy, with Spain's FIA Formula 3 driver Mari Boya as its first recruit.
A three-time Spanish karting champion, Boya will be supported by Aston Martin with what the team called a "comprehensive development programme" as he navigates the F1 feeder series ladder. 
The newly designed driver academy aims to identify and help young talent all ...Keep reading

Aprilia is awaiting medical clearance to organise a special test that could see Jorge Martin get back on the RS-GP before making his return to the MotoGP World Championship. 
The 2024 World Champion has a medical check-up scheduled for the first week of July, after the Dutch GP, which will be the tenth round of the 2025 season and the ninth race that the Spanish rider has missed due to ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 reserve driver Valtteri Bottas has emerged as a leading candidate to join the Cadillac squad when it enters the championship next season.
Senior figures at the nascent squad are due to be in attendance at the British Grand Prix at the start of next month - including team principal Graeme Lowdon and Dan Towriss, head of the TWG Group that has become the driving force behind ...Keep reading

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise hadn’t been photographed together in more than two decades before their surprise reunion at the European premiere of the F1 movie. However, this wasn't the first time that the pair's lives and careers intersected with the world of motorsport.
The A-listers, who were all smiles on the red carpet in London on Monday, starred opposite each other in the 1994 horror flick ...Keep reading

Reigning Super Formula champion Sho Tsuboi hopes Toyota’s partnership with the Haas Formula 1 team could result in an opportunity to fulfil a long-held dream of testing grand prix machinery.
Tsuboi has been tipped as a likely candidate to get mileage as part of Haas’s TPC [Testing of Previous Cars] programme with previous-generation F1 racers off the back of his maiden Super Formula title ...Keep reading

Spanish rider Alex Criville raced on two wheels for almost 15 years and in that time picked up 20 race wins, two world championships and more than 2,000 championship points.  
From his biggest rivals and the evolution of motorbike racing, to his current favourite equestrian hobbies, Criville tells us all about it, here at Motorsport. 


Watch: 'Feels like yesterday' - Álex ...Keep reading

Mercedes reintroduced the rear suspension package that it debuted at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix last time out in Canada. The update was designed to cure the rear tyre surface overheating issues that the team has experienced with its W16 Formula 1 car this year.
Following a difficult debut in Imola, Mercedes put the revised geometry to one side for the Monaco and Spain race weekends. Its ...Keep reading

Spire Motorsports has confirmed that they will be partnering with Jordan Taylor for this weekend's NASCAR Truck Series race at Lime Rock Park. It will be the first time any national division of the sport has raced at the Connecticut road course.
“I’m eager to join Spire Motorsports for the LiUNA 150,” said Taylor in a release from the team. “I have spoken with a few members of the ...Keep reading

When NASCAR heads to Atlanta this weekend to race at the newly renamed at EchoPark Speedway, 40 Cup cars will be present for what is sure to be yet another thrilling race at the Georgia track. 
The Cup Series has only reached 40 entries twice this year before Atlanta, and they were both crown jewel events. 41 cars started the Daytona 500 with the field expanding beyond max capacity due to ...Keep reading

Alex Palou led just six laps, including the final three of the 55-lap race, but that was all he needed to reach Victory Lane at Sunday’s XPEL Grand Prix at Road America. It marked the shortest time the driver of the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing car has spent out front in any of his six wins during the 2025 IndyCar season so far.
In a race that featured two cautions in the first six laps and ...Keep reading

While Chase Briscoe earned his first win since joining Joe Gibbs Racing, teams like 23XI Racing just want to put this race in the rearview. Pocono delivered some fuel-mileage drama, big hits, and a new winner, but no further escalation in the Carson Hocevar/Ricky Stenhouse Jr. feud.
There are now nine races left in the regular season, including two drafting tracks and three road/street courses ...Keep reading

At racing speeds, one of Pirelli’s blue-sidewalled ‘wet’ tyres can displace a remarkable 85 litres of water per second. The problem is that you’re more likely to see a blue moon than witness an F1 wet tyre operating at racing speeds. 
That amount of water being displaced at all four corners of an F1 car adds up to a lot of spray, so the kind of circumstances that play to the wet ...Keep reading

The European Commission has given the green light for Liberty Media to acquire MotoGP promoter Dorna more than a year after the deal was first announced.
In an official statement released this afternoon, the EC announced its approval of Liberty Media’s acquisition of Dorna “without conditions.”
“The Commission has unconditionally approved the proposed acquisition of Dorna Sports by ...Keep reading

NASCAR's in-season challenge has arrived, but what exactly is it all about? But before we get into specifics, let's be clear that this has no bearing on the actual championship in any way, shape or form.
The purpose of this bracket-style tournament is simply to provide some added excitement and engagement for fans, while also awarding a $1 million dollar prize to the driver who actually wins ...Keep reading

In terms of points on the board – which convert into dollars in the coffers once Formula 1’s prize funds are dished out – Gabriel Bortoleto has yet to deliver on his considerable early promise. Only two other drivers – Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto – are also on zero points and neither of them has driven the full season.
So it would be easy for a casual viewer to look at the 20 ...Keep reading

Formula 2 championship leader Alex Dunne will make his Formula 1 free practice debut with McLaren at the Austrian Grand Prix, taking Lando Norris' seat for Friday's FP1 session.
The Irishman is in his first F2 season, having stepped up to the series with Rodin after a single season of F3. This continues his rapid progression through the junior series ranks, in which he won 2022's British F4 ...Keep reading

Red Bull prospect Arvid Lindblad took the wheel of Racing Bull's 2023 AT04 for his first proper F1 test at Imola.
In a camouflaged car that originally ran under the team's AlphaTauri name, Lindblad split TPC [Testing of Previous Cars] duties with fellow Red Bull junior Ayumu Iwasa at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix venue. Lindblad took command of the AT04 in the morning, with Iwasa taking care of ...Keep reading

As much as McLaren will want to move on from Lando Norris' Canadian Grand Prix clash with Oscar Piastri when it comes to the subject of Austria, it will invariably remain a talking point at the Red Bull Ring race.
Norris largely headed off most of the criticism by owning up to the incident immediately after it took place. In his post-race debrief, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella also ...Keep reading

Winner: Marc Marquez 
Perhaps it is a trifle obvious to call Marc Marquez a winner considering he left the Mugello circuit with all the points on offer over the Italian Grand Prix weekend. However, the fact remains that the Spaniard was expecting far more resistance from his Italian team-mate Francesco Bagnaia. 
Having just clinched pole position in the sprint, the older Marquez brother ...Keep reading