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Tyler Reddick leads the championship standings by 60 points over Ryan Blaney, who earned an impressive victory at Phoenix Raceway last weekend.
NASCAR now heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Josh Berry is the defending race winner. He is also the most recent first-time winner in the Cup Series.
In this story, you can find all the information you need to watch this weekend's action in ...Keep reading

In the aftermath of George Russell securing pole position for the sprint race in China by 0.289s from Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli, and a substantial 0.621s from third-placed Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has moved to quell talk of a schism with its customer teams.
After qualifying for last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, when Mercedes finally showed its hand ...Keep reading

Ferrari’s ground-breaking Formula 1 rear wing, which rotates 180 degrees, returned at the Chinese Grand Prix – but the experiment was short-lived.
The wing, which was first seen in action during pre-season testing, was trialled by both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in the only free practice session of the Shanghai weekend. This featured a spin from Hamilton, when the wing closed coming ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports Germany presenter Ralf Schumacher has argued that Red Bull is now paying the price for having lost several key people in recent years, as he questioned whether its sister team Racing Bulls had done a better job over the winter break.
The Milton Keynes outfit has seen a lot of change recently, with several key personnel leaving the team. Included among ...Keep reading

Oliver Solberg continued to lead Safari Rally Kenya at the end of Friday’s morning loop as Sebastien Ogier ignited a charge to haul himself into the victory fight.
Solberg started Friday with a 33.3s lead over Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans, while carrying a margin of more than a minute over reigning world champion Ogier. By the end of the loop Solberg’s lead had been cut to 28.8s, with Ogier ...Keep reading

Mercedes' George Russell held an advantage of well over half a second to the next quickest Formula 1 team - the McLaren of Lando Norris - in sprint qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix.
This continued the Silver Arrows' bright start to the 2026 season, following on from its 1-2 finish in the Melbourne season opener. Although it was understood before the season that Mercedes was likely to ...Keep reading

1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve shared his verdict on the new regulations of the series ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.
The 2026 season welcomed a new wave of regulations to F1, which feature major changes, including a power unit with an almost 50:50 split between internal combustion and electric power, active aerodynamics, overtake mode, and smaller, lighter cars. 
The ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri labelled the Mercedes superiority as “pretty impressive” after the Silver Arrows secured yet another 1-2 in Formula 1 qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race. 
Mercedes is the team that has nailed the switch to these all-new 2026 cars, as at last weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix it secured a 1-2 in both qualifying and the race.
It continued such ...Keep reading

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen says his Friday has been a “disaster” at the Chinese Grand Prix, having qualified down in eighth for the Shanghai sprint race.
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Formula 1F1 Chinese GP: George Russell takes sprint pole in Mercedes 1-2



The four-time world champion was already eighth in the only free practice session of the weekend, no less than 1.8s off the ...Keep reading

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Former Formula 1 driver and F1 TV pundit Jolyon Palmer claimed that Williams is emerging as one of the "biggest disappointments" of the 2026 F1 season.
The Grove outfit has had a difficult start to the new regulations. After missing private testing in Barcelona due to delays with the FW48, Williams entered pre-season testing in Bahrain already playing catch-up. 
The season-opening ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli will not be punished for allegedly impeding Lando Norris during qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race as Formula 1 stewards deemed "no further action".
The Mercedes driver had just left the pitlane and was caught going slowly on the inside of Turn 1 causing Norris to back off, before reporting to his McLaren team that “I was going to push that lap” during ...Keep reading

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate battles.
This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.
When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.
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George Russell has taken pole for the sprint race of Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix, leading team-mate Kimi Antonelli for a Mercedes 1-2.
Like he did in Melbourne, Russell was fastest in all three qualifying segments at Shanghai; Mercedes outpaced rivals McLaren and Ferrari, with Max Verstappen down in eighth for Red Bull.
Russell set the tone by topping Q1 in 1m33.030s, leading the ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 season is about to have its first sprint race of the year during the Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit, and some surprises have already emerged during the one and only practice session on Friday.
In FP1, George Russell and Kimi Antonelli ended the session in a Mercedes 1-2, at a significant margin ahead of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in the McLaren ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri had the opportunity to be a grid kid for Daniil Kvyat at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix, but the then-Red Bull driver crashed on the way to the grid and so the young driver didn't get the chance to meet him. 
At the season-opening 2026 Australian Grand Prix, Piastri suffered the same fate as Kvyat when he crashed during the reconnaissance laps at the Albert Park Circuit. And ...Keep reading

The Mercedes Formula 1 team intends to acquire a stake in the rival Alpine outfit, Flavio Briatore has confirmed.
Recent reports about the potential transaction – which Motorsport clarified on Thursday involves Mercedes itself, not just Toto Wolff – have been corroborated by the Alpine team boss in Friday’s press conference at the Chinese Grand Prix.
The German brand would then buy a ...Keep reading

Safari Rally Kenya organisers have been forced to cancel stage three of the World Rally Championship event due to “deteriorating road conditions”.
Crews were scheduled to kick off Friday’s action with a second pass through the 24.35km Camp Moran stage, but the FIA confirmed that the condition of the road was not at the standard that would allow for the stage to go ahead.
“Following ...Keep reading

George Russell and Kimi Antonelli were comfortably the fastest drivers in the only practice session of Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix.
The Shanghai round is the first sprint event of the season, so Friday morning’s practice session will be followed by sprint qualifying.
Russell set the pace as the entire field ran medium tyres early on, lapping in 1m34.169s. He led Ferrari’s Charles ...Keep reading

Ty Gibbs was competing in the 2026 High Limit Racing season-opener at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway dirt track on Thursday Night, which is just outside the 1.5-mile intermediate track where the NASCAR Cup Series will be racing this weekend.
Driving a 410 winged sprint car, Gibbs was running fourth when he made contact with Corey Day -- a regular in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series ...Keep reading