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Erik Jones finished 24th in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville, one lap down. Thanks to a fifth-place finish in the opening stage, he managed to score a total of 19 points. Unfortunately for Jones, he will now leave Martinsville with just a single point due to problems in post-race inspection.
While the race-winning No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin was cleared without issue ...Keep reading

After rain fell shortly before the race start, the red flag shown by race direction just before the warm-up lap, moments after polesitter Marc Marquez abandoned his bike on the grid set up for wet running to switch to his dry bike in pitlane.
Upon seeing Marc Marquez leave his position and his bike, nine other riders followed him, creating a mess, with people running up and down the pitlane in ...Keep reading

Joey Logano won the opening stage at Martinsville Speedway and went on to earn his first top-ten finish of the year, but he still leaves the Virginia short track frustrated.
The three-time and reigning Cup Series champion was battling hard on a late-race restart when Ross Chastain cut down in front of Logano, in an effort to get back to the bottom lane on a restart. He did clear the No. 22 Team ...Keep reading

It was a dominant showing for Denny Hamlin at Martinsville, leading over half the race (274 of 400 laps) in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. This is Hamlin's first win of the 2025 season and the 55th of his career -- tying Rusty Wallace for 11th on the all-time wins list. It was also the first victory for Hamlin with new crew chief Chris Gayle, as well as his first with new sponsor ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia took full advantage of his factory Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez crashing out of the lead to take an emotional victory in a chaotic Americas GP.
Bagnaia made no mistake after inheriting the lead from Marquez, who had won every sprint and grand prix of the season up until today.
The error was enough for Marc to lose the lead of the world championship to his brother Alex ...Keep reading

Just 30 minutes before the start of the MotoGP race, light rain appeared, prompting race officials to declare a flag-to-flag race — resulting in total chaos.
As the Americas GP was about to begin, everything started to go wrong, with the unexpected arrival of rain and a crash involving Fabio Quartararo as he made his way to the grid on the formation lap. Once on the grid, all the riders, set ...Keep reading

The FIA has given a further clarification over its decision to keep tightening Formula 1's rear wing deflection tests, and defended the delay of its stricter front wing tests until the Spanish Grand Prix.
Over the last few years exploiting aero-elasticity has emerged as a key tool to keep this generation of ground-effect cars balanced between faster and slower corners, so much so that teams ...Keep reading

Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso – in his 22nd Formula 1 campaign – is still encountering a new experience. It’s not just the six rookie racers on the 2025 grid. In Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto, he’s racing his own official protege.
Since 2023, Bortoleto has been a part of Alonso’s A14 driver management stable.
This is run by Albert Resclosa Coll and Alberto Fernandez Albilares ...Keep reading

Hundreds of Formula 1 fans lined the streets of Tokyo for one last chance to visit Honda's Aoyama headquarters, the elegant white high-rise a stone's throw away from the Olympic Stadium that hosted the 2021 summer games.
The iconic Aoyama building is set to be closed and redeveloped, with a new, state-of-the-art headquarters to be built by 2030 on the same site. Sunday's closing ceremony ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda says he is targeting a podium spot at next week's Japanese Grand Prix as he reacts to his shock Red Bull switch for the remainder of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
As anticipated by Motorsport.com in China last weekend, Red Bull confirmed on Thursday that it would promote Tsunoda to the seat alongside Max Verstappen meaning Liam Lawson is back at Racing Bulls after two difficult ...Keep reading

The NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville featured 14 cautions and one red flag, with 104 of 256 laps run under yellow flag conditions. It was a rough short track race with contact all around the half-mile, culminating in a controversial finish where Sammy Smith came from several car lengths back to wreck race leader Taylor Gray. The move triggered a massive accident that eliminated Smith from ...Keep reading

Taylor Gray was attempting to win for the first time in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career, while Sammy Smith was aiming to deny him on Saturday night. Through a series of restarts and a red flag, as the race became a crash fest, tensions mounted between the two leaders.
With only a few laps remaining, Smith ended up moving Gray, snatching the top spot away just before the race was pushed into ...Keep reading

Austin Hill wasn't even in the conversation on the final restart, but the chaos that followed presented him with the opportunity to earn Richard Childress Racing its 100th win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In the end, Hill only led across the line on lap 250 -- the last lap.
Taylor Gray lined up behind Sammy Smith for the final restart at Martinsville, quickly snatching the lead away for the ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia says his confidence is returning after a stirring battle with factory Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez on the first lap of Saturday’s Americas GP sprint.
While Marquez ultimately led every lap of the race to maintain his perfect win record in 2025, Bagnaia nosed ahead of his team-mate on no less than three occasions on the field’s first tour of COTA.
Although Bagnaia was ...Keep reading

Factory Ducati star Marc Marquez maintained his perfect 2025 record by converting pole position to victory in an absorbing Americas Grand Prix sprint race on Saturday. 
As in every sprint and grand prix this year so far, the six-time MotoGP champion was followed home by his brother Alex on the Gresini Ducati. But this race was more exciting than anything 2025 had delivered so far.
Francesco ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell earned his 14th career pole and his first of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, lapping the historic short track in 19.754s. Bell will be joined on the front row by Chase Elliott, who missed out on pole by 0.017s.
Bell, who already has three wins this year, is also a former winner at Martinsville, taking victory there late in the 2022 season.
A ...Keep reading

In the middle of Group B practice at Martinsville Speedway, Justin Haley took his No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet out onto the track for his 20th lap.
Unfortunately for Haley, the hood pins were not secured. While throttling up on the frontstretch, the hood shot up and wrapped around the windshield, momentarily blinding him as he locked up the brakes into Turn 1.
"It broke the hood," Haley ...Keep reading

Was it a mistake for Red Bull to pick Liam Lawson over Yuki Tsunoda in the first place? Why wasn’t the New Zealander allowed to race for the team in Japan, a track he knows well? What did Max Verstappen think of the decision? And is Red Bull risking its long-term future by continuing to build the car around a single driver?
Here’s Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko’s detailed take on the ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez sealed a third consecutive pole position of the season at the Americas Grand Prix meaning it is his first qualifying hat-trick since 2019. 
The factory Ducati rider, who has also won both sprint races and grands prix this season, will lead an all-Ducati front row alongside Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) and younger brother Alex Marquez (Gresini).
It is the first time in 2025 that ...Keep reading

When Yuki Tsunoda starts the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, he will become the 14th driver to compete for Red Bull Racing in a Formula 1 race. The pressure will be immense not only because he's suddenly been promoted to the A-team, but add in the fact that he's replacing Liam Lawson after just two races and that this is all happening around his home race. In the end, a points result would be ...Keep reading