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World Superbike rider Iker Lecuona will replace the injured Alex Marquez at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix for the Gresini Racing MotoGP outfit.
Marquez suffered a serious crash at the Catalan Grand Prix on 17 May which forced him to miss last weekend’s Mugello race with the Spaniard also skipping the Balaton Park round.
Lecuona is therefore set to start his first MotoGP race since ...Keep reading

2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg has admitted that his infamous on-track collisions with Lewis Hamilton were sometimes the result of a deliberate, psychological decision to stop yielding and shed his natural tendency to be "too nice" on track. 
The 2016 title battle between the Mercedes team-mates remains one of the most fiercely contested intra-team rivalries in the history of the ...Keep reading

BMW factory driver Dries Vanthoor explained the collision at the IMSA race in Detroit and expressed his lack of understanding regarding the penalty handed to the #24 WRT BMW he shared with Sheldon van der Linde.
The contact triggered the second caution of the race. Vanthoor was given a drive-through penalty for incident responsibility. This dropped the #24 BMW back to ninth in the final ...Keep reading

After several heartbreaking defeats to begin the 2026 campaign in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the Briton, along with co-driver Earl Bamber, were finally able to deliver a breakthrough victory for the Whelen Cadillac on the streets of Detroit last Saturday. 
Each of the opening four rounds saw the #31 Cadillac V-Series.R on the podium, including three runner-up results ...Keep reading

After another dramatic race in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series with Richard Childress Racing at Nashville, popular YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (real name Garrett Mitchell) is getting back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Truck for the first time since his Daytoan debut in February.
Cleetus returns to the third of the three national levels of NASCAR this weekend at the two-mile Michigan ...Keep reading

After losing his ride twice since the end of 2025 season, Nick Sanchez is coming back in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.
He will drive the No. 87 Peterson Racing entry in several upcoming NASCAR O'Reilly races, starting with Pocono race on June 13. He will also compete at at Chicagoland on July 4, Atlanta on July 11, and at Indianapolis on July 25.
"I am excited and ready for this ...Keep reading

After 300 laps of racing that featured 11 cautions, 31 lead changes, and a margin of victory of just over a tenth, Denny Hamlin collected his 62nd career NASCAR Cup Series victory.
Hamlin had to face-off against his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, with the team scoring a 1-2-3, but it could have just as easily ended with all three in the outside wall.
The chaotic night of exploded brake rotors ...Keep reading

Last week, Williams announced a major coup – signing leaders from the Mercedes and Alpine Formula 1 squads, as well as McLaren’s Piers Thynne, who’ll join the Grove-based outfit in August.
Having started his career with a lengthy stint as an engineering project manager at transmission specialist Xtrac, Piers joined McLaren in the late 2000s in a similar gearbox-related capacity before ...Keep reading

The McLaren Formula 1 team unveiled a special livery for the upcoming Monaco and Barcelona grands prix to celebrate its 1000th grand prix milestone.
This weekend's Monaco round will be McLaren's 1000th in F1, coming at the exact same venue as its first start in 1966 with founder Bruce McLaren.
To commemorate the occasion, McLaren will roll out a bespoke livery in metallic papaya orange and ...Keep reading

Graham Rahal continued the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) resurgence with a third-place finish in the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.
The result didn’t come without some adversity, though, after being hit-and-spun from behind by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyffin Simpson entering Turn 3 on Lap 39.
“I don't think overall I was not very pleased in the early phase with Kyffin,” said ...Keep reading

Ferrari has unveiled Charles Leclerc's special race suit for his home race at the Monaco Grand Prix. 
Straying away from the usual predominantly red design that has become synonymous with the Maranello outfit, Leclerc will instead wear an almost all-white look. The new race suit features red accents and stripes down the sides, resembling the Monaco flag.
"To race at home is very, very ...Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 team principal Ayao Komatsu believes the 2026 regulation cars will not alter the challenges drivers are faced with at the Monaco Grand Prix. He instead argues that the Sunday race should be accepted for what it is as he points to what makes it a "very unique event".
It is famously difficult to overtake around the narrow streets of Monte Carlo, but the Monaco Grand Prix offers a ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo was typically open about his disappointment with his situation at Yamaha after trailing home second-last in the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Unusually, the Frenchman was last of the struggling Iwata marque's riders to cross the finish line. Speaking to Canal+ after the race, he admitted he hadn't been digging as deep as he usually would.
"There's really no way to look at it ...Keep reading

Times change quickly. In recent years, there had been extensive discussion about making the gearbox a standard component for all teams to reduce costs, as it was increasingly viewed as no longer being a decisive performance factor in Formula 1. Yet, with the 2026 regulation overhaul, the gearbox once again became a central aspect of car design.
The clearest example is the contrast between ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles has revealed a long-term plan for the Grove-based outfit's return to the front of the grid, targeting 2030 as the year the squad expects to be operating at a championship-winning level.
Since taking the reins at Williams, Vowles has initiated a complete top-to-bottom overhaul of the infrastructure. Despite immediate financial and logistical hurdles, the ...Keep reading

Everything points to Manu Gonzalez being in MotoGP next season if the talks he is currently having with Trackhouse come to fruition, Motorsport.com has learned.
Representatives for the current Moto2 championship leader are working hard to find a place for the rider in the premier class, after he was denied the step up last year when he led for almost the entire season but mistakes and technical ...Keep reading

Formula 2 and Formula 3 have unveiled redesigned logos ahead of this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix as part of a wider rebrand.
Working together with Formula 1 and the FIA, the two championships have refreshed their branding, with the new visual identity coming into effect immediately.
F2 retains its traditional blue colour scheme, but the logo has been simplified “for a neater and more ...Keep reading

After crashing out on Sunday at Mugello, and with 15 grands prix still remaining before his departure from Yamaha, Alex Rins is making the most of the few opportunities left to extend his MotoGP career.
Considering the obvious limitations of this year’s Yamaha and the fact that the Japanese manufacturer has already shifted much of its focus towards developing a bike for the 2027 regulations ...Keep reading

During the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen already indicated that riding bumps and kerbs remains one of Red Bull’s main weaknesses. It has been an Achilles’ heel for several years now, and despite the all-new technical regulations, that has not changed.
“Anywhere that it’s bumpy is going to be difficult for us,” Verstappen told Dutch media, including Motorsport.com, in ...Keep reading

Cal Crutchlow’s return to MotoGP at the Italian Grand Prix was cut short by a muscle tear in his left shoulder, it has been revealed.
The Briton made his first grand prix appearance in three years at Mugello, substituting for an injured Johann Zarco at the LCR Honda team.
However, he was forced to pull into the pits after just 10 out of 23 laps on Sunday, bringing a premature end to his ...Keep reading