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Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri thinks his 34-point lead on McLaren team-mate Lando Norris is "not a comfortable" gap after his title rival retired from the Dutch Grand Prix.
Piastri and Norris looked set to hand McLaren another comfortable 1-2 in Zandvoort until Norris retired with undiagnosed mechanical issues with seven laps remaining.
Norris' misfortune significantly swung ...Keep reading

Beginning the NASCAR Cup Playoffs with a pole position in the Southern 500 is a great start, as Denny Hamlin embarks on his 19th appearance in the postseason.
Hamlin remains Cup-less despite 58 career wins and nine different seasons where he finished inside the top five in points. And while a contentious lawsuit rages in the background, Hamlin recently said he won't "let anyone distract me" in ...Keep reading

Sébastien Ogier boosted his bid for a record-equalling ninth World Rally Championship title by recording a stunning fightback from eighth to win the inaugural Rally Paraguay. 
Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais bounced back from an early puncture for a fourth win of their partial 2025 campaign on Paraguay’s unknown and unforgiving gravel stages that yielded plenty of drama. 
They ...Keep reading

What looked like a straightforward one-stop race became an incident-filled event punctuated by several safety cars. Oscar Piastri kept his cool and collected a momentous win, while disaster befell his McLaren companion and title rival Lando Norris.
Meanwhile, several midfielders capitalised on the chaos to make it into the winners' column…
Winner: Oscar Piastri

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It’s hard to argue: after Zandvoort, Oscar Piastri has emerged as the clear favourite for the 2025 title. With another dominant performance converted into victory, he now leads the championship by 34 points — the biggest margin so far this year.
With such a cushion and only nine races to go, Piastri doesn’t need to win every weekend. Simply finishing right behind Lando Norris on most ...Keep reading

Andrea Kimi Antonelli will now “think twice” before attempting a repeat of the move that ultimately caused a collision with Charles Leclerc during the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix.
Leclerc retired on lap 53 after his Ferrari spun into the Turn 3 barrier, as he was clipped by the Mercedes of Antonelli, who was attempting a risky overtake on the inside. 
It came after Mercedes pitted its ...Keep reading

McLaren's Lando Norris acknowledged his 2025 Formula 1 title bid has "only been made harder" by his Dutch Grand Prix retirement - adding the gap to Oscar Piastri is now so big he can just drive all out in the remaining races.
Norris was pipped to pole by team-mate Piastri by 0.012s and looked set to collect a straightforward runner-up finish to limit the damage to his title rival to a ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc has put all the blame on Andrea Kimi Antonelli for their collision during the latter half of the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix. 
The Ferrari driver retired on lap 53 after being tagged at Turn 3 by Antonelli, who was on the inside and clipped the rear-left of Leclerc’s SF-25, which subsequently spun into the barrier.
It came after Mercedes pitted Antonelli for soft tyres on ...Keep reading

Formula 1 rookie Isack Hadjar has said his maiden podium felt "unreal" after claiming third for Racing Bulls at the Dutch Grand Prix.
Hadjar qualified a stellar fourth in Zandvoort on Saturday and looked set to stay there after a well controlled race, shadowing Red Bull's Max Verstappen every step of the way.
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Norris’ championship takes a huge hit
It wasn’t the weekend Lando Norris was hoping for. Zandvoort has usually been “his” territory, but Oscar Piastri stepped up massively — not only compared to the last two years, but also across this weekend — and was on course to extend his lead with another victory.
Instead, Norris’ race ended a few laps before the chequered flag, and the ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri has boosted his Formula 1 2025 title hopes by winning the Dutch Grand Prix from pole, while McLaren team-mate and rival Lando Norris retired from second with mechanical issues.
Piastri and Norris looked set to score a straightforward fifth consecutive 1-2 finish for McLaren after the Australian kept his lead into Turn 1 and the Briton recovered the position he lost to Red Bull's ...Keep reading

Aston Martin was the surprise of Friday practice at the Dutch Grand Prix, yet Fernando Alonso knew that reality would strike in the Formula 1 qualifying session on Saturday.
The Spaniard will start today’s race at Zandvoort in 10th with team-mate Lance Stroll at the back, the Canadian’s crash in Q1 meaning he failed to set a laptime. 
This is despite the pair finishing inside the top ...Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 driver Oliver Bearman will start from the pitlane in Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix after taking a brand-new power unit, making the most of a woeful qualifying session.
The British rookie had been facing a grid penalty as he was on the fourth power unit for the season, the maximum number allowed under the regulations.
Qualifying a disastrous 19th for an expected one-stop race at ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton may have been outqualified by Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc for a fourth consecutive time at the Dutch Grand Prix, but he still had reasons to smile.
Unlike both Spa-Francorchamps sessions – where he was out in Q1 – and his Hungarian Q2 exit, Hamilton made it to the last segment of qualifying for the first time since the British GP. The Englishman outpaced ...Keep reading

Silverstone’s hopes of returning to the World Endurance Championship have been boosted by confirmation that any calendar expansion for 2027 would come with an additional race in Europe. 
Series boss Frederic Lequien replied “definitely” when asked by Motorsport.com if a ninth race for the season after next would be in Europe. 
But he refused to be drawn on whether Silvestone, which ...Keep reading

Pirelli’s ongoing quest to provide strategic variation has come up short at Zandvoort, largely owing to the relatively short lap (4.259km) and the narrowness of its layout. Overtaking hasn’t been easy here given the speed of modern F1 cars, even with the conversion of the final corner to a banked profile. A narrow, crowded lap naturally prompts teams to default to a one-stop strategy here to ...Keep reading

As expected, McLaren locked out the front row for Formula 1's Dutch Grand Prix. The outcome was, however, slightly surprising in two ways.
Firstly, Oscar Piastri struck when it mattered most, despite Lando Norris having had the edge in all practice sessions. Secondly, the gap to Max Verstappen was significantly smaller than anticipated after FP3. During that final practice session, McLaren had ...Keep reading

Rally Paraguay leader Sebastien Ogier says the fight for victory is “not over” and “many things can still happen” following a stunning fight back from eighth.
The eight-time world champion has so far endured an eventful maiden visit to Paraguay, beginning with a puncture on Friday’s second stage that cost the Toyotas more than half a minute.
After dropping to eighth, Ogier reeled ...Keep reading

The competition eventually solved it for him but Connor Zilisch was having a leisurely uneventful drive on Saturday in the Xfinity Series race at Portland.
He was downright bored by his own admission.
Zilisch led the first 67 laps, and since this was a standalone road course race, he couldn't even lose the lead on pit road, allowing him to just drive away over the course of two green flag ...Keep reading

In the field for Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity race at Portland, were two names that Supercars fans are likely very familiar with.
Will Brown, driving the No. 11 Chevrolet for Kaulig Racing, is the defending Supercars champion, while Jack Perkins, driving the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, is a veteran of over 150 races in Supercars. Both are from Australia, and each were eager to take on the ...Keep reading