Motorsport

Japanese team Yamaha will end its relationship with riders Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins at the end of the 2026 MotoGP season. The announcement was made by the team’s parent company Yamaha Motor Co. and marks a step towards the confirmation of its new rider line-up for 2027, which will consist of Jorge Martin and Ai Ogura.
"Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. announces that Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins ...Keep reading

Aston Martin boss Adrian Newey reckons the team's revamped car planned for the Hungarian Grand Prix is enough to convince Fernando Alonso to stay for the 2027 Formula 1 campaign.
Alonso's future is highly uncertain as the 44-year-old is starting to run out of time to make the struggling Aston Martin project work, with the team slipping well behind newcomer Cadillac as F1's slowest ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen is buoyed by Red Bull's recent progress, but thinks the team is still missing a few ingredients to match Mercedes and be a regular winner, never a title challenger.
On Sunday, Verstappen finished a close second to George Russell at the Austrian Grand Prix, and over the first half of the race he appeared to have the pace to challenge Russell's ...Keep reading

Mercedes-AMG has suffered a setback at the Lausitzring after a stellar start to the season with Maro Engel's victory in Spielberg and four further podium finishes during the first two weekends in Zandvoort. Although the Lausitzring actually suits the car, the brand could not manage better than sixth place via runner-up Lucas Auer, despite a temporary double lead on Saturday.
"We had good ...Keep reading

Noah Gragson was in the headlines one week ago after feuding with ex-F1 driver Kevin Magnussen in the Dane's NASCAR Cup Series debut. They traded blows for several laps, with the full-contact back-and-forth lasting at least 13 laps before Magnussen eliminated Gragson from the race. A post-race confrontation followed, with Gragson planning to fight Magnussen before being warned not to by his ...Keep reading

At Sonoma Raceway, Chase Briscoe nearly reached the back bumper of Shane van Gisbergen in the final corner of the race. Van Gisbergen held on, winning by just 0.357s -- the closest margin of victory in any of his 14 NASCAR victories so far.
Trackhouse Racing's Stephen Doran, who works with SVG as the No. 97 crew chief, asserted that they had the slower car in the closing laps, but SVG made up ...Keep reading

F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff says the all-female racing series must operate as a commercially viable platform rather than a "charity project".
The championship has gone from strength to strength since its inaugural season in 2023. After it initially took place in front of empty grandstands and with no televised on-track action, Wolff worked to form partnerships with Formula 1 and ...Keep reading

Red Bull's extensive Austrian Grand Prix upgrade package felt like a "B-spec" car, according to the team's former mechanic Calum Nicholas, who suspects a hidden weight reduction programme played a big part in the team's return to form.
The Milton Keynes outfit arrived at the Red Bull Ring with a substantial list of updates. The official FIA documentation listed seven modifications, heavily ...Keep reading

Jack Aitken and Action Express Racing are making excellence look routine in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, even if it feels anything but ordinary from inside the cockpit.
Following a masterful performance in Sunday'’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, Aitken admitted it “feels a bit surreal” to sustain the team's relentless momentum. The victory marks the team’s second ...Keep reading

Just three tenths separated Shane van Gisbergen and Chase Briscoe in the battle for the win at Sonoma Raceway. With his eighth career victory, SVG is now tied for second on the all-time road course wins list with Tony Stewart, and just one away from Jeff Gordon's record.
Sonoma was also the final road course of the 2026 season, so it's all ovals from here to Homestead in November. While it was ...Keep reading

Defending IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship LMP2 class champions AO Racing secured their first victory of the season in dramatic fashion, capturing a thrilling class win as the LMP2 category returned to action following a three-month hiatus.
Dane Cameron held a comfortable five-second lead in the #99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2 07 with just 45 minutes remaining, but had to withstand a furious ...Keep reading

For the first time during the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, Tyler Reddick is not the championship leader. After winning the first three races of the year, Reddick held the top spot through the first 17 rounds of the season. At one point, he had a mighty 129-point lead. Just one month later, it's gone.
Reddick has finished 25th or worse in three of the last four races, and at Sonoma, a power steering ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad will commemorate his first home Formula 1 race at this weekend's British Grand Prix with a special hand-drawn helmet, created in partnership with British-Indian artist Navinder Nangla.
The 18-year-old's special helmet design features hand-drawn sketches, which have been purposefully made to look childlike, on a white background. While his usual sponsors sit ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz and Williams are having a rough start to the 2026 Formula 1 season, and the tough times continued in Austria where the Spaniard was forced to admit "we don't have reliability, we don't have pace, we don't have a car capable of scoring points”.
Williams has made no secret of its struggles this year as it battles with a car that is overweight and uncompetitive. It has so far scored ...Keep reading

Williams has unveiled a special Union Jack-inspired livery for the upcoming British Grand Prix. 
The Grove outfit will celebrate its home race at Silverstone with the new livery and special edition team kit. Adding to its usual bold, blue look, the new design features red, white and blue accents across the nose cone and chassis side. 
To accompany the new livery and team kit, Alex Albon ...Keep reading

After several European Formula 1 weekends where energy management has appeared more natural for drivers, Max Verstappen expects the British Grand Prix to be a completely different story.
Monaco represented the most natural experience so far, where drivers could push flat out throughout qualifying thanks to the many slow corners and braking zones.
According to Verstappen, the Red Bull Ring ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has argued that Williams may be forced to "sacrifice" its 2027 development programme to fix the fundamental flaws of its current challenger.
After securing fifth in the 2025 constructors' championship, Williams has endured a nightmare start under the 2026 regulations. The Grove outfit's struggles continued during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has said “you don’t expect to go around the outside of a champion” in response to Max Verstappen’s call for him to be penalised for their Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix battle.
The 2021 F1 world title rivals resumed old hostilities in two on-track tussles at the Red Bull Ring, which Hamilton called “good fun” as he successfully held off Verstappen on lap 11 before ...Keep reading

Outside of the very intense NASCAR battle to make the Chase, there is another competition to keep an eye on this summer, and this one has no actual impact on the championship ... but it does award a $1 million prize to the winner and any fortunate fans with a perfect bracket.
The In-Season Challenge got underway at Sonoma Raceway for Round 1 of 5 as part of TNT's summer stretch of Cup races ...Keep reading

Just days after confirming a new two-year MotoGP deal with Ducati, Marc Marquez has revealed that he held what he described as an "informal conversation" with Honda representatives, who explored the possibility of bringing him back to the Japanese manufacturer.
As first reported by El Periodico, the meeting took place on the Friday afternoon of last year's Valencia Grand Prix, the final round ...Keep reading