Motorsport

The 210th different winner in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series is Ryan Preece, breaking through in his 249th career start at Daytona International Speedway. 
The victory came on the same weekend where another Ryan -- Ryan Sieg, earned his first NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series win in his 424th career start. That's a record for the secondary level of NASCAR, but what about Cup?
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Carson Hocevar was in contention to win at Daytona on Saturday, but when he made what he hoped would be the race-deciding move for the lead, he instead wrecked, bringing out the yellow flag and sending the race to overtime.
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, Hocevar seemed somewhat bewildered by how the scene played out.
"These noses have a lot more lift, and I was a lot tighter on ...Keep reading

The McLaren Formula 1 team will introduce the H-Wing, its own version of the rotating rear wing, at this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
McLaren had been working on its own interpretation of the upside-down rear wing, which rotates 180 degrees between cornering mode and straight mode, for some time after seeing Ferrari introduce it during winter testing.
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After starting the 2026 Formula 1 season strongly, Haas admits that it has been overtaken and out-developed by its rivals this year. However, team boss Ayao Komatsu and driver Oliver Bearman both remain hopeful that it can catch back up with the pack “soon”.
Haas has traditionally started the season strong, and continued this tradition in 2026 when it picked up points in the first three ...Keep reading

Mahindra may have been the last manufacturer to begin the test programme for its Gen4 challenger, but there is optimism within the camp that it will be able to catch up to its rivals, even if it ends up starting the 2026-27 Formula E season on the back foot.
The Indian manufacturer pulled off one of the most remarkable transformations in Formula E history, going from being the slowest ...Keep reading

Rinus VeeKay was on a mission at The Milwaukee Mile, carving through the field from 24th on the grid to claim a third-place finish in the rain-suspended two-part Race 1 after executing a bold pass on Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin with just four laps remaining in the 250-lap contest.
The performance marked the 25-year-old Dutchman’s first podium since his runner-up result at Toronto last ...Keep reading

2026 has been a fun season for NASCAR fans interested in numerology, specifically in relation to race-winning car numbers.
Tyler Reddick was the first driver to ever win the Daytona 500 with the No. 45, while it also became the 31st different car number to win NASCAR's biggest race.
Shane van Gisbergen finally got to drive his No. 97 in the Cup Series, and was the first driver in 21 years to ...Keep reading

Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur says rival teams copying its innovative Formula 1 designs is a "good reward" for Maranello.
Ferrari came into the 2026 regulations cycle with a striking car, the SF-26, which featured a number of intriguing areas of innovation.
At winter testing in Bahrain, the team attached a winglet to the structure behind the exhaust, internally dubbed Flick Tail Mode ...Keep reading

When Toto Wolff held his annual media session with the Dutch press at Zandvoort a year ago, Kimi Antonelli was in the middle of the struggles that characterised the European part of his season. The then-rookie showed some moments of brilliance in Miami and Canada, but those were interspersed with difficult race weekends during his Formula 1 debut.
At the time, Wolff often summed it up as ...Keep reading

Following Fabio Quartararo’s criticism and his stated intention to stop assisting Yamaha in MotoGP, the manufacturer has hit back by calling the Frenchman to order over his behaviour.
The impending split between Quartararo and Yamaha in MotoGP has arguably never seemed as long and drawn-out as it has since the Aragon weekend. Aside from a notably poor performance by Quartararo, tensions ...Keep reading

Jorge Martin’s lacklustre performance at the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix was track-specific rather than indicative of a wider problem with his Aprilia.
The 2024 MotoGP champion never appeared to be a frontrunner at MotorLand, qualifying half a second off pole and finishing well behind the podium runners in fifth.
This was a marked downturn from his outing at Silverstone just three weeks ...Keep reading

Ferrari will "push until the end" of the 2026 Formula 1 season with car upgrades, team principal Fred Vasseur confirmed, as he shrugged off suggestions the team will have to slow down its development because of cost cap limitations.
Ferrari has rolled out an impressive number of incremental upgrades to its 2026 challenger, the SF-26, which have kept the squad in second place in the ...Keep reading

Ferrari has taken the covers off a one-off livery for its Monza home race, paying tribute to its most successful driver Michael Schumacher.
The Ferrari SF-26 driven by Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc will turn extra red for the occasion, losing the white tone on the engine cover. Hamilton's and Leclerc's driver number decals will also switch to a retro font. In between the driver numbers and ...Keep reading

Mario Andretti and Jacky Ickx were remarkably versatile even by the standards of their generation, competing and succeeding across multiple disciplines. Having won some of the biggest prizes in motorsport between them, both can look back on their journeys with immense pride. 
But competition was only one part of the story, and the relationship Andretti and Ickx built stands out from the rest ...Keep reading

Ryan Blaney was heading towards a strong result at Daytona on Saturday.
Blaney had gotten through the initial chaos that wrecked a large portion of the field during the final lap and was racing towards the finish line.
But before he could get there, Blaney got spun, with the No. 47 of Ricky Stenhouse Jr making contact with the No. 12 and sending him into the wall, bringing out the ...Keep reading

Joey Logano came into the NASCAR Cup Series with massive expectations on his shoulders.
After earning the nickname "Sliced Bread" as a teenager, Logano was able to win his third race in what is now the O'Reilly Series, and was shotgunned into the seat of the No. 20 at Joe Gibbs Racing at just 18 years old. But his initial stint in the Cup Series sputtered out — after three years at JGR ...Keep reading

The fourth and final crown jewel in the NASCAR Cup season is this weekend, as the 2026 edition of The Chase gets underway at Darlington Raceway. This weekend, the historic track will host the 77th running of the Southern 500, which has been a part of the Cup schedule since 1950.
38 drivers are teams are entering this weekend's race, the lowest for any crown jewels this year but also comparable ...Keep reading

Joey Logano has been talented beyond his years behind the wheel of a car since he was a little kid. As it turns out, for a while he was actually a bit too talented beyond his years, and it came back to bite him.
Speaking as a guest on the Racin' With the Boys podcast, Logano told the story of his father forging a birth certificate for him when he was 10 years old so he could race against kids ...Keep reading

Current Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli has opened up about how he is keeping himself grounded in the 2026 title fight.
In only his second season in F1, Antonelli became the youngest driver to lead the standings with back-to-back wins in China and Japan. Since then, he secured four more grand prix victories before the summer break and now finds himself thrown into the championship ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell must secure a victory at the upcoming Italian Grand Prix to keep his championship ambitions alive, according to former Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer.
Speaking on the F1 Nation podcast, Palmer assessed the title picture following a dramatic Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. McLaren's Lando Norris took a commanding victory in the Netherlands ahead of the Mercedes duo ...Keep reading