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Sergio Perez says the struggles of his Red Bull replacements show that he has nothing to prove on his Formula 1 return with Cadillac.
On Tuesday, Perez and fellow F1 veteran and multiple race winner Valtteri Bottas were presented as the experience pair that will lead Cadillac's charge in 2026 as F1's 11th team. The news means the 35-year-old Mexican will return to the grid after an enforced ...Keep reading

William Byron finished his regular season championship run with a lead lap, 19th place finish on Saturday at Daytona but completed the 26-race stretch without crew chief Rudy Fugle due to an inspection infraction on Friday.
NASCAR issued the following statement after the inspection process was completed.
“On their second attempt through inspections after passing all stations they were ...Keep reading

The dates and venues for MotoGP’s 2026 pre-season tests remain undecided, with the delay stemming from uncertainty regarding the city that will host the season launch, Motorsport.com understands.
The calendar for the 2026 season was unveiled just over a month ago, featuring 22 grands prix including Brazil’s return as the second round.
After an inaugural event in Bangkok this year, the ...Keep reading

“Mick Schumacher snubbed” is one of the more outre – if suitably attention-grabbing – headline takes on the news that Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez will drive for Cadillac when the General Motors brand appears on the F1 grid next season.
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Six seats remain available on the 2026 F1 grid following the announcement that Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas will drive for the new Cadillac team.
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Cadillac F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon says signing experienced grand prix winners Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez to the programme is a "bold signal of intent".
On Tuesday the TWG Motorsports-owned squad confirmed Bottas and Perez would form the squad's backbone as it enters the sport in 2026 as an 11th expansion team, starting from the ground up at a European headquarters in Silverstone as well ...Keep reading

The nascent Cadillac F1 team has officially confirmed series veterans Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez will form its experienced driver line-up for its 2026 debut season.
As previously reported by Motorsport.com, both Perez and Bottas had been on the verge of an F1 return for some time as the series' 11th team is banking on experience to get it up to speed during what will be a challenging ...Keep reading

BMW has unveiled revised aerodynamics for its M Hybrid V8 LMDh ahead of its campaigns in next year’s World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The revisions, which include a significantly smaller version of the marque’s signature ‘kidney’ grille, are designed to improve the consistency of the car’s performance across the range of circuits on which it races and to ...Keep reading

“Very confident” – that’s the way Williams racer Alex Albon described his fourth Formula 1 season with the team at the halfway point. The ex-Red Bull driver has already amassed more points in 2025 than in his last three years with the Grove-based team combined – and this, he says, is changing the way Williams goes racing.  
The historic British team has undergone a seismic change ...Keep reading

Aston Martin F1 CEO and team principal Andy Cowell admits he sometimes wonders how his team could have performed in 2025 if it hadn't kept star signing Adrian Newey's focus firmly on 2026.
After leaving Red Bull, Newey joined Aston at the start of March in his role of Managing Technical Partner, developing the technical side of a heavily expanded team in Silverstone.
In his capacity Newey ...Keep reading

This weekend, the NASCAR Cup and Truck Series will both be competing at the historic Darlington Raceway, which plays host to the playoff opener for both divisions.
Darlington also hosts the fourth and final crown jewel event of the season with the 76th running of the Southern 500. The event has been part of the NASCAR Cup calendar since 1950, which was won by Johnny Mantz.
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23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports claim NASCAR would put them out of business if the Sanctioning Body is permitted to transfer the charters at the heart of their legal dispute to other interested parties.
Earlier on Monday, NASCAR adhered to a court order that required it to notify all parties involved in the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR federal antitrust lawsuit and ...Keep reading

NASCAR has an agreement with someone to acquire one of the ownership charters currently wrapped-up in active litigation as part of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports mutual antitrust lawsuits.  
The Sanctioning Body filed a legal notice on Monday notifying the court and the two teams that ‘it plans to issue a charter’ to a redacted entity should a district court judge not issue a ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez’s Formula 1 return with newcomer Cadillac in 2026 on a multi-year deal is expected to be announced, Motorsport.com has learned. 
Following several months of negotiations, Motorsport.com understands Perez and Cadillac have finalised their talks, with an announcement coming later this week.
One key point of discussion was the length of the 35-year-old’s contract and it is ...Keep reading

Yamaha has confirmed that its new V4 MotoGP bike will race for the first time at the San Marino Grand Prix next month.
Riding duties for its race debut on 12-14 September will, however, be entrusted to test rider Augusto Fernandez.
“For Misano, we are targeting seeing Augusto Fernandez race our new M1 prototype with the V4 engine,” said Yamaha Motor Racing managing director Paolo Pavesio ...Keep reading

When opportunities arise in life, the key is knowing how to react. That’s exactly what Christian Rasmussen and Ed Carpenter Racing did on Sunday, when light sprinkles brought out a yellow flag on lap 209 of the Snap-on Milwaukee Mile 250.
During that caution, the top three – Alex Palou, Scott McLaughlin and Josef Newgarden, who had pitted about 15 laps earlier – stayed out to protect ...Keep reading

Formula 1 returns from its traditional summer break this weekend at Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix with drivers and teams recharged and ready for the final 10 rounds of 2025.
McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are clear in the fight for the drivers' title and will be hard to overcome if past races are anything to go by, though Max Verstappen will be hungry to give his adoring home ...Keep reading

In Saturday’s DTM race at the Sachsenring, Manthey-Porsche driver Thomas Preining collided in the battle for the lead. In Sunday’s DTM race, he did it again. After Saturday’s crash, the Austrian called himself an "idiot" but his review of the collision with Jack Aitken on Sunday left him with a very different opinion of events. 
"Jack made a small mistake in the last sector, then I was ...Keep reading

Despite winning the regular season championship, William Byron will not enter the NASCAR Cup playoffs as the top seed following the points reset. That honor will instead go to his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Kyle Larson.
The two drivers are tied at 2,032 points apiece, and since Larson has more wins (three to Byron's two), he gets placed atop the standings for the start of the Round of ...Keep reading

Last October, Haas and Toyota announced a partnership in which they would “Share Knowledge and Resources for Mutual Benefit”. A generous portion of corporate word salad, but lacking in substantive detail. It soon became clear that one of the new partnership’s priorities was to develop a new driver-in-loop simulator, a critical piece of infrastructure Haas currently lacks. Not only do these ...Keep reading