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Felix Rosenqvist’s race weekend got off to a rough start after crashing in opening practice for the Good Ranchers 250 at Phoenix Raceway.
The 34-year-old Swedish native was rolling around the 1-mile tri-oval when his #60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda snapped midway through the corner of Turn 3 and backed hard into the outside wall. He had logged six laps, with a best of 167.250mph, prior to the ...Keep reading

The fuss raised by the Aston Martin Formula 1 team at the press conference held in the Melbourne paddock on Thursday morning has a purpose.
Adrian Newey and Honda Racing Corporation president Koji Watanabe told media that the vibrations generated by the Honda V6 are so intense that they even affect the drivers.
"The power unit is the source of the vibrations," said Aston team boss Newey ...Keep reading

Ahead of the Formula 1 2026 season opener in Melbourne, Motorsport.com is returning to the world of F1 Fantasy with its own featured league.
As the new campaign throws up plenty of unknowns that will be revealed layer by layer in Australia and beyond, our F1 writers have carefully tried to handpick their ideal fantasy team, and you can compete against them by joining the Motorsport.com - Race ...Keep reading

The Australian Grand Prix qualifying session may be chaotic with Formula 1’s new-for-2026 cars, as believed by the likes of Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu.
F1’s revamped power units feature a near-50:50 split between combustion and electric power, which has put much greater emphasis on energy management as drivers need to harvest and deploy energy strategically to achieve the best possible lap ...Keep reading

Adrian Newey reckons Fernando Alonso is in a “hard mental place” after Aston Martin’s disastrous start to the new Formula 1 rules cycle in 2026.
The Silverstone outfit is clearly F1’s worst team and there are problems all over its AMR26, which is believed to be restricted to 25 laps in Sunday’s Melbourne season opener. 
This is the result of excessive vibrations in the new Honda ...Keep reading

This Friday marked the first day of practice for a grand prix weekend in the 2026 Formula 1 season. With the numerous changes introduced by the new regulations, particularly in the way these cars are driven, the approach to free practice is different from previous seasons.
However, since this is the first race under the new rules, many aspects remain unclear for the teams. When asked about his ...Keep reading

The FIA has tweaked the Formula 1 driver guidelines for the 2026 campaign with a focus on more flexibility and common sense being applied in what is seen as a big win for those racing.
That is because on numerous occasions the stewards have been criticised for using these guidelines as gospel, rather than just being a basis to help come to a well thought-out solution.
Brazil last year was ...Keep reading

It’s a cliche, but no less true for being oft repeated, to say that “it’s the hope that kills you.” In Formula 1 terms, this old adage will be most familiar to Ferrari fans: as the 2026 season begins, it's a little over 18 years and four months since Kimi Raikkonen claimed the drivers’ title with victory in the final round of the 2007 season at Interlagos.
No other team in Formula 1 ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says Red Bull’s lowly position in Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix pecking order, following Friday practice, is no surprise to him.
Verstappen was sixth-fastest in Free Practice 2, 0.637s slower than pacesetter Oscar Piastri and 0.423s behind Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, while his deficit to Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was 0.316s.
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George Russell has been given a warning and a reprimand following a pair of incidents in Free Practice 2 for Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix.
The reprimand is the more serious sanction as five of them automatically translate into a 10-place grid penalty (provided at least four are given for a driving infringement).
The incident in question happened early in the session when Russell ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 campaign is debuting an entirely new set of regulations with changes to both the chassis and engine, the latter of which has become the biggest talking point.
That's because an F1 power unit is now more reliant on electrical energy with a near 50-50 split against the internal combustion engine, meaning battery management is playing a greater role than ever.
It might often ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo says it is unlikely Yamaha will be able to bring an updated version of its V4 MotoGP engine until after the French Grand Prix in May.
Last weekend’s Thailand Grand Prix exposed Yamaha’s straightline speed deficit in 2026, with Quartararo running 6.5km/h slower than the fastest bikes at Buriram, and the other M1 riders losing significantly more in the speed trap.
Since ...Keep reading

Formula 1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali feels the likes of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were too early to criticise the series' new 2026 regulations.
The two world champions voiced stinging criticism of 2026's complicated new ruleset during Bahrain winter testing, with Hamilton feeling the new power units and their complex energy management requirements are too convoluted to explain ...Keep reading

Mercedes’ pace in free practice for the Australian Grand Prix shows the Silver Arrows aren't concealing their true performance like they used to, according to Charles Leclerc.
McLaren was fastest on Friday in Melbourne with Oscar Piastri lapping in 1m19.729s; Mercedes was two tenths away with Kimi Antonelli setting a 1m19.943s, but the W17’s long-run pace particularly impressed Leclerc, who ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso is disappointed by Aston Martin no longer having spare batteries for its Honda power unit in what has been a disastrous start to its 2026 Formula 1 campaign. 
The Silverstone outfit entered a works’ deal with Honda for the new regulation cycle this year, but vast problems have arisen in the buildup to the first race due to excessive vibrations in the engine. 
Aston has ...Keep reading

Brodie Kostecki took victory in the second Supercars race of the Australian Grand Prix weekend at Albert Park.
In an action-packed race Kostecki, who was feeling better after falling ill on Thursday, watched as Matt Payne led away from pole position. Kostecki stalked the Grove Racing Ford Mustang for the opening four laps, before the Dick Johnson Racing Mustang found a way through to the lead ...Keep reading

Following FP2 at the Australian Grand Prix, Alex Albon has admitted that Williams is certainly on the back foot after a challenging Friday in which it battled with data collection and deployment issues across the day's running.
Teams are facing a steep learning curve as they adapt to Formula 1's new era of regulations, and Albon has made it no secret that the Grove outfit is playing catch-up ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Isack Hadjar has confirmed that reliability is good from the Milton Keynes outfit, but that he struggled with consistency during the second practice session ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.
The French-Algerian driver put in the fourth-fastest time behind his new team-mate Max Verstappen in third during first practice, before going ninth-fastest in FP2 with ...Keep reading

The effect of the US/Israeli military action against Iran has already been felt in the F1 paddock: on Wednesday in Melbourne, there were no completed cars in the garages and many team personnel were yet to arrive, owing to flight delays and cancellations. As such the mandatory ‘curfew' on working hours was suspended and the pitlane remained a hive of industry long into the night.
For those ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Timo Glock has branded Aston Martin's start to the 2026 season as "disastrous" and has questioned whether it would be possible for the Silverstone outfit to change power unit partners from 2027.
2026 marks the start of Aston Martin's exclusive power unit partnership with Honda, and while the Japanese manufacturer has enjoyed a lot of success in recent years, it has ...Keep reading