Motorsport

Phillip Island will be making its final appearance on the MotoGP calendar this weekend as the venue for the Australian Grand Prix. Starting 2027, the iconic 4.4km track will be replaced by a modern version of the Adelaide street circuit.
As such, one can expect a record crowd in Melbourne as the city bids goodbye to the premier class of motorcycle racing.
The championship remains finely ...Keep reading

In a chapter of his upcoming book, Drive, Christian Horner has claimed that Lewis Hamilton wanted to move to Red Bull before he moved to the Mercedes team. According to the former team chief, a "secret meeting" with the driver took place at the home of Adrian Newey.
In 2012, Hamilton "seemed to be losing heart at McLaren", Horner wrote. His relationship with team-mate Jenson Button was taking a ...Keep reading

Formula E chief executive Jeff Dodds has said that he'd still love to see Max Verstappen drive the new Gen4 car, the most powerful yet used in the championship. He hasn't yet discussed it with the four-time Formula 1 champion, but he sees plenty of value if the Dutchman were to experience what the electric race car had to offer.
“No, we haven’t talked to him more about the car,” Dodds ...Keep reading

The Aston Martin Formula 1 team may have only just confirmed its padel partnership, but that won't stop it from revealing a range of stationery and travel products alongside Bond Street brand Smythson. Prices range from £14 for a birthday card to a eye-watering £595 for a laptop case.
While the range has only recently gone live this month, the collaboration was originally announced ahead of ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen has backed Isack Hadjar to eventually succeed him at Red Bull.
Hadjar joined Red Bull alongside Verstappen at the start of 2026 after impressing in his rookie season with sister outfit Racing Bulls. While the Milton Keynes outfit has struggled for some time to find a team-mate for the Dutchman who could extract the same level of performance from the ...Keep reading

After joining Ferrari as a simulator and development driver this summer, Sacha Fenestraz has said that the Italian team has promised him a Formula 1 test in 2027. This comes after the driver moved from Mercedes' Brackley headquarters to Ferrari's in Maranello.
Speaking to Grande Premio during the Fuji race weekend for Super Formula, he confirmed his drive next year.
“The truth is, it’s a ...Keep reading

Aston Martin has become the first Formula 1 team to partner with a padel and pickleball company, teaming up with Padeltek for a range of rackets that will go on sale this week.
The Silverstone outfit announced the new collaboration ahead of this weekend's United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, where the team and Padeltek will host an exclusive I / AM fan event at a brand-new padel venue ...Keep reading

NASCAR has made the decision to penalize Zane Smith, fining the Front Row Motorsports driver $50,000 for slamming into Carson Hocevar after last weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway.
Smith was frustrated after a run-in with Hocevar cost him a potential top ten in the final 15 laps of the race. Hocevar, after getting a bump from Ross Chastain, skated up the track into Turn 3 and ...Keep reading

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is confident that the Formula 1 races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi will go ahead, amid the current tensions in the Middle East.
Due to the conflict between the United States-Israel and Iran, the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were cancelled earlier this year, although the Bahraini organisers effectively moved its postponed grand prix to Malaysia. Ship attacks in ...Keep reading

TDS Racing is expanding its presence in North America, confirming a return to a two-car LMP2 effort in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the first time in three years.
The French squad, led by Xavier Combet, will field two Oreca 07 Gibson prototypes as it aims for top honours in the highly competitive class.
The team’s #11 entry will feature the returning duo of Tobi Lutke ...Keep reading

Isack Hadjar has changed his mind about sprint weekends in Formula 1, after his Singapore Grand Prix turned into an ordeal.
The Red Bull racer’s weekend at the Marina Bay Street Circuit started poorly as he complained that his Red Bull bottomed too much – especially in braking zones – in Free Practice 1, where he was seven tenths slower than team-mate Max Verstappen.
Sprint qualifying ...Keep reading

Teammates Ross Chastain and Shane van Gisbergen will be back with JR Motorsports for a handful of NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS) races in 2027. 
Chastain, a Coca-Cola 600 winner in the Cup Series, joined the Earnhardt-led team for five NOAPS races in 2025, recording three top fives. He returned to the No. 9 Chevrolet in 2026 for another five races, earning a pole position at Dover ...Keep reading

Fred Lorenzen died in December of 2024 at the age of 89, the end of a life that included a remarkable career at the top level of NASCAR.
Almost two years later, the Concussion & CTE Foundation have announced that he is now the first driver to officially be diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), noting that he suffered from Stage 3 CTE after his racing career. You cannot ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has issued a firm response in defense of his Verstappen Racing teammate Chris Lulham, after the British driver was subjected to a wave of online abuse following a race-altering collision at the GT World Challenge Europe season finale in Portimao.
The incident occurred during the second hour of the three-hour Endurance Cup race on Saturday when Lulham, driving the #3 2 Seas ...Keep reading

Mercedes has revealed some of its pitcrew members at the Singapore Grand Prix were doing their first live Formula 1 pitstops in 15 years.
F1 recently completed its first of (provisionally) three triple-headers to conclude the 23-round 2026 season, with a strenuous Azerbaijan-Malaysia-Singapore sequence.
Championship leader Kimi Antonelli came away from the triple-header winless, yet with an ...Keep reading

Formula 1's United States GP will feature a MotoGP demonstration, as reported by Motorsport.com in July, in an attempt to introduce the two-wheeled championship to a larger American audience.
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Four MotoGP bikes will take to the Circuit of the Americas - which features on the MotoGP ...Keep reading

World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville took victory on his historic circuit racing debut at the Imola Classic.
The 2024 WRC champion swapped rally machinery for a Ford Escort RS1600 and his own BMW M3 E30, competing in the Heritage Touring Car Cup category at the Le Mans Classic Series event at the Emilia-Romagna circuit. The field also included the likes of former British Touring ...Keep reading

Formula 1’s former fuel flow meter supplier, Sentronics Holdings Ltd, has taken its replacement to court in Texas. The company claims that the sensors now used by every car in the championship infringe its patent.
The British company filed the case against German manufacturer Allengra GmbH in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on 16 October. This comes just days before ...Keep reading

Christian Horner reckons the soon-to-be Formula 1 world champion Kimi Antonelli has ‘earned’ his right to become the outright number-one driver at Mercedes after a dominant 2026.
The 20-year-old holds a 102-point lead over team-mate George Russell in second with six rounds remaining this season, so he can clinch the title in Austin next time out.
Antonelli has achieved this in only his ...Keep reading

Formula 1 drivers Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri went head to head at a super-sized game of UNO in a video that has quickly racked up more than 320,000 views in less than a day.
Formula 1 posted the clip on YouTube, describing it as “the McLaren duo” being “joined by Pierre Gasly for a game of super-sized UNO in the paddock”.
The cards were roughly the size of a sign ...Keep reading