Motorsport

As widely expected, Franco Colapinto will return to his blue and pink #43 car next year at Alpine, with confirmation coming over the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend that Alpine big cheese Flavio Briatore is keeping the faith in the Argentinian to partner team stalwart Pierre Gasly for a pivotal 2026 season.
Briatore's decision was undoubtedly made easier by a brace of cheques written by ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has made no secret of his love of Brazil over the years. Ahead of the 2025 Brazil Grand Prix, he's now gone one step further, adding that Rio de Janeiro may be a good place to call home.
“I love Rio," he told GQ Brazil. "I think of the few places I've visited here, I like the lifestyle there the most. And, of course, I know some people there, so I think it could be a good ...Keep reading

Franco Colapinto is set to take part in his first full Formula 1 campaign in 2026, with Alpine giving him a new contract for the upcoming season.
Colapinto graduated to F1 from the Williams Racing Driver Academy last year after an underperforming Logan Sargeant was sacked by the Grove-based outfit, but he was released to Alpine by Williams in January following the latter’s signing of Carlos ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has praised four-time Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel as both drivers seek to raise awareness of climate change ahead of the 2025 Brazil Grand Prix. 
Speaking to F1, the Ferrari driver praised the German, who has been outspoken on his climate change views, especially since he retired from the championship in 2022. 
“I mean, I'm always supporting Seb," Hamilton said ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has responded to the rumours linking him to a Ferrari exit at the end of 2026, sharing details on the length of his contract and when extension negotiations would usually begin.
The seven-time champion signed a multi-year contract with the Maranello outfit for the start of the 2025 season. Since joining the team, Hamilton has struggled to adapt to such a change. While he secured ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell is bullish about Formula 1’s new technical era from 2026, predicting that racing will be improved.
F1 is having one of its most comprehensive regulatory overhauls next year, with new power units featuring a near 50:50 split between combustion and electric power. Chassis will feature active aerodynamics, meaning all cars will enjoy low drag on the straights. As a ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier delivered an impressive drive to end Friday leading Rally Japan ahead of Toyota team-mates Takamoto Katsuta and Elfyn Evans as the World Rally Championship title fight took another twist. 
Ogier claimed three of Friday’s six technical asphalt stages to open up a 7.9s lead over Katsuta, with championship leader Evans 10.2s in arrears.  
While Ogier boosted his bid for a ...Keep reading

Visionary British engineer and technical journalist Peter Wright has died at the age of 79.
Wright exercised a quiet but profound influence on the world of motor racing, far beyond the innovation with which he is chiefly associated, ground-effect aerodynamics. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1967 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he secured is first job in motorsport ...Keep reading

Romain Grosjean has parted ways with Lamborghini after representing the brand for three years, primarily in the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
Grosjean first joined forces with the Italian manufacturer at the start of 2023, racing a Huracan GT3 Evo2 in the GTD Pro class at Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours.
The same year, he helped Lamborghini develop the SC63 Hypercar for its twin ...Keep reading

Pierre Gasly has explained he’s been trying to be “the main factor in motivation” amid Alpine’s current struggles, as his Formula 1 team has ‘drastically’ focused its efforts on 2026.
Alpine has been enduring the worst form in its history, including its Toleman, Benetton, Renault and Lotus eras; its best result over the past five grands prix was Gasly’s 15th-place finish in ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier has moved into a slender Rally Japan lead from World Rally Championship leader Elfyn Evans after fellow title contender Kalle Rovanpera hit trouble. 
Ogier snatched the rally lead on stage four [Isegami's Tunnel 1,19.66km] taking a 1.0s advantage over Evans heading into the midday service, with Toyota’s Japanese star Takamoto Katsuta in third, 1.7s adrift.  
Title ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanperä's bid for a third World Rally Championship title suffered a blow after damaging his Toyota's suspension in stage three of Rally Japan.
Rovanpera led the rally overnight after winning Thursday night’s super special stage, but slipped to fourth after Friday’s morning’s first stage, before drama struck in stage three [Shinshiro 1 - 17.41 km.].
The Toyota star, co-driven ...Keep reading

In the aftermath of a Charlotte federal judge ruling in favor of 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports on the market definition for the lawsuit against NASCAR, plus the dismissal of counterclaims the week before, the two teams have dropped the Section 1 Sherman Antitrust Act portion and will instead continue with its Section 2 claims.
Section 1 of the federal antitrust law prohibits agreements ...Keep reading

McLaren's Lando Norris discussed the importance of winning in Brazil due to Ayrton Senna's legacy.
The Briton heads into the Brazil Grand Prix leading the drivers' championship with just one point over his team-mate Oscar Piastri. While Norris argued that no one race is more important than any other, some races are more special than others, such as the British and Monaco Grands Prix.
"In ...Keep reading

Lando Norris is leading the 2025 Formula 1 world championship for the first time in six months, but that's not the reason why he arrived in Brazil with a spring in his step.
After a Dutch Grand Prix retirement that looked potentially fatal to his title hopes, Norris found another gear to overturn a 34-point deficit on team-mate Oscar Piastri.
Norris did receive substantial help from the ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri feels "comfortable" standing up for himself within McLaren, in response to Jos Verstappen's comments to Dutch media suggesting that the Australian should be more demanding in pursuit of a first Formula 1 title.
Ex-F1 driver Verstappen told De Telegraaf that Piastri, or his manager Mark Webber, should "bang [their] fist on the table" having suggested that McLaren had been putting ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has reacted to the discussions surrounding a possible two-stop mandate from 2026. Accepting that it could improve racing from an entertainment point of view, he maintains that while it has the potential to open up strategy options for teams, the 2026 regulations already pose "a lot of unknowns". 
Speaking ahead of the Brazil Grand Prix, the Red Bull driver gave his thoughts on ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 rookie driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli paid his respects to his "racing hero" Ayrton Senna ahead of the Brazil Grand Prix. 
The Italian driver was spotted sitting by the three-time champion's grave in the Morumbi Cemetery ahead of the race weekend at Interlagos.
"It was a really cool experience," Antonelli explained to the media. "Ayrton is my racing hero. And yesterday I ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton says there "isn't any clarity" on Formula 1 stewarding decisions after still feeling aggrieved by his Mexico Grand Prix penalty.
As part as a protracted battle with Max Verstappen on lap 6, Hamilton was given a 10-second penalty for going off the road at Mexico's Turn 4 and gaining a "lasting advantage", a punishment which dumped him behind a train of cars at his ...Keep reading

After another bruising year on the race track, Aston Martin's Formula 1 team is to undergo another restructure of its engineering department.
Up to seven senior figures are believed to be leaving the team entirely or being redeployed to the company's advanced technologies division, among them Eric Blandin, who was recruited from Mercedes as deputy technical director in 2022, then shifted to an ...Keep reading