Motorsport

The final qualifying session of the 2025 NASCAR Truck season is complete, and the lineup is set for Friday night's title-decider at Phoenix Raceway.
Earlier in the day, NASCAR discovered a panel that was not permitted on the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford of Layne Riggs, resulting in a crew chief ejection, being sent to the rear of the field, and having to now serve a drive-through penalty ...Keep reading

Kaden Honeycutt is not the defending champion like Ty Majeski, nor has he dominated the entire year like Corey Heim, or spent several years racing Trucks full-time like Tyler Ankrum.
Instead, Honeycutt is in his first full-time year of competition and he has never even won a NASCAR Truck race before. To make his situation even more unique, the 22-year-old is ending the year with a different ...Keep reading

This year, no Truck driver even comes close to Corey Heim. He has won eleven of 24 races, a series record. He faces three title rivals in the Championship 4 who have combined to win just one race this year — and eight total if you add up their whole careers.
Heim's average finish of 5.2 is followed by Ty Majeski's 10.2, Tyler Ankrums 10.7, and Kaden Honeycutt's 13.2 over the course of the ...Keep reading

NASCAR is in a season of change.
Some of it is the result of self-reflection and the changing tides of sport and entertainment, and some of it will eventually be the results of the lawsuit brought against the Sanctioning Body, but things are changing in the Cup Series and around it.
That is a broad summary of the annual state of the sport press conference held every year before championship ...Keep reading

Over the past year, it’s been a fringe talking point in NASCAR fan circles about whether or not Denny Hamlin’s 23XI Racing bringing a lawsuit against the Sanctioning Body would have consequences on the track.
In other words, as The Associated Press brought up in a nearly one hour State of the Sport press conference, what would NASCAR leadership say to fans if race control has to call a ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 CEO and team principal Toto Wolff has reflected on the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which resulted in Max Verstappen claiming his first championship victory over Lewis Hamilton. 
Taking aim at the race director at the time, Michael Masi, Wolff recounted the situation while joining his wife, F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff, at an event to promote her ...Keep reading

While his own title hopes ended in a brutal tiebreaker last weekend, Layne Riggs is still fighting for the owner's championship on behalf of Front Row Motorsports at the Phoenix Raceway finale.
NASCAR found that the No. 34 FRM Ford had "added a panel to the oil that closes off the area between it and the floorboard, which is not permitted."
As a result, Riggs will start from the rear of the ...Keep reading

Daniel Suarez is about to move to Spire Motorsports, which will be his fifth team since joining the NASCAR Cup Series. However, the majority of his Cup career and both of his wins all came with Trackhouse, who he has raced for since 2021.
This weekend, that era of his career will come to an end, with the team honoring him through a special video message and a unique paint scheme.
But before ...Keep reading

The FIA has denied claims from its Mexican body that Liam Lawson was to blame for his near-miss with marshals during the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix weekend.
On lap three during last Sunday’s contest, the Racing Bulls driver encountered two marshals on the track near Turn 3 after they were ordered to collect debris following a messy race start.
But the order was rescinded once it emerged ...Keep reading

F1: The Movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed that Brad Pitt branded his final day of filming the Formula 1 film as "his unhappiest day".
The film, starring Pitt alongside Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Kerry Condon and Kim Bodnia, was released in June 2025 and has since reached almost $630million in the global box office. Directed by Joseph Kosinski and featuring ...Keep reading

Fermin Aldeguer admits it’s “difficult” to accept Ducati’s decision to keep him on a satellite bike in MotoGP 2026, but concedes that it’s 'not his moment yet' to move to factory machinery.
Aldeguer signed a deal directly with Ducati to join Gresini this year, with the promise of getting full equipment for his second season in MotoGP.
However, the Spaniard will not get the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson is auctioning his first car, a modified 2000 Subaru Forester, to raise money for the New Zealand charity I AM HOPE. It's listed on New Zealand auction site Trade Me. 
“We wanted to really push the project and make the car as cool as we can and then auction it for I AM HOPE. A lot of people have a connection to the charity, or have some experience with, myself ...Keep reading

Felipe Massa’s legal counsel has asserted that Formula 1’s leadership was involved in a “deliberate concealment” of Nelson Piquet Jr’s 2008 Singapore Grand Prix crash, as part of Massa’s case disputing that year’s title.
Massa had filed a lawsuit against the FIA, Formula One Management (FOM), and Bernie Ecclestone seeking damages for the outcome of the 2008 championship, which is ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has announced that its collaboration with Disney will kick off with a show at the Fountains of Bellagio during the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend of 20-22 November.
The partnership between the championship and Disney was announced in May and will include the Disney x Formula 1 merchandise collection, which will be available in early November. The press release states, "The elevated ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has said stepping into a Ferrari Formula 1 car for the first time was "a lot more emotional" than similar experiences when he was a younger man. 
Hamilton joined the Scuderia for the start of the 2025 season to massive fanfare. But his performance with the team has been lacklustre for a number of reasons. The driver has struggled to adapt to such a different outfit, and both he ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner has made a U-turn on Max Verstappen's title chances, telling The Red Flags Podcast that the Red Bull star is still very much in the running for the 2025 drivers' championship. Joking, he added that McLaren could help him do so, too.
“I was completely no a few races ago, I’m saying yes,” Steiner said when asked if the Dutchman is still in with a chance of the title ...Keep reading

The Heart of Racing team boss Ian James, right back at the start of the year, threw the idea of Aston Martin’s Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar notching up a podium before its maiden season was out.
“That would be nice,” he said. It didn’t look very realistic over the first half of THOR’s parallel campaigns with the machine in the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar ...Keep reading

World Superbike star Nicolo Bulega will replace Marc Marquez for the rest of the 2025 MotoGP campaign, Ducati has confirmed. 
This year’s MotoGP champion has been sidelined since fracturing his shoulder at the Indonesian Grand Prix at the start of October and it was announced shortly afterwards that he would skip the rest of the season.
There have been two rounds since Indonesia ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has claimed that aligning his brand with Ferrari was "even more powerful" than he imagined.
The British driver made the blockbuster move to Ferrari at the start of 2025 after a 12-year stint with Mercedes, during which he secured six of his seven drivers' championships.
"I knew that aligning our brands would be big," he admitted to Ferrari Magazine. "But it still hits you and ...Keep reading

Le Mans 24 Hours winner James Calado has signed a multi-year contract extension with Ferrari starting from next season’s World Endurance Championship. 
The 36-year-old’s deal was announced on Friday ahead of next week’s WEC 2025 finale in Bahrain, where Calado will arrive leading the standings with Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi.
It will further extend a stay at Ferrari ...Keep reading