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Toyota has announced that Kalle Rovanpera's plans to compete in this year’s Super Formula Championship have been suspended following advice and medical evaluations. 
Last year, Rovanpera announced bold plans to leave the World Rally Championship to pursue a career in single seaters, with the ultimate goal to compete at the highest level.
In a programme backed by Toyota, Rovanpera’s ...Keep reading

Part-time driver (and reigning Truck champion) Corey Heim restarted ninth with two laps to go, but the former Truck champion had slightly fresher tires than those around, immediately going to the bottom and passing several trucks.
At that point, Ross Chastain confidently held the lead, and was over half-a-second clear of Heim at the white flag. But the #5 quickly ran him down, blowing by the ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel will join F1 journalist Tom Clarkson to run the London Marathon to raise money for the Grand Prix Trust and the Brain & Spine Foundation.
Vettel, who retired from F1 at the end of the 2022 season, will join Clarkson along with the journalist's son and daughter. 
The Brain & Spine Foundation was founded by former F1 safety and medical delegate ...Keep reading

Formula 1 fans have shared their verdict on Jonathan Wheatley's shock exit from his role as Audi team principal.
Audi confirmed on 20 March that Wheatley would leave his role with immediate effect due to "personal reasons" after joining the team in 2025.
"As it continues its journey towards the front of the grid, Audi Revolut F1 Team will implement significant changes to its senior ...Keep reading

MotoGP riders gave the newly-refurbished Goiania track a thumbs up despite rain disrupting running on the opening day of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The Autodromo Internacional Ayrton Senna is hosting a grand prix race for the first time since 1989, following significant investment to bring MotoGP back to Brazil.
Most of the headlines at the start of the race week focused on heavy downpour in ...Keep reading

Johann Zarco set the pace in Friday Practice for MotoGP’s Brazilian Grand Prix, while a mid-session rain shower caught out Aprilia star Marco Bezzecchi.
The delayed hour-long practice session at Goiania got off to a frantic start, as the entire field headed out of the pitlane on slick tyres amid fears of incoming rain.
Riders were forced to take early risks and crashes quickly followed ...Keep reading

Practically every data point suggests a drastically different NASCAR Cup Series racing product at Darlington Raceway on Sunday and it’s a direction that drivers have encouraged for quite a bit.
The first four years of this car being used at ‘The Track Too Tough to Tame’ came under the same rules package used at intermediate style tracks. That meant a 4” rear spoiler and a more ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner has shot down claims that Kimi Antonelli could fight for the Formula 1 drivers' championship in 2026.
After two rounds of the 2026 season, the Italian driver sits second in the standings behind his Mercedes team-mate George Russell. Antonelli secured his maiden F1 victory at the Chinese Grand Prix, leading many to argue that the 19-year-old could fight for the championship this ...Keep reading

Gresini rider Fermin Aldeguer is set to join VR46 for the start of MotoGP's 850cc era in 2027.
It emerged in the Goiania paddock that Aldeguer has negotiated a significantly improved contract with Ducati for next year, as part of a deal that will see him join Valentino Rossi’s team.  It follows KTM and Alex Marquez reaching an agreement for the two-time world champion to replace Pedro ...Keep reading

Jack Aitken is relishing his pole-winning run for this year’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, but is skeptical of what pace the competition has for the race.
The 30-year-old delivered a remarkable run in qualifying, seizing the top spot with a flying lap of 1m46.153s around the bumpy 3.74-mile, 17-turn airfield circuit. Behind the wheel of the #31 Whelen Cadillac, he fought off the likes of ...Keep reading

Mercedes announced a reshuffle of its Formula 1 team's managerial structure with Bradley Lord stepping up to become Toto Wolff's deputy team principal.
While Lord would be recognisable as a voice that has often stepped into Wolff's shoes to undertake Sky Sports UK's pitwall interview offering across a race weekend, the Briton typically remains as a background figure in the public sphere.
So ...Keep reading

McLaren CEO Zak Brown attempted to reinvigorate his team ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, following a tough start to Formula 1’s new era in 2026. In a speech to the team following a rough Chinese GP weekend, Brown claimed McLaren would be back to winning ways “sooner rather than later”.
After proving to be the dominant force in 2025, McLaren has struggled in Formula 1’s new era as it ...Keep reading

A 1984 Toleman TG183B Formula 1 car, driven by three-time champion and F1 legend Ayrton Senna on his debut in the series, has gone up for auction.
Expected to reach in the region of €2,800,000 - €3,800,000, the TG183B was driven by Senna in four rounds of the 1984 season, beginning with the Brazilian driver's debut at the 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix. It was in this car that Senna scored his ...Keep reading

Jack Aitken executed a flawless run to claim overall pole for the 74th Running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Driving the #31 Cadillac V-Series.R for Whelen Cadillac, Aitken handed out a flying lap of 1m46.153s around the Sebring International Raceway’s 3.74-mile, 17-turn airfield circuit. 
Acura Meyer Shank Racing’s Tom Blomqvist, in the #60 Acura ARX-06, narrowly missed out ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen will contest the second round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) on Saturday 21 March.
He will be driving the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 entered by Winward under the Verstappen Racing banner and will share the car with GT3 specialists Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon. Both drivers are representing Verstappen Racing in the GT World Challenge ...Keep reading

Mercedes has appointed Bradley Lord as its deputy team principal to support Toto Wolff in the management of the Formula 1 team.
Lord joined the Mercedes F1 team in 2013 as communications manager and most recently worked as team representative and chief communications officer for the Brackley squad.
During his 13-year stint with the team, Lord's responsibilities have increased, according to ...Keep reading

Jonathan Wheatley is leaving the Audi Formula 1 team with immediate effect, ahead of his impending move to Aston Martin.
Motorsport revealed on Thursday that Adrian Newey was set to step down from his team principal duties, which he assumed under three months ago, to focus on technical matters – and would be replaced by Audi team boss Wheatley.
The decision was made amid Aston Martin’s ...Keep reading

Opel will take over the DS entry into Formula E’s Gen4 era, as Stellantis reshuffles its brands’ involvement again.
The group was involved in Formula E with DS Automobiles, which entered the series in 2015-16, and Maserati, which took over the Venturi outfit ahead of the Gen3 era.
Maserati’s time in the world championship was short-lived, as the team was renamed Citroen ahead of the ...Keep reading

The persistent rain falling on the Goiania Circuit has delayed the start of theMotoGP Brazilian Grand Prix weekend and raised concerns about whether the event can be completed normally.
The first practice session for the Moto3 class was scheduled to begin at 9am local time in Goiania (12pm GMT) on Friday, but the heavy rains that have been battering the area since Monday returned early in the ...Keep reading

Dozens of inmates from nearby prisons have been deployed to assist with clean-up efforts at the Autodromo Internacional Ayrton Senna ahead of MotoGP’s return to Brazil this weekend.
The heavy rains that fell on the Goiania circuit on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon affected the facilities, especially in the dirt areas of the service roads, where large amounts of mud have built up and ...Keep reading