Motorsport

Racing Bulls boss Alan Permane hailed his team's Friday efforts at the Spanish Grand Prix as an "excellent day", despite Arvid Lindblad's Turn 13 crash in FP2 bringing an early end to his running.
The VCARB 03 has already been lauded for its accessible handling properties, to the point where the car has generally shown strong compliance over kerbs and bumps - an ideal trait for the Madring ...Keep reading

Ai Ogura will miss a second grand prix weekend in a row because of his left thumb injury. Having already sat out the round at MotorLand Aragon last month, the Japanese rider is also absent from this weekend's Misano race. However, the Trackhouse Aprilia team expects Ogura to be back in action next weekend at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Ogura injured his left hand in a motocross training accident ...Keep reading

After the race weekend in Zandvoort, the FIA finally publicly confirmed what had already been known in the paddock since the Monaco weekend: every manufacturer has been awarded a token under Formula 1’s Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities system, except Red Bull Ford Powertrains.
Based on the first measurement period, the newcomer from Milton Keynes was placed at the top of the ...Keep reading

Rally Chile leader Oliver Solberg has stressed the need to drive “clever” as World Rally Championship crews expect tyre-punishing stages on Saturday.
The Toyota driver enjoyed an issue free day on Friday to move into a 10.1s lead over team-mate Elfyn Evans, after handling the tricky muddy conditions caused by overnight rain. 
However, Saturday is set to serve up a completely different ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen has admitted that he has done zero preparation ahead of a 30-lap challenge against 100 go-karters at Silverstone next week.
The Dutchman will be given the challenge of starting at the back of the grid and will attempt to overtake all 100 go-karters in 30 laps of the Silverstone circuit. Included in the list of go-karters are athletes, streamers ...Keep reading

George Russell has opened up about launching his own dedicated grandstand for his supporters at Silverstone.
It was announced this week that the British driver would have the George Russell Grandstand at his home grand prix circuit from 2027.
The grandstand will be located at Farm Curve and ticketholders will get a three-day reserved seat, an official George Russell T-shirt delivered ahead ...Keep reading

Oliver Solberg pulled further clear of World Rally Championship leader Elfyn Evans to head into Saturday’s leg of Rally Chile with a 10.1s lead.
The Monte Carlo winner thrived in the morning’s muddy conditions caused by overnight rain, trading times with Evans, before heading to midday service with a 2.3s lead over his Toyota team-mate. 
As the stages began to dry out for the afternoon ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard says Kimi Antonelli's charge from 19th on the grid to win the Italian Grand Prix was a career-defining performance that sits alongside drives from the greatest drivers in the history of the series.
The Mercedes driver secured his seventh career grand prix win in front of his home crowd at Monza, becoming the first Italian driver to win the event in 60 ...Keep reading

Felix Rosenqvist won in the closest Indianapolis 500 finish in history, Alex Palou claimed his fifth title in the past six years, Scott McLaughlin secured the final win of the year at Laguna Seca, and the 2026 IndyCar season is officially over after 18 rounds of racing.
IndyCar on FOX saw a +23% jump from 2025 (1.362mil), and +57% from numbers in 2024 (1.073mil). IndyCar also boasted about a ...Keep reading

George Russell was the fastest long-run driver with a lot of fuel on board. His closest challenger was Red Bull’s Max Verstappen over Friday’s practice sessions ahead of the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix. The Dutchman was just 0.13 seconds per lap slower after adjusting for different tyre compounds and stint lengths.
World championship leader Kimi Antonelli was the third-fastest long-run ...Keep reading

The Spanish Grand Prix's Madring circuit has received a thumbs-up from several leading Formula 1 drivers as they praised its high-commitment layout, although not everyone is as impressed.
Having sampled the 5.4km circuit on the simulator, drivers were bracing for one of the most challenging weekends of the year on a track that combines the unforgiving nature of a street circuit with plenty of ...Keep reading

Formula 1’s first encounter with the circuit around the IFEMA complex in Madrid has produced less chaos than some in the paddock may have feared. While the F3 and F2 sessions have seen several crashes and even a car going up in flames, the only F1 incident so far at the Spanish Grand Prix has been a crash for Arvid Lindblad.
For now, then, the Madring has not proved to be a ‘car killer’ ...Keep reading

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship heads to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Battle on the Bricks Sept. 18-20, marking the final sprint race of the season with a 44-car grid spanning GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro, and GTD. Recent penalties have also put driving standards and race control’s approach to contact back in focus.
At the most recent IMSA race – the GTD sprint round at Virginia ...Keep reading

Sky Sports Formula 1 lead commentator David Croft has backed Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli to become a younger world champion than Max Verstappen.
Antonelli delivered an incredible performance at last weekend's Italian Grand Prix, driving from 19th on the grid to victory in front of his home crowd.
The 20-year-old became the first home driver to win at Monza in 60 years, extending his ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi says he was not ‘worried’ to see Jorge Martin so far down the order in Practice for the San Marino Grand Prix, as he backed his Aprilia squadmates to bounce back on Saturday.
While Bezzecchi came close to breaking the lap record in Practice aboard the factory RS-GP, his team-mate Martin barely hung on to the final Q2 spot in 10th after struggling for speed throughout the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 heads into Saturday at Madring with Kimi Antonelli fastest after a tricky second practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix.
The Mercedes championship leader pipped Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in FP2, with Lewis Hamilton third as drivers continued to build confidence around Madrid’s new Formula 1 venue. Arvid Lindblad was an eye-catching fourth for Racing Bulls before crashing at ...Keep reading

Carson Hocevar's spin of Brad Keselowski, and his subsequent interview shrugging off the contact, have dominated the NASCAR conversation in the week after Darlington.
Denny Hamlin has weighed in, as have NASCAR Hall of Famers, as has Hocevar's team owner, and many, many others.
Freddie Kraft, spotter for Bubba Wallace and host of the Door Bumper Clear podcast, had some especially sharp words ...Keep reading

An unusual start to the penultimate weekend of the DTM season at the Sachsenring: Thomas Preining set the fastest time of the day in the favoured Porsche with a 1:18.148. However, not with his time from the second session, but from the first practice. In the afternoon, Manthey team-mate Ricardo Feller was fastest with a 1:18.857 - and more than 0.7 seconds slower.
But why did the track not ...Keep reading

This weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix could produce the closest Ducati-Aprilia battle of the 2026 MotoGP season, with neither manufacturer able to establish a clear advantage after Practice.
The competitive balance has swung back and forth a number of times this year, with both Ducati and Aprilia enjoying dominant weekends depending upon how well-suited their bikes were to each track’s ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli topped second practice at Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix, pipping Ferrari's Charles Leclerc on Friday afternoon at a hot and challenging Madring circuit.
Antonelli set the fastest lap around the halfway mark in the second one-hour session as drivers and teams gradually kept chipping away at their set-ups on the extremely difficult circuit in Madrid.
The 5.4km ...Keep reading