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Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Laurent Mekies says the squad needs more "clean samples" to judge Yuki Tsunoda's performances after another race derailed by being caught up in the midfield battle.
Tsunoda was left with floor damage in the Italian Grand Prix after contact with former team-mate Liam Lawson, leaving the Japanese driver without points while team-mate Max Verstappen won the race from ...Keep reading

Factory Ducati rider Marc Marquez has rubbished suggestions that he deliberately gave up victory in the Catalan Grand Prix to delay sealing the 2025 MotoGP title.
On Saturday in last weekend’s Barcelona round, Marc Marquez had reached a 187-point lead at the top of the world championship standings, which at that point gave him a chance to win his ninth title at this weekend’s San Marino ...Keep reading

Were this 25 years ago, reaching the 16-race mark would coincide with the end of the Formula 1 season - but in our current 24-race calendar, there's still another third of the season's runtime to go.
A 31-point margin separates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris as it stands with eight races left, having swelled from the nine-point gap at the summer break following Norris' oil leak in Zandvoort ...Keep reading

While Marc Marquez may not be able to seal the 2025 MotoGP title at the San Marino Grand Prix, he does have a strong track record on Ducati's home turf.
The championship leader has won a record seven races at Misano, including four in the premier class. He was also victorious last year with Gresini Racing.
Marquez's factory Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia also goes well around the track ...Keep reading

With the exception of Chandler Smith and Jake Garcia, things have largely followed the script in the NASCAR Truck Series Playoffs as the first two races at Darlington and Bristol have been won by Corey Heim and Layne Riggs respectively.
There is a bit of a season-long gap between them, but the Tricon Garage No. 11 and the Front Row Motorsports No. 34 are the 1a and 1b of the season so far and ...Keep reading

Not even an early spin could deny Layne Riggs as he charged to the win in Thursday night's NASCAR Truck race at Bristol Motor Speedway. This is Riggs' fifth career win and his third of the 2025 season.
“You don't get two mulligans in the playoffs and I've had two," said Riggs, who is now locked into the Round of 8 as he hunts the 2025 title with Front Row Motorsports. "I'm not sure what ...Keep reading

Popular YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (real name Garrett Mitchell), made his fourth ARCA Menards Series start of the year on Thursday, driving the No. 30 Rette Jones Racing Ford. After starts at Daytona, Talladega, and Charlotte, McFarland was making his short track debut in ARCA.
NASCAR also allowed fans to ride onboard with him via an in-car camera streamed on YouTube, which reached over 35,000 ...Keep reading

Jeff Burton has been around NASCAR for a long time, making his debut as a driver in the Xfinity Series back during the 1988 season. He went on to make nearly 700 starts at the Cup level, winning 21 races. But for the past decade, he has worked as TV analyst for NBC's NASCAR coverage. 
This week, I had the opportunity to speak with Burton on behalf of Motorsport.com, discussing a myriad of ...Keep reading

Hankook has altered its tyre allocation for World Rally Championship teams on the eve of Rally Chile, following requests from manufacturers.
Changeable weather conditions has ultimately resulted in the Korean tyre supplier making a significant amendment to its tyre allocations heading into this weekend’s gravel event.
Originally, Hankook had selected its hard compound gravel tyre as the ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen's immediate Formula 1 future is locked in at Red Bull, but it is expected that the four-time champion will use the 2026 season to assess the team's position before making a decision on his next steps.
This is the opinion of former Red Bull driver David Coulthard, who suggested Verstappen wouldn't "jump on the next horse because your own didn't win" unless the team proves to be in ...Keep reading

Johann Zarco has offered explanations for his table-topping crash record in MotoGP this year – a trend that has begin to cost him more points of late.
The LCR Honda-mounted Frenchman has had more crashes than any other rider this season, with 22 falls across all sessions.
Many of his tumbles earlier in the season came in practice sessions, amid generally encouraging form and even a win at ...Keep reading

The 65th ADAC ACAS Cup, round seven of the NLS series season, is about to attract a rare level of attention as reigning Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen is set to take part. Here's everything you need to know about the Nurburgring's endurance series and the Dutchman's entry.
What's the NLS?
NLS is short for Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie, and as the name suggests it is a long-distance ...Keep reading

There’s always been an elephant in the room in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship since the start of what we have quickly come to call a golden age. And it’s the fact that cars built to two different rulesets - Le Mans Hypercar and LMDh - compete against each other at the front end of the world’s premier sportscar series. But now there appears to be a real desire among ...Keep reading

Yamaha has unveiled its new V4-powered M1 MotoGP prototype ahead of its race debut at this weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix.
The Japanese manufacturer took the covers off the bike, which was painted in a predominantly blue livery, at its hospitality unit in the Misano paddock on Thursday.
Although Yamaha’s V4 challenger has been in testing for several months, all previous outings took ...Keep reading

Franco Morbidelli has admitted that he is currently going through a “hot moment” as his brushes with officialdom continue to mount up in MotoGP 2025.
The comment comes in the light of a pair of transgressions last time out in Barcelona. First, the VR46 Ducati rider earned a long lap penalty in the grand prix for causing an accident with Jorge Martin in the sprint.
Then, in the Sunday ...Keep reading

MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez believes his Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia has “enough talent” to bounce back from his difficulties in the 2025 campaign.
While Marquez is enjoying immense success following his switch to the factory Ducati team at the start of the year, Bagnaia, who is the squad’s most successful rider, is enduring one of his most challenging seasons yet in ...Keep reading

The first round of eliminations is just ahead in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series playoff fight. After 500 laps of racing at Bristol, 12 drivers will remain in contention for the championship.
Austin Cindric sits on the hot seat, while the following drivers are below the cutline: Austin Dillon (-11pts), Shane van Gisbergen (-15pts), Alex Bowman (-35pts), and Josh Berry (-45pts).
Both Chase Briscoe ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia says he has evaluated “every single direction” and has come to the conclusion that his 2025 MotoGP struggles stem from his inability to adapt to the DNA of Ducati’s GP25.
A number of theories have emerged about Bagnaia’s poor form this season, with the two-time MotoGP world champion's results steadily declining since the start of the year.
While some critics believe ...Keep reading

Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto credits much of his growth in Formula 1 to Nico Hulkenberg, and believes his elder team-mate did not get "fair" opportunities to showcase his talent behind the wheel.
Over 15 years after his F1 debut with Williams in 2010, Hulkenberg finally scored his first podium in a scintillating wet/dry British Grand Prix - Bortoleto was one of the first on the scene to ...Keep reading

Ex-Formula 1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne is leaving Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship squad and will make his exit ahead of the Bahrain 2025 finale in November.
The French manufacturer has announced that Vandoorne will depart after this month’s Fuji round to be replaced by 2023 Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire, who will move into a full-time race seat next season after fulfilling a test ...Keep reading