Motorsport

Swiss rider Noah Dettwiler is no longer in a critical condition, three days after being involved in a horrific crash before the start of the Moto3 race at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
In a short announcement on social media, CIP Green Power revealed that Dettwiler has made progress in his recovery after undergoing multiple surgeries in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. He will remain in the ICU for the time ...Keep reading

Jonathan Rea is set to join Honda's World Superbike Championship team as a test and development rider in 2026 after retiring from active competition, Motorsport.com has learned.
Rea pulled the curtain down on his glittering career in WSBK at Jerez earlier this month, as he bowed out of the series after a record six titles, 119 victories and 264 podium finishes.
Although firm in his decision ...Keep reading

“Yuki had his best weekend in a long time. We have said that a few times, but it is true.”
An 11th-place finish by a top-team racer seldom draws plaudits, but Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Laurent Mekies has expressed unabated satisfaction with Yuki Tsunoda’s Mexico Grand Prix drive.
In a second Red Bull car that often looks like a poisoned chalice, Tsunoda has always struggled to ...Keep reading

Bajaj Auto has revealed plans to cut workforce by over 50% across several areas at KTM, including motorsport, as it inches closer to completing a takeover of the Austrian manufacturer.
Bajaj’s managing director Rajiv Bajaj stated in an interview that it intends to halve expenses across various departments in a move that will directly affect KTM and Tech3’s MotoGP teams.
“This is really ...Keep reading

Lando Norris’ dominance of the 2025 Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix stemmed from the track suiting his driving style, reckons McLaren team boss Andrea Stella. 
The long-time McLaren racer never lost position to win from pole on Sunday at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, meaning he took the F1 2025 championship lead with four rounds remaining. 
That is because erstwhile leader Oscar Piastri ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch and wife Samantha have filed a lawsuit that claims losses of more than $8.5 million after being misled into purchasing complex life insurance policies they were led to believe were safe retirement plans.
The complaint was filed on October 14 in Lincoln County, North Carolina and accuses Pacific Life Insurance Company of misrepresenting Indexed Universal Life (IUL) policies as ...Keep reading

Kevin Harvick, the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion, and current NASCAR on FOX television analyst did not mince words about this weekend’s championship races.
He said it would be ‘embarrassing’ if Corey Heim and Connor Zilisch did not win the Truck Series and Xfinity Series championships, respectively.
“Here’s what I think is interesting,” Harvick said on Kevin Harvick’s Happy ...Keep reading

Greg Biffle, a well-known NASCAR driver with over 500 Cup starts and 19 wins, made headlines outside of the racing world with his incredible efforts to bring help those devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024.
Well, the former NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series champion is not standing by a monstrous Category 5 hurricane slams into the Caribbean. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on ...Keep reading

As Taylor Gray earned his first career win at Martinsville and the Championship 4 was set,  tempers exploded in the middle of the field.
Jeb Burton, who promised to retaliate against Sam Mayer for an earlier run-in, pushed him out of the way in the final corner. Burton finished sixth, and Mayer only lost one spot to finish seventh.
However, Mayer let the emotions overwhelm him after ...Keep reading

NASCAR’s allegation that it paid too much to the Teams in the 2025 Charters is not itself an injury to competition; rather, it is only a private economic loss to NASCAR.
This is a key line, in a document full of them, in which Judge Kenneth D. Bell dismissed NASCAR’s summary judgement counterclaims against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports in the ongoing antitrust dispute between the ...Keep reading

The Formula 1 cost cap has made the news again as the championship's governing body the FIA released its findings for the 2024 season.
It stated that all teams, plus power unit manufacturers, had met the cap but Aston Martin had committed a "procedural breach" regarding the paperwork. 
But there has been a previous instance in which a team has breached it and received a punishment for doing ...Keep reading

It seems very likely that Sam Mayer’s season will have ended a week early due to his retaliatory intentional crash of Jeb Burton after the checkered flag on Saturday following the Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway.
 
NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer addressed the incident during a Tuesday morning appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
“We’ll meet ...Keep reading

Honda seems to have begun emerging from the shadow of the last five years - a period filled with obstacles. From the outbreak of COVID-19 to Marc Marquez’s injury, which ultimately led to the Spaniard’s departure, HRC staggered on while watching Ducati dominate, as the Italian brand captured the last four titles in a row.
This year, the Sakura-based manufacturer has changed course after ...Keep reading

Mercedes has released the first images of its new Concept AMG GT Track Sport running on track at the start of “an intensive testing phase” for the supercar, which could succeed the AMG GT3 on track.  
The camouflaged car is pictured testing at AMG’s Affalterbach test track, where it completed its “first successful test kilometres”, according to a statement shared by Mercedes. The ...Keep reading

Felipe Massa's case disputing his missed 2008 Formula 1 world title is heading to court in London this week, with Massa seeking damages at the Royal Courts of Justice.
The Brazilian filed a lawsuit against governing body the FIA, commercial rightsholder FOM, and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone after an interview with the F1-Insider website in 2023.
Ecclestone admitted that he and then FIA ...Keep reading

Aston Martin F1 junior Jak Crawford will step up to the role of third driver for the Silverstone squad for the 2026 season.
The 20-year-old American, who joined Aston's junior programme last year, will become the team's official reserve driver in 2026 after a range of simulator work, private testing and FP1 outings.
Aston Martin says Crawford has "accumulated over 2,000km in Formula 1 ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera has completed his first outing in a Formula 2 car as the two-time World Rally champion gears up to make the switch to single-seater racing next year. 
Rovanpera announced plans for a bold career switch last month, which will see the Finn leave the World Rally Championship at the end of the season to embark on a circuit racing career in single-seaters. 
The 25-year-old has ...Keep reading

Aprilia has developed a versatile bike that performs well across a wide range of circuits, while KTM’s form still tends to fluctuate depending on how well a track suits the RC16 - or at least, that was the conclusion most drew from recent rounds. The Malaysian Grand Prix, however, suggested that assumption might not have been entirely accurate.
At Sepang, Aprilia failed to live up to the high ...Keep reading

Cadillac Formula 1 test driver Colton Herta will race for the American manufacturer in three IMSA SportsCar Championship endurance contests next year. 
Herta will dovetail his F1 duties and an F2 campaign driving for Hitech with appearances at the start-of-season Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours IMSA rounds, plus the season-closing Petit Le Mans event at Road Atlanta.
They will come in ...Keep reading

Raul Fernandez did not have long to savour his victory in the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix as the Malaysian Grand Prix came just seven days later – and it provided a rude return to Earth for the Spaniard.
But the Trackhouse Aprilia rider insisted on keeping things in perspective following a slow campaign at Sepang, which ended in a rare race crash.
The Malaysian GP was the scene of only ...Keep reading