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All 10 Formula 1 teams successfully obliged with the championship cost cap during the 2024 season with only Aston Martin found to be in a “procedural breach”, the FIA has confirmed. 
F1 introduced a cost cap in 2021 to try and create a more level playing field between the top and bottom teams, as frontrunning outfits had significantly larger budgets than backmarkers. 
The cap started ...Keep reading

Expectations within Red Bull were split on Saturday evening at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Team advisor Helmut Marko stated that the RB21 was run too low in terms of ride height during qualifying, causing the car to bottom out in Turn 9, but he insisted it wouldn’t be a handicap in the race. The Austrian still believed a podium was within reach for Max Verstappen from fifth on the ...Keep reading

One may argue that no form of racing is inherently inferior to others, but George Russell branding his Formula 1 rivals’ driving standards in last week’s Mexico Grand Prix as lawnmower-worthy has raised an interesting point.
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He can hardly be blamed. When ...Keep reading

To say Mahindra Racing was in troubled waters when Formula E’s Gen3 era began in 2022-23 would be an understatement. On track, the M9 Electro was slow and underdeveloped, and struggled in the area that matters most in Formula E - efficiency. Off the track, the situation was no better. Team principal Dilbagh Gill abruptly departed before the start of the campaign, leaving the squad without a ...Keep reading

27-year-old Stefan Parsons has secured a ride for the 2025 NASCAR Truck Series finale at Phoenix Raceway, piloting the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. Transportation Charter Services will back the effort. He's already worked with Spire in the role of spotter, but never as a driver.
Parsons comes from a rich racing family as the son of former Cup Series race winner Phil and the nephew of ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin has suffered mechanical misfortunes throughout the entire playoffs.
As he pointed out on Monday during the latest episode of the Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin has either won to advance or suffered an issue that thwarted an otherwise competitive car.
On Saturday, he needed to be pushed off pit road to qualify because his car wouldn’t start without the manual shove. And ...Keep reading

With it becoming more and more likely that the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit and countersuit will proceed to a trial by jury scheduled to begin on December 1, the process for what that will look like is starting to be agreed upon.
For one, both parties agreed to three preliminary rules on Monday and they are as follows as directly pulled from a joint ...Keep reading

It appears that the engine issues suffered on Sunday by Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe were the result of a bad batch of valve springs but there is much larger quality control issue at play regarding Joe Gibbs Racing right now.
First and foremost, Coach Joe Gibbs confirmed ‘valve springs’ on Monday during an appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
“I think it always concerns you anytime ...Keep reading

The Formula 1 championship battle has turned on its head in just a couple of months. Oscar Piastri has been unable to maintain his comfortable lead over Lando Norris and now finds himself one point behind his team-mate in the standings, with Max Verstappen hot on his heels.
Losing that many points in just five races is a worrying sign, but does that mean the Australian is now unable to compete ...Keep reading

Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has denied that his team’s resurgence late in the 2025 Formula 1 season will come at the expense of a successful 2026 campaign.
The Austrian outfit has won three of the past five grands prix through world champion Max Verstappen, which is more victories than Red Bull collected across the first 15 rounds of the year.
That can be put down to upgrades Red Bull ...Keep reading

After 500 laps of racing at Martinsville, William Byron bested Ryan Blaney and claimed victory in a close battle for the win. Byron won his way into the final four, ousting Christopher Bell and joining Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson.
Byron led 304 of 500 laps en route to his third win of the year, which was also the 16th of his career. The victory also puts an end to Team Penske's ...Keep reading

Joan Mir says he is “proud” to have overtaken Fermin Aldeguer’s Ducati with Honda’s improved straightline performance in the MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix.
Factory HRC rider Mir bagged his second podium in four races at Sepang, finishing third behind winner Alex Marquez and Pedro Acosta, after Francesco Bagnaia retired late on with a puncture.
Starting seventh on the grid, Mir sent his ...Keep reading

The Carolina Cowboys, owned by Richard Childress with grandson Austin Dillon serving as general manager, won the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) team world championship over the weekend in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.
Dillon, a winner of both the Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600 in NASCAR, celebrated the big win with the following post on Instagram:
 
The Carolina Cowboys ended the ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles claimed the Grove outfit “didn’t get it right across the board” for Alex Albon at the Mexico Grand Prix and Carlos Sainz’s race “was over after Turn 1”.
Sainz picked up damage at the start of the race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, which caused issues with the wheel speed sensors and, in turn, the pit speed limiter. As a result, the Spanish ...Keep reading

George Russell has shared the details of a contract clause in his Mercedes deal that should protect him from the threat of four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen.
The British driver finally signed a contract extension with the Brackley outfit after months of negotiations. Russell's future with the team was under the spotlight earlier in the season as team chief Toto Wolff confirmed he had ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia has questioned MotoGP’s decision to release a short documentary marking the 10th anniversary of the infamous and divisive episode between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez.
The Sepang circuit will forever be remembered as the place where the rivalry between Marquez and Rossi reached its peak. The latter arrived in Malaysia in 2015 with an 11-point lead at the top of the ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has attributed his Mexico Grand Prix victory to a Singapore briefing regarding McLaren’s Formula 1 car.
Norris comprehensively dominated the Mexican weekend, taking pole position with a 0.262s margin on second-placed Charles Leclerc while team-mate Oscar Piastri was six tenths off, before winning the race with a 30-second gap to Leclerc.
This was statistically the most ...Keep reading

Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso has called out the FIA stewards for “looking to the other side” after a chaotic start to the Mexico Grand Prix saw multiple drivers go straight into Turns 2 and 3.
The Spanish driver, who ultimately retired from the race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, claimed that the drivers who left the track, including Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has opened up on having moments of self-doubt at the start of the 2025 season after taking the championship lead with a commanding win at the Mexico Grand Prix. 
The McLaren driver now leads his team-mate Oscar Piastri by just one point in the standings ahead of the final four rounds of the season. 
“Times at the beginning of the years I certainly did because I'm not one ...Keep reading

Moto3 rider Noah Dettwiler is in a critical but stable condition following his accident at the Malaysian Grand Prix last weekend.
His CIP Green Power team’s latest social media post provided the first update since it announced on Sunday evening that the Swiss rider was undergoing multiple surgeries in Kuala Lumpur.
The latest update, which came approximately 24 hours after the previous ...Keep reading