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Max Verstappen officially secured his first-ever victory at the Marina Bay Street Circuit during Saturday's rain-delayed Singapore Grand Prix Sprint, but the four-time world champion is far from happy. After a 30-minute weather delay forced the grid to start on intermediate tyres, Verstappen suffered a terrible launch off the pole position, allowing Mercedes driver George Russell to instantly ...Keep reading

The Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix sprint race ended in absolute disaster for the McLaren team. Following a 30-minute delay due to torrential downpours, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were running comfortably in fifth and fourth place, respectively, during the closing moments of the 100-kilometer dash. However, on the very last lap of the race, a desperate overtaking attempt completely ruined the ...Keep reading

The final sprint race of the 2026 Formula 1 season produced plenty of chaos. Only 13 of the 22 cars reached the finish line, with George Russell's crash and the collision between the two McLaren drivers in particular providing plenty of talking points in the paddock.
The first of two races at the Marina Bay Street Circuit may have been less boring than feared, but drivers stress that overtaking ...Keep reading

Rally legend Sebastien Loeb has tested the new 2027 Project Rally One World Rally Championship challenger. 
The nine-time world champion joined up with the Belgian tuner team this week to assist with the development of the operation’s new WRC car that is set to make its championship debut at the season opener in Monte Carlo in January.
Project Rally One officially unveiled its new car ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has brushed off his collision with Oscar Piastri at F1's Singapore GP sprint, and escaped a penalty for taking his team-mate out of the race.
On the final lap of the 20-lap sprint, which was held in mixed conditions, Norris made a lunge on Piastri on the inside of Turn 5, unsuccessfully backing out of a closing gap and striking Piastri's right-rear corner.
The collision sent ...Keep reading

A day after topping a Formula 1 qualifying session at the Marina Bay Street Circuit for the first time, Max Verstappen has now added a victory at the same venue. Both sprint sessions underline that Red Bull has a more than competitive car in Singapore this year, although Verstappen himself still does not count these achievements.
When the four-time world champion was asked about the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 is officially heading back to the African continent for the first time since 1993, but the exact location has caught the global motorsport community completely off guard. Bypassing the historic Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in South Africa, Formula 1 is actively finalizing a massive deal to bring a race to Rwanda by the 2030 season.
For Scuderia Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton, the ...Keep reading

Qualifying for Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix will be delayed after rain disrupted Saturday’s sprint race, the FIA has announced.
A downpour soaked part of the Marina Bay Street Circuit some 15 minutes before the sprint was scheduled to get under way, meaning the race was delayed by half an hour in order to clear some of the standing water from the track.
The sprint started at 5:30pm ...Keep reading

Raul Fernandez is due to start the Indonesian Grand Prix from the front after claiming his maiden pole position in Saturday's qualifying.
However, the Trackhouse rider's participation in the race remains subject to his physical condition after he broke his finger in a crash with factory Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi in the sprint.
Fernandez will take part in Sunday morning's warm-up to ...Keep reading

Jorge Martín took the lead in the Indonesian GP Sprint with an advantage of more than 1.5 seconds over Marc Márquez, but a technical problem and a late error led him to lose victory - and a podium.
Martin started fifth on the grid but made the most of a chaotic opening corner at Mandalika, where Fabio Di Giannantonio, Marquez, Marco Bezzecchi and Raul Fernandez went four-wide into the turn ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen took victory in the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race from pole position after George Russell crashed out of the lead at the end of the first lap.
A downpour soaked the starting grid 15 minutes before the scheduled start, while some parts of the Marina Bay Street Circuit remained dry. The race was delayed by half an hour due to the standing water in Turns 2 and 3.
When the ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell has crashed out of a wet Singapore GP sprint, bringing out a safety car on lap 2.
Following a delay triggered by a sudden downpour, Russell took the lead on a wet start of the race by passing polesitter Max Verstappen on the inside into Turn 1.
But Russell didn't enjoy his lead for long, crashing in the final corner on lap two as he appeared to lose control ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi has brushed aside Raul Fernandez's anger over their first-corner crash in Saturday's Mandalika sprint, calling it a racing incident.
While there were a lot of moving parts in the chain reaction at the opening corner, Bezzecchi was the first rider to fall off. His factory Aprilia skittled Fernandez's Trackhouse entry, putting paid to both of their hopes. 
Given that the pair ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles has spent the last month aggressively lobbying the Formula 1 paddock for a massive overhaul to the sport's financial regulations. Claiming that the newly combined $215million CapEx/OpEx budget cap has created a "two-tier championship" where the top four teams hoard 83% of the points, Vowles is pushing for a sliding scale allowance based on championship ...Keep reading

Raul Fernandez has launched a scathing attack on Marco Bezzecchi after the pair crashed on their way into the first braking zone of the MotoGP sprint at Mandalika.
Saturday began in the best possible way for Fernandez, who secured his first MotoGP pole position, but ended in disaster, with the Trackhouse rider on the ground, suffering a fractured finger and unsure whether he would be able to ...Keep reading

A difficult tyre gamble in Saturday qualifying for the season finale at Hockenheim - because the track was wet at the start, which led some drivers to initially set a time on wet tyres and then switch to slicks: But that proved to be a poor choice, so they switched back again. The biggest surprise of all came from Abt-Lamborghini driver Luca Engstler, who took pole with a 1:47.048.
"Awesome!" ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has described part of his post-victory commitments as "inhumane" as he continues to resist peripheral demands while he pushes for an eighth MotoGP world title.
Marquez's lack of extravagant celebration has been a talking point since the Austrian sprint race two events ago, following which he first referenced his need to save energy and put his sporting commitments first. 
Last ...Keep reading

Following a chaotic and highly contested Sprint qualifying shootout at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, the 2026 Formula 1 championship battle appears closer than ever. Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen ultimately secured the sprint pole position, but he was closely followed by Mercedes driver George Russell in second, Scuderia Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in third, and McLaren's Oscar Piastri in ...Keep reading

The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team is currently navigating one of the most bizarre internal storylines of the 2026 Formula 1 season. During Friday's Sprint qualifying shootout at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, the factory deliberately split their aerodynamic packages to gather comparative data on a failing upgrade.
The on-track results were completely polarising. George Russell, driving the ...Keep reading

When the Mercedes opted to run an aggressively divided garage for the Singapore Grand Prix Sprint weekend, the goal was simple: gather enough side-by-side data to finally understand why their highly anticipated aerodynamic upgrade failed in Malaysia. Instead, the radical split-specification test has only plunged the factory deeper into utter confusion.
Following Friday’s Sprint qualifying ...Keep reading