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Liberty Media chief executive Derek Chang believes Formula 1 has shifted from being a series to becoming a “cultural phenomenon” in the past decade.
Chang was appointed as successor to Greg Maffei at the start of January, eight years on from when Liberty completed its acquisition of F1 and set about taking the series to new audiences, in new markets.
The findings of the 2025 Global F1 ...Keep reading

Imola's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix showed Red Bull is making progress with its 2025 Formula 1 car, but Max Verstappen doesn't believe the team's form will carry over to this weekend’s race in Monaco.
Verstappen was pipped to pole last weekend in Italy, but passed polesitter Oscar Piastri at the start before comfortably controlling the race. Beneath him was a Red Bull that was much stronger on ...Keep reading

Kyle Larson has probably been one of the busiest people in the U.S. for the last couple of weeks, splitting his time between preparing for the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500, aka the “Great Spectacle in Racing” —  and his busy schedule as a NASCAR regular.
After his share of practice days and qualifying at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Larson sat down with Motorsport.com to ...Keep reading

Jack Perkins, 38, has over 150 starts in Australian Supercars, winning the 2015 Gold Coast 600 Race #2 as a co-driver to James Courtney. He is a veteran of 19 Bathurst 1000s, earning a podium result there in 2019. His father, Larry Perkins, is a six-time winner of the iconic event.
The third-generation racer will now try something new, by following several of his Supercars brethren to the ...Keep reading

Scott McLaughlin is the only Team Penske driver who wasn't sent to the rear of the field as the attenuator on his No. 3 Chevrolet was not modified like the sister cars. However, that does not mean the New Zealander has had a much better week than teammates Josef Newgarden and Will Power.
McLaughlin's race strategist and team general manager Kyle Moyer was among those let go by Roger Penske ...Keep reading

On Thursday, Josef Newgarden faced a packed media center on the fourth floor of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This was after the technical breach that was found on his car, No. 2, and on Will Power’s car, No. 12, during the Fast 12 session last Sunday. As a result, he will start the Indy 500 from 32nd place, one spot ahead of his teammate.
However, Newgarden made it clear from the outset ...Keep reading

Prema Racing is a team that is likely unfamiliar to US-only race fans. They arrived to the IndyCar grid ahead of the 2025 season with a two-car effort and no charters. And yet, they are now on pole position for the biggest oval race on the entire planet.
So who exactly is the team behind rookie Indy 500 polesitter Robert Shwartzman? Well, they may be new to ovals but they are no strangers to ...Keep reading

Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc says his car’s specific low-speed weakness means it is going to be extremely difficult to repeat his 2024 home win at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix this weekend.
Last year, Leclerc finally found redemption around the streets he roamed as a child, taking his first home win from pole after several years of heartbreak and near-misses.
The popular win led to emotional ...Keep reading

Formula 1 races in Monaco this weekend in an event that is both must-see and, at times, incredibly dull. To try and spice up the racing action, F1 tweaked the tyre rules for this year’s Monaco Grand Prix to force teams to carry out two pitstops during the race. 
The rules, which were announced earlier this year, mandate that teams use three sets of tyres across two compounds. The theoretical ...Keep reading

Leading MotoGP riders including Marc Marquez have said there is no need for the kind of contract arbitration authority seen in Formula 1.
The topic has surfaced in the light of Jorge Martin’s attempts to get out of his current Aprilia contract early – a deal the Italian factory claimed on Thursday was “valid and in effect” until the end of the 2026 season.
F1 has had a Contract ...Keep reading

A contrivance? On the face of it, enforcing a two-stop minimum for the Monaco Grand Prix seems like one – although at the same time, a plot-generating device one might think nothing of, had Formula 1 ratified the idea 50 years ago.
The effect of ensuring every driver takes at least one additional stop is completely uncharted at this point. It could have cataclysmic ramifications for those ...Keep reading

Pierre Gasly revealed his early ambitions to become a professional football player, after captaining one of the teams in the traditional Nationale Piloti charity match on the eve of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.
A co-owner of French Championnat National club FC Versailles, the Alpine driver was given the honour of wearing the armband as he was joined by a number of other F1 racers in a match ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton might be considering trading the paddock for the red carpet in the next chapter of his career. The seven-time Formula 1 world champion produced the upcoming F1 movie and admitted that he was “nervous” about the rest of the grid watching the finished film.
“I’ve seen it like 20 times already - at least," Hamilton told reporters on Thursday, following ...Keep reading

The 2018 Indy 500 winner Will Power will start the 109th running of the iconic race from 33rd place, last on the grid. He is the most senior driver at Team Penske, having competed with the team since the start of the 2009 season.
Sunday will be a unique challenge for him, as he's only started from the back row for the 500 once before in his entire career, and he will do it without his chief ...Keep reading

Team Penske is in the spotlight again for rules violations, this time for modifying the rear attenuators of the No. 12 and No. 2 cars ahead of Sunday’s Fast 12 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As a result, both cars were penalized and sent to the back of the field for Sunday's Indy 500, among other sanctions for the organization.
On Wednesday, Team Penske announced the departures of ...Keep reading

With nearly every MotoGP rider being grilled for his opinion about Jorge Martin attempting to escape his current deal with Aprilia, Maverick Vinales responded to the question with an unexpected reference to his sudden departure from Yamaha in 2021.
“It’s none of my business,” was the initial response by Tech3 KTM rider Vinales, who switched to Aprilia following his departure from Yamaha ...Keep reading

After years of filming in paddocks and pit lanes around the world, the Brad Pitt-led F1 movie will arrive in cinemas next month. Some of the film's stars - the current F1 drivers and team principals - got their first look at the flick during a private screening ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix.
All 20 drivers (minus Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll, who skipped for personal reasons) gathered in ...Keep reading

Alpine F1 driver Franco Colapinto says he is heading to his second race weekend of 2025 in Monaco looking for more confidence in his car over one lap at one of F1's toughest circuits.
Colapinto made his Alpine debut at last week's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, coming home in 16th after a crash cost him in qualifying and an unfortunately timed yellow flag then further hampered his progress ...Keep reading

Portugal will continue to host a round of the World Rally Championship until 2028 at least after signing a new multi-year contract.
Rally Portugal is one of the founding members of the WRC hosting a round since the inaugural championship season in 1973, and has only been absent from the schedule during a brief hiatus from 2002-2006.
Organisers have today announced that the rally has inked a ...Keep reading

Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta will miss the MotoGP British Grand Prix this weekend after undergoing surgery for a spinal injury.
The Silverstone event will mark the first grand prix the MotoGP boss has missed since Dorna Sports took over the championship in 1992.
The Spaniard has long suffered from a spinal condition affecting two vertebrae, which had been causing him chronic pain. While he had ...Keep reading