Motorsport

Oscar Piastri says he’s not changing his approach despite Formula 1 title rival Max Verstappen’s recovery in the 2025 drivers’ championship.
Piastri’s 104-point lead on third-placed Verstappen dwindled to 40 in just four grands prix, as the Red Bull racer took four victories (including one sprint win) and a second-position finish. Meanwhile, McLaren’s championship leader suffered a ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez and the new Cadillac Formula 1 team will step up their preparations with a TPC test with a 2023 Ferrari car at Imola in November.
Perez will not be racing in the Mexico Grand Prix for the first time since the event returned to the F1 calendar in 2015, but that didn’t stop him from visiting Mexico City, where he took part in a charity football match and shared more details about ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri has revealed that McLaren's 'repercussions' for Lando Norris in the wake of Formula 1's Singapore Grand Prix have been removed, as he took "a degree of responsibility" for their United States GP sprint clash.
Norris made contact with Piastri on the first lap at Marina Bay into Turn 3. Upon review, McLaren felt this was avoidable and elected to encumber Norris with what was termed ...Keep reading

Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto jumped to two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso's defence while being questioned about the Spanish driver potentially choosing the wrong teams during his long career in the championship.
Bortoleto, who is under Alonso's management, supported the idea that the 44-year-old should have more drivers' titles to his name.
"Definitely, yes. I think he is one of ...Keep reading

Haas rookie Oliver Bearman is looking forward to getting the target off his back after the Mexican Grand Prix this weekend.
Having racked up 10 penalty points on his superlicence in the last 12 months, Bearman is just two points away from an automatic race ban. But the British driver will drop two of the 10 points on 3 November, which will come as a relief to him.
"It's been a tough few ...Keep reading

Things could always change, of course, but it seems as though the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit and countersuit is destined for a trial by jury come December.
The two parties met in court on Thursday following two days of settlement mediation overseen by Judge Kenneth D. Bell. The judge, who has overseen this case for over a year now opened this session by ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix attracted the largest TV audience in the history of the event.
The race at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, resulted in four-time champion Max Verstappen celebrating on the top step of the podium as he closed the gap to his championship rivals, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, in the standings. In addition to his grand prix victory, the ...Keep reading

The FIA confirmed that a group of ethical hackers briefly gained access to data in its driver licensing portal - including Max Verstappen’s passport - while the leak has been fixed in collaboration with the hackers themselves.
The breach took place this summer, when a trio of ethical hackers — Gal Nagli, Sam Curry and Ian Carroll — got into the FIA’s Driver Categorisation portal ...Keep reading

Tom Clarkson has argued that some in the Ferrari garage may have been "taken aback" by Lewis Hamilton's comments ahead of the United States Grand Prix. 
The seven-time champion said that the remaining races of the 2025 season are "test weekends" in order for the Maranello outfit to learn and improve its processes before the regulation change in 2026.
"Yeah. I’m really looking at the next ...Keep reading

Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has been named the world's most marketable athlete by SportsPro.
After previously holding the position in the annual list from the outlet in 2014, the British driver joins Lionel Messi, Neymar and Simone Biles as the only athletes to achieve the prestigious ranking twice.
Aside from Hamilton's on-track achievements, including seven drivers' ...Keep reading

Front Row Motorsports will make no changes to its driver roster for the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, keeping the same lineup they have now.
Todd Gilliland will continue as the driver of the No. 34, Noah Gragson as the driver of the No. 4, and Zane Smith as the driver of the No. 38.
Smith has actually signed a multi-year contract extension with FRM, which was part of Thursday's ...Keep reading

Rumours about Porsche wanting to sell its stake in Manthey Racing have been circulating in the paddock for several months.
The Volkswagen Group brand reported a sharp drop in profits this year, forcing it to cut jobs across its automotive division. The weak financial performance also played a part in its impending exit from the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship at the end of ...Keep reading

Last weekend’s United States Grand Prix could be seen as a pivotal turning point in the 2025 Formula 1 drivers’ championship battle as Max Verstappen dominated from pole.
It was the four-time world champion’s third victory in four grands prix, while he also won the Austin sprint race to move within 40 points of championship leader Oscar Piastri.
Until Austin, it was a widespread belief ...Keep reading

1979 – Alan Jones’ late-season surge
Race 9: 13th, 25-point deficitRace 12: 3rd, 10-point deficitFinal standings: 3rd, 11-point deficit

Alan Jones, Williams FW07 Ford
Photo by: Motorsport Images

The 1979 season, in which ground effect became widespread following Lotus’ success the previous year, was dominated by Ferrari – but Williams’ Alan Jones still became a ...Keep reading

MotoGP rider Marco Bezzecchi has denied that he is the strongest man on a grid that is missing world champion Marc Marquez.
Bezzecchi has won three of the last four sprint races and was clearly the fastest man at the last two meetings in Indonesia and Australia. He has only failed to win the respective grands prix due to his incident with Marquez at Mandalika and the resulting double long lap ...Keep reading

Red Bull F1 chief Laurent Mekies has explained why Max Verstappen is just "as extraordinary out of the car" as in it, after getting to work with the four-time world champion over the past three months. 
Mekies moved from Racing Bulls to Red Bull Racing in July to replace Christian Horner, working with Verstappen for the first time after admiring the Dutchman from a distance over his stints ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez admits that while Ducati’s MotoGP rivals have made strides, he still doubts any manufacturer can consistently challenge the dominance of his brother Marc Marquez across an entire 22-race campaign.
Although Ducati has already secured all three world titles this season, its position as MotoGP’s benchmark has come under increasing pressure from Aprilia in recent rounds.
The ...Keep reading

The end of the 2025 Formula 1 season is in sight as the championship hosts the Mexican Grand Prix this weekend to kickstart the final five rounds of the year.
It comes just a week after the United States GP, which Max Verstappen dominated from pole after the Red Bull driver also won the sprint contest to continue his fine run of form.
Talk has been non-stop ever since over if the four-time ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans is refusing to get carried away by the 13-point lead he holds in his quest for a maiden World Rally Championship title with only two rounds of the season remaining. 
The Toyota driver is bidding to become the first British WRC champion since Richard Burns in 2001 and has so far finished runner-up in the title race four times, but is currently sitting top of the standings as the ...Keep reading

MotoGP has introduced a regulations tweak designed to reduce the impact of late yellow flags in timed sessions.
Under the new rules, which will come into effect at this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, riders may not attempt to rejoin qualifying sessions if they fall during the final three minutes.
The same will apply to the Friday afternoon Practice session, which determines the riders who ...Keep reading