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Friday's practice session featured several close calls and heart-stopping moments as drivers struggled to find the right balance to the cars in the face of high winds and added weight in the rear due to the hybrid power units.
Kyffin Simpson was the first to step over that line, crashing heavily at the exit of Turn 4 and going airborne in the first hour of the session. Teams and drivers alike ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton said the performance of his brakes has been so inconsistent this season that it’s felt like a “lottery.” The Ferrari driver spent most of the first practice session during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend complaining about the brakes over team radio. Evidentially, he’s still adapting to the Italian outfit’s Brembo brakes, after more than a decade spent driving with ...Keep reading

Over the past decade, B.J. McLeod has started 146 NASCAR Cup races, driving underfunded equipment, but doing as one of the most respected field-fillers in the sport. His best finish was seventh, which came in the summer race at Daytona in 2022.
McLeod is a driver/owner at Live Fast Motorsports and competed full-time before selling his Cup charter to Spire Motorsports for around $40 million ...Keep reading

Alpine Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly heralded 2025 Imola Grand Prix practice as “the best Friday so far this year”, despite admitting a crash with a rabbit hampered his running.
After a turbulent few weeks for the French side, which has featured the resignation of team boss Oliver Oakes and the announcement a mid-season driver swap, Gasly was on fine form in the first day of practice at ...Keep reading

Ferrari was fined €5,000 (£4,200) for tinkering with tyre pressures during F1’s Imola Grand Prix and breaking the sport’s rules.
The Italian team was hauled to the stewards after they spotted that Ferrari had breached the regulations regarding tyre pressures on Charles Leclerc’s car during Friday’s practice session.
Strict rules govern the limits on tyre pressures and ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says he was passed and dropped by the McLarens during long run practice ahead of Formula 1's Imola grand prix, with Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko saying the team lacks four tenths.
The world champion endured a difficult FP1 and then finished Friday running in fifth place in a slightly more positive FP2 session, but the Dutchman was still 0.442 seconds behind pace-setting McLaren ...Keep reading

Only 50 minutes into Friday's Indy 500 practice, disaster struck for Kyffin Simpson and the No. 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Several drivers had already breached 230mph in lap averages with the boost turned up, including Scott McLaughlin, who nearly reached 234mph over the course of a lap.
The 20-year-old Simpson was making his first run of the day when the car wobbled at the exit of Turn 4 ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have ended Friday running at Formula 1's Imola GP on top as McLaren looks set to retain its early 2025 advantage, heading an FP2 session red-flagged for Isack Hadjar's late off.
Piastri had already led the way in FP1 earlier in the afternoon and underlined McLaren's ominous form. Piastri pipped team-mate Norris by a mere 0.025s but the pair comfortably stayed ...Keep reading

Alpine team leader Flavio Briatore has contradicted his own squad’s announcement that Franco Colapinto had been promoted to a race seat for the next five Formula 1 rounds from this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.
Alpine announced on 7 May that it was replacing Jack Doohan, who had failed to score a single point over the first six grands prix of the 2025 season, with reserve driver ...Keep reading

Meet the newest brand ambassador for ELEMIS, Aston Martin’s Head of F1 Academy Jessica Hawkins. 
Luxury skincare brand ELEMIS previously inked a deal with Aston Martin earlier in 2025, becoming the first skincare company to sponsor an F1 team. Notably, this partnership represents much more than a logo on the car. With Hawkins officially on board — a seasoned racer and one of motorsport’s ...Keep reading

Adrien Fourmaux exited the Rally Portugal victory battle in unfortunate circumstances, which has helped relieve the pressure on Hyundai World Rally Championship team-mate and rally leader Ott Tanak.
After struggling at Rally Islas Canarias last month, Hyundai bounced back on Portugal’s tricky gravel stages on Friday morning with Tanak and Fourmaux locked in the fight for victory.
Fourmaux ...Keep reading

“Trying to find little bits everywhere” was how Oscar Piastri described the marginal-gains approach he feels has boosted him to four grand prix wins this season and the championship lead.
“It’s quite a different feeling when you win a race because you feel like you’ve just gotten by or had good circumstances,” he said in the FIA press conference ahead of the Imola GP. “But to now ...Keep reading

Former Alpine racer Esteban Ocon has hit out at the team after it demoted Jack Doohan back to a reserve driver role just six grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Alpine promoted Doohan to a race seat at the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last year, with Ocon giving up on his drive in order to be allowed to take part in the post-season test with his new team, Haas.
Doohan had been ...Keep reading

Two firefighters and a member of the public have been killed following a fire at the Bicester Motion complex on Thursday night.
The site is home to a number of motorsport and automotive businesses, with many focused on the historic scene.
The McLaren Formula E squad is among those based at Bicester Motion but it has confirmed it has not been directly affected by the fire. However, it has ...Keep reading

Eighteenth overall in the MotoGP world championship with only 15 points, Raul Fernandez endured his fair share of criticism in the early part of the 2025 season.
While the Spaniard is guaranteed a 2026 contract with independent Aprilia team Trackhouse, some have questioned whether his place on the grid is justified at all.
But the 24-year-old managed to silence his critics – temporarily at ...Keep reading

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Max Verstappen is free to let off steam in other motorsport series, but reaffirmed that the Dutchman’s “focus has to be” on Formula 1 following a secret test at the Nurburgring last week.
Verstappen drove Emil Frey Racing's Ferrari 296 GT3 car during a test at Nurburgring's Nordschleife at an official Nurburgring Endurance Series test, and ...Keep reading

The WSK Euro Series has kicked off at Leopard Circuit Viterbo with free practice and qualifying, and it's now time to watch all the racing in Saturday's pre-finals and finals for the MINI, OKNJ, OKN, OKJ, and OK categories, with live streaming on Motorsport.com via the video player above.
Excellent turnout in all categories
There is a very good turnout of drivers for this "premiere" of the ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri has pipped McLaren team-mate Lando Norris by 0.032s in the first free practice session for F1's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, which was red-flagged for a late crash by Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto.
At the historic Italian track outside Bologna, which is set to host its last F1 race for the time being, Piastri and Norris led an extremely tight session while most teams grid ...Keep reading

“It's basically the same as it's been for three years,” Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur said of Ferrari’s engineering setup while facing questions from the media ahead of the 2025 Imola GP. “We've made some mistakes with the car, but we know where to improve.” The line of questioning directed at Vasseur is not new in motorsport, nor at Ferrari’s Maranello HQ. If a car ...Keep reading

Red Bull's endeavours to chase after Formula 1 championship leader McLaren have continued as the team has introduced a new sidepod package for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
In Miami, the RB21 was equipped with a revised floor, and this is to be paired with a reshaped set of sidepods in Imola; the team has taken a different approach to its inlet arrangement, bringing it slightly more in line ...Keep reading