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Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen rank among the absolute global elite in terms of sports earnings in 2025.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton edged out four-time champ Verstappen on the annual ranking of the world’s highest-paid athletes by the American business magazine Forbes. According to the magazine, Hamilton sat in equal 22nd place with Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez, earning a total of ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says it is unrealistic to expect Red Bull to close its race pace deficit with McLaren in the short term despite a range of upgrades coming to the 2025 Formula 1 car.
Verstappen finished 40 seconds behind McLaren's race winner Oscar Piastri at the most recent Miami Grand Prix, having beaten both McLarens to pole but then slumped back in the race as the Woking team's superior race ...Keep reading

Four-time world champion Max Verstappen provoked rampant intrigue in the motorsport community last weekend when he drove a Ferrari – of all things – in a test at the Nurburgring Norschleife. However, Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu says his team’s driver’s won’t be following the Red Bull racer's example.
Verstappen took advantage of the gap between the F1 Miami GP and this weekend’s ...Keep reading

For the second year in a row, Kyle Larson is giving it his all to try to achieve “The Double,” racing in the Indy 500 and the Coke 600 on May 25. However, if Mother Nature interferes, Tony Kanaan is prepared to fill in as a substitute for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion.
Of course, the 2013 Indy 500 winner retired from driving at the Speedway two years ago, and is now in charge of ...Keep reading

From the very start, Day 3 of Indy 500 practice felt more urgent than the sessions that preceded it. Tempers were short, the action was constant, and drivers pushed closer to that invisible edge until one finally crossed it.
Josef Newgarden topped the time sheets for Team Penske at 226.632mph, which was down from the fastest times set earlier in the week. But still, Penske and Newgarden appear ...Keep reading

The ”F1” movie has every ingredient for success: a bankable star in Brad Pitt, total support from Formula One Management, the acclaimed directorial team behind ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ and even a soundtrack architect known for his Midas touch.
Kevin Weaver, the West Coast President of Atlantic Records, has built a reputation in Hollywood for turning movie soundtracks into cultural moments ...Keep reading

NASCAR has had its fair share of strange and bizarre happenings over the years, and the All-Star Race is no exception. In the past, 'One Hot Night' ended with the race winner in the hospital, the first All-Star Race had the winning car (suspiciously) blow its engine just as it crossed the finish line, and there was also that time NASCAR let teams roll out the backup cars (mid-race)…after they ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton made a quick dash from the Miami Grand Prix to New York City last week, as he rushed to fulfill his co-chairing duties at the 2025 Met Gala. He was tapped by Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, to hold the position for the first time alongside Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams during fashion’s biggest night. 
“The Met Gala was incredible, and it wasn't easy ...Keep reading

Hyundai boss Cyril Abiteboul remains optimistic that the brand could continue in the World Rally Championship next year - but has outlined the factors currently preventing it from committing to 2027.   
The Korean marque’s future involvement in the WRC remains a hot topic with the car maker, which will join the World Endurance Championship in 2026 under its Genesis umbrella, but is yet to ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has piled into the FIA president’s decision to row back on his swearing ban - saying the whole “ridiculous” situation is “a mess”.
Meanwhile, George Russell said Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s plans to climb down on its previous stance on punishing drivers seemed "all a bit suspect".
It comes after Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, revised penalties for drivers for ...Keep reading

In addition to the usual challenge of actually winning the Indy 500, for 2025 drivers and teams must now contend with a new and potentially decisive factor for this year’s edition of the Greatest Spectacle In Racing: the hybrid unit has its formal premiere at the 2.5 mile oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
IndyCar introduced its new hybrid drivetrain on July 2024 at the Mid-Ohio Sports ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton's father Anthony is set to receive an official role at the FIA helping the governing body with its young driver programme.
As first revealed by The Times and verified by Motorsport.com, Hamilton Sr has been working in an advisory capacity over the past 18 months and his role will become official at next month's FIA conference in Macau, where the governing body will officially ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen revealed further details of his GT3 test at Nurburgring's Nordschleife, in which he competed under the pseudonym of "Franz Hermann" during an official Nurburgring Endurance Series test.
The four-time Formula 1 champion drove Emil Frey Racing's Ferrari 296 GT3 car, which the Swiss outfit usually races in DTM. Verstappen's protege, Thierry Vermeulen, is one of the team's ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he “didn’t know how tough it was going to be” to adapt to life at Ferrari during the 2025 Formula 1 campaign.
The seven-time world champion made a surprise, blockbuster move to the Scuderia over the winter after 12 successful seasons with Mercedes, where he won six titles.
But Hamilton has largely struggled at Ferrari, as he is seventh in the ...Keep reading

"If your 100% is just to perform at a very high level in Formula 1, which is where I want to get to as soon as possible, that for me should take less than half a year; five to 10 races.”
One of the recurring narratives over the first quarter of the 2025 F1 season has been Carlos Sainz’s apparent struggles to adapt to the Williams after four seasons at Ferrari. He cast it as a battle to ...Keep reading

Despite not having taken part in the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing," not many drivers can claim to have made their mark on the Indianapolis 500 — but Nolan Siegel did.
In 2024, driving for #18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda, the then 19-year-old tried to qualify for the Indy 500 but fell short in spectacular fashion. The way he failed resonated throughout the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, literally ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier has voiced support for Carlos Sainz Sr should the World Rally Championship legend decide to run for FIA president.
As revealed by Motorsport.com last week, two-time WRC champion Sainz Sr is seriously considering whether to formally stand for election against Mohammed Ben Sulayem in the race to become FIA president. Sainz Sr is gauging his level of support from the FIA's member ...Keep reading

Chris Buescher finished eighth at Kansas Speedway after starting on the front row, but he and Carson Hocevar had their cars randomly selected to go back to the NASCAR R&D Center for further inspection. While the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet was cleared without issue, Buescher's No. 17 RFK Racing Ford Mustang was not nearly as fortunate.
NASCAR found the team in violation of of the ...Keep reading

New Sauber team principal Jonathan Wheatley has appeared to have brought some of his Red Bull secrets to his new squad and the effects are already being felt by its drivers.
Both Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg believe Sauber is “making progress” now that the former Red Bull sporting director is at the helm. 
Wheatley joined Sauber as team principal last month, meaning he will ...Keep reading

Just a quarter of the way into the 2025 Formula 1 season, one of the six ‘rookies’ making their full-season debut has already been benched in favour of another.
Last week, Alpine announced it was replacing Jack Doohan with Franco Colapinto – a manoeuvre which had seemed virtually inevitable since the team added Colapinto to its bulging portfolio of test and reserve drivers in ...Keep reading