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Charles Leclerc was fastest on day two of Formula 1’s 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain, pipping world champion Lando Norris who completed the most mileage.
The Ferrari driver set a 1m34.273s early in the morning session with his time on softs subsequently going unbeaten - 0.511s quicker than the medium-running McLaren, which was fastest on day one.  
But Norris’ time also came in the ...Keep reading

Lance Stroll was extremely downbeat after Aston Martin’s tough start to pre-season testing for the 2026 Formula 1 campaign - claiming “we’re four seconds off”.
The Silverstone outfit was four days late to the first collective shakedown of the year in Barcelona before Stroll completed just 36 laps on day one of this week’s Bahrain test - only Franco Colapinto had fewer.
That was the ...Keep reading

IndyCar announced a multi-year commitment that will see Chevrolet and Honda continue as the official Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for the sport.
The new agreement will begin in 2027 and run for “multiple years,” according to the press release. Both manufacturers will also be involved in the development of the engine and competition rules that are set to be implemented with the ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has insisted that while it was frustrating to miss the Barcelona shakedown, he has not lost any confidence in Williams.
Williams decided to skip the private testing at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, "following delays in the FW48 programme."
"Yeah, frustrating. Obviously, I'm not going to hide away from the fact that I would have loved to be in Barcelona to get those three ...Keep reading

Alpine will withdraw from the World Endurance Championship Hypercar class at the end of the 2026 campaign after just five seasons in the category.
The French marque joined for the first year of Hypercar racing in 2021 and has contested every season since, bar 2023, but with minimal success winning just three races.
It also hasn’t been very profitable as a brand during that period, with ...Keep reading

Dacia has confirmed that it will compete in the entire 2026 World Rally-Raid Championship before bringing its project to a close at the season-ending event in Abu Dhabi – ruling out a return to the Dakar in 2027.
The tracks had barely cleared in the desert following the latest triumph for Dacia at the 2026 Dakar when the brand decided to bring the curtain down on its rally-raid adventure ...Keep reading

Fermin Aldeguer will sit out MotoGP’s season-opening Thailand Grand Prix on 1 March as he continues to recover from a femur fracture.
Although Aldeguer had already been declared unfit for the first pre-season test at Sepang earlier this month, he hadn’t ruled out the possibility of returning to action in Buriram following his crash in January.
But on Thursday, Gresini Racing announced ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 regulation change has brought all kinds of challenges to the drivers given the cars are now totally different from their predecessors. A chassis, for example, is approximately 32kg lighter with significantly less downforce, while the power unit is much more reliant on electric energy having a near-50:50 split alongside the internal combustion engine.
It is the changes to the ...Keep reading

This is not the start Aston Martin had hoped for in the 2026 Formula 1 season. After falling behind in the Barcelona shakedown, the team was expected to recover the mileage and valuable time lost in Spain due to issues with assembling the car. However, she first day in Sakhir did not go smoothly and the Silverstone-based team had to give up a large part of the session due to technical problems ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff has confirmed that it was Mercedes-AMG that pushed to change the dates of the preparation races for the Nürburgring 24 Hours to accommodate Max Verstappen due to the influence the four-time Formula 1 champion has on the series' viewership.
After making his GT3 debut, and winning, in the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) in 2025, Verstappen has been eager to continue with his ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc topped the second morning of Formula 1’s opening Bahrain pre-season test, as Mercedes and Red Bull were hit by reliability trouble alongside Cadillac.
About an hour and 15 minutes into the session, Leclerc drove Ferrari’s SF-26 to a 1m34.273s, which is four tenths faster than McLaren’s Lando Norris achieved on Wednesday.
Norris’ own 1m34.669s benchmark was set on ...Keep reading

Formula E has announced that the Tokyo E-Prix will become a night race, with this year’s double-header set to take place under floodlights.
Ahead of the third edition of the Japan event, the championship revealed that the two races will start at 8pm local time, five hours later than they were originally scheduled. 
The news was revealed on the eve of this weekend’s Jeddah E-Prix ...Keep reading

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has encountered its second issue of the Bahrain test, with Andrea Kimi Antonelli's W17 breaking down after just three laps with a power unit issue.
Mercedes had been reliably racking up miles at Barcelona's shakedown, but its running in Bahrain has now been halted for two consecutive days. On Wednesday afternoon Antonelli was restricted to 30 laps with a suspension ...Keep reading

Williams driver Carlos Sainz says Red Bull Ford's power units have looked "a step ahead", backing similar comments by Mercedes, as he offered fresh insight into how to get the best of out the 2026 generation of cars.
On Wednesday, Mercedes chief Toto Wolff said Red Bull Ford's power units are currently the benchmark in Bahrain winter testing, singling out the new manufacturer's outstanding ...Keep reading

Cadillac consultant Pat Symonds says F1's 11th team wants to "earn the respect" of its more experienced rivals with how the squad tackles its debut season.
While the true pecking order will take some time to fully emerge, Cadillac doesn't appear to be completely out of the ballpark - the 107% rule that team principal Graeme Lowdon's previous start-up team Manor had to battle on a regular basis ...Keep reading

While each lap of 2026 Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain adds to the teams' accumulated knowledge of how the cars will function when the racing begins, questions remain over how key elements of the spectacle will work, and how it will be communicated to fans, spectators and casual TV viewers.
Despite extensive briefings, drivers are still getting to grips with the complex demands of the ...Keep reading

As always by the end of Wednesday night at the modern Daytona 500, there were four groups of winners after qualifying for the Great American Race.
Kyle Busch and the Richard Childress Racing No. 8Chase Briscoe and Joe Gibbs Racing No. 19Corey Heim and the 23XI Racing No. 67Justin Allgaier and the JR Motorsports No. 40
Busch and Briscoe locked into the front row while Heim and Allgaier posted ...Keep reading

On Wednesday evening, Kyle Busch rocketed to the top of the speed charts in the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, securing pole position for this weekend's Daytona 500. He will share the front row with the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Chase Briscoe, which means these two drivers will be the pole-sitters for their respective Duel races.
In Duel #1, it will be Busch and Ryan Preece ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch will lead the field to the green flag for the 68th running of the Daytona, lapping the 2.5-mile superspeedway in 49.006s (183.651mph) to win pole position. He will share the front row with Chase Briscoe in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. 
This will be Busch's 21st start in the Daytona 500 -- a race he has never won before -- and this will be the two-time Cup champion's fist pole ...Keep reading

In every superspeedway race of the Next Gen era, NASCAR Cup drivers can be seen placing their hands against the opening between the A-pillar and window net in an effort to find every possible aero advantage. Drivers have gone as far as manipulating their gloves, including the infamous case where Joey Logano was penalized for illegal webbed racing gloves.
To avoid the situation entirely, NASCAR ...Keep reading