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After a lengthy rain delay, the Indy 500 field finally got on track just after 2:30pm EST. The circuit was made available to all teams, with drivers able to fit about three hours of practice into their day until a nearby lightning strike ended things about 30 minutes early. The next on-track action will be Tony Kanaan's veteran refresher test at 10am EST on Wednesday.
During the delay, we got a ...Keep reading

He's already a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion with over 200 wins across the three national divisions of the sport, but there are two things Kyle Busch has yet to accomplish that remain at the very top of his bucket list. The first is winning the Daytona 500, which he is currently 0-20 in attempting to achieve. However, number two on that list is competing in the Indianapolis 500, which has ...Keep reading

Aston Martin tech chief Adrian Newey says he has been buoyed by the team he has encountered in Silverstone, but feels the squad's aero department must grow in numbers to realise its potential.
Former Williams, McLaren and Red Bull designer Newey officially started at Aston Martin on March 3 in the newly created role of Managing Technical Partner, with a keen focus on getting the Lawrence Stroll ...Keep reading

The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming docuseries, ‘F1: The Academy,’ was released Tuesday. The one-minute clip offered fans a glimpse of what they can expect from the seven-part sports doc focused on the all-female junior racing series, F1 Academy.
Produced by Reese Witherspoon’s media company Hello Sunshine, the show follows the massive success of ‘Drive to Survive,’ Netflix’s ...Keep reading

The Month of May means one thing for race fans -- The Greatest Spectacle in Racing. 34 drivers will be competing for 33 spots on the 2025 Indianapolis 500 grid with a lot of practice leading up to qualifying and race day. There are eight former Indy 500 winners and four rookies entered into this historic race with a total of 14 countries represented.
These times are tentative and may be subject ...Keep reading

Pretty much every single facet of Formula 1 today is unrecognisable versus the shape of grand prix racing at the start of the championship's life – just imagine the idea of Juan Manuel Fangio and Giuseppe Farina sat side-by-side upon a sofa playing the usual social media-friendly parlour games, or Maurice Trintignant courting backlash for an ill-advised and hastily deleted Instagram story. It ...Keep reading

This weekend Franco Colapinto will compete in his first grand prix since Abu Dhabi last year, having taken Jack Doohan’s race seat at Alpine.
The Enstone-based organisation has acquired a reputation for operational chaos since Renault reacquired it in 2016, having gone through one total rebrand and a litany of technical directors and senior management. Most recently, the former team principal ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles has backed any potential FIA presidential campaign from Carlos Sainz Sr, stating that the two-time World Rally champion would be a 'good fit'.
Father of current Williams Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz, Sainz Sr is mulling over the prospect of running against incumbent Mohammed Ben Sulayem for the FIA presidency – as first revealed by Motorsport.com last ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has released colorized footage of its very first world championship race, which took place 75 years ago at Silverstone.
On 13 May 1950, 21 cars were on the grid for the British Grand Prix – also named European Grand Prix – including the dominant Alfa Romeos as well as Maseratis, Talbot Lago cars from France, with Alta and ERA representing the United Kingdom.
Ferrari did not ...Keep reading

It's one of the classic F1 debates: what are the best-looking cars ever? It is, of course, entirely subjective, particularly as fans of different ages tend to prefer different eras and, therefore, feel attached to some cars more than others. But it's still fun to have the argument, particularly when liveries are factored into the mix as well.
In making Motorsport.com's selection, we've tried to ...Keep reading

Mercedes World Endurance Championship squad Iron Lynx will run a special livery at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours to celebrate the German marque’s victory of the famous enduro in 1989.
The customer team will deck its three Mercedes GT3s in the popular Silver Arrows scheme that was used when the manufacturer claimed a dominant 1-2 at Circuit de la Sarthe 36 years ago.
This is being done to ...Keep reading

Pirelli’s greatest challenge since becoming Formula 1’s sole tire supplier in 2011 has been to reconcile its brief – to deliver tires whose performance drops off sharply beyond a given point – with the drivers’ desire to have rubber which they can push on through an entire stint. These two requirements might not be mutually exclusive but the ‘sweet spot’ between them is hard to ...Keep reading

Harrison Burton, 24, started 109 points-paying races in the NASCAR Cup Series, but none this year. While it's just an exhibition race and doesn't count towards the championship, he will take part in the 2025 All-Star Race this weekend at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Burton will pilot the No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang in the All-Star Race. Burton is one of 20 drivers who automatically ...Keep reading

Every driver wants to win, no matter what. That is what they work and dream for every day. So what Alex Palou has been doing in the 2025 IndyCar season—winning four of the first five races, with a second-place finish in the remaining one—is something no one in the field likes to see.
However, some are able to take a step back and appreciate it when a colleague stands out and reaches such ...Keep reading

At a glitzy event held in Miami, the Cadillac Formula 1 team unveiled the squad’s logo in true American style before a large group of guests, including the team's top management, potential sponsors and many VIPs. Behind that eye-catching facade is a project that is taking shape in a real race against time.
More than two years have passed since the Andretti Global team first officially applied ...Keep reading

Kansas Speedway tends to be one of the more exciting races on the NASCAR schedule, but Kyle Larson did his best to prove otherwise on Sunday, dominating the race from start to finish. It was a very different ending to the Truck race on Saturday, which saw two drivers sliding sideways and hitting the wall in a thrilling battle for the win. But like most weekends in racing, there was one driver very ...Keep reading

In a career that has spanned 24 years, Fernando Alonso has won 32 grands prix, stood on 106 podiums and claimed two Formula 1 titles. And while his success continued with a switch to Aston Martin and a handful of podiums in early 2023, it’s been a while since the Spaniard won a race. In fact, it’s exactly 12 years since Alonso last won an F1 contest, and an awful lot has changed in the series ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 campaign is only a quarter of the way through, yet a lot of focus and energy is already being directed towards what comes next. That’s especially true for the power units, since the shift to greater electrical deployment in the power mix has influenced almost every other facet of the incoming rules package.
After a few weeks of hysteria about the possible return of ...Keep reading

Winner: Johann Zarco

Johann Zarco, Team LCR Honda
Photo by: MotoGP

Just when it looked like his early-season smiles were beginning to fade – all the more so after qualifying down in a distinctly unpromising 11th – Johann Zarco produced one of the most memorable victories MotoGP has seen in years.
As Alex Marquez learned at Jerez two weeks earlier, winding down the laps ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has presented the final trailer for the upcoming F1 movie starring Brad Pitt and directed by Top Gun Maverick's Joseph Kosinski.
F1's feature film, which will be released in June, stars Damson Idris's character Joshua Pearce alongside Pitt's Sonny Hayes, a retired veteran racer making a comeback for APX GP.
The 2m24s minute trailer released on Monday further teases the movie's main ...Keep reading