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Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord has given several reasons behind Kimi Antonelli’s rise into a Formula 1 title contender this season.
Antonelli endured a tough rookie campaign last year as F1’s third-youngest driver in history, having bypassed F3 to spend just one year in F2 before joining one of the most successful teams in the world championship – courtesy of Lewis Hamilton ...Keep reading

MotoGP’s new 850cc era will kick off with a special season-launch event at Rio de Janeiro on 21 February 2027.
As reported by Motorsport.com last month, the entire MotoGP grid will travel to Brazil at the start of next year to mark the launch of the new season. 
The main event will take place at Botafogo Beach, with the famous Sugarloaf Mountain serving as the backdrop
The launch will ...Keep reading

From all the teams that wrote off 2025 or shifted focus to 2026 much earlier, Alpine is actually the squad that saw the biggest benefits from that approach. Powered by Mercedes engines, the squad enjoyed a strong start to the season. But Alpine's first half of the year has been slightly downgraded to a B- as it got caught by its rivals ahead of the summer break, ending the first half of the season ...Keep reading

Formula E’s Gen3.5 era is set for an epic conclusion in London this weekend, with the fight for the 2025/26 title going down to the wire.
As many as nine drivers remain in mathematical contention heading to the ExCel double-header, the most since the chaotic 2020/21 season when 18 drivers went into the final races in Berlin with a chance of becoming champion.
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MotoGP has not ruled out moving the Qatar Grand Prix to another country amid the uncertainty caused by the war in the Middle East, and could potentially follow the same strategy Formula 1 has taken by hosting its Bahrain race in Malaysia. 
The conflict that erupted several months ago in the Persian Gulf between the United States, Israel and Iran has had a direct impact on this year's sporting ...Keep reading

McLaren says Ferrari's vast number of Formula1 car upgrades over the first half of the 2026 season is an "inspiration" as it aims to keep rolling out updates of its own.
The dawn of a new era of regulations triggered a huge development war over the first half of the 2026 campaign, with Ferrari and Red Bull in particular impressing rivals with the quantity of upgrades they have been able to ...Keep reading

While Aston Martin introduced its first major upgrade package for the AMR26 in Hungary, Honda will bring its first update of the 2026 Formula 1 season to Zandvoort.
With Adrian Newey’s first upgrade package of the year, the deficit on the chassis side has been reduced considerably. Aston Martin is still a long way from where it wants to be, but figures from Paceteq show that its deficit in ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin’s brake situation at Iowa Speedway appeared so dire on Sunday prior to the race that he effectively forced NASCAR to call his bluff.
Hamlin, alongside fellow Toyota alliance stablemates Chase Briscoe, Riley Herbst and Bubba Wallace, each spent extended time in the garage to make pre-race changes. Those changes were detailed in the stories below.
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Spire Motorsports is bringing Shane van Gisbergen back for one more race in the 2026 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. 
Van Gisbergen will pilot the No. 7 Chevrolet in Friday night's Truck race at Richmond Raceway, with sponsorship from HendrickCars.com. 
It will be Van Gisbergen's fifth start in the Truck Series, and his third on an oval. In his most recent outing at North Wilkesboro ...Keep reading

Ryan Blaney was set for a big day at Iowa Speedway on Sunday.
Starting on pole, Blaney had an opportunity to make another big push up the NASCAR Cup standings with a win at the short track.
Blaney had a good day, leading for 129 of 350 laps — more than any other driver in the field — but ultimately finished third. After winning the first stage of the race, Blaney battled near the front ...Keep reading

Fresh off a commanding victory at the Grand Prix of Portland, reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou and his race strategist, Barry Wanser, brushed off calls from rival drivers to overhaul IndyCar’s longstanding blue flag regulations.
The defense from the Chip Ganassi Racing pair comes in direct response to post-race frustrations voiced by podium finishers Felix Rosenqvist ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi admitted for the first time that his poor run of MotoGP form in the summer took a mental toll on him, revealing it triggered an overthinking spiral.
The Aprilia rider’s troubles began at the Hungarian GP, when he was taken out by team-mate Jorge Martin in an opening-lap pile-up. Still in pain, he crashed out of the Brno sprint and hit a marshal in frustration, earning a ban ...Keep reading

The NASCAR universe is still in mourning after the sudden death of legendary driver Kyle Busch earlier this year.
Busch, just days removed from winning his 69th race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and days before he was set to compete in Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, died after "severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated ...Keep reading

Toyota drivers overcame brake issues to have a very strong day at Iowa, taking four of the top six positions. Penske looked strong as expected, but the strategy/fortune did not go their way in the end. 
Ty Gibbs jumped into the lead with a two-tire call on the final round of green-flag pit stops, and then withstood the pressure from Christopher Bell to claim victory.
The race didn't see ...Keep reading

Formula 1's official Grill The Grid series returned for its 10th anniversary, challenging the current drivers to identify racers based on their career progression charts.
The challenge proved remarkably tricky for the current grid, with multiple drivers getting stuck on four-time champion Max Verstappen's career path and several others. But it was Williams' Alex Albon's self-deprecating humour ...Keep reading

Joe Gibbs Racing experienced all the highs and lows of NASCAR between its four drivers on Sunday at Iowa Speedway, but despite his high finish, it's possible no man was left more frustrated with how the race played out than Christopher Bell.
Bell finished in second, just behind teammate Ty Gibbs, who took down his second win of the season and career at the short track. While Bell was closing ...Keep reading

Cadillac Formula 1 team principal Graeme Lowdon has given an update on the outfit’s current infrastructure, which is still being developed.
F1’s newest squad operates from several locations, mainly its Silverstone hub in the United Kingdom, while it makes the most of General Motors facilities in North Carolina and Michigan, and uses Toyota’s wind tunnel in Cologne (Germany).
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The NASCAR All-Star race has suffered a similar fate to that of many All-Star events across major sports.
Once seen as a triumph that brought together the best and brightest stars for a special showcase, All-Star events in 2026 are largely exhibitions with professionals walking through the motions. NASCAR actually doesn't have it as bad as many other sports — the NBA has shuffled its format a ...Keep reading

The main stakeholders in MotoGP are studying the introduction of a specific time window that would define the period during which teams are allowed to sign riders, Motorsport.com understands.
A meeting of the recently-created IRTA Management Council was held at the Silverstone paddock on Friday morning. The body brings together representatives of the MotoGP teams’ association, IRTA, and the ...Keep reading

Thanks to a strong start by Oliver Bearman, Haas enters the summer shutdown in seventh place in the constructors' standings. The team scored 21 points, which leaves it well adrift of Racing Bulls and Alpine, but ahead of Audi and Williams. However, a worrying decline in performance as Formula 1's development race heats up is taking its score down a notch to a C-.
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Haas is still ...Keep reading