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Cast your mind back to the 2024 MotoGP world championship, or maybe we should call it Ducati’s Championship. The Bolognese manufacturer had eight bikes on the grid – twice as many as its nearest competitors. At the Thailand Grand Prix, all eight of the Ducati’s bikes finished in the top 10 of the sprint race.
Of 20 races, Ducati won 19 of them, and we saw an all-Ducati podium 14 times ...Keep reading

Honda will field a wildcard rider for the third time in as many MotoGP weekends when Aleix Espargaro appears at the British Grand Prix later this month.
The Japanese marque has embraced the wildcard opportunity ever since the series returned to Europe last month. Espargaro rode its ‘development bike’ at the Spanish Grand Prix before ceding it to Takaaki Nakagami for this weekend’s French ...Keep reading

Below is an overview of all current Formula 1 grand prix deal and the duration of the contracts as of May 2025.
Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix - Imola: 2025
The Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola is on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2025. The Italian circuit returned to the schedule during the COVID-19 crisis and secured a multi-year contract. Flooding cancelled the 2023 event which ...Keep reading

“Pretty shocking.” That’s how Liam Lawson assesses his results, four grands prix into his newest stint as a Racing Bulls driver, following his demotion from Red Bull.
“We have no points,” Lawson said matter-of-factly after another forgettable race in Miami. “Obviously Formula 1 is a lot of variables and to put a full race together could be quite tough. The speed's been there for ...Keep reading

An updated version of the World Rally Championship 2027 technical regulations is being finalised to be presented to the FIA World Motor Sport Council next month.
A number of refinements to the WRC27 regulations were discussed by the WRC Commission when it met on Thursday. According to an update issued by the FIA, the biggest update pertained to bodywork while further details regarding “how ...Keep reading

When Formula 1 adopted turbocharged hybrid power units for the 2014 season, one manufacturer – Mercedes – had been ploughing resources into its project longer and more intensively than anyone else. The result was almost five seasons of total dominance while rivals struggled to catch up – and in the case of Renault, you could argue it never did.
The thought that the forthcoming shift to ...Keep reading

Kansas Speedway has been on the NASCAR schedule since 2001 and while it has had its moments, no one circled it as the 'action track' when looking at the calendar every year. However, that changed swiftly with the arrival of the Next Gen car.
While the car has made short track racing and road courses duller than before, it has shone rather brightly on intermediate tracks, and that is never more ...Keep reading

William Oakes, the brother of former Alpine team boss Oliver Oakes and a director at Hitech Grand Prix, was arrested last week and charged with transferring criminal property.
The 37-year-old was arrested on Thursday (May 2) in the Silverstone Park area of Northamptonshire in the UK, reports the Telegraph. He was subsequently charged with transferring criminal property by the Metropolitan ...Keep reading

Satellite Honda rider Johann Zarco has spoken in the clearest terms yet about his desire to take Luca Marini’s factory seat in 2026.
While the Frenchman did not use Marini’s name in an interview with Dorna ahead of his home race at Le Mans this weekend, the Italian’s contract is up at the end of this season. Honda’s other factory rider, Joan Mir, is contracted until the end of ...Keep reading

Red Bull was a formidable team in 2024, but a late surge from McLaren threatened to topple the squad and snatch both titles from under its nose. But just as a real challenge from McLaren was materialising, cracks started to form, and it could only take the constructors’ crown last season. Now, with a dominant car and two drivers at the top of their game, is McLaren at risk of another near ...Keep reading

After back-to-back victories by Team Penske's Austin Cindric and Joey Logano, they will look to continue the trend this weekend at Kansas with Ryan Blaney looking to join his teammates in the playoffs.
William Byron leads the regular season standings, 13 points clear of Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson. Larson is also the defending winner of this Kansas race, beating Chris Buescher by ...Keep reading

Drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz let their disdain for their respective teams show over team radio at the Miami Grand Prix, with the latter falling foul to a team orders mix-up that meant he lost out to his team-mate in the race.
Sainz was assured that he wouldn’t be passed by team-mate Alex Albon just as the Thai driver passed him under DRS. The Spaniard was left feeling ...Keep reading

Aprilia factory rider Marco Bezzecchi has revealed that his mentor and former boss Valentino Rossi gives him advice informed by data to which the highly-connected MotoGP legend has privileged access.
Speaking with Motorsport.com over the most recent Spanish Grand Prix weekend, where Rossi was present, Bezzecchi was asked whether his support remained as strong after his move from Rossi’s VR46 ...Keep reading

It’s somehow appropriate that Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton should have banged wheels at the penultimate corner on the last lap of the Miami Grand Prix, because they were occupying a similar space elsewhere too.
Such was the length and volume, though, of Hamilton’s tirade against his team over the radio that Sainz’s similar angst went almost unnoticed at the time.
“Obviously, if ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta has been declared fit to contest this weekend’s French Grand Prix following the MotoGP rider’s recent arm-pump surgery.
The KTM man went under the knife on the Tuesday following last month’s race and test at Jerez, after finally admitting to a condition that has troubled him since the start of his MotoGP career in 2024.
“The [previous] times I had problems, it was very ...Keep reading

MotoGP races all over the world. From Spain to Japan, America to Germany, and almost everywhere in between - sorry, penguins, there’s still no Antarctic GP yet - and at tracks new and old. And some even in locales familiar to those outside the world of two-wheeled racing.
Each year, MotoGP’s circus descends upon a town in France called Le Mans. And, knowing a little bit about racing, or ...Keep reading

Robert Wickens was always going to get back into a racing car after the life-changing injuries he sustained at the wheel of an Indycar at Pocono in 2018. He never doubted it, and nor did those around him. So no one should be surprised that his comeback is gathering pace with an IMSA SportsCar Championship campaign aboard a Chevrolet Corvette equipped with the latest-generation of hand-controls ...Keep reading

The pattern after the first six Formula 1 weekends of 2025 is clear: Max Verstappen can compete with McLaren over a single lap and compensate for some weaknesses himself, but on most Sundays he and Red Bull simply don't have the tools to fight the papaya cars over a full race distance.
The explanation for the smaller gaps in qualifying is twofold. First, Verstappen extracts everything from the ...Keep reading

Somkiat Chantra will not take part in the MotoGP French Grand Prix having been unable to fully recover from forearm surgery he underwent last week.
The LC Honda rider underwent surgery last Wednesday to address issues caused by compartment syndrome at the Dexeus Clinic in Barcelona by Dr Xavier Mir's team.
Although the procedure went to plan, Chantra was unable to recover in time to be fit ...Keep reading

Almost every second of a Formula 1 weekend is captured, recorded and dissected by experts and fans both in and out of the paddock. Race broadcasts, highlights reels and clips on social media all let you relive the action again and again, but none are quite as charming as these stop-motion Lego race recreations.
“I knew I liked Lego, and I've seen people do stop motion, so I figured why not I ...Keep reading