Motorsport

MotoGP’s medical director Angel Charte believes it will be “quite difficult” for injured Marc Marquez to return to action at the Portuguese Grand Prix next month.
Marquez has already been ruled out of the Australia-Malaysia double header after a collision caused by Marco Bezzecchi in Indonesia left him with a fracture on his right shoulder.
The Ducati rider immediately returned to ...Keep reading

For the most part, every filing and counter-filing, reply and response regarding the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR lawsuit and countersuit espouses the same points and rebuttals.
At this point, both sides are either going to reach a settlement as a result of mediation that takes place in the same room on Tuesday with Judge Kenneth D. Bell or this dispute will go all the way to ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi says he is still in a “lot of pain” as he returned to the MotoGP paddock at the Australian Grand Prix and explained the crash that took both him and Marc Marquez out of the Indonesian race.
Having made a poor launch from pole position and tumbling down the order, Bezzecchi tangled with the factory Ducati of Marquez at Turn 7 in a rough opening lap at the Indonesian Grand ...Keep reading

Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi will have to serve a double long lap penalty in this Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix for causing a collision with MotoGP champion Marc Marquez in Mandalika.
Bezzecchi had made a poor launch from pole position in the Indonesian Grand Prix a fortnight ago, leaving him in the lower reaches of the top 10 on the opening lap. 
As he tried to recover the lost ground ...Keep reading

Nearing the end of his first full-time season in the NASCAR Cup Series, three-time Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen has learned a lot about oval racing.
At the start of the 2025 Cup season, SVG had five finishes outside the top 30 in the first six oval races, but in recent weeks, he earned his first oval stage points and secured his first top ten on an oval in the Cup Series.
He ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 CEO and team principal Toto Wolff has discussed the possibility of expanding the number of grands prix in the United States. 
While the Las Vegas Grand Prix was added to the calendar in 2023 to join Miami and Austin as cities hosting F1 races in the United States, there have been reports that a fourth US race could be introduced. Although this has not been confirmed, rumours ...Keep reading

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted that the F1 movie actor Brad Pitt "was not impressed" when Lewis Hamilton told the Hollywood star that he was "much too old" to play a current Formula 1 driver.
This comment came from the seven-time world champion as Pitt was prepared for his role in the Apple-backed movie. Pitt, who plays Sonny Hayes - a retired driver pulled back into the ...Keep reading

Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff was speaking on the Autosport Business Exchange (ABX) in New York City on Wednesday, celebrating the rise of racing in America.
While Netflix's hit docuseries, Drive to Survive, has been a major factor in the sport's remarkable growth stateside, Wolff was among those who were skeptical at first.
Mercedes actually declined to participate in the first ...Keep reading

Mercedes CEO Toto Wolff has discussed the contract extensions for George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli during the Autosport Business Exchange New York, arguing that Russell has been underrated for some time thanks to his place alongside Lewis Hamilton.
The Brackley outfit confirmed on 15 October that Russell and Antonelli had signed contract extensions for the 2026 Formula 1 season.
The ...Keep reading

Apple senior vice president of services Eddy Cue has responded to the rumours about Apple acquiring the Formula 1 broadcasting rights in the United States during the Autosport Business Exchange New York.
With the current deal with ESPN coming to a close at the end of 2025, the doors opened for other broadcasters to enter a bid as the Disney-owned broadcaster decided not to fight for a renewal ...Keep reading

Eddy Cue, the the Vice President of Services for Apple, was speaking at the Autosport Business Exchange (ABX) in New York City on Wednesday, focusing the growing interest in Formula 1 stateside as the event celebrates the rise of racing in America.
"The athletes, they're incredible athletes," remarked Cue. "What they can do, very few other athletes can do ... you have those incredible brands ...Keep reading

Joe White, the spotter for Ty Dillon and the No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, has been released from the team.
Dillon was involved in a massive crash on Lap 236 of 267 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which directly involved fellow Chevrolet and title contender William Byron.
The No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Byron had no idea that Dillon (who was off-sequence), planned to pit. The ...Keep reading

The Racing Bulls F1 squad will contest this weekend's United States Grand Prix with a one-off tortoise livery.
At the Anglo-Italian team, Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson will run a VCARB 02 car dressed in a pearlescent black and brown tortoise shell pattern with gold detailing, complementing its usual white livery.
The livery is a nod to sponsor Cash App and its tortoise prepaid Visa debit ...Keep reading

The current era of MotoGP is a far cry from the mid-to-late 2010s, when the three-way rivalry between Marc Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi defined the championship.
The emphasis on aerodynamics, ride-height devices and stricter tyre pressure rules in the last few years fundamentally changed the way riders race against each other in the world’s premier motorcycle racing ...Keep reading

When Lewis Hamilton announced his bombshell move to Ferrari for 2025, Mercedes eventually turned to its own ranks by effectively handing George Russell the role of leading the team forward, while the squad accelerated its programme around junior phenom Andrea Kimi Antonelli to prepare the Italian teenager for an earlier than planned F1 debut.
In their first year together, it has been difficult ...Keep reading

Mercedes will retain George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli as its drivers for the 2026 Formula 1 season, the team has announced.
A product of the brand’s young driver programme, Russell will compete in his eighth F1 season – his fifth as a Mercedes racer. The 27-year-old Briton currently lies fourth in the drivers’ championship and, alongside seventh-placed Antonelli, has highly ...Keep reading

Rinus VeeKay has signed with Juncos Hollinger Racing for the 2026 IndyCar season, marking his third team in as many years following a 2025 stint with Dale Coyne Racing and five years with Ed Carpenter Racing.
The 25-year-old finished 14th in the standings with DCR last season, with a second-place finish in Toronto as his best result. He is now joining a team that finished as high as 18th in ...Keep reading

Zak Brown has rubbished IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s claim that he did not have a say in Oscar Piastri joining McLaren for the 2023 Formula 1 season.
During proceedings in the UK High Court, Palou alleged that Brown told him that then-McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl singlehandedly signed 2021 F2 champion Piastri to replace Daniel Ricciardo three years ago.
The remark was seen by ...Keep reading

Formula 1 is often regarded as the pinnacle of motorsport, with high-tech equipment like wind tunnels used to refine designs, complex processes such as computational fluid dynamics used to create intricate wings, and sensors across the cars capturing terabytes of data over a race weekend. Why, then, do teams still rely on rudimentary pitboards to share vital information with their ...Keep reading

Toprak Razgatlioglu says he is prepared for a “tough” first year in MotoGP in 2026 as he makes the transition from the World Superbike Championship at the age of 29.
The Turkish rider will make his highly anticipated debut in MotoGP next year, partnering four-time grand prix winner Jack Miller at the Pramac Yamaha team.
Razgatlioglu has enjoyed immense success since he stepped up to the ...Keep reading