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With ten laps to go, it looked like Chase Elliott's shot of winning at his home track was quickly fading. He had fallen to eighth in the running order and the Fords were working well together at the front of the pack.
Zane Smith led the way, searching for his first career win. In fact, every driver inside the top ten was winless in 2025, leading to some desperate moves and near-wrecks. But over ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez has successfully completed surgery following his accident during last weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Assen.
The Gresini Ducati rider, who is second in the MotoGP championship, fractured his left hand after colliding with Pedro Acosta’s KTM on lap six of Sunday’s race.
Marquez’s Gresini team posted on social media that his injury had been addressed as planned, with an ...Keep reading

Lando Norris' and Oscar Piastri's Austrian waltz flattened any hope that McLaren could still be caught in the 2025 F1 championship, but the result flattered its actual dominance and doesn't rule out further race-by-race challengers.
Red Bull was particularly despondent after being thumped at its home race, figuratively in terms of pace and quite literally as Kimi Antonelli torpedoed an unlucky ...Keep reading

The Dutch Grand Prix at Assen will be remembered for many reasons, although most of them were only loosely connected to the sporting action. Marc Marquez made it clear that only he can throw away his shot at a seventh MotoGP crown with a stunning sprint and grand prix double, Diogo Moreira delivered Brazil its first-ever victory in Moto2 and Jose Antonio Rueda took another step toward clinching a ...Keep reading

The British Grand Prix is set to be packed to the rafters as nearly 500,000 fans are expected to descend on Silverstone over the race weekend.
Lando Norris is going in search of back-to-back wins after his victory in Austria last weekend, which saw him slice Oscar Piastri’s lead in the championship to just 15 points. Norris is yet to win his home race; could he do so in 2025?
One driver ...Keep reading

The injured reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin has been medically cleared to test his Aprilia bike - but will miss the German Grand Prix in two weeks’ time.
Martin, who is currently locked in a contractual dispute with the Italian team, has been authorised to test on Thursday or Friday this week.
Aprilia, however, says it will make no decision about a test until after a further ...Keep reading

Alpine has signed an agreement with Sauber to loan out reserve driver Paul Aron, with the Estonian taking part in FP1 for Sauber in Silverstone and Budapest.
Sauber doesn't have any designated reserve drivers this year, and it still needed to find a rookie driver to run in two of the four required FP1 sessions across the 2025 season.
The future Audi squad has now signed a deal with Alpine ...Keep reading

“We still have some updates for the next two races, but a performance like this forces us to write off the championship,” said Helmut Marko after the Austrian Grand Prix.
“A performance like this” referred to McLaren’s dominance, but Marko’s words could easily apply to Red Bull itself. The team’s showing at its home track in Spielberg was not what it had hoped for. Or, as ...Keep reading

Winner: Marc Marquez
A full 37 points from the weekend is nothing unusual for Marc Marquez, but what makes this a particularly winning one is that his points lead at the top of the standings grew substantially. Although his nearest title rival, brother Alex, finished the sprint in Marc’s wheeltracks, he fell on Sunday. This meant that Marc stretched his advantage from 40 points to 68.
Then ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen’s Orange Army now flocks to Spielberg with a sense of expectation. Every Austrian Grand Prix weekend for the past few years has delivered gratification in some form: he won both races in 2021, finished second in 2022, led from pole to victory in 2023, and won the sprint race last season, even if the GP itself came with a sting in the tail.
His last departure with a whimper came ...Keep reading

I still remember it vividly – exactly one year ago, I walked through the paddock at the Austrian Grand Prix and made my way into the Sauber hospitality area. There I encountered Oliver Hoffmann, then head of Audi’s Formula 1 project – though he seemed far more preoccupied with former German national team footballer Maximilian Arnold and his entourage than with anything else. 
Even back ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has said he is "trying to be more accepting" of help as he and his race engineer fought to keep McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri behind in the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix.
Norris was put under immense pressure in the first and third stints of a hard-fought battle, with Piastri briefly passing him in the early stages as both McLaren drivers remained free to race each other for the ...Keep reading

We have all been there. Even when you have a good relationship with your manager there comes a point of conflict, where you think you know best, when your youthful exuberance outweighs the experience and knowledge they possess.
Now imagine that situation unfolding at speeds in excess of 200mph while you are in the first year of the job and the manager in question is two-time Formula 1 world ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff insists he wants the Mercedes driver line-up for 2026 sorted by the time the Formula 1 season resumes following the summer break.
With both George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli yet to be signed for next season, Mercedes could yet be tempted to look elsewhere ahead of the introduction of the new regulations.
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen remains a favourite of Wolff ...Keep reading

Inclement weather, red flags, track-clearing pileups and a last-lap pass by the hometown hero -- EchoPark Speedway put on a show for the ages on Saturday night. Some are calling it the best race of the year with non-stop action throughout the pack, even after half the field was collected in a mid-race pileup. 
It was also the first race of the five-week in-season challenge, and most brackets ...Keep reading

Two weeks ago in Canada, Lando Norris immediately apologised for crashing into McLaren Formula 1 team-mate Oscar Piastri – who almost repeated the feat at the Austrian Grand Prix as both battled for the lead at the Red Bull Ring.
Norris was looking for a gap that was non-existent in Montreal as the McLarens duelled over fourth spot – while in Austria, the pair were head and shoulders clear ...Keep reading

Lando Norris found redemption in Spielberg, while Red Bull suffered a disaster at its home track, and the rookies grabbed the headlines. Here's who impressed in F1's Austrian GP and who missed the (Steier)mark.

Lando Norris, McLaren
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Winners: Lando Norris and McLaren
Lando Norris endured plenty of criticism after his faux ...Keep reading

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has conceded defeat in the Formula 1 world championship after Max Verstappen was taken out of the Austrian Grand Prix by Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Verstappen was struck by Antonelli on the opening lap and dumped out of the race and now trails championship leader Oscar Piastri by 61 points.
Piastri finished second, behind his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, as the ...Keep reading

An exclusive collection of 20 McLaren road cars belonging to the team’s former shareholder is being put up for sale.
The models all belong to the late Mansour Ojjeh, the French Saudi entrepreneur, former owner of TAG Heuer and McLaren Group shareholder, who passed away in June 2021.
Leading classic car dealer, Tom Hartley Jnr, who earlier this year sold Bernie Ecclestone’s unprecedented ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri is still haunted by Alpine, nearly three years after leaving his former team with an infamous social media message that’s etched into the Formula 1 history books. During the Austrian Grand Prix, the Australian was battling with his team-mate Lando Norris for the lead of the race, when he got caught in traffic.
Piastri was run off the track by Franco Colapinto on lap 55 while the ...Keep reading