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Joey Logano is playoff-bound once again, leading a trio of drivers who started 24th or worse but ended the day with podium finishes at Texas. The pole-sitter wrecked, the outside pole-sitter had an incident on pit road, and the race really flew off the rails in the final stage. It was caution after caution with Michael McDowell nearly securing a big win for the underdogs in a dramatic showdown for ...Keep reading

It was a big weekend for Formula 1 in America, with the world championship racing in Miami and announcing an extension to the circuit’s deal that will see it stay on the calendar until 2041. On the sidelines of the dramatic weekend of racing, American automaker Cadillac hosted a launch party for its incoming F1 team, which could prove to have a longer-lasting impact on F1 in the US. 
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Frederic Vasseur has defended Ferrari's Miami Grand Prix team orders calls and, although he accepted the frustration of drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton during the race, denied that there was any inertia in decision-making.
During the race, Ferrari made the call to swap Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton around to ensure the Briton could press his medium tyres into service in an ...Keep reading

Alpine is considering switching Jack Doohan with reserve driver Franco Colapinto ahead of Formula 1's next race in Imola, Motorsport.com understands.
Doohan's disappointing run of results and incidents have moved Alpine's management to seriously consider whether it should make a driver change immediately rather than hand the Australian rookie more time to make the seat his own.
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Alex Albon locked down a top-five result at Formula 1's Miami Grand Prix with a pass on Andrea Kimi Antonelli, and faced relatively little competition over the race's second half.
It rather defined the progress that Williams has made this season with its FW47. The Grove-based squad is 17 points clear of Haas in the battle for fifth in the constructors' championship, has scored points in five of ...Keep reading

In a surprise development, MotoGP teams have agreed to tweak the championship’s strict testing regulations to allow riders coming back from long injury breaks to test ahead of their return to race action.
Such tests were a hot topic of debate among teams ahead of Jorge Martin’s ill-fated MotoGP comeback at April’s Qatar Grand Prix. This followed an unsuccessful request from Martin’s ...Keep reading

The IndyCar series both arrived and left Barber Motorsports Park with a lot of the same storylines we've been following through the 2025 season: Alex Palou wins, the racing is somewhat lackluster, and fan favorite Colton Herta seems to have the worst luck (more on this below). But there's a glimmer of hope for a few lucky folk in the paddock. Who and what else to watch is all in this week's ...Keep reading

The rain over the weekend made for treacherous conditions across all three days of the Miami Grand Prix. But the clouds parted just in time for the race, and it was McLaren’s Oscar Piastri who claimed victory ahead of team-mate Lando Norris.
The Australian’s third consecutive race win takes his lead in the drivers’ championships to 16 points.
Piastri was not the only one winning this ...Keep reading

Will anyone be able to stop Alex Palou in IndyCar this year? It doesn't look possible at the moment after the driver of the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing car scored a resounding victory in the Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park, finishing 16 seconds ahead of the runner-up Arrow McLaren No. 7 driven by Christian Lundgaard.
Palou began building on his stunning ...Keep reading

A lot changed in the final 50 laps at Texas Motor Speedway, to the point where each restart became extra critical. Kyle Larson was in control of the race, but lost the lead on a late-race restart when Michael McDowell powered around him from the outside. Larson was never able to get the lead back, fading to fourth in the final running order.
"You don't want to give up the lead on a mile and a ...Keep reading

There was real dominance from McLaren once more on F1's fourth visit to Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, with Oscar Piastri comfortably grabbing his fourth win in six races. Williams enjoyed its day in the sun, too, while questions will be asked at Red Bull and Ferrari over their lacklustre race day performances. The rest is up for this weekend's 'winners and losers' debate.
Winner: Piastri collects ...Keep reading

Spire Motorsports has one NASCAR Cup Series victory as an organization, but that was almost six years ago. On Sunday at Texas, they started from pole position with Carson Hocevar, but it was veteran Michael McDowell who nearly brought home the hardware for the team in a stunning upset. Instead, his race ended on the back of a tow truck.
“I just really hate it for everyone on this No. 71 ...Keep reading

Lando Norris slammed Max Verstappen’s driving during the F1 Miami Grand Prix — accusing the Dutchman of “ruining his own race” and “not racing very smart”.
The two tangled on the first lap in a battle that dropped Norris to sixth before fighting back to come home in second place.
Verstappen meanwhile crossed the line a whopping 40 seconds behind race-winner Oscar Piastri after ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc insists he has “no bad feelings” with Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton after controversial strategy calls saw the pair twice swap positions during the Miami Grand Prix.
Hamilton complained over team radio that he should be freed from behind Leclerc given he was on medium tyres compared to Leclerc on the hard compound, and the seven-time world champion grew increasingly ...Keep reading

The NASCAR Cup race at Texas unraveled in the final stage with several twists and turns at the sharp end of the running order. But when the smoke cleared, it was Joey Logano (who started 27th) taking the race win. Ross Chastain, who started even deeper in the field (31st), ended up as the runner-up.
Logano got the lead in dramatic fashion with just four laps to go. Hanging on with two older ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri proved he’s a man of his word when he did the ‘griddy’ dance after winning the Miami Grand Prix. The Australian, who took home his third consecutive victory and widened his championship lead over teammate Lando Norris, made a bet with Minnesota Vikings wide receiver, Justin Jefferson earlier in the week. 
“It was an attempt at a griddy. As you can tell, poorly ...Keep reading

George Russell was summoned to the stewards after a Red Bull protest claimed he failed to slow under yellow flags during the Miami Grand Prix. After consideration, F1's stewards rejected the claim, and Russell's standing remains intact.
From the Stewards decision issued later Sunday evening, they say it was "evident from the onboard footage as well as from telemetry that Car 63 lifted the ...Keep reading

George Russell missed the post-Miami Grand Prix press conference for “medical reasons”, after finishing third around the Hard Rock Stadium. 
The Mercedes driver took part in the immediate post-race interviews on the back of a truck as they went round the track and was enjoying the champagne on the podium. 
But an hour later in the press conference room, held in the changing room of the ...Keep reading

Earlier in the season, on the eve of the Japanese Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri somewhat torturously booted a question about the championship into the long grass.
At that point he was fourth in the standings, 10 points behind team-mate and championship leader Lando Norris, having lost ground thanks to a costly spin in the season opener then clawed it back by finishing second in the Chinese sprint ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton addressed comments he made over team radio during the Miami Grand Prix, where he tried to convince his Ferrari Formula 1 team to grant him a switch with Charles Leclerc, suggesting "people might not like them" and brushed them off as just "sarcastic.”
Reflecting on his race, Hamilton noted that he felt pent up behind Leclerc while on the medium tyres, and was of the opinion ...Keep reading