Motorsport

George Russell won from pole last time out at the Singapore Grand Prix, but it was McLaren who stole the headlines as it clinched the 2025 Formula 1 constructors’ championship.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finished third and fourth respectively to seal a consecutive title for McLaren, but it was always a foregone conclusion ever since it had the quickest car at the Melbourne ...Keep reading

Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell says he’s heard nothing from Fernando Alonso regarding a potential plan to retire from Formula 1 at the end of the 2026 season.
Alonso is a two-time world champion and the most experienced F1 driver in history with 419 grand prix starts, but has been on a 218-round winless streak.
The 44-year-old has been thinking about his future and, against all ...Keep reading

It makes for an unexpected headline but the Texas NHRA Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex, which aired on over-the-air FOX, was the most viewed motorsports event over the weekend.
With 1.872 million viewers, NHRA beat out the NASCAR Cup Series race from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which attracted 1.717 million viewers on USA Network. Both events aired at largely the same time, but NHRA had ...Keep reading

There is an alternate universe in which Chris Gayle is not set to race for a championship with Denny Hamlin by the end of the month at Phoenix Raceway.
In fact, within this alternate universe, Gayle isn’t with Joe Gibbs Racing whatsoever.
This is the scenario recounted on Sunday when Gayle, Hamlin and Gibbs all reflected on the organizational shift that led to the current driver-crew chief ...Keep reading

Speaking with Motorsport.com's Matt Weaver, Alex Palou offered a candid look into his incredible career as an IndyCar driver. In 2025, he earned his fourth IndyCar title in the last five years, and became an Indy 500 legend.
Palou discussed a variety of topics throughout the 15-minute interview, including when he chose to become a race car driver, his first crash, overcoming a fear of ovals ...Keep reading

Spire Motorsports is parting ways with Justin Haley, who has driven the No. 7 Chevrolet since the late portion of the 2024 season, where he replaced Corey LaJoie.
Unfortunately, Haley struggled this year and fell behind his teammates. While Michael McDowell is 21st in points and Carson Hocevar 23rd, Haley is back in 31st. He has one top five and two top tens this year with an average finish of ...Keep reading

Ex-Formula 1 driver Nicholas Latifi has confirmed his graduation from business school in the 30-year-old’s first public statement since retiring from motorsport.
The Canadian announced his career change midway through 2023 after leaving F1 at the end of 2022, which capped off three seasons in the championship.
Latifi spent all three years at Williams where he scored nine points in total ...Keep reading

Álex Palou had already won three IndyCar championships in four seasons even before this year began but he had not reached his final form until winning the Indianapolis 500 in May en route to yet another championship come September.
That is because, for all the accolades, Palou still had not won an oval race until emerging victorious in the 109th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 grid is starting to take shape with only four teams left to officially confirm their driver line-up for next season.
Mercedes is one, but the Silver Arrows is expected to keep its pairing of George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, while Alpine, Red Bull and Racing Bulls are the other three.
But then again, Isack Hadjar is favourite to replace the struggling Yuki Tsunoda ...Keep reading

Juncos Hollinger Racing has made it official, signing Rinus VeeKay for the 2026 IndyCar season. It's a team he is already familiar with, driving a Juncos-prepared car to the 2018 Pro Mazda championship, as well as second in the 2019 Indy NXT (then Indy Lights) championship.
At the beginning of September, the Dutchman revealed that he wouldn't be returning to Dale Coyne Racing after one year ...Keep reading

Mick Schumacher got his first taste of an IndyCar on Monday, driving the No. 75 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda around the 2.4-mile, 14-turn road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and he was all smiles afterwards.
The 26-year-old completed the full testing program and finished an unofficial third among the seven drivers who took part in the team test and driver evaluations, behind ...Keep reading

In a MotoGP season dominated by Marc Marquez and Ducati, Aprilia has emerged as a consistent frontrunner, putting the red bikes under pressure on multiple occasions. 
In fact, it’s now been almost 30 months since a manufacturer other than Ducati or Aprilia has won a dry-weather race, whether a sprint or a grand prix. 
However, while Aprilia has been the only marque consistently ...Keep reading

Before Christian Horner’s Red Bull exit, Max Verstappen’s future was one of the main talking points in the Formula 1 paddock.
Amid Red Bull’s early-season struggles, the performance clauses in the Dutchman’s contract came under scrutiny. Verstappen ultimately couldn’t activate them, since he was in the top three of the drivers’ championship at the beginning of the summer ...Keep reading

Once the dust settles from a chaotic Formula 1 qualifying session, the driver on pole gets bragging rights over the rest of the field and a small tyre that's presented by Pirelli. But what is the tiny tyre, why is it handed out and what happens to it once the driver on pole has posed with it in parc ferme?
The tyre in question is Pirelli’s Pole Position award, which is a relative newcomer to ...Keep reading

Hyundai Motorsport has appointed former FIA Road Sport Director Andrew Wheatley as its World Rally Championship sporting director with immediate effect.
Wheatley will take up a newly created role within the Korean marque’s WRC operation for the remainder of this season and next, reporting to Hyundai president and team principal Cyril Abiteboul.
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Diogo Moreira will make his MotoGP debut in the 2026 season with the LCR team, Honda confirmed on Tuesday.
First reported by Motorsport last August, the news finalises next year’s grid for the premier class. Moreira will join Johann Zarco at LCR, replacing Somkiat Chantra, whose rookie MotoGP season has fallen well short of expectations. Chantra is moving to Honda’s World Superbike outfit ...Keep reading

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says the team will keep its focus on the next race as talk of building on the team's dynasty have once again rekindled after its 10th constructors' championship ahead of the 2026 regulation change. 
The American discussed the success of the team under Andrea Stella, adding that his ambitions are simple: the next race is always the most important. 
“Do we want ...Keep reading

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has confirmed that the team is not going to change its strategy in the drivers' championship after securing the constructors' title. 
After third and fourth-place finishes at the Singapore Grand Prix, the Woking outfit took the victory in the constructors' championship with six race weekends remaining in the season. This led some to question whether McLaren would ...Keep reading

We now know our first of four drivers who will make up the Championship 4, and it's Denny Hamlin. The veteran driver hadn't made it to the finals since 2021, failing to advance beyond the Round of 8 in every year of the Next Gen era ... until now.
Hendrick Motorsports dominated the race, but pit road miscues, a wild wreck, and a late-race restart were enough to deny them an automatic ticket ...Keep reading

Brenden 'Butterbean' Queen is having quite the year in his emerging stock car racing career. The 27-year-old recently won the 2025 ARCA Menards Series championship, ending the 20-race season with eight wins, 17 top fives, and 17 top tens. He bested Lavar Scott by 106 points in the final standings.
Queen also made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut earlier this year at Bristol, driving the No. 11 ...Keep reading