Motorsport

Jonathan Wheatley was in his fourth season of Formula 1 as a mechanic in 1994, having started on Roberto Moreno’s car at Benetton before the Brazilian was ousted in favour of Michael Schumacher.
That gave him a ringside seat for the early stages of what was shaping up to be one of motor racing’s great rivalries – until tragedy struck at Imola during the San Marino Grand Prix weekend 31 ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda finally got his chance at the Red Bull main team after four full seasons and two races with the junior squad. But the challenge is proving to be difficult, with stand-out performances still missing. A mere 12th place in Japan, two points in Bahrain and a first-lap crash in Jeddah are not results a Red Bull driver can be proud of. Yet, Tsunoda has at least shown more promise than Liam ...Keep reading

It is a quirk of Italian law that, if a fatality occurs, even on a race track, someone must be held responsible. The tragic deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix weekend resonated through the world and put Formula 1 under intense scrutiny.
While Ratzenberger’s accident was clearly caused by front-wing failure, Senna’s became the object of ...Keep reading

The Racing Bulls Formula 1 team has unveiled a striking one-off livery for this weekend's Miami Grand Prix.
Its drivers Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson will tackle the Miami sprint weekend in a bold pink and white livery on their VCARB 02, that the team says is inspired by the Red Bull Summer Edition White Peach. Hadjar and Lawson, as well as their trackside teams, will also sport magenta race ...Keep reading

When Ryan Preece flipped violently at Daytona International Speedway in the summer of 2023, NASCAR was not shy in their reaction, quickly moving to remove the grass from the entire backstretch at the superspeedway. 
Thankfully, no one went up and over at Talladega, but Christopher Bell and Chris Buescher crashed fairly hard at the exit of Turn 2 on a mid-race restart. Bell slammed the inside ...Keep reading

Jenson Button's wife, Brittny Button, was targeted by a thief in London following a romantic Valentine’s Day getaway with the former F1 driver. The model’s Goyard suitcase, which contained more than $333,000 worth of handbags, jewelry and sentimental items, was swiped outside London’s St Pancras station in February. 
She told the Daily Mail she has “no interest” in returning to the ...Keep reading

Jonathan Wheatley is aiming to install a big team mentality at Sauber before it completes its switch to Audi from 2026 – although the former Red Bull sporting director admits it will take “years” to get to the top of Formula 1.
Having left Red Bull in two years ago, Wheatley has now started his new role as team principal of Sauber, who finished bottom of the constructors’ championship ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch was involved in a violent head-on impact on the final lap of last Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity race at Talladega Superspeedway. Zilisch was leading the field when he got turned trying to block a run from Jesse Love, crashing heavily into the inside wall. He was later checked and released from the infield care center.
After the race, he said: "That was one of the wrecks when you move ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso is the fifth-most selected driver currently in the F1 Fantasy game but at the same time he is the lowest point scorer of the season to date.
A tricky first five races for Aston Martin means Alonso’s team-mate Lance Stroll is only the 18th most popular driver in the game, while the team itself makes the cut in just 14% of selections.
Alonso’s reputation, though, is ...Keep reading

There are two ongoing legal cases surrounding NASCAR Charters. The first is the highly publicized court battle between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR as the teams seek to the challenge the terms of the 2025 Charter Agreement. However, the second, lesser-known case, focuses on the ownership of a single charter.
Legacy Motor Club, co-owned by seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has signed a fresh three-year contract extension with promoters of the Mexico Grand Prix to keep the race on the calendar until 2028.
The 2025 edition of the race at Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is the last one of its current contract, with promotor CIE having to negotiate new terms with F1.
The race, which was revived in 2015, has grown into one of the most popular ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls team boss Laurent Mekies says losing Yuki Tsunoda to Red Bull was a success for his Formula 1 squad despite his fluctuating driver line-ups conflicting with the outfit's performance targets.
Mekies' squad has received "super ambitious targets" to fight in F1's tighter upper midfield, which the team slowly but surely is succeeding in. Strategic decisions have cost the Anglo-Italian ...Keep reading

Shaila-Ann Rao has returned to the FIA after the world governing body for motorsport confirmed her appointment as a presidential advisor.
It marks another post for Rao, who previously worked for the FIA as legal director between 2016-2018 and as interim secretary general for motorsport for a five-month spell in 2022.
Her initial return followed a stint working at Mercedes and saw her step ...Keep reading

Everything you think about F1 Academy is wrong. Since its launch in 2023, opinions have been plentiful, but facts are harder to come by. The series marked a visible step forward for women in motorsport: a glossy, all-female grid backed by Formula 1, aimed at widening the pipeline and shifting the narrative. But here’s the catch: F1 Academy isn’t a proving ground for the next female F1 driver ...Keep reading

Can Oscar Piastri hold on to the championship lead?
Having scored his third win of the season in Jeddah, Oscar Piastri moved to the top of the standings. Fun stat: any driver with such a win rate in the first five races either won the championship or was already a champion. Piastri has made a strong case for himself, forcing the public to reassess the pre-season expectations – he’s now the ...Keep reading

The trailer for an upcoming documentary on Formula 1 hotshot Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been released ahead of its premiere next week.
Netflix will publish ‘The Seat’ on Monday 5 May, and it will be a 45-minute documentary charting the previous year of the Italian’s life as he geared up for his promotion to F1.
In August of last year, Mercedes announced Antonelli as its Lewis Hamilton ...Keep reading

There was a time when you had to have a race in your own country to see a Formula 1 grand prix, a feat that only two major countries in Latin America were lucky enough to achieve in the early days of the championship.
Argentina hosted a race for most of the 1950s, allowing locals to enjoy the exploits of the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán González. When the South American ...Keep reading

Ott Tanak felt Hyundai was 'clearly unprepared' for the demands of Rally Islas Canarias after suffering a crushing defeat to World Rally Championship rivals Toyota. 
Hyundai admitted that it underestimated the difficulty of the first pure asphalt event of the 2025 WRC season as it was unable to take the fight to a dominant Toyota that recorded an impressive 1-2-3-4 result. 
The Korean ...Keep reading

This article was initially published on 30 April 2024.
Gorianstrasse is a small, dead-end street in Salzburg’s Riedenburg neighbourhood, around halfway between the old city nestling at the foot of the Hohensalzburg fortress and the airport on the western outskirts. There, in a new-build block, Roland Ratzenberger bought a two-storey apartment with beautiful views of Untersberg mountain from ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta underwent surgery on Tuesday to treat the compartment syndrome in his right forearm, a condition that has affected him since his MotoGP debut last year.
In a brief statement released by KTM late on Tuesday, the Austrian manufacturer confirmed the intervention on its rider, though it stopped short of providing much detail.
“Pedro Acosta underwent surgery for chronic compartment ...Keep reading