Motorsport

Ferrari hasn’t quite had the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens would put it, so far in the 2026 Formula 1 season, but team principal Fred Vasseur still views the first 11 rounds of the year as following a twofold pattern.
Ferrari has held second in the constructors’ championship ever since the opening round of the campaign, but has been challenging Mercedes’ ...Keep reading

Back in 2018, Kyle Larson got himself in a bit of trouble with the NASCAR community when he expressed a desire to retire from the Cup Series to pursue a full-time winged Sprint Car championship at some point before his 40th birthday.
He first teased the timeline during an interview on the Open Red podcast and then followed it up with this exchange on social media.
 
Naturally, there was ...Keep reading

This isn’t ordinary from Hendrick Motorsports but in fairness, Corey Day is no ordinary prospect.
The last time Rick Hendrick signed off on a multi-year development project of any kind was Chase Elliott in 2011. This was five years before the eventual 2020 champion even reached the Cup Series.
Prior to that, the only other recent examples of such endeavors were Landon Cassill in 2007 and ...Keep reading

After falling off the schedule from 2021 through 2023, the Brickyard 400 has been back as a NASCAR Cup race for the last three years now. However, some -- including third-generation racer Kyle Petty -- believe that it should not be counted among the crown jewel races of NASCAR.
Petty even took it a step further, noting that he was never in favor of NASCAR going to Indianapolis, even before the ...Keep reading

Claiming a first World Rally Championship win won't make this week's homecoming Rally Finland "any easier", according to Sami Pajari, who said he cannot “underestimate the competition".
After dominating the first fast gravel event of the WRC season in Estonia, Pajari will now be viewed as one of the favourites to challenge for victory on home soil. The factory Toyota driver heads into the ...Keep reading

The IndyCar Series took a monumental step into its future with the first official look at the Dallara IR-28 - the brand-new chassis and aerodynamic package set to usher in a new era of open-wheel racing in 2028. Replacing the long-serving DW12 platform, the IR-28 features an aggressive visual overhaul, a purpose-built safety structure, significant weight reduction, and refined aerodynamics ...Keep reading

Corey Heim is a special driver, and I think we were already aware of that even before his recent Cup victories. He's won 26 Truck races in less than 100 starts, and toppled various records there en route to his 2026 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series title.
But there's always an adjustment period when a rising star moves up to Cup, right? Well, maybe not for Heim. 23XI Racing being a top-level team ...Keep reading

The excitement surrounding KTM's signing of Johann Zarco ahead of the 2019 MotoGP season was matched only by the shock created by his abrupt dismissal just a few months later, with the championship already underway, after the Frenchman accepted he could not adapt either to the RC16 or to the way the company operated.
The Zarco episode was the first clear indication of KTM's distinctive approach ...Keep reading

On Tuesday, Front Row Motorsports announced that Chandler Smith will not return to the organization in 2027.
Smith has been a part of FRM's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team since the start of the 2025 season, and they've won four races together over the past two years. Those wins came at Bristol, Daytona, and back-to-back races at North Wilkesboro.
"Chandler Smith will not return to Front ...Keep reading

In a major step forward for open-wheel racing, IndyCar has officially revealed its next-generation machine: the IR-28. Set to make its competitive debut at the start of the 2028 IndyCar season, the newly designed chassis and engine package promises faster lap times, unprecedented safety, and enhanced wheel-to-wheel action across all track disciplines.
Developed in partnership with long-time ...Keep reading

Streaming NASCAR O’Reilly Series content will be moving to the ESPN app next month as part of an agreement between the CW Network and the Worldwide Leader in Sports.
The streaming agreement, which will require a purchased ESPN Unlimited account, begins in August with the WWE NXT live on Tuesday, August 4, and the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race from Iowa Speedway on Saturday, August ...Keep reading

After winning the first six races of the season, Mercedes has finally had its Formula 1 dominance challenged in recent weeks – winning just two out of the last five grands prix. However, despite advances for McLaren that helped it take the win from pole at last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, Silver Arrows boss Toto Wolff isn’t too worried about his rivals’ progress.
Mercedes was the ...Keep reading

Ferrari and Peugeot have started testing the upgraded versions of their respective Le Mans Hypercars as they ramp up preparations for the 2027 World Endurance Championship.
Although the 2026 season is only halfway through, development work is already under way for next year's campaign, which is scheduled to begin in Qatar on 27 March 2027. 
On Tuesday, Ferrari released an image of a ...Keep reading

Porsche Penske Motorsport will contest this weekend’s IMSA SportsCar Championship event at Road America in two special retro liveries.
The #6 Porsche 963 LMDh shared by Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor will carry the blue-and-yellow Sunoco colour scheme made famous by the Porsche 917/30 in the 1970s. 
Meanwhile, Julien Andlauer and Felipe Nasr will revive the bright yellow livery of the ...Keep reading

The announcement that Formula 1's return to Malaysia this year would be branded as the Bahrain Grand Prix prompted both amusement and confusion. 
Sepang, after all, was the first of the Hermann Tilke-designed generation of modern F1 circuits in Asia, making Malaysia an important fixture on the calendar. Even after the country terminated its contract with FOM in 2017, the circuit has remained ...Keep reading

Former Red Bull mechanic Calum Nicholas has warned that Formula 1 personnel face "genuine professional burnout" amid the extensive calendar.
It was announced during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend that the Bahrain Grand Prix, which had previously been cancelled in April along with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix due to the conflict in the Middle East, will be held in Malaysia from 2-4 ...Keep reading

Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur admitted his squad was caught out by Verstappen's 29-lap stint on soft tyres that yielded Red Bull second in Formula 1's Hungarian Grand Prix, with team principal Laurent Mekies praising his team for a "spicy" strategy call.
Verstappen clinched second in Budapest despite suffering another difficult weekend in the Red Bull, while both Ferrari drivers ...Keep reading

The 2026 World Endurance Championship will conclude in Europe, with the planned events in the Middle East replaced by new races in Barcelona and Monza.
Following visits to Austin and Fuji in September, the championship was supposed to head to the Gulf in September, with the rescheduled Qatar 1812km race set for 24 October to be followed by the traditional Bahrain finale on 7 ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera will be back behind the wheel of a rally car after confirmation he will be taking part in demonstration runs at Rally Finland this week.  
The two-time world rally champion will be joined by his title winning co-driver Jonne Halttunen and the pair will drive Halttunen’s Toyota Corolla GT AE86 through the event’s Harju stage on Thursday and Friday.
Rally Finland is an ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has shared his plans for the Formula 1 summer break, explaining that he will be in the Balearic Islands with his family.
Sainz finished 18th and two laps down at the Hungaroring on Sunday, a race won by McLaren's Lando Norris. The Spaniard's Hungarian Grand Prix was further compromised by a collision with Oscar Piastri while being lapped, which hampered the McLaren driver and ...Keep reading