Motorsport

At Jerez on Saturday, KTM rider Pedro Acosta couldn’t do better than last place in Q2. That unfortunately meant he had to content himself with starting from the 12th spot on the grid. As a result, any possibility of running at the front of the field was gone.
Still, Acosta was reasonably satisfied with his Friday results, achieving a top 10 finish that won him a ticket straight into Q2 ...Keep reading

While Lawless Alan earned his first career ARCA win, YouTuber Cleetus McFarland avoided the chaos and collected an impressive top-ten finish in the No. 30 Rette Jones Racing Ford. Nearly 70,000 people were watching the in-car camera as he took on the infamous superspeedway.
McFarland, whose real name is Garrett Mitchell, made his ARCA debut at Daytona earlier this year where he was involved in ...Keep reading

When Ryan Preece pulled a wheelie and flipped at the Daytona 500 earlier this year, he called for NASCAR to take action to help keep the Next Gen (Gen-7) cars from taking flight. There have been eight occasions where Cup cars have gone completely upside down in the last three years of competition, including five in the last calendar year.
Unfortunately, Preece has the distinction of being the ...Keep reading

These are tough times for KTM in MotoGP. The RC16 has chronic vibration niggles. The latest version of the bike appears to be slower than last year’s. The broader KTM company has been placed into administration. Star factory rider Pedro Acosta is being linked with any number of moves to escape the marque that nurtured him.
The list goes on. Brad Binder, the man who scored the breakthrough ...Keep reading

Front Row Motorsports isn't unfamiliar with the front row at superspeedways, but it's not a place we've ever seen Zane Smith before today. Driving the No. 38 Ford Mustang, he was the fastest man at Talladega in both rounds of qualifying, earning his first career pole in his 55th career start. Crew chief Ryan Bergenty was ecstatic and actively celebrating on pit road as his car rocketed to the top ...Keep reading

Justin Haley is likely just looking for a little bit of stability in the 2025 NASCAR Cup season after losing four crew members, his car chief and now his crew chief since the beginning of April. 
Car Chief Robert “Cheddar” Smith left at the start of the month to take over those same duties for Ty Gibbs at Joe Gibbs Racing. His replacement, Doug Powers, was actually ejected from Talladega ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez shrugged off a brief challenge from Fabio Quartararo as he took a fifth straight 2025 sprint race victory aboard the factory Ducati.
Although Quartararo was able to convert his surprise pole position into a brief lead, he fell when Marquez overtook him halfway around the second lap.
That was the end of any challenge to the Ducati dominance, as the Bologna bikes swept the top six ...Keep reading

Hyundai has admitted it underestimated the difficulty of Rally Islas Canarias that has left the team in damage limitation mode while Toyota has locked out the top five.
The Korean marque has found itself on the backfoot having failed to unlock the secrets to speed on the Canary Islands’ smooth asphalt roads that are making their World Rally Championship debut this weekend.
Thierry ...Keep reading

The motorsport world is currently sitting on the edge of its seat as Formula 1’s Oscar Piastri has become embroiled in a title battle with his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris. The two have traded barbs throughout the season, with Piastri recently edging ahead of his more seasoned team-mate with his win in Saudi Arabia. 
And the infighting isn’t likely to stop anytime soon, ensuring fans are ...Keep reading

Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo broke Ducati’s long stranglehold on MotoGP pole positions by going fastest in Saturday’s qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez.
The 2021 world champion thus delivered on the clear potential he had shown in Friday practice, when he reported he was surprised by his own speed aboard the M1.
The pole position is the first for a non-Ducati since Pedro ...Keep reading

Welcome to the 2025 edition of Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy where 239 young drivers are set to compete in the opening round of the series at Prokart Raceland in Wackersdorf.  This year's five categories are Senior MAX (101 drivers) featuring the "triple-digit" entries of the year, Junior MAX (61), DD2 and DD2 Masters running together as a combined class with 34 drivers, and Mini MAX (43) ...Keep reading

Claire Dubbelman's love for the pinnacle of motorsport started at an early age, thanks to her father, Huub, who spent almost two decades in automotive journalism before working as a PR manager for brands including Mercedes-Benz Netherlands. Dubbelman was four or five years old when she began watching Formula 1 in the early 1990s. "From the time I was little, my father would wake me up - at my own ...Keep reading

Ahead of a grand prix weekend, most of us like to share predictions or try and guess who will come out on top on a Sunday. Data scientist Mariana Antaya took those chats one stage further and built a machine learning model to try and predict F1 race results. So far, her model has correctly called the winners of three grands prix this season.
“I'm a really big Formula 1 fan,” says Antaya ...Keep reading

It's been an eventful week off the track for the No. 7 Spire Motorsports, and things aren't calming down after they arrived at Talladega Superspeedway for the tenth round of the 2025 season.
During pre-race technical inspection on Friday, the No. 7 Chevrolet failed twice before finally passing on the third attempt through. Per the NASCAR rule book, the team will lose their pit stall selection ...Keep reading

The USA is on course to join the World Rally Championship calendar in 2026 following confirmation that a multi-year contract has been signed to bring rallying’s top flight back to North America.   
The WRC has long held an ambition to return to the US for the first time since the 1988 Olympus Rally, with the project a key part of its plan to grow the category.
Last year, the championship ...Keep reading

RFK Racing and Ryan Preece have turned heads already with several strong showings this year. Sitting inside the playoffs on points at the moment, this team didn't even exist last year and hadn't named a crew chief to head its efforts until January of this year. And yet, Preece and the No. 60 RFK Ford are sitting 14th in the regular season standings, right behind teammate Chris Buescher.
In an ...Keep reading

When it comes to NASCAR racing, no name is bigger than 'Earnhardt,' and for good reason. Dale Earnhardt Sr. is a motorsports legend in every sense of the word. His incredible career, engaging personality, and sadly, also the tragic nature of his passing has made him a household name to this very day.
Now, the streaming giant intends to bring that story to Prime Video on May 22nd, premiering a ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez appears to be the man least impressed by his remarkable comeback after two crashes on Friday at the Spanish Grand Prix.
The younger Marquez was the class of the field in all day at Jerez, despite a low-speed accident in the morning and then a heavy tumble at the beginning of the hour-long afternoon practice.
Following the second fall, which came as the Gresini Ducati rider ...Keep reading

I still remember where I was when Marco Simoncelli died.
It is a memory that will probably never not be diamond-etched in my brain. What else could SuperSic have accomplished had things been different that day in Malaysia? It's unfair, and it's cruel, especially to his family and friends who loved him.
It's enough to make me catch and hold my breath every time I've seen a MotoGP crash since ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo was at a loss to explain why his Yamaha was so fast on Friday at the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix. 
Although the 2021 world champion qualified on the second row for the previous race in Qatar, he was not expecting to continue that form on the low-grip circuit at Jerez.
Yet the Frenchman looked a genuine contender for the fastest time in practice, before a crash at the last ...Keep reading