Motorsport

As is usually the case in public media scrums, Denny Hamlin has become increasingly careful with his words and Saturday afternoon at Charlotte Motor Speedway was no exception.
This comes a day after a NASCAR legal filing asked the judge overseeing their respective antitrust lawsuits to effectively rule against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports on the fundamentals.
NASCAR included in this ...Keep reading

There are many things that are much bigger than racing and Tyler Reddick is competing with a heavy heart this weekend at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval -- making his pole run on Saturday all the more impressive from a purely racing specific standpoint.
Reddick, who is also racing to advance into the Round of 8 this weekend, has spent time in the hospital this past month as four-month-old ...Keep reading

KTM Ajo star Jose Antonio Rueda recovered from a poor opening lap to win a truncated Moto3 race in Indonesia and clinch the 2025 title.​Rueda arrived this weekend with a 93-point lead in the championship over his closest rival Angel Piqueras, and needed to extend that advantage to over a 100 to wrap up the title with four rounds to go.​The 19-year-old finished second on the road in Indonesia ...Keep reading

You know the old adage -- better to be lucky than good.
Sammy Smith, as engineered by crew chief Phillip Bell, was exactly that on Saturday evening at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. They were six points below the cutline, with both a fading right front tire, and little room to go forward inside of five laps to go.
So Bell called Smith down pit road in the hopes that a caution would give them ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch now ten wins this year alone, giving him a huge cushion for the start of the penultimate round of the playoffs.
But while Zilisch captured the checkered flag at the Charlotte Roval, four more drivers fell out of title contention. They were Taylor Gray, Austin Hill, Nick Sanchez, and Harrison Burton. Gray's elimination was particularly painful, as the race ended under caution and ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch, still a rookie, was unstoppable in the final road course race of the year, earning his tenth win of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity season.
"Enough people stayed out with me to give me a gap," said Zilisch. "Thank you all for coming out. So much fun getting to race in my hometown. JR Motorsports cars were so fast this weekend. First in practice, qualified on the pole, led a lot of laps ...Keep reading

The Singapore Grand Prix is one of the most taxing races of the Formula 1 calendar, and this weekend it has a label to prove it: heat hazard. It's going to be a hot grand prix, with temperatures expected to reach higher than 31C, and let's not forget the humidity. This makes it the perfect reminder that heat management for the drivers in the cars is one of the most important factors of the ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton arrived at the Marina Bay Street Circuit for the Singapore Grand Prix with a special gold chrome helmet design, which quickly caught the attention of fans. 
With the helmet shining under the lights of the street circuit, fans took to social media. "There are sparkles in it too. Looked super cool under the lights in FP2," one fan commented on Reddit, while another added, "Reminds ...Keep reading

It took until lunchtime on Saturday for Bubba Wallace and Denny Hamlin to talk about what happened on the final lap while racing for the win at Kansas Speedway.
Six days.
Since then, Hamlin had took questions from the media, recorded a podcast and even tweeted about his lack of regret or remorse, and that created additional tension between himself and the driver that pilots his No. 23 car at ...Keep reading

With several seconds of tire falloff, some cording, and wildly slick conditions, drivers will have a lot of work to do on Sunday.
In practice, teams and fans reacted as several cars struggled to find grip, with drivers complaining over the radio. Roval favorite Shane van Gisbergen wasn't happy with the balance of his car in his practice, and his teammate Daniel Suarez quipped to PRN's Alan ...Keep reading

Tyler Reddick denied Shane van Gisbergen pole position at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval on Saturday, taking the top spot with a lap of 1:25.939s, just 0.032s clear of the Supercars ace.
This is a huge pole for Reddick, who is in the Cup elimination standings 29 points below the cutline going into Sunday’s race.
"Just an incredible effort by this team," said Reddick. "This has been a ...Keep reading

Ty Gibbs, finally in a position to have to face questions about the competition meeting at Joe Gibbs Racing following the incident with Denny Hamlin at New Hampshire, did not offer much beyond what his teammates have already said about the matter.
“Yeah, I’m sure all the other guys answered it for you, so, I’ll just leave it at that,” Gibbs said on Saturday before qualifying at the ...Keep reading

With each passing week, Shane Van Gisbergen is becoming more of a well-rounded product and now comes the Charlotte Motor Speedway where he is once again the favorite to win a Cup Series road course race.
And despite his first round elimination from the playoffs, ‘SVG’ continues to show rapid improvement on ovals with his first career top-10 and upper-level passing statistics at Kansas, even ...Keep reading

Williams Formula 1 team principal James Vowles has released a statement after both Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz were disqualified from the Singapore Grand Prix qualifying session. The Briton confirmed that the Grove outfit has launched an urgent investigation into how this happened.
After Albon and Sainz initially qualified in 12th and 13th on the grid at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, the FIA ...Keep reading

McLaren only needs to score 13 points in Singapore to wrap up its second consecutive constructors' crown with five rounds to spare, but if you were looking for any lingering signs of that early season dominance you wouldn't have been able to spot it over the last few weekends.
Championship leader Oscar Piastri and team-mate Lando Norris were well beaten by reigning world champion Max Verstappen ...Keep reading

When your team-mate is sitting on pole position and you aren't at least alongside them, you will have questions to answer – even in the modern era of convergence when the gaps are that much tighter.
Mercedes' Andrea Kimi Antonelli turned that scrutiny on himself as he qualified fourth in Singapore, 0.379s off polesitting team-mate George Russell.
"My emotion took over," he explained after ...Keep reading

Williams Formula 1 drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz have been disqualified from the Singapore Grand Prix qualifying session for a DRS technical infringement.
Albon and Sainz qualified 12th and 13th respectively at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, but a breach of F1's technical regulations was spotted in parc ferme by FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer following the session.
The stewards have ...Keep reading

Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso claimed that the changes Aston Martin made to the set-up ahead of qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix "made the car slower".
The Spanish driver was left disappointed after securing P10 on the starting grid for the race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
"Yes, FP3 was concerning and also Q1 we were 14th and 16th I think, so definitely not the ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has lamented a poor Singapore Grand Prix weekend so far, having qualified seventh at a Formula 1 track where he is a two-time polesitter.
Leclerc was second-fastest in Free Practice 1 but dropped to ninth and 10th in the next two sessions, before taking eighth, sixth and seventh across the three qualifying segments.
“We got off to a good start in FP1,” ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has said that he will have background conversations with the Ferrari team following a weekend that has so far yielded disorganised processes from the outfit.
After qualifying sixth for the Singapore Grand Prix, Hamilton is partly blaming the team's procedures around pitlane starts and the resulting drops in tyre temperatures. 
Speaking to Sky Sports F1, Hamilton said that ...Keep reading