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The Sauber and Racing Bulls Formula 1 teams will kick off their 2025 campaigns with a multi-day test in Imola this week.
As previously reported, Racing Bulls will head to the venue of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix for a three-day test of a previous car [TPC], with its 2025 racing drivers Yuki Tsunoda and debutant Isack Hadjar driving the 2023 AT04 from the team's AlphaTauri days.
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Even for the life of a professional racing driver, Stoffel Vandoorne’s career has had highs and lows more than most as championship successes have been followed by lacklustre spells and unfulfilled potential.
At one stage the Belgian was considered the next talent to emerge from the junior single-seater ranks, dominating the 2015 GP2 campaign in his sophomore season before making his Formula ...Keep reading

Defender has announced the model with which it will compete in the upcoming 2026 Dakar Rally in the Stock category.
The British manufacturer announced at the start of this month that it will enter the Dakar next year, although it remained to be known with which model it would do so.
On Monday, Defender revealed its OCTA model as the vehicle with which it will lay the foundations of its ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has admitted that he must fight for the 2025 MotoGP title as he joins the factory Ducati team to partner Francesco Bagnaia.
The Spaniard is stepping up to MotoGP’s benchmark team in 2025 after ending a 1,000-day barren streak and winning three races with Gresini Racing on a year-old Ducati.
It places him in a similar situation to what he faced in 2013 when he made his highly ...Keep reading

The South African government has opened up a bid process for prospective organisers of a future Formula 1 race in the country.
The government of the African nation has appointed a so-called Formula 1 Bid Steering Committee which has been tasked with finding potential organisers for South Africa's return to the F1 calendar.
South Africa last hosted an F1 grand prix at the Kyalami circuit in ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has described his switch to Ducati as the "most important challenge" of his career as he aims for his first MotoGP title since 2019.
Marquez began life as a factory Ducati rider during Monday's launch event in Italy, as he made his highly-anticipated debut in the company's corporate red colour.
The Spaniard was visibly smiling during the presentation, with the right arm injury ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton is set to make his Ferrari track debut on 22 January at Fiorano circuit, driving the F1-75 car from the 2022 Formula 1 season, Motorsport.com understands.
Joining Charles Leclerc at the Scuderia for the upcoming campaign after spending the last 12 years at Mercedes, Hamilton went to Maranello on Monday morning to prepare for his maiden run in red.
Hamilton has been able to get ...Keep reading

New Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell reckons that although the Silverstone outfit "won the world championship for most updates" in 2024, it must work on its internal processes to ensure that new parts deliver the expected performance.
Aston Martin started the season in reasonable shape and scored points in the opening seven grands prix, but a comprehensive series of updates at the Imola ...Keep reading

New World Rally Championship tyre supplier Hankook is “100% confident” in its product ahead of its competition debut in Monte Carlo despite drivers feeling its winter tyres require more development.
The Korean firm has taken over as the WRC’s control tyre supplier this year following the end of Pirelli’s four-year stint, which concluded at the end of last season.
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Ducati has showcased the bike that former world champions Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez will race in MotoGP this year.
In a special event held at the Italian ski resort Madonna di Campiglio on Monday, the Ducati GP25 was showcased to the public for the first time in its predominantly red race livery.
Ducati general manager Gigi Dall'Igna, team boss Davide Tardozzi and the Italian ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles says he is expecting his 2025 line-up of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon to bring his Formula 1 team the leadership it needs to help steer it out of its current plight.
WIlliams landed a major coup by signing race winner Sainz on a multi-year deal after the Spaniard lost his Ferrari seat to Lewis Hamilton. In Sainz and Albon, Williams is arguably punching above ...Keep reading

BMW ended up fastest and topped the times in three sessions over the official Roar test ahead of this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener. 
A 1m35.424s around the Daytona International Speedway from Dries Vanthoor on the opening day aboard the #24 Rahal BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh stood as the best time of the three-day test in which GTP class machinery took to the ...Keep reading

Scott McLaughlin has identified areas he needs to improve upon to beat the “professor” Alex Palou to the IndyCar title - and is now more confident he can do so.
Palou has dominated the American championship in recent years, winning three of the past four titles, while McLaughlin is hunting for a maiden crown having moved across from Australian Supercars.
The 31-year-old’s best ...Keep reading

Alpine’s executive technical director David Sanchez has admitted the team will have no excuses going into Formula 1’s new era in 2026.
Since the Renault Group bought the Enstone-based outfit back in late 2015, it has consistently set long-term goals of regular podiums and wins, but the past nine seasons yielded just nine top-three finishes, including Esteban Ocon’s memorable victory in ...Keep reading

“If you have two Red Bull cars, you have kind of a magnet in between them and they always come together at a regular rate!”
Motopark boss Timo Rumpfkeil is chuckling about his year running both Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda in the 2019 Euroformula Open series, where they locked horns five years before they would be at war again, this time for the seat alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in ...Keep reading

It's very refreshing to hear Honda boss Alberto Puig talk about aspects of his life that are much more ordinary than those required of him as HRC team manager in the MotoGP world championship. 
At 58 years old and after seven years in the position, the former rider has experienced Honda's descent into hell from the inside.
The Japanese brand hasn't won a race since 2023 (Alex Rins, in ...Keep reading

“We are somewhere in the past for these drivers – from their start points to the final target. And we are super happy to see that they have success.”
No Formula 1 driver has immaculately appeared at the top level. Now a decade ago, even Max Verstappen made the briefest stop in the junior categories before his graduation to grand prix racing.
Back then, he’d just scrapped closely with ...Keep reading

Gresini Racing unveiled the livery for its 2025 MotoGP challenger at a presentation in Imola on Saturday.
During a special event at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari near its base, the Italian team took the covers off the two Ducati GP24 bikes that it will run on a customer basis this year.
Gresini has elected to retain the light blue-and-red colour scheme it first adopted in 2022 ...Keep reading

Of all the scrutiny over the so-called ‘big teams’ in Formula 1, Red Bull's new line-up is probably the one that has slipped under the radar for most.
Lewis Hamilton’s switch to Ferrari and Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s promotion at Mercedes have understandably taken the spotlight, with attention drawn to how they will compare against their new team-mates.
But it is perhaps the Max ...Keep reading

The two-time IndyCar Series champion Josef Newgarden believes the championship must have a lighter chassis when the next generation of cars are expected to debut in 2027. 
North America’s premier open-wheel series is aiming for an all-new chassis that year, having gradually evolved the current Dallara DW12 since its debut in 2012.
Team Penske driver Newgarden, who claimed his titles in ...Keep reading