Motorsport

The World Rally Championship futures for Thierry Neuville and Adrien Fourmaux remain unclear as the pair await a decision from Hyundai regarding its plans for 2027.
Hyundai is yet to commit to the WRC beyond the end of the season as the Korean brand weighs up its options for next year.
The car maker has ruled out constructing an all new Rally1 car to the new 2027 technical regulations for ...Keep reading

In a series in which there is still a great deal of secrecy regarding how much the riders earn, what the manufacturers pay or what the championship itself distributes, the arrival of a new American owner, a culture in which talking about money is not taboo, will end up bringing greater transparency about what, how and who pays for various things.
One of the biggest expenses in any motorsport ...Keep reading

World Rally Championship drivers have thrown their support behind the implementation of a condensed 50-hour format at future events following a successful debut at Rally Estonia.
Rally Estonia organisers rolled out an all-new format that aimed to offer a more compact event that should reduce operational costs for both the event organisers and the teams.
The typical 300km of stages was ...Keep reading

Not only at Manthey and Porsche, but also in the BMW camp, the mood is low after the Norisring weekend: While Kelvin van der Linde was unable to start on Sunday following a crash on Saturday and left empty-handed, local hero Marco Wittmann's frustration over the Balance of Performance (BoP) was enormous.
"I think we gave it our all - maximized it once again," he says after finishing tenth on ...Keep reading

NASCAR is altering its practice format just before the 2026 Chase for the championship gets underway.
Starting at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the August 23 race weekend, practice groups will be eliminated and all teams will get 50 minutes of open practice. This will be the standard for all non-superspeedway races for the remainder of the 2026 season. Teams will be granted an additional set ...Keep reading

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the long-awaited sequel to 1990's 'Days of Thunder' is moving forward, with Paramount in talks with Jonathan Levine in to direct and star Tom Cruise set to return. He portrayed young gun NASCAR driver Cole Trickle in the original film. It's unclear what direction they plan to go with the sequel, but Will Staples is writing the script.
Wednesday's report ...Keep reading

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is heading to Road America for what promises to be a banner weekend at "America’s National Park of Speed." 
Running July 30 through August 2, the legendary venue hosts the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix - a feature race newly expanded into a six-hour endurance challenge.
While Road America’s endurance legacy dates back 70 years to a ...Keep reading

The Belgian Grand Prix brought yet another disappointment for Aston Martin in a season that has already been miserable for the Formula 1 team. Lance Stroll failed to see the chequered flag after suffering a clutch failure and two-time champion Fernando Alonso finished last – humiliated, two laps down, and unable to challenge even Valtteri Bottas in Cadillac's brand-new works team.
On Sunday ...Keep reading

In a landmark transaction for North America’s premier open-wheel racing series, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) announced today that it has sold one of its three IndyCar charters to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (DRR). The agreement, which is subject to official IndyCar approval, clears the way for DRR to return to full-time competition with a single-car entry beginning in the 2027 ...Keep reading

Formula 1 is set for its final race before the annual summer break with this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, which comes just a week after Belgium.
It will be the 11th round of the 2026 campaign and marks the halfway point after the earlier cancellations of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia due to conflict in the Middle East.
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Prodrive is holding discussions with as many as three manufacturers about contesting the 2027 Dakar Rally following Dacia's decision to exit the World Rally-Raid Championship.
Shortly after winning the 48th edition of Dakar with Nasser Al-Attiyah in January, Renault Group brand Dacia revealed that it will pull out of cross-country rallying at the end of the current season.
The announcement ...Keep reading

In just a few days, Aston Martin will debut the B-spec version of the AMR26, a car that has been well below expectations in the first half of the Formula 1 season.
Some describe the AMR26B as a major evolution, while others even consider it an entirely new car, given that the project has undergone a fresh round of crash tests – a sign that key structural areas of the chassis have been ...Keep reading

The competition in the World Endurance Championship is set to intensify next year, with Ford and McLaren entering the Hypercar division with their respective LMDh prototypes.
Assuming all current manufacturers remain on the grid next year, the 2027 Le Mans 24 Hours will feature a 10-way battle for outright glory.
Both Ford and McLaren have been developing their new cars for more than a year ...Keep reading

When the assembled media gathered in the McLaren hospitality on Saturday for Andrea Stella's media session, the Italian team boss shared one of the most revealing quotes of this Formula 1 season:
"When we try to analyse this, it gets immediately quite complicated. In fact, when I left the debrief to come here for this media session, there were still discussions ongoing as to why we see ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia says his Ducati continues to be plagued by a lack of rear grip, a problem that has persisted since the start of the 2026 MotoGP season.​The Italian bounced back from his 2025 nadir to emerge as a consistent performer this year, scoring four consecutive Sunday podiums and a sprint win over the last two months.​Despite three technical issues costing him as many as 40 points, he ...Keep reading

Six wins, six pole positions and the Formula 1 championship lead. Where a year ago Kimi Antonelli faced one of his toughest weekends in Formula 1, he has now taken a sweet revenge, claiming a victory that will mathematically allow him to head into the summer break as the championship leader. But the meaning of Spa goes well beyond that.
The Belgian round, where last season he struggled with a ...Keep reading

Are the current struggles of the Porsche team Manthey down to the new DTM spec tire? During his sharp criticism of the Balance of Performance (BoP) at the Norisring, "Grello" driver Thomas Preining also pointed to the new Pirelli tire, which has been used exclusively in the DTM since 2026.
"All the weaknesses we ever had in the Porsche are gone with the new tire. It can do longitudinal, you ...Keep reading

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How my motorsport journey started
“It started back in 2016, in Bulgaria, with a category called Mini Bulgaria, actually. That is the slowest karts. I was just nine years old, and I pretty much won every race, then won the championship.
“Obviously from then on I progressed into international ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton took "full responsibility" for his inability to challenge for the podium at the Belgian Grand Prix, which he reckoned was traceable to his Formula 1 practice crash in FP3.
In the last moments of the final practice session of the weekend, Hamilton carried too much speed through Turn 13 and skittered across the gravel. He clipped the barrier with his rear-right wheel, and ...Keep reading

For the second year in a row, the NASCAR In-Season Challenge comes down to something best described as a 'David vs. Goliath' scenario.
Last year, it was Ty Dillon driving for Kaulig Racing against Ty Gibbs and Joe Gibbs Racing. Dillon upset Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski and Alex Bowman before losing in the finals but it created a lot of excitement for his smaller team against several ...Keep reading