Motorsport

Alpine racer Jack Doohan ended the final practice session ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with a trip to the Formula 1 stewards’ office. The Australian driver was caught crossing the painted area between the track and pit entrance on two occasions, which officials said was in breach of F1’s sporting code. 
Doohan first crossed the white line that divides the pit entry from the race ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has revealed zero negotiations have been held with Max Verstappen, claiming he is “super happy” with his current driver pairing.
The future of the four-time world champion is currently in doubt due to Red Bull’s competitive decline, and Mercedes has been touted as a possible destination for Verstappen.
Mercedes famously missed out on signing him in ...Keep reading

McLaren driver Lando Norris pipped team-mate Oscar Piastri to top third practice in Jeddah, with Mercedes' George Russell appearing to be the squad's closest competitor.
Haas rookie Oliver Bearman led early running before the rapid McLarens headed out, Piastri leading from Norris by 0.085s after the first barrage of soft-tyre runs on a searing Jeddah circuit which saw track temperatures of over ...Keep reading

Helmut Marko named Sebastian Vettel his “ideal successor” as Red Bull’s chief motorsport advisor. The Austrian was instrumental in nurturing some of the sport’s biggest stars of the modern era, including Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo. In addition to running the team's junior program, he also took on a key role in the Milton Keynes-based outfit’s senior management team ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Antonio Giovinazzi claimed top spot in qualifying for Sunday's Imola World Endurance Championship round as Valentino Rossi took class pole in LMGT3.
Ferrari made it a good day for the home crowd by following up on Rossi’s performance by blocking out the front row of the grid in the Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in the initial qualifying period.
Giovinazzi posted ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen feels it is unrealistic for Red Bull to catch McLaren over the 2025 Formula 1 campaign as it pins hopes on small, gradual upgrades to cure handling issues.
Red Bull's balance problems were brutally exposed at last weekend's hot and demanding Bahrain Grand Prix, with Verstappen only passing Pierre Gasly's Alpine on the final lap to grab sixth, finishing 34 seconds behind ...Keep reading

Williams had no doubts about turning its full attention to the 2026 Formula 1 regulations before the current season began, and it won't be tempted to shift its approach now.
In a midfield battle decided by tenths - if not hundredths of a second - with a potential fifth place in the constructors' standings up for grabs, it is extremely tempting to give 2025 development one final push before ...Keep reading

James Vowles caused quite the stir on Friday at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix when the Williams Formula 1 boss suggested that Mercedes shouldn’t sign Max Verstappen.
The future of the four-time world champion is currently under question, as Red Bull has regressed since starting the 2024 Formula 1 season as the most dominant outfit.
Verstappen’s team is currently third in the 2025 ...Keep reading

Tadasuke Makino scored his second Super Formula victory of the season in Saturday’s opening race at Motegi, as Dandelion Racing continued its winning streak.
Makino led a first 1-2 finish for Dandelion since 2012 ahead of team-mate Kakunoshin Ohta after leading more or less throughout, taking the championship lead in the process.
Having headed a front-row lockout for Dandelion ahead of ...Keep reading

McAnally-Hilgemann Racing's Tyler Ankrum is once again a NASCAR Truck Series winner. For the first time since July, 2019, the Truck Series regular has returned to Victory Lane, and it wasn't easy, falling a lap down early in NASCAR's return to Rockingham. But he never gave up, stretching the fuel longer than anyone around him during the final run.
Ending a six-year winless streak after 130 ...Keep reading

On Friday, the NASCAR Truck Series returned to Rockingham for the first time since 2013. Among those in the field was veteran driver Stewart Friesen, but it was not the day he needed.
It started with an incident in qualifying and the team scrambled to fix the truck in time for the start of the race. They succeeded and Friesen marched his way up inside the top ten, but on Lap 117, they watched ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton says he will do well to get into Saudi Arabia's Q3 after a low-key Friday in which getting his Ferrari in the optimal window proved challenging.
Hamilton finished 13th in second practice, held at the same time of day as qualifying and the race, shipping six tenths to Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc and 1.1s to the leading McLaren of Lando Norris.
While there is no cause for ...Keep reading

Kasey Kahne's highly anticipated NASCAR return is here, coinciding with the return of Rockingham. It's a track he knows fairly well — having earned a win here before. This weekend, he takes on the classic track again piloting the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet with backing from HendrickCars.com.
Speaking in a press conference on Friday, the 45-year-old said he's "been really ...Keep reading

Red Bull may have found a "better" feeling on one-lap pace in practice for the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, but Max Verstappen notes overall performance on the long runs is still "not where I want it to be". 
The four-time world champion came third in FP2 after finishing only ninth in FP1, and was just over a quarter of a second behind the McLarens in the second session with his run on ...Keep reading

Some significant news rocked the stock car racing world on Friday as Venturini Motorsports (VMS) announced that the entire operation is being sold later this year. Nitro Motorsports will assume full ownership of the highly successful organization on October 15th, 2025.
To help with the transition, Billy Venturini will remain as the general manager for one year. The Venturinis have been a part ...Keep reading

Christian Horner reckons Yuki Tsunoda is “making progress” – despite the Japanese driver’s crash during second practice in the Saudi Arabian GP.
Tsunoda crashed heavily with nine minutes remaining and immediately took the blame, saying he ‘turned too much’ in the final corner.
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Lewis Hamilton has avoided any punishment, having been called to the stewards after impeding Alexander Albon during the second free practice session at the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Albon initially labelled the positioning of Hamilton’s Ferrari “dangerous” as the Williams driver approached at Turn 12 and the stewards duly summoned the seven-time world champion after the ...Keep reading

If you're a new fan, NASCAR's championship format may be overwhelming. Unlike Formula 1, IndyCar and so many other forms of racing, it is not as simple as one driver amassing the most points throughout the year. That sort of traditional season-long format was abandoned by NASCAR ahead of the 2004 season.
Since then, the championship format has changed quite a bit. It went from a ten-driver ...Keep reading

Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda says his own mistake led to the crash that curtailed Jeddah FP2 running, admitting he 'turned too much' in the final corner.
With under nine minutes on the clock Tsunoda tagged the inside wall at the final hairpin coming onto the main straight, which appeared to break his track rod and left him unable to avoid clattering into the exit wall.
Tsunoda climbed out ...Keep reading

McLaren driver Lando Norris topped Free Practice 2 for the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with Red Bull racer Yuki Tsunoda causing a red flag with an avoidable crash.
With eight minutes left on the clock, Tsunoda planted his RB21 in the outside wall of the final corner, spelling an early end to the session as the clocked ticked down, with only enough time left for the usual practice ...Keep reading