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McLaren's decision to swap positions between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri during Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix was a matter of "fairness" and "consistency of principles", per team principal Andrea Stella.
The Woking-based squad found itself facing scrutiny during the race when, after Norris suffered a slow pitstop and dropped behind Piastri, it elected to swap the drivers around. This put ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez got his “revenge” on Turn 10 in Barcelona, claiming victory in the Catalan Grand Prix and raising the middle finger at the corner that had cost him a likely MotoGP sprint race win.
The Gresini rider was on course for victory in Saturday’s sprint race but made a mistake into the tricky left-hander and ended up on the ground.
However, just a day later, he bounced back from ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 championship fight is very unlike many that have come before.
It is being fought by McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, but even as the season approaches its end, the pair are still playing ‘happy family’ rather than the intra-team bust-ups of years gone by like that of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
That was seen on Sunday at the Italian Grand Prix when ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez believes his brother Alex Marquez excels in the same areas where he struggles himself, as he explained how the Catalan Grand Prix was decided by their contrasting riding styles in MotoGP.
The factory Ducati rider’s 15-race winning streak came to an end at Barcelona on Sunday, as Alex Marquez took a convincing 1.7s victory on his Gresini GP24 bike.
This was only the second time ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen produced a vintage display of dominance at the Italian Grand Prix with a commanding Formula 1 win over Lando Norris, who was at the centre of a McLaren team orders kerfuffle following a slow pitstop.
Norris, who had given up his place in the McLaren pitstop queue to team-mate Oscar Piastri after the two went long into the race on medium tyres, then suffered with a slow stop – ...Keep reading

Verstappen: From Monza ‘monster’ to 2023-style win
After Max Verstappen called the Red Bull car a “monster” at Monza last year, few had high hopes for Red Bull heading into the Italian Grand Prix this year. But from the very first practice session, reality turned out differently. When Helmut Marko said behind the garages on Friday that Verstappen could fight for victory, many in the ...Keep reading

Ever since he fell off the car in Victory Lane at Watkins Glen and broke his collarbone, 19-year-old Connor Zilisch has been very careful when celebrating his many race wins.
At Portland, he crawled out of the roof hatch instead of the window, and humorously tucked the window net inside the car after slipping on it at The Glen.
His ninth win of the year came this weekend at Gateway, where he ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez held off his elder brother Marc Marquez to take a brilliant MotoGP victory in front of his home crowd at the Catalan Grand Prix.
At the start, Gresini rider Alex Marquez pulled away from pole position and briefly held the advantage, but brother Marc outbraked him into Turn 1 to seize the lead on the factory Ducati.
Initially, the older Marquez was doing enough to stay at the ...Keep reading

The 2025 Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy heads into its decisive chapter with the fourth and final round taking place at one of the most prestigious venues in the international karting scene - the Circuito Internazionale Napoli, in Sarno, Italy.
The 1,547-meter (0.96-mile) layout, both fast and technically demanding, will welcome the Euro Trophy for the very first time, despite already being ...Keep reading

Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, winners of the past five grands prix at Monza, have something in common besides the obvious fact of being Formula 1 drivers who have won the Italian GP.
None of them started from pole position.
Indeed, races won from pole are in the minority at Monza, which has hosted a world championship grand prix every year bar one since ...Keep reading

On 6 September 2020, Pierre Gasly lived what was the most prestigious day of his Formula 1 career so far, as he won the Italian Grand Prix with AlphaTauri.
Now called Racing Bulls, the team wasn’t a frontrunner by any means, with Gasly collecting 18 of its 20 points over the first seven grands prix of a pandemic-impacted campaign.
Still, the Frenchman consistently outperformed team-mate ...Keep reading

Twelve months ago, the world of Formula 1 still looked very different in many ways. Max Verstappen led the championship with a sizeable margin, trying to drag an inferior car across the line for his fourth world title. Oscar Piastri had only one Grand Prix victory to his name, while Helmut Marko had called the situation at Red Bull “alarming” for the first time a week prior to the Italian GP ...Keep reading

Jorge Martin feels his 2024 title rival Francesco Bagnaia is lacking the confidence in Ducati’s MotoGP bike this season after following him closely in the Catalan Grand Prix sprint.
Having already endured two tough weekends in Austria and Hungary following the summer break, factory Ducati rider Bagnaia hit a new low point in Barcelona as he struggled to 14th place in Saturday’s ...Keep reading

When Monza was resurfaced ahead of last year's Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, it prompted a degree of conservatism; the McLarens, for instance, opted for a two-stop strategy and stuck to it. It did not know that Ferrari was about to rock its world by pursuing a one-stopper.
Pirelli believes that a one-stop will be the best scenario this year too. The expected level of graining has not been ...Keep reading

Fifty years ago on this day, Niki Lauda won his first Formula 1 world title with third place in Monza. The tifosi celebrated their hero, with Clay Regazzoni giving them a home victory as the cherry on the cake.
In 1975, Lauda and Ferrari set new standards in Formula 1. The Austrian ended an 11-year title drought for the Scuderia and laid the foundation for a new era of success, which is not ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Robert Kubica claimed hist first World Endurance Championship Hypercar pole position at Austin. The star of the Le Mans 24 Hours in June took the top spot in qualifying aboard the AF Corse-run customer Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar by less than a tenth of a second from Antonio Giovinazzi.
Kubica, who shares the Le Mans-winning AF Ferrari with Philip Hanson and Yifei Ye, got down ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch won again, again and denied William Sawalich a NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff spot in the process.
Why again, again?
The victory in the Nu Way 200 was the ninth credited to Zilisch this season. His fourth credited win in a row and eighth credited over his past 10 races. Credited because he started the race at Daytona, immediately came down pit road to swap out with Parker ...Keep reading

2022 Daytona 500 winner and Team Penske driver Austin Cindric is no stranger to the world of Supercars. He's paid close attention to the Australian-based racing series for years, and even considered it as a legitimate career-path for himself before becoming a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver.
Several Supercars aces have ventured over to NASCAR in recent years, including Shane van Gisbergen ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch's incredible run of form continues, collecting his ninth win of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season and his fourth in a row. The victory came at WWT Raceway (Gateway), which was hosting an Xfinity race for the first time in 15 years.
Zilisch joins Sam Ard and Noah Gragson as the only drivers to ever win four consecutive NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
"Yeah, that one was ...Keep reading

As he attempts to defend his 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series title, Justin Allgaier will face 11 drivers who have never won a championship in the second tier of stock car racing. 
The 2025 playoff grid is officially set, and rookie sensation Connor Zilisch secured the regular season championship (and the No. 1 seed in the playoffs) with his ninth victory of the 2025 season. He also has seven wins ...Keep reading