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With the resignation of the FIA deputy president Robert Reid, president Mohammed Ben Suleyam has lost his most senior management figure while criticism against his course of action has swelled to significant levels.
Reid announced on Thursday that he was leaving with immediate effect over what he felt was a "breakdown of governance standards" and "critical decisions being made without due ...Keep reading

MotoGP medical director Dr Angel Charte has passed reigning world champion Jorge Martin fit to take part in this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix.
This means that the Spaniard will take to the track on the Aprilia RS-GP in tomorrow’s Free Practice 1 session as expected.
Martin, who has missed the first three race weekends of the season due to a Supermoto accident in February, has in principle ...Keep reading

McLaren will chase overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time in nearly 30 years as part of a World Endurance Championship campaign in 2027.
In a brief statement on Thursday, the British sportscar manufacturer confirmed an attempt to reprise the Le Mans win with the McLaren F1 GTR 30 years ago.
“1995. Legendary Le Mans victory. Triple Crown glory,” it read.
“Ready to ...Keep reading

FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid has announced he has resigned from the motor racing governing body with immediate effect, citing a "breakdown of governance standards".
Reid, who held the role of second in command at the FIA since being elected in 2021, announced he has informed president Mohammed Ben Sulayem on Thursday morning he will relinquish his position.
Reid said he has ...Keep reading

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will attend his first F1 race this season - this week’s Bahrain Grand Prix - where he is expected to become engulfed in speculation about the Concorde Agreement.
Ben Sulayem has been absent from races while he observed the holy month of Ramadan during which F1’s team signed a commercial agreement with the sport’s rights holders, Liberty Media.
Known ...Keep reading

In early March, chairman David Richards wrote a letter to the members of Motorsport UK, addressing the FIA while taking aim at the organization's president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and his approach to governing F1 and the whole of its motorsport operations. Just a month later, the FIA finally posted a response to Richards' letter with direction for the chairman to share it on Motorsport UK's site and ...Keep reading

Team Penske rolled into Washington D.C. on Wednesday with Roger Penske bringing several of his drivers and race cars from three different divisions to the White House lawn. NASCAR, IndyCar and IMSA were all featured as Penske was celebrated for his recent triumphs.
2023 and 2024 NASCAR Cup Series champions Ryan Blaney and teammate Joey Logano were both present, along with Logano's No. 22 Penske ...Keep reading

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been busy over the last two weeks filing court motions to convince various sports leagues to comply with previously issued subpoenas for the teams' ongoing lawsuit against NASCAR. Among these was a motion filed in the US District Court of Colorado on April 7th to compel Liberty Media -- which owns Formula 1 -- to comply with a subpoena for documents that ...Keep reading

Launched in 2022 as a platform for Jos Verstappen's rally adventure, Thierry Vermeulen's GT career and Team Redline's sim racing activities, Verstappen.com Racing is taking the next step in 2025 by entering the GT World Challenge Europe (GTWCE) through supporting existing teams.
Sim racing standout Chris Lulham will compete in the Endurance Cup of the GTWCE alongside GT drivers Harry King and ...Keep reading

Formula 1 will be bracing for the potential impacts of US President Donald Trump’s recently announced tariffs, according to industry expert Mark Gallagher.
With global markets faltering and issues already arising from the new tariffs introduced last week - though Trump announced on Wednesday there will be a 90-day pause on higher tariffs for dozens of countries - F1 is almost certainly going ...Keep reading

Just last week, it was revealed that Legacy Motor Club (LMC) filed a lawsuit against Rick Ware Racing (RWR) in Mecklenburg County Clerk of Superior Courts. The legal dispute surrounds a Charter Purchase Agreement with LMC claiming RWR was trying to back out of a signed agreement that would allow Legacy to purchase a Rick Ware-owned charter.
On Wednesday, the team's motion for a temporary ...Keep reading

Ralf Schumacher has criticised Alpine for the way it is handling its rookie Jack Doohan, blaming the team for the Australian’s current struggles in Formula 1. 
Rumours that Doohan is likely to be replaced by reserve driver Franco Colapinto surfaced even before the 2025 season began, and the first three weekends have done little to dispel that threat.
Crashes in Australia and in the China ...Keep reading

Liberty Media is set to earn approval from the European Union antitrust authorities in its bid to acquire the MotoGP owners Dorna Sports.
This is according to Reuters, who claimed that a €4.2billion ($4.6bn) deal will get the stamp of approval by the competition EU watchdog European Commission in the coming weeks.
It comes after Liberty, which also owns Formula 1, announced plans to ...Keep reading

McLaren has collaborated with Deloitte and the FIA to produce a handbook aimed at improving sustainability practices in the design and build of Formula 1 cars.
The F1 Constructors’ Circularity Handbook will initially provide all teams with a way to measure the environmental impact of the parts they produce and the processes involved, with a view to encouraging more sustainable choices and ...Keep reading

Straight after pre-season testing for the 2025 Formula 1 season, Motorsport.com predicted the team pecking order for the forthcoming campaign - naturally accounting for the usual obfuscations that the annual pre-season running often provides.
Now that the campaign is in full flow with three grands prix completed, F1's travelling circus is currently making a return voyage to Bahrain for the ...Keep reading

Can Verstappen challenge McLaren again?
Max Verstappen made the difference in a race he shouldn't have won given the pure pace of the McLaren. But the weekend at Suzuka was atypical in many ways. Most of it was down to qualifying, and that's where Verstappen shone with a special pole lap.
The Bahrain weekend is different for a number of reasons. The abrasive tarmac at Sakhir makes tyre ...Keep reading

Everything appeared crystal clear regarding the 2025 MotoGP championship... until lap nine of the Grand Prix of the Americas.
It had seemed like the script was written in Marc Marquez’s favour: brother Alex would challenge but not quite have the pace, while Francesco Bagnaia would be thereabouts but ultimately fall short.
Then, on that fateful lap at COTA, Marc went down. Bagnaia managed ...Keep reading

Seldom has it been more important in Formula 1 to seize the moment. While the first three grands prix of the season have been at outlier venues which have relatively little in common with most circuits on the calendar, all of them have been won from pole position.
A small sample size, granted, but a consensus is forming among the teams and drivers that ‘dirty air’ – the problem the ...Keep reading

The 2025 Japanese Grand Prix wasn’t a thriller. But to say it was boring would do an injustice not only to the race itself, but to one of the greatest performances by one of the greatest drivers in F1 history.
It wasn’t a race F1 would win new fans with. Surely, for someone who happened to turn on the TV (is that still a thing?) early Sunday morning in Europe, or very late on Saturday night ...Keep reading

Organisers have revealed the route for Paraguay's inaugural World Rally Championship round later this year.
The South American nation is set to make its WRC debut this year as it hosts round 10 of the 2025 season on 28-31 August on an expanded 14-round 2025 calendar, after signing a multi-year agreement.
A burgeoning local rally scene that has helped produce established WRC2 and Junior WRC ...Keep reading