Motorsport

Mick Doohan: "Marc Marquez had unfinished business, and nothing motivates more than that"

Mon, 2025-09-29 12:16
The bond between Marc Marquez and Mick Doohan was forged out of two seemingly opposing forces: success and pain. Perhaps for that very reason, Marquez turned to the Australian’s advice when he found himself at his lowest, when the injury to his right arm – one that required four surgeries – brought him to the brink of retirement.
Until that crash at Jerez in 2020, Marquez had been on a ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen fans in stitches over GT3 celebration fail as video goes viral

Mon, 2025-09-29 11:03
After Max Verstappen claimed the GT3 victory at the Nordschleife in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie alongside his team-mate, British driver Chris Lulham, his podium celebrations took a hilarious turn. As the four-time Formula 1 champion readied himself for the champagne showers on the podium, he struggled to open the bottle, leaving fans in hysterics.
"And you'd think he knows his way round ...Keep reading

2019 Toro Rosso STR14 rolling chassis goes under the hammer at £400,000

Mon, 2025-09-29 10:55
A race-used Scuderia Toro Rosso STR14 chassis from the 2019 Formula 1 season is being offered for auction by F1 Authentics. This rolling chassis is described as “an extraordinary opportunity to acquire a genuine Formula 1 race car."
The STR14 was driven by both Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon during the 2019 season of the turbo hybrid era and contributed to some of the greatest results from the ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez: The MotoGP champion who came back from hell

Mon, 2025-09-29 10:09
Marc Marquez’s motorcycle racing career was always tied to success. From a very young age, the Spaniard began winning in categories where his rivals were, in some cases, more than 30 centimetres taller. Besides being young in age, he was small in stature, which made it even more striking to see him on the podiums at local tracks where he competed as a child.
But Marquez’s tenacity matched ...Keep reading

Winners and losers from the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix

Mon, 2025-09-29 09:39
Sunday’s MotoGP race at Motegi offered a result few could have predicted. While there were signs that Francesco Bagnaia had finally found a solution in the Misano test,  even he likely didn’t expect to dominate the Japanese Grand Prix as thoroughly as he did.
Marc Marquez was always expected to be competitive, but the lack of pace from his brother Alex Marquez took many by ...Keep reading

Sauber unmoved by Nico Hulkenberg's poor F1 qualifying run vs Gabriel Bortoleto

Mon, 2025-09-29 07:00
Sauber boss Jonathan Wheatley has dismissed any concerns over Nico Hulkenberg being regularly beaten by rookie Formula 1 team-mate Gabriel Bortoleto in qualifying.
Bortoleto has a 13-7 record over Hulkenberg this year, 11-6 without sprints, in what has been an impressive campaign for the reigning F2 champion who has five Q3 appearances. 
The numbers can of course be used to slate Hulkenberg ...Keep reading

What caused the restart pileup that collected eleven cars at Kansas?

Mon, 2025-09-29 03:48
With just over 50 laps to go in the scheduled distance, the sixth caution of the race flew just seconds into a restart. 
NASCAR officially listed eleven cars as part of the incident: Ross Chastain, Austin Cindric, Austin Dillon, Noah Gragson, Kyle Busch, Ryan Blaney, AJ Allmendinger, Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ty Gibbs, and Carson Hocevar.
The incident essentially forced Cindric into ...Keep reading

Kansas Cup race was every playoff driver for himself

Mon, 2025-09-29 02:40
History will remember that as one of the great playoff era finishes, no matter what NASCAR ultimately decides to do with its championship format next year and beyond.
Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick each effectively needed nothing short of a victory on Sunday at Kansas Speedway to stave off elimination. Denny Hamlin needs every single playoff point he can get to reach the Final Four in just ...Keep reading

Shane van Gisbergen secures first NASCAR Cup oval top ten finish

Mon, 2025-09-29 00:44
Entering Sunday's race, Shane van Gisbergen knew he was going to have a lot of work to do from the start. Due to an unapproved adjustment on Saturday, his usual crew chief Stephen Doran was ejected, and SVG owed NASCAR a stop-and-go penalty after the green flag.
He went a lap down and spent most of the race trying to make that ground back up. However, once he did get back on the lead lap, SVG ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner: 'Some at Ferrari regret replacing Carlos Sainz with Lewis Hamilton'

Mon, 2025-09-29 00:29
Former Haas team chief Guenther Steiner believes that some of the Ferrari team regret replacing Carlos Sainz with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton.
The Spaniard found himself on the hunt for a new team after being replaced by the Briton after a four-year stint with Ferrari. After ultimately securing a multi-year contract with Williams, Sainz clinched his first podium finish for the team at ...Keep reading

Updated NASCAR Cup playoff standings after Kansas

Mon, 2025-09-29 00:22
Chase Elliott entered this race just 14 points above the cutline, but he leaves Kansas locked into the next round.
It was a wild race, and Bubba Wallace nearly won his way into the Round of 8, but a run-in with team owner Denny Hamlin on the final lap cleared a path for Elliott to take the win.
Joey Logano, who entered this race +24, leaves on the bubble and at +13 after being involved in a ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz details mindset change racing Lewis Hamilton: From idol to competitor

Mon, 2025-09-29 00:18
Williams Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz has opened up about racing against one of his idols, seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton.
Hamilton and two-time champion Fernando Alonso are the two longest-standing drivers on the current grid, with the British driver making his F1 debut in 2007 and Alonso in 2001. Sainz explained that, while he grew up watching Hamilton when he was 12 years old, he now ...Keep reading

Hamlin and Wallace tangle as Elliott takes shock NASCAR Cup win at Kansas

Mon, 2025-09-29 00:07
Denny Hamlin's 60th career win will have to wait for another day. On the final restart of the race, Bubba Wallace got out front after pushing Christopher Bell out of the way at the white flag.
This gave Hamlin a huge run, and suddenly, he was the only driver who could stop Wallace from winning his way into the Round of 8. The awkward dynamic here? Wallace drives for Hamlin's race team. That ...Keep reading

Strange sideways crash takes Zane Smith out of Kansas NASCAR Cup race

Sun, 2025-09-28 23:42
On an overtime restart, Zane Smith was battling just outside the top ten when a bizarre wreck unfolded. The leaders were moments away from taking the white flag when the incident occurred. 
After contact from John Hunter Nemechek, the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford of Smith and the No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota of Nemechek slammed the outside wall. While Nemechek spun back down the track ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner dampens Williams podium excitement: “Think it’s an outlier”

Sun, 2025-09-28 23:24
Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner has dampened the excitement of Carlos Sainz's first podium finish with Williams at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, claiming that he does not think it is a sign of things to come. 
The Spanish driver secured the third spot on the podium at the Baku City Circuit after starting from second on the grid, marking not only his first podium since ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen's GT3 victory left five-time Nurburgring 24 Hours winner Timo Bernhard "emotional"

Sun, 2025-09-28 22:30
Five-time Nürburgring 24 Hours winner Timo Bernhard had an emotional reaction to Max Verstappen's GT3 victory.
The four-time Formula 1 champion won on his GT3 debut at the Nordschleife in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie alongside his team-mate, British driver Chris Lulham. 
Bernhard reacted to the Dutchman's commanding victory during the broadcast of the 6 Hours of Fuji, admitting ...Keep reading

Why Brundle Motorsport retired GT40 at Spa Six Hours after "valiant" stint from Martin Brundle

Sun, 2025-09-28 21:43
Alex Brundle has explained why he decided to retire his Ford GT40 at Spa Six Hours after a “valiant stint” from his father, former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports analyst Martin Brundle.
The former Benetton driver returned to racing to compete in the historic car endurance race alongside his son and Gary Pearson, but unfortunately the GT40 lost oil pressure, forcing the trio to retire from ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso on working with Adrian Newey: "You need to use all your brain capacity"

Sun, 2025-09-28 21:32
Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso has opened up about working with Adrian Newey, claiming that "you need to use all your brain capacity" to be able to understand him in some moments.
Newey joined Aston Martin as a shareholder and managing technical partner on 1 March 2025 after the move was announced in September 2024. The 66-year-old, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso: No F1 win since 2013 "doesn't sound right"

Sun, 2025-09-28 16:52
Fernando Alonso has spent much of the second act of his Formula 1 career pondering his luck and, amid the swings between the better years and more common leaner spells, he has concluded that over a decade without an F1 win "doesn't sound right". 
The two-time champion's last F1 victory remains his 2013 Spanish Grand Prix triumph, his 32nd in the championship, as opportunities to win a 33rd ...Keep reading

"No one knows how much he has cried" - An inside look into Marc Marquez's journey

Sun, 2025-09-28 16:00
Jose Luis Martinez, Marc Marquez’s assistant and confidant, reveals the keys to one of the most epic comebacks in sports history – one that almost never happened. “When we came back from Lombok, he told me he was done, that he couldn’t go on,” Martinez recalls.
Martinez is much more than an assistant to the newly-crowned MotoGP world champion. Unlike most garages, where team staff ...Keep reading

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