Motorsport

Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has explained the importance of the relationship between a driver and their race engineer.
This follows the news that Max Verstappen's long-serving race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase will join McLaren as chief racing officer no later than 2028.
Lambiase's impending exit has raised questions over the four-time champion's future with Red Bull, after ...Keep reading

Former IndyCar driver and F1 TV presenter James Hinchcliffe believes that the Miami Grand Prix could be the best chance that McLaren has had to beat Mercedes.
The Miami Grand Prix comes after an unexpected five-week break due to the cancellation of the Saudi Arabian and Bahrain Grands Prix, and so the teams have had a chance to take a bit of a reset ahead of the race at the Hard Rock ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports analyst Martin Brundle believes that seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton is still capable of winning with Ferrari.
Hamilton joined the Maranello outfit in 2025 and took some time to adjust to his new team in the final year of the regulations. While Ferrari finished fourth in the 2025 constructors' standings, it has got off to a much stronger start in ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Isack Hadjar is "still pinching" himself after earning a drive with one of the top teams in the championship.
After impressing during his rookie season with Racing Bulls, Hadjar earned the promotion to become four-time champion Max Verstappen's team-mate. While the Milton Keynes outfit has struggled in recent years to find a team-mate for the Dutchman who is able to ...Keep reading

It was one of the most epic victory celebrations in the history of motorsports on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway.
Carson Hocevar, who stands 6'4", sat on his door against the B-post and was able to work the clutch and throttle to be able to drive both ways around the track while personally waving to the attending fans following his win in the Jack Link’s 500.
In fact, someone even ...Keep reading

The Jack Link's 500 at Talladega was another memorable superspeedway race with high-drama, big wrecks, a new winner, and some of the same frustrations we've come to expect in these events.
While Carson Hocevar became the 208th different winner in NASCAR Cup Series history, Chris Buescher just missed out on ending RFK's win drought. 
Here's a look back at the biggest winners and losers from ...Keep reading

Arrow McLaren will be running its primary challengers for the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500 at this week’s Open Test.
The annual two days of testing is set for Tuesday (10am-6pm ET) and Wednesday (10am-5pm ET) as part of the buildup to the month of May festivities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Both days will be livestreamed on IndyCar’s YouTube channel. 
Usually the Indy ...Keep reading

After a Spanish Grand Prix weekend during which Fermin Aldeguer's limp got visibly worse, the Gresini Ducati rider sat out the second half of the MotoGP test at Jerez on Monday. 
The 21-year-old's afternoon absence raised concerns that the recovery from his winter road bike testing accident, during which he sustained a fracture above the knee, is not progressing according to plan. 
The ...Keep reading

In the package of changes to the 2026 Formula 1 regulations agreed last week, if not yet ratified by the FIA's world motor sport council, one of the key aims was to get a grip on the problem of closing speeds. The dangers of one car approaching another at an unexpectedly high velocity were illustrated most recently in Suzuka, where Oliver Bearman had to take evasive action to avoid Franco ...Keep reading

Ducati returned to winning ways in MotoGP thanks to a dominant performance from Alex Marquez at Jerez, but the Borgo Panigale manufacturer didn’t hold back in Monday’s post-race test, introducing a raft of new components that went well beyond simple aerodynamic tweaks.
Marc Marquez took to the track on a Desmosedici featuring several unpainted composite parts, making the updates clearly ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri believes the tweaks to the 2026 Formula 1 regulations are a step in the right direction, but more alterations will likely be needed in the future.
The regulation refinements will come into effect for the Miami Grand Prix. Some of the changes include increasing super clipping power from 250 kW to 350 kW to reduce the amount of time needed to recharge the battery, reducing the ...Keep reading

Ai Ogura topped MotoGP’s first in-season test of the year at Jerez, leading Raul Fernandez and Marco Bezzecchi in a 1-2-3 finish for Aprilia.
Trackhouse's Ogura set a time of 1m35.944s with just minutes to go in the afternoon session, usurping his team-mate Fernandez by just 0.005s.
The two Trackhouse riders ended up three tenths clear of Bezzecchi on the factory Aprilia, although they ...Keep reading

Ten races into the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, Richard Childress Racing has just one top ten finish as an organization -- a tenth by Kyle Busch this past weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.
Jim Pohlman, who left behind a successful career as crew chief for Justin Allgaier in the NASCAR O'Reilly Series to take over crew chief duties for Busch, is now being moved off the pit box. Pohlman, who won ...Keep reading

After a month-long hiatus, Formula 1 returns to the track in Miami for a unique weekend, marked by the debut of the changes made to the 2026 technical rules. These changes, introduced based on insights gathered during the opening three grands prix, have two clear objectives: enabling drivers to push to the limit once again in qualifying and reducing speed differentials during wheel-to-wheel duels ...Keep reading

Alex Albon insists there is potential for Williams to take steps forward in the 2026 Formula 1 season, but admits that it won't be an easy task.
The Grove outfit started the season on the back foot after skipping private testing in Barcelona due to delays on the FW48. After it battled against an overweight car in the opening three rounds, Williams has been trying to make the most of the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 commentator Alex Jacques has argued that George Russell has been given a wake-up call by his young Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli. 
Heading into the 2026 season, Russell had been pinned as the favourite for the drivers' title by many. And while he still is, Antonelli has firmly put his hat in the ring after taking the lead in the standings following back-to-back wins at the ...Keep reading

Thierry Neuville says “nobody knows” how Hyundai can fix its current performance woes after another difficult World Rally Championship outing in the Canary Islands.
Hyundai is yet to score its first win of the season, with last weekend’s round in Canary Islands highlighting the gap between the Korean marque and Toyota.
The closest Hyundai has come to a victory this year was on asphalt ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri has explained why he feels his second-place finish at the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix meant more than half of his race wins.
The nine-time grand prix winner arrived at the Japanese race weekend on the back of a torrid start to the season. At the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, also his home race, he crashed on the reconnaissance laps and so was unable ...Keep reading

Technical issues have dominated Formula 1 since the first test in Barcelona. Amid new developments and problems that have emerged at the dawn of the new regulatory cycle, the spotlight has focused primarily on track performance and the changes that can be made mid-season to a set of regulations that has come under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, the driver market has also begun to stir. Initial contacts ...Keep reading

McLaren reckons F1's first pass of power unit rule changes for the upcoming Miami Grand Prix should eliminate the need for drivers to lift and coast in qualifying.
F1 stakeholders used the series' April break to refine the divisive 2026 power unit regulations, which heavily compromised qualifying and raised safety concerns due to the elevated closing speeds between cars.
Drivers had been ...Keep reading