Motorsport

While it has long been clear George Russell will remain at the Mercedes Formula 1 team next season, the contract renewal between the two parties is still pending.
If paddock rumours are to be believed, things are looking on the up for Mercedes in 2026. After four years in the shadow of Red Bull and then McLaren, the Brackley-based squad has gone all in on the new technical regulations, with ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez believes getting a factory-spec Ducati MotoGP bike is more of a reward for Gresini than him, saying the team doesn’t get the respect it deserves for its achievements in the paddock.
Last week, it was announced that Ducati will expand its allocation of factory bikes from three to four for the 2026 season, with both Gresini and VR46 receiving one latest-specification bike each ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez believes winning the 2025 MotoGP title would ‘close the circle’ for him after years of despair due to injuries and uncompetitive machinery.
A crash at the start of the COVID-delayed 2020 season in Jerez forced Marquez to undergo four surgeries over the subsequent years and contemplate an early retirement from MotoGP.
But the Spaniard persevered through the lowest period of ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia feels he has “thrown away” the 2025 MotoGP season, conceding that lacking solutions for his troubles on the Ducati GP25 left him powerless to challenge Marc Marquez for the title.
While Marquez has been in dominant form ever since he jumped on the factory Ducati this year, Bagnaia has had a much more difficult campaign on the other side of the garage.
While his initial ...Keep reading

Romain Grosjean will drive Haas' 2023 Formula 1 car at Mugello on Friday, marking his first run in F1 machinery since his horrific Bahrain Grand Prix accident in 2020.
A stalwart of the team in its early years, Grosjean joined Haas in 2016 and scored 104 points during his five seasons with the American outfit. Whilst set to depart at the end of 2020, the Franco-Swiss driver sustained a ...Keep reading

National Football League TV ratings continue to set what the networks state as records on Sundays, three weeks into the 2025 season, and NASCAR continued a corresponding swoon.
The Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday drew an average of 1.29 million viewers for a 0.70 share on USA Network. This is down from 1.79 million and a 0.96 for the fourth playoff race of the season ...Keep reading

This past summer has been a sort of personal revelation for Rodney Childers.
When the veteran crew chief parted ways with Spire Motorsports and driver Justin Haley after just nine races in April, Childers felt like getting back to the Cup Series and winning races and contending for the championship was the most important thing.
It was a matter of pride, a need to validate his place in the ...Keep reading

Rodney Childers will be back atop the pit box in 2026, working as a crew chief for JR Motorsports and the No. 1 Chevrolet.
Childers brings with him the experience of over 600 Cup races, including 40 race wins and the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series championship with Kevin Harvick. He joined Spire Motorsports after a decade with Stewart-Haas Racing, but Spire and Childers parted ways early in the 2025 ...Keep reading

Ron Ruzewski will return to the IndyCar paddock next season after being announced as the new team principal for Andretti Global.
Ruzewski was dismissed from Team Penske in May following the Indy 500 qualifying scandal, which erupted when IndyCar’s tech inspection team discovered that the No. 2 car of Josef Newgarden and the No. 12 car of Will Power had illegally modified attenuators ahead of ...Keep reading

Jack Harvey will pilot the No. 24 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevrolet in next May's Indianapolis 500, attempting to make his ninth start in the prestigious race. INVST will again back Harvey's 2026 effort. 
Harvey made the 2025 Indy 500 with Dreyer & Reinbold, driving from 26th on the grid to finish 19th. However, his best result came with Meyer Shank Racing in 2020 when he finished ...Keep reading

Formula 3 will introduce a €1 million prize fund to financially support drivers moving up the junior single-seater ladder.
Starting with the ongoing 2025 season, the top five finishers in the championship will share the pot to help them progress to Formula 2.
Under the arrangement, the title winner will receive €300,000, with the remaining prize money distributed on a sliding scale down ...Keep reading

It has now been officially confirmed that Max Verstappen will make his GT3 race debut at the Nordschleife this weekend in the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS).
The four-time Formula 1 world champion will share an Emil Frey Ferrari 296 with Chris Lulham for the four-hour race on Saturday.
This comes just two weeks after Verstappen raced a restricted Porsche Cayman GT4 in the NLS to obtain a ...Keep reading

Franco Colapinto says Alpine chief Flavio Briatore's tough love approach has made him stronger as the Argentinian keeps fighting for his Formula 1 future.
Colapinto was signed from Williams as a reserve driver last winter and, after a string of disappointing results for Jack Doohan, Briatore wasted little time putting the Argentinian in the seat instead, debuting for Alpine in Imola.
Results ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez was just one step away from being forced out of MotoGP in 2023, with no options left on the table, until Nadia Padovani, owner of Gresini Racing, decided to take a gamble on him.
Marquez’s path through the world championship has been a rollercoaster. An explosive start crowned him Moto3 champion in just his second full season (2014). Then came the reality check of his early Moto2 ...Keep reading

Felipe Drugovich will be making a permanent return to single-seaters, as he is set to join Andretti for the 2025/26 Formula E campaign on a multi-year deal.
It’s a significant move for the young Brazilian, who has often found himself sitting on the sidelines in recent years despite his impressive junior racing record.
Although he was the first talent signed to the Aston Martin development ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez believes his younger brother Alex would get more recognition for his success in the 2025 MotoGP season if he didn’t carry the burden of the Marquez surname.
Gresini rider Alex is enjoying a breakthrough campaign on last year’s title-winning Ducati GP24, winning two grands prix and bagging seven other podium finishes.
This run of form has comfortably put him second in the ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso came home 15th in Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix after qualifying 11th, which led the Aston Martin racer to slam his bad luck over the 2025 Formula 1 season. He said unexpected occurrences that shake up the field only come along when the team is on form.
The Spaniard qualified just outside the top 10 in Baku, ahead of the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton and three positions clear of ...Keep reading

A proposal to ensure World Rally Championship competitors and personnel receive the necessary time to recover between days on rallies has been tabled by the WRC Commission.
Rally itineraries has been a hot topic within the WRC for some time with the matter brought into sharp focus at this year’s Rally Portugal. 
The event’s itinerary drew criticism from drivers. Toyota’s Kalle ...Keep reading

Jorge Martín suffered a serious injury on the first day of 2025 MotoGP pre-season testing in February, leading to a gruelling spell of  crashes, surgeries and hospital stays that kept him off track until the Czech Grand Prix at the end of July.
Since then, little by little, he has been regaining normality, even if he insists that this second part of the season is just preparation for ...Keep reading

Red Bull is flying high after Max Verstappen won back-to-back Formula 1 races and Yuki Tsunoda picked up his best result of the year at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but team boss Laurent Mekies remains wary of the might of McLaren.
Verstappen registered the greatest winning margin of the year with his 19-second lead over second-placed Lando Norris in Monza, and the Dutchman further closed the ...Keep reading