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Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has shrugged off suggestions his wins in Monza and Baku have brought him back into the 2025 Formula 1 title fight.
Verstappen's Red Bull team appears to have turned a corner since the Dutchman's surprisingly dominant win at the Italian Grand Prix, and Verstappen followed that up with a straightforward victory in Baku after taking a clinical pole position ...Keep reading

Several Formula 1 drivers were struggling to contain their laughter during the Azerbaijani national anthem at the Baku City Circuit. 
The moment quickly gained momentum on social media with various videos of the drivers holding back laughter as the children sang their hearts out during the rendition by Alim Qasimov and Fargana Qasimova, with one child in particular putting on a very passionate ...Keep reading

McLaren's Oscar Piastri suffered an uncharacteristically difficult weekend at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
After crashing during qualifying, the Australian driver started the race already on the back foot from ninth with a replacement chassis. But his weekend went from bad to worse when he jumped the start of the race, battled with the anti-stall system, and then crashed on the first lap at Turn ...Keep reading

The general message from Denny Hamlin on his Actions Detrimental podcast about the incident with Ty Gibbs on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway was not much different than what he conveyed immediately afterwards.
In bullet point form, his takeaways haven't changed 12 hours later.

Gibbs was racing Hamlin and Christopher Bell way too hard, way too early, for inconsequential ...Keep reading

The Round of 12 is officially underway, and Team Penske has quickly asserted themselves as true title threats once again. Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney combined to lead over 90% of the laps run at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The race also featured some drama between teammates and the team owner's grandson at Joe Gibbs Racing, while 23XI Racing failed to get anything positive out of the race ...Keep reading

"I don't really care, it's for eighth place – so it's okay, he can enjoy that P8."
Charles Leclerc's post-race radio harrumph in Baku brought to mind the classic episode of the British TV series Come Dine With Me in which one of the losing contestants took his defeat spectacularly poorly: "You won, Jane. Enjoy the money. I hope it makes you very happy. I hope you spend it on getting some ...Keep reading

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Five tips for attending the United States Grand Prix in Austin
The US GP at Circuit of The Americas has quickly become one of F1’s biggest events – a mix of Texas hospitality, festival vibes, and great racing on a modern track with a classic feel. From the party atmosphere ...Keep reading

Just like at Monza, Max Verstappen stormed to a dominant Formula 1 win at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. And just like at Monza, the reigning world champion played a bigger role than just the driving, according to Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies.
In Italy, Verstappen insisted on using an extremely low-downforce set-up, even though some senior team members thought running slightly more wing ...Keep reading

Former Red Bull F1 team boss and CEO Christian Horner has now officially left the organisation after reaching a settlement.
Horner was relieved of his duties as the head of the team's sprawling empire after July's British Grand Prix, in the wake of a growing power struggle behind the scenes.
Horner, who was in charge for all of Red Bull's eight drivers' titles and six constructors' ...Keep reading

McLaren boss Andrea Stella has denied Oscar Piastri is feeling the pressure of a Formula 1 title fight, claiming Michael Schumacher even had weekends like the Australian did in Baku. 
Piastri leads championship rival and McLaren team-mate Lando Norris by 25 points with seven rounds left this year, a gap which stood at 31 until his disastrous Azerbaijan Grand Prix. 
The 24-year-old retired ...Keep reading

George Russell battled a virus throughout the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend on his way to second in Sunday's Formula 1 race; he has now revealed he was sufficiently ill on Friday that he'd likely have withdrawn had the race been in Singapore.
After missing Thursday's media sessions with illness – Russell was scheduled to take part in the official FIA press conference – he felt well enough ...Keep reading

Dani Pedrosa offers a detailed assessment of the strengths of Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez - riders with whom he formed the elite club known as the ‘Fantastic Five’.
Pedrosa retired from full-time racing at the end of 2018, after a lifetime as Honda’s standard-bearer in the world championship. The following year, he became one of the key figures in KTM’s ...Keep reading

As Ferrari's capture of Lewis Hamilton was announced ahead of the 2024 season, Carlos Sainz, the man he was about to replace, was left spending every race win or podium wondering if it would be his last.
With no top seat available for the foreseeable future as Red Bull and Mercedes decided against hiring the Spaniard, Sainz found refuge at Williams. A challenging restoration project which he ...Keep reading

McLaren team boss Andrea Stella reckons his Formula 1 squad needs to improve its pitstop hardware after further struggles in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Lando Norris was the only McLaren driver to score points in Baku as he finished seventh while championship leader Oscar Piastri crashed out on lap one.
But Norris’ bid to progress through the pack was halted by his slow, 4.1s pitstop on lap ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri, as everyone knows by now, is not a man of many words. When he binned his McLaren on the very first lap of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, his race engineer asked over the radio "Oscar, are you okay?"; his reply was a calm "Yeah". Moments later, he was unplugged and out.
What was unusual, though, was that he didn’t head straight to the TV pen afterwards to face the journalists’ ...Keep reading

He just knows it, doesn’t he?
Call it ego, call it self-confidence. But he just knows he’s the best driver in the world. Not many would disagree, either. Some would argue, but there’s nothing on this planet that can shatter Max Verstappen’s conviction in his own superiority over the rest. There are many good ones — excellent, even — in Formula 1. But there’s only one Max ...Keep reading

63 laps into the NASCAR Cup race on Sunday, leader and eventual race winner Ryan Blaney got quite the scare as Cody Ware went spinning directly in front of him. Blaney had to lock up the tires, but managed to avoid becoming collected in the incident.
A replay made it clear that Austin Dillon got into the No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang of Ware, sending him spinning. At the time, Ware was ...Keep reading

“Here come the yellow cars with subpar metrics, along the way, but man do those guys know how to get it done when it counts.”
That was Joe Gibbs Racing competition director Chris Gabehart in reference to Team Penske after a really dominant performance by the Ford Racing flagship on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
This is especially relevant because this is the right-side tire ...Keep reading

“We’re all trying to win a championship for their family. It’s unfortunate that we were racing that way.”
That’s how Denny Hamlin ultimately feels about the incident between himself and Ty Gibbs on Lap 111 of the NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon.
This was the byproduct of roughly 10 laps of really aggressive racing for 11th between Gibbs ...Keep reading

After locking out the front row in qualifying, Team Penske dominated Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at NHMS. Ryan Blaney claimed victory, fending off Josh Berry in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford.
This is Blaney's 16th career Cup win and third of the 2025 season with a victory that also locks him into the penultimate round of the playoffs as he hunts his second championship.
"Yeah, that was probably ...Keep reading