Motorsport

Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Laurent Mekies has detailed why he believes Max Verstappen's value to the team is just as great off the track as it is in the car.
Mekies and Verstappen formed a strong partnership as soon as the Frenchman took over from Christian Horner as Red Bull's team principal last summer, with Mekies' engineering-led approach credited as playing a part in the team's ...Keep reading

Tyler Reddick leads the championship standings after winning the first two races of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, following up his Daytona 500 triumph with a fender-less victory at Atlanta.
NASCAR now travels to the Circuit of the Americas where Shane van Gisbergen hopes to continue his road course dominance after winning the last five road/street courses on the schedule. However, COTA eluded him ...Keep reading

Lando Norris didn’t make the charge to the 2025 Formula 1 crown easy for himself last year. The young Briton took the fight to the final race of the year as he fended off attacks from team-mate Oscar Piastri and a late resurgence from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. But 2026 offers a clean slate for the McLaren driver.
Amid Formula 1’s rules shakeup, Norris could face stiff competition over ...Keep reading

As Formula 1 enters its 2026 regulation reset, Lando Norris sits atop the grid as the reigning 2025 world driver’s champion, racing for the world constructors’ championship-winning team, McLaren.
He’s earned every result along the way: after rising through the junior ranks as a McLaren-backed prospect, Norris has grown from a consistent points finisher into a grand prix winner and regular ...Keep reading

Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi dismissed suggestions he is the favourite for the Thailand Grand Prix, insisting reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has yet to reveal his true pace.
Bezzecchi was in commanding form throughout Friday at Buriram, setting the initial pace in FP1 before smashing the lap record in practice later in the afternoon.
The Italian finished the day more than four tenths ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia has owned up to the mistakes that led him to miss out on direct access to Q2 for the second straight edition of the Thai Grand Prix.
In 2025, the factory Ducati rider missed the cut on Friday before topping Q1 on Saturday morning to rescue his weekend. It was a sign of things to come later in the season, however, as Bagnaia's year descended into a nightmare.
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McLaren boss Andrea Stella reckons his team is slightly on the back foot heading into the 2026 Formula 1 campaign - claiming it will try to “exploit the counterattack”.
The new season will start in Melbourne next weekend after tests in Barcelona and Bahrain, from which Mercedes emerged as favourites for the title having impressed in its race simulations.
Ferrari is expected to be its ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez believes it would be premature for him and Ducati “to panic” if Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi dominates this weekend’s MotoGP season opener in Buriram.
Aprilia has emerged as the clear favourite for victory at the Thailand Grand Prix after star rider Bezzecchi smashed the circuit record in Friday practice despite rain drops impacting the grip levels.
Lapping the Buriram ...Keep reading

The Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix has unveiled a striking winner's trophy for the race's move to Madrid in September, having selected a design by the Italian Pininfarina Studios.
Promoters of the under construction Madring near Madrid's Barajas airport selected the Italian design from three competition finalists, with Pininfarina building the trophy around the Madring's most eye-catching design ...Keep reading

Honda is working around the clock to solve crippling vibration issues in time for Formula 1's 2026 season opener in Australia after a disastrous series of tests with Aston Martin.
Aston Martin and Honda suffered a rough start to their partnership in pre-season testing, with minimal mileage at the Barcelona shakedown after the AMR26 was delivered late. A number of issues on both the car and ...Keep reading

On 8 March, the lights will go out at Albert Park for the first race of the new Formula 1 era, featuring a completely different car and an entirely new engine. However, Max Verstappen, who is about to start his 12th season in the pinnacle of motorsport, does not feel his Red Bull will be in contention for victory there.
"Overall, I feel positive in the sense that we had very few problems," ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi made a big statement in the first competitive MotoGP session of the season as he topped practice in Thailand by almost half a second.
The Aprilia rider registered a late track record tour of 1m28.526s to put daylight between himself and world champion Marc Marquez - to the tune of 0.421s.
There was familiar misery on the other side of the factory Ducati garage, with Marc's ...Keep reading

Kyle Busch and wife Samantha have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against Pacific Life Insurance and agent Rodney Smith brough against the latter in November.
The two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion filed suit seeking over $8 million over an alleged retirement plan scheme of which the details can be read here. In its court mandated legal response, Pacific Life effectively said the claims ...Keep reading

British driver Megan Bruce has secured a seat in F1 Academy for the upcoming 2026 season.
Bruce will represent TAG Heuer in the series, following on from her one-off appearance in the all-female racing championship in Singapore in 2025.
The 21-year-old driver started competitive racing just three years ago and has quickly risen through the ranks. Starting in the 2023 Caterham Academy, in ...Keep reading

F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff has been recognised as a CNBC Changemaker.
CNBC named Wolff as a Changemaker on 25 February 2026, listing her standout achievement in 2025 as: "Broadened F1's commercial and broadcast reach, establishing a sustainable business model, while inspiring the next generation of women racing talent."
Wolff has been instrumental in making the F1 Academy a ...Keep reading

The 2026 IndyCar season is about to get underway with the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Alex Palou enters as the defending champion, and the dominant Chip Ganassi Racing driver eyes a fifth crown.
There are several faces in new places, including veteran Will Power, who leaves Penske for a new home at Andretti. David Malukas will take Power's place as the driver of the #12, and ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has called out the FIA after Mercedes is claimed to have made use of a compression ratio loophole.
The compression ratio is just one of many changes introduced as part of the new 2026 regulations. Previously, that ratio stood at 18:1, but under the new regulations, the FIA has reduced it to 16:1.
It was suggested in December 2025 that Mercedes had ...Keep reading

Apple has introduced a new feature for Apple Maps users for the upcoming Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. 
The updates come as Apple prepares for its first season as the exclusive broadcaster of the series in the United States. The new features include detailed circuit maps with realistic kerbs, 3D grandstands, all 14 turns numbered on the map, 3D landmarks of the F1 pit garages and the finish ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc has unveiled a new CL16 Spring 26 collection. The new line is centred around "baby blue, the colour Charles has been surrounded by since he was born," according to the official website for the collection.
The Ferrari Formula 1 driver launched his first limited-edition CL16 merchandise collection in November 2025, and has now released the next line for Spring 2026.
The new ...Keep reading

Formula 1 is flying high in the United States, with three races in the country now taking place every year and a second American team set to join the grid this year in Cadillac. But this hasn’t always been the case, and the series has come a long way in America over the past 10 years.
First American team in 40 years

Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team VF-16
Photo by: Haas F1 ...Keep reading