Motorsport

The racing product at Bristol Motor Speedway during the NextGen era has been a bit of a philosophical tug-of-war and the races since 2022 reflect that back-and-forth.
The turning point was the spring race in 2024 where cold temperatures prevented rubber from being laid into the track, resulting in tire shredding from 30-to-40 laps, and one of the most fondly remembered races from this ...Keep reading

The IndyCar Series has finally announced its schedule for the 2026 season after months of speculation. While some of the new additions were already known, it is notable that the championship will begin with four races in March—with three consecutive weekends—including the return to Phoenix for the first time since 2018 as the second round.
Unlike the 2025 calendar, Iowa Speedway and Thermal ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 world drivers’ title looks set up to be a battle that will go down to the wire, but the feeling around the Oscar Piastri vs Lando Norris face-off hasn’t had the edge to match it.
McLaren has tried to make the competition as fair as possible between its two drivers and both Piastri and Norris have obliged and replicated that philosophy – even when opportunities to take ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia’s disastrous weekend at Misano marked the lowest point yet for the most successful rider in Ducati’s history. The Italian is being reminded by the factory that the crisis of confidence paralysing him comes from within himself, not from the machine he rides.
Bagnaia’s affable nature and current plight has stirred compassion from all areas - not only his fellow VR46 ...Keep reading

Having dominated the opening DTM race on Saturday at the Red Bull Ring, Rene Rast endured a nightmare Sunday with two penalty laps and lost the championship lead ahead of the season finale.
In Sunday’s race, Rast crossed the finish line in 13th and lost his overall lead back to Landgraf Mercedes driver Lucas Auer.
The Schubert BMW driver’s race was undone in the second pitstop, as the ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 season start times have been unveiled with the Canadian Grand Prix race start pushed back to avoid a direct clash with the Indianapolis 500.
In conjunction with F1 revealing its six sprint race venues for next season, the start times for every session in 2026 have been released.
The only change is a later start time for the Canadian GP, which in previous years has started ...Keep reading

Silverstone and Zandvoort are among the new sprint weekends for the 2026 season as Formula 1 has revealed the six venues hosting a Saturday race.
The British Grand Prix hosted the first-ever sprint race when the original format was introduced in 2021, with the shorter Saturday race returning to Silverstone in 2026 alongside three fellow newcomers.
The Dutch Grand Prix will also play host to ...Keep reading

Jack Miller racked up a €2000 fine for riding the wrong way after the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix to offer his race gloves to a lucky fan.
The Pramac rider had spotted a fan holding a banner during the formation lap, offering a free beer to any rider in return for their gloves.
After the race ended, Miller stopped his bike by the same grandstand, but to do so he had to turn around and ...Keep reading

On SiriusXM NASCAR Radio's 'The Morning Drive', Rudy Fugle, crew chief for the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and driver William Byron, offered his thoughts on the return of Bristol's 'chaos tire' this past weekend. 
Hitting the 'magic track temperature,' the Bristol Night Race produced 36 lead changes (compared to just four in the spring race), but also 14 cautions.
Some members of ...Keep reading

Factory KTM rider Pedro Acosta led the way in the final in-season test of 2025 at Misano, as Yamaha extensively trialled its new V4-powered MotoGP bike.
Acosta was among the first riders to hit the track, grabbing the top spot from the Tech3-run RC16 of Enea Bastianini with a time of 1m32.297s.
Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia all enjoyed stints at the front in the next two hours, before ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says wins will be required from the final rounds of the World Rally Championship season to stand any chance of lifting a third world title.
The Toyota driver headed into last weekend’s Rally Chile sitting second in the standings seven points adrift, but left South America 21 points behind Sebastien Ogier, who shot into the championship lead after taking a fifth win of the ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen is now officially licenced to race GT3 cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, paving the way for the Dutchman to tick off one of his bucket list items.
Verstappen raced a Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 CS at last weekend's four-hour ADAC ACAS Cup, in a car that was detuned as the four-time world champion hadn't yet earned a Permit A that is required to race with high-powered GT3 or GT4 ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s V4-powered M1 won’t solve all its troubles in MotoGP after admitting that he feels “worse” on the new bike than its predecessor.
The 2021 world champion made the comment after finishing 17th in the morning test session in Misano, just over a second off the pace of Gresini’s Alex Marquez.
This was Quartararo's second outing on the new V4 bike Yamaha ...Keep reading

By the time the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been and gone, commenters in Formula 1 will have found something else to poke fun at, or become incensed by, as the Monza affair fades into obscurity.
McLaren's enforced swap between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri became the subject of memes, ire, and light mockery as the team restored the order between its drivers to what it was before its pitstops, as ...Keep reading

Brad Binder believes that striking Misano’s high kerbs at the wrong moment may have caused the unusual chain failures that struck both him and KTM MotoGP team-mate Pedro Acosta over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend.
KTM endured one of its worst-performing weekends of the 2025 MotoGP season at Misano, with Binder ending up as the only rider from its four-strong stable to finish the race and ...Keep reading

The Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi in two weeks will represent Marc Marquez’s first opportunity to seal the 2025 MotoGP world championship.
The Spaniard’s title has looked inevitable since the beginning of the season, but only now can he mathematically put the matter beyond doubt.
Should the factory Ducati rider confirm the championship in Japan, he would take the crown with five race ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 advisor Helmut Marko believes the squad's turnaround at the Italian Grand Prix has unlocked the potential to succeed at its other weaker circuits on the 2025 calendar.
Max Verstappen comfortably defeated the usually dominant McLarens in Monza one year on from one of Red Bull's worst race weekend performances at the same venue, offering hope that the team has finally found a ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans will give it his “best shot” but admits Sebastien Ogier is “going to take some beating” to claim a maiden World Rally Championship title with three rounds remaining.
Evans lost his grip on the championship lead to his Toyota team-mate after losing out in a head-to-head fight for victory in Chile last weekend by 11s. 
The victory was Ogier’s fifth from eight rounds as ...Keep reading

The final European race before a string of flyaways stuck largely to form, with the usual protagonists slugging it out at the front around the switchbacks of Misano.
This being Italy, however, there was a bit of extra emotion for some of those who succeeded. And further down the field, a couple of unlucky folk had a cocktail of negativity come their way.
Winner: Marco Bezzecchi
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DS Automobiles has always attracted the best drivers in Formula E, a specific discipline where experience counts. Over the years, the French manufacturer has entrusted its single-seaters to three-time WTCC world champion Jose Maria Lopez, three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Andre Lotterer, 2021-22 Formula E world champion Stoffel Vandoorne and the drivers who brought it two constructors' ...Keep reading