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What began as a rainy race weekend at the Circuit of Americas morphed into an insightful, albeit chaotic event for MotoGP. Perhaps all set off on race day by Marc Marquez's sudden sprint off of the grid, which led to the rest of the field abandoning their bikes, aborting the start, and causing a 10-minute delay as everyone rethought their tyre strategy for the race. What it did provide was an ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier will contest the Rally Islas Canarias next month as Toyota will field five cars at the next round of the 2025 World Rally Championship season.
The eight-time world champion is undertaking a partial campaign and the Spanish asphalt rally will be his second start of the year in what is the event’s WRC debut.
Ogier’s inclusion on an entry list featuring 10 Rally1 crews will ...Keep reading

The man himself frames it as fate. After an often frustrating four-year F1 apprenticeship with Red Bull’s junior team, during which the prospect of promotion diminished and then seemed to vanish entirely, Yuki Tsunoda is now where he thinks he always should have been.
Trouble is, that’s what the driver he is replacing thought. And the one before him. And – rinse and repeat.
Being Max ...Keep reading

Victor Martins has joined the Williams Racing Driver Academy following his recent exit from Alpine’s counterpart.
Martins had been part of the Enstone-based program in 2018-19, then from 2021-24, with a one-year hiatus when he narrowly lost the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup title – and his spot in the academy – to Oscar Piastri.
Although he was eventually crowned in FR Eurocup as well ...Keep reading

Fifth in the championship, 17 points. Such is Ferrari's situation, two grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 campaign. The Scuderia was a pre-season favorite alongside McLaren, but has not lived up to expectations thus far – though it's not the first time in the last decade and a half with the current points system for the top 10 finishers of a grand prix.
 2025 - 5th, 17 points (after two ...Keep reading

There’s another common denominator beyond Lando Norris on the first two grand prix podiums of 2025: George Russell. He was third in both the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix – and yet, as with Orson Welles in The Third Man, the spotlight has flitted over him but briefly before alighting on other targets.
Principally that’s because he extracted the maximum from his Mercedes in both races ...Keep reading

Erik Jones finished 24th in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville, one lap down. Thanks to a fifth-place finish in the opening stage, he managed to score a total of 19 points. Unfortunately for Jones, he will now leave Martinsville with just a single point due to problems in post-race inspection.
While the race-winning No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin was cleared without issue ...Keep reading

After rain fell shortly before the race start, the red flag shown by race direction just before the warm-up lap, moments after polesitter Marc Marquez abandoned his bike on the grid set up for wet running to switch to his dry bike in pitlane.
Upon seeing Marc Marquez leave his position and his bike, nine other riders followed him, creating a mess, with people running up and down the pitlane in ...Keep reading

Joey Logano won the opening stage at Martinsville Speedway and went on to earn his first top-ten finish of the year, but he still leaves the Virginia short track frustrated.
The three-time and reigning Cup Series champion was battling hard on a late-race restart when Ross Chastain cut down in front of Logano, in an effort to get back to the bottom lane on a restart. He did clear the No. 22 Team ...Keep reading

It was a dominant showing for Denny Hamlin at Martinsville, leading over half the race (274 of 400 laps) in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. This is Hamlin's first win of the 2025 season and the 55th of his career -- tying Rusty Wallace for 11th on the all-time wins list. It was also the first victory for Hamlin with new crew chief Chris Gayle, as well as his first with new sponsor ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia took full advantage of his factory Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez crashing out of the lead to take an emotional victory in a chaotic Americas GP.
Bagnaia made no mistake after inheriting the lead from Marquez, who had won every sprint and grand prix of the season up until today.
The error was enough for Marc to lose the lead of the world championship to his brother Alex ...Keep reading

Just 30 minutes before the start of the MotoGP race, light rain appeared, prompting race officials to declare a flag-to-flag race — resulting in total chaos.
As the Americas GP was about to begin, everything started to go wrong, with the unexpected arrival of rain and a crash involving Fabio Quartararo as he made his way to the grid on the formation lap. Once on the grid, all the riders, set ...Keep reading

The FIA has given a further clarification over its decision to keep tightening Formula 1's rear wing deflection tests, and defended the delay of its stricter front wing tests until the Spanish Grand Prix.
Over the last few years exploiting aero-elasticity has emerged as a key tool to keep this generation of ground-effect cars balanced between faster and slower corners, so much so that teams ...Keep reading

Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso – in his 22nd Formula 1 campaign – is still encountering a new experience. It’s not just the six rookie racers on the 2025 grid. In Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto, he’s racing his own official protege.
Since 2023, Bortoleto has been a part of Alonso’s A14 driver management stable.
This is run by Albert Resclosa Coll and Alberto Fernandez Albilares ...Keep reading

Hundreds of Formula 1 fans lined the streets of Tokyo for one last chance to visit Honda's Aoyama headquarters, the elegant white high-rise a stone's throw away from the Olympic Stadium that hosted the 2021 summer games.
The iconic Aoyama building is set to be closed and redeveloped, with a new, state-of-the-art headquarters to be built by 2030 on the same site. Sunday's closing ceremony ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda says he is targeting a podium spot at next week's Japanese Grand Prix as he reacts to his shock Red Bull switch for the remainder of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
As anticipated by Motorsport.com in China last weekend, Red Bull confirmed on Thursday that it would promote Tsunoda to the seat alongside Max Verstappen meaning Liam Lawson is back at Racing Bulls after two difficult ...Keep reading

The NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville featured 14 cautions and one red flag, with 104 of 256 laps run under yellow flag conditions. It was a rough short track race with contact all around the half-mile, culminating in a controversial finish where Sammy Smith came from several car lengths back to wreck race leader Taylor Gray. The move triggered a massive accident that eliminated Smith from ...Keep reading

Taylor Gray was attempting to win for the first time in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career, while Sammy Smith was aiming to deny him on Saturday night. Through a series of restarts and a red flag, as the race became a crash fest, tensions mounted between the two leaders.
With only a few laps remaining, Smith ended up moving Gray, snatching the top spot away just before the race was pushed into ...Keep reading

Austin Hill wasn't even in the conversation on the final restart, but the chaos that followed presented him with the opportunity to earn Richard Childress Racing its 100th win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In the end, Hill only led across the line on lap 250 -- the last lap.
Taylor Gray lined up behind Sammy Smith for the final restart at Martinsville, quickly snatching the lead away for the ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia says his confidence is returning after a stirring battle with factory Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez on the first lap of Saturday’s Americas GP sprint.
While Marquez ultimately led every lap of the race to maintain his perfect win record in 2025, Bagnaia nosed ahead of his team-mate on no less than three occasions on the field’s first tour of COTA.
Although Bagnaia was ...Keep reading