Motorsport

Legacy Motor Club has made some personnel changes ahead of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season. They have named Justin Alexander as the new crew chief for Erik Jones and the No. 43 LMC Toyota Camry XSE, replacing Ben Beshore in the role.
Alexander has plenty of experience atop the pit box, winning five races with Austin Dillon at Richard Childress Racing, including the 2017 Coca Cola 600 and the 2018 ...Keep reading

New Toyota signing Oliver Solberg has been nominated to score manufacturer points at the opening round of the 2026 World Rally Championship season in Monte Carlo.
Event organisers have today released its 66-car entry list for the annual WRC curtain raiser (22-25 January), which will feature 11 Rally1 entries and 27 Rally2 crews, while 25 of those cars are registered to score WRC2 ...Keep reading

Gina Schumacher, daughter of the legendary seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, has posted a rare family throwback on social media. Celebrating her father's birthday, the photo shows the Schumacher family laughing alongside a caption that reads, "The best forever. Happy Birthday Papa."
In the photo sits the former Ferrari ace alongside his wife Corinna, with Gina and her ...Keep reading

Williams has confirmed that the livery for its 2026 Formula 1 challenger, the FW48, will be revealed on 3 February.
The Grove outfit is yet to confirm whether the reveal will be via a release on social media or a launch event with drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon alongside team principal James Vowles.
Williams will also kick off the season with a separate fan-designed livery, which drew ...Keep reading

MotoGP is the only grand prix class without a combined minimum weight for motorcycle and rider. While such regulations exist in Moto2 and Moto3 (and even the World Superbike Championship) to offset the disadvantages faced by taller and heavier riders, no comparable rule applies at the top level of motorcycle racing.
In Moto3, the combined minimum weight of bike and rider is 152kg, while in ...Keep reading

Mercedes has confirmed the launch date for its 2026 Formula 1 challenger, the W17. The Brackley outfit is set to unveil the W17 on 22 January 2026 before private testing takes place from 26 to 30 January. 
The team will release renders of the livery on 22 January before a season launch event on 2 February, which will be available to stream live online. Drivers George Russell and Andrea Kimi ...Keep reading

Seth Quintero led a top-five lockout for Toyota in the second stage of the 2026 Dakar Rally, while Dacia’s Nasser Al-Attiyah leapt to the top spot in the overall standings.
While Toyota struggled at the start of the 48th edition of Dakar in Yanbu, it bounced back strongly in Monday’s 400km test to Al-Ula, with the Japanese manufacturer’s Hilux pick-up emerging as the class of the ...Keep reading

2025 Formula 1 champion Lando Norris is set for a hefty €1,023,658 superlicence fee for 2026.
Every driver must pay a superlicence fee to compete in the championship, although it is worth noting that the bill is usually picked up by the driver's team. The fee consists of a flat rate plus an amount per point scored in the previous season. For Norris, he scored 423 points in 2025, so ...Keep reading

With Cadillac joining the grid for the 2026 Formula 1 season, there will be 22 cars on the grid, two more than we're currently used to. Because of this, qualifying will see a small change to include the extra two cars. This is what you need to know. 
F1's 2026 qualifying format will still have the familiar three-part knockout structure that we're all accustomed to. With a larger grid this ...Keep reading

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri has revealed that he, George Russell and Alex Albon held an "UNO World Championship" that took place during travel days between some of the races of the 2025 Formula 1 season. Admitting there were "questionable rules" between the trio, he opened up on what he did during his downtime. 
Talking on F1's Off The Grid with presenter Lawrence Barretto, the Australian ...Keep reading

The F1 movie picked up two wins at the 2026 Critics' Choice Awards on 4 January.
The blockbuster, directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, was awarded the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Sound (Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta and Gareth John) and Best Editing (Stephen Mirrione).
In the editing category, Mirrione competed against Kirk ...Keep reading

Will Courtenay has completed his long-awaited move to McLaren's Formula 1 team to take up a new role as sporting director, after being granted approval to leave his position at Red Bull.
McLaren had announced its signing of Courtenay as early as 2024, but the Briton was not able to negotiate an exit from his contract ahead of 2025 and remained the team's head of strategy.
Red Bull had ...Keep reading

Zhou Guanyu has been confirmed as a Cadillac Formula 1 reserve driver for the 2026 season just three days after his Ferrari exit was announced.
The 26-year-old spent the 2025 campaign in a reserve role for the Scuderia, but has left the team for a new challenge with F1’s latest outfit, which is set to make its debut this season.
It will see Zhou join forces with Cadillac team principal ...Keep reading

A sense of trepidation accosts the arrival of Formula 1's incoming cycle of regulations. While the birth of F1's 2026 generation has been admittedly problematic, with genuine concerns raised throughout the development of the new rules, many have tended to err on the side of caution in their predictions.
Of course, the landscape will change and it'll be a very different F1 that we need to get ...Keep reading

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur reckons “pure performance” is quite irrelevant at the first pre-season test for the 2026 Formula 1 season due to the regulation change coming in.
The 2026 campaign will introduce changes to both the power unit and chassis, as cars will become lighter and smaller and there’ll be more emphasis on electrical power. 
With a huge regulation switch for the upcoming ...Keep reading

Defending car champion Yazeed Al-Rajhi faces an uphill battle at the 2026 Dakar Rally after a troubled opening stage, in which he lost significant time and incurred a heavy penalty.
Shortly after his Dakar victory in 2025, Al-Rajhi and navigator Timo Gottschalk suffered injuries that forced them to miss several rounds of the World Rally-Raid Championship. The Saudi driver and his German ...Keep reading

X-raid Mini’s Guillaume de Mevius topped the opening stage of the Dakar Rally on Sunday, overhauling long-time leader Mattias Ekstrom in a dramatic late turnaround.
Ford driver Ekstrom controlled much of the day’s 305km stage around Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, grabbing the lead at the second checkpoint on 70km before stretching out an advantage of over a minute in his Ford Raptor.
De Mevius ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez could achieve two major milestones during the 2026 MotoGP season as he looks to further cement his place among motorsport’s all-time greats.
At last year’s San Marino Grand Prix on 14 September, he clinched his 73rd victory in MotoGP and 99th across all three classes. With six grands prix left in the season at that stage, no one doubted his chances of securing his 100th world ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has emerged as the best Formula 1 driver from the 2025 season, according to team principals, drivers themselves, as well as Motorsport, Autosport and their readers.
All current team bosses and racers were asked by F1 to submit their top 10s, applying the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 points system to create separate standings. No representative from Red Bull and Ferrari took part in ...Keep reading

Major regulation changes usually lead to bigger gaps in Formula 1. Both the teams and the FIA expect a bigger field spread than last year, although the governing body has introduced several measures to prevent a repeat of 2014.
At the start of the hybrid era, Mercedes arrived with a superior power unit, after which dominance was effectively locked in for years. With the 2026 reset, such a ...Keep reading