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Charles Leclerc has explained that the decision to soldier on with a broken front wing throughout the Chinese Grand Prix after contact with Lewis Hamilton was to preserve track position.
The two Ferraris made light contact at Turn 3 on the first lap as Hamilton tried to assume the apex line and clipped Leclerc, which knocked the endplate off his front wing.
Race engineer Bryan Bozzi told ...Keep reading

Lando Norris admits he was lucky to finish the Chinese Grand Prix, having taken second place despite a worsening brake issue to remain at the top of the Formula 1 drivers’ championship.
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Liam Lawson could be replaced at Red Bull by Yuki Tsunoda as early as the Japanese Grand Prix, Motorsport.com understands.
Amid a difficult start to the season for Lawson, Red Bull is already considering changing its driver line-up ahead of Suzuka, with Tsunoda named by paddock sources as a potential replacement.
Although no final decision has been taken, discussions about such a scenario ...Keep reading

Here's what we thought after the second race of the season...
Piastri emerges as Norris' main title challenger
Despite early struggles in Shanghai, McLaren has confirmed its status as early-season favourite in the main race. However, the same can't be said for Lando Norris. The British driver had a messy weekend and clearly didn't get the most out of it. The sprint was particularly poor for ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri secured victory at the Chinese Grand Prix as he benefited from putting his McLaren on pole position to avoid the tyre issues of the chasing pack.
With tyre management the order of the day throughout the field, Piastri was able to control his race and took the third win of his career, leading home team-mate Lando Norris, who was forced to manage a worsening brake issue in the ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera will leave Safari Rally Kenya without scoring any World Rally Championship points after retiring on the final day.
The two-time world champion’s latest setback, in what has been a gruelling Safari Rally, occurred following the opening stage of Sunday morning.
Rovanpera and co-driver Jonne Halttunen clocked the third-fastest time on stage 17 [Mzabibu], 3.7s adrift of ...Keep reading

The FIA has confirmed it is seriously evaluating a range of future engine scenarios in Formula 1, including a potential return to V10 power units running on fully sustainable fuels. According to FIA single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis, discussions remain at an early stage, but no options are off the table – including shortening the 2026 power unit rules cycle.
During a media roundtable ...Keep reading

After winning Friday's NASCAR Truck Series race at Homestead, Kyle Larson set his sights on the Xfinity race in his quest to become just the second driver to ever achieve a weekend sweep [after Kyle Busch at Bristol]. In the Truck race, he had to fight back from a late-race spin to claim the victory, but there were no such setbacks for most of the Xfinity race.
Larson looked unstoppable ...Keep reading

Team Penske rolled into qualifying at the Thermal Club with cause for optimism after Scott McLaughlin’s season-opening pole position in St. Petersburg. 
But on a sunny Saturday in California, it didn’t take long for the team’s weekend prognosis to turn cloudy.
The Captain’s trio of drivers all struggled in qualifying for the Thermal Club’s first NTT IndyCar Series points race ...Keep reading

Pato O'Ward spent the St. Petersburg season-opener fighting to recover from a dreadful 23rd-place qualifying effort. Three weeks later, the Mexican star finds himself at the other end of the grid.
O’Ward laid down a flying 1:39.9567s lap in the Fast 6 to claim pole for The Thermal Club IndyCar Grand Prix.
The result is his sixth-career pole and first since IndyCar’s 2022 trip to Mid-Ohio ...Keep reading

Alex Bowman is hoping to continue the trend of drivers whose surnames start with the letter 'B' winning every race this year, and he certainly improved his chances via his Saturday qualifying effort. Thanks to a helpful cloud, he was able to put the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on pole position.  
Noah Gragson, who was just the fifth driver out on track, held onto the top spot for ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans says an almost two-minute lead is no guarantee of victory after wild conditions have rendered this year’s Safari Rally the toughest since the event rejoined the World Rally Championship.
The WRC points leader survived incredibly challenging conditions to head into Sunday’s final five stages with a 1m57.4s lead over Hyundai’s Ott Tanak after Kalle Rovanpera’s victory bid ...Keep reading

Following a rainy Australian Grand Prix, a bone-dry race at Shanghai was supposed to be much more straightforward. But Saturday morning's sprint has shown that the tyres will make mastering China anything but simple.
Going against the grain
A key word that has popped up all weekend is 'graining', a phenomenon in which the tyre surface becomes hotter than the underlying carcass, usually by ...Keep reading

Patience is a virtue, but who has got the time? Not Liam Lawson, who suffered another disastrous qualifying session in which he finished dead last in the Red Bull while team-mate Max Verstappen extracted fourth out of the difficult-to-handle Red Bull.
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A car that’s quick but difficult to drive: this has become a familiar refrain up and down the grid in the final season of Formula 1’s current ground-effect ruleset.
Lando Norris struggled with graining in the sprint race in China, labouring to eighth place after dropping three positions on the opening lap, and then had a messy qualifying en route to fourth on the grid. By contrast ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 season is not even two rounds old and already Red Bull is facing the same questions it pondered for the majority of last season.
It has a peaky car that only Max Verstappen can master, while new team-mate Liam Lawson is already feeling the weight of expectation that comes with being a Red Bull driver.
So, how does Red Bull resolve the situation? Our writers offer their ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera’s Safari Rally victory bid has been dented by a pair of costly punctures, the second caused by an off-road excursion to avoid a herd of zebra.
The two-time world champion started Saturday 7.7 seconds behind leader and Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans but ended the morning loop of stages, which featured tricky wet and muddy sections, 1m32.5s adrift.
Rovanpera’s front-right ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari's qualifying display is a true indication of its current Formula 1 performance levels, with Lewis Hamilton’s sprint race victory at the Chinese Grand Prix an outlier.
Hamilton sprung a surprise on Friday when he took pole position for the sprint, which he then converted into his first victory for Ferrari, having struggled during the opening race in Australia ...Keep reading

Red Bull is not a team in which to be struggling to unlock performance from a difficult car. Especially when your illustrious team-mate seems to be managing it.
Perception is everything in Formula 1, and the timesheets suggest Max Verstappen is making it look easy. Obviously the picture is different from trackside, where Max is patently deploying every ounce of his talent to keep the RB21 ...Keep reading

Red Bull's Max Verstappen is worried his team has slipped to fourth in Formula 1's 2025 pecking order after enduring a sobering sprint race and qualifying session in China.
Verstappen struggled to keep up with Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton in the 19-lap sprint on Saturday morning, having started alongside the Briton on the front row, and he was powerless to keep McLaren's Oscar Piastri behind due to ...Keep reading