Motorsport

Lando Norris seemed to roll a grenade under the door during a press conference ahead of the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix when he said he had effectively given up persuading his McLaren team to design a car which flatters his preferred attacking style.
Since the MCL39 was the benchmark car at the season opener – Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri would likely have finished 1-2 had Piastri not spun ...Keep reading

Aero-elasticity continues to be a hot topic in Formula 1 in the wake of the FIA announcing more stringent tests on rear wings to detect if they are flexing under load. So naturally there has been an immediate presumption of guilt when the governing body circulated a report from technical delegate Jo Bauer that he was referring Williams to the stewards for failing to supply camera footage of its ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz admits he still does not feel at home in the cockpit of his Williams Formula 1 car after a disappointing showing in Chinese Grand Prix sprint qualifying.
The Spaniard joined Williams from Ferrari over the winter and set the pace in pre-season testing before crashing behind the safety car during the Australian Grand Prix last weekend.
Sainz, with four grand prix victories to his ...Keep reading

World Rally champion Thierry Neuville feels he has been wrongfully handed a penalty for a jump start due to what he believes was a timing glitch at Safari Rally Kenya.
Neuville has already endured an eventful trip to Kenya after only six of the 21 stages comprising the third round of the WRC.
The Belgian suffered an issue with his i20 N that cost him 20 seconds on Thursday's second stage ...Keep reading

Red Bull was worried it wouldn't make the front two rows for the Chinese Grand Prix sprint after woeful tyre wear in practice, says advisor Helmut Marko.
The team came away from Australia's season opener with confirmation that main rival McLaren is a step ahead in pace and tyre wear, and there was further proof in the sole practice session for Shanghai's sprint weekend that Red Bull has a few ...Keep reading

The rolling cheers were the first clue. Reverberating as if sprint qualifying for Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix was taking place within a leisure-centre swimming pool – such is the way the Shanghai track’s giant main grandstand traps noise - was the noise that greeted Lewis Hamilton’s first Ferrari pole.
At this stage, there was still Max Verstappen left to run as Motorsport.com ...Keep reading

Liam Lawson put his Chinese Grand Prix sprint qualifying woes down to an inability to cool his tyres enough for his final flying lap, leading to him propping up the rest of the Formula 1 field.
The New Zealander was up to 10th in the order after the opening runs, having opened with a 1m32.729s time, but his second attempt at a run was aborted – and ultimately deleted – after running wide at ...Keep reading

Lando Norris held his hands up as his own mistakes left the early championship leader qualifying down in sixth for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.
After winning in Australia last weekend, Norris had been towing a fine line between admitting McLaren was the team to beat while also attempting to temper expectations of just how quick the car is.
Norris, whose team-mate Oscar Piastri ...Keep reading

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton says he is "a bit in shock" after taking his first sprint pole of his nascent Ferrari era.
Hamilton came to Shanghai after a difficult weekend for both himself and Ferrari in Australia, only managing 10th in Melbourne through a lack of pace and poor strategy.
But the 40-year-old rebounded strongly in China by taking pole for Saturday's first sprint ...Keep reading

Pull the 21 April 1988 edition of Autosport from the archives and you’ll find an image of Johnny Herbert, arm aloft in triumph, crossing the finishing line in the opening round of the International F3000 season at Jerez. In a stark visual echo of the white border around the photo, Johnny’s Eddie Jordan Racing-entered Reynard 88D is also almost completely white, bereft of sponsor logos but for ...Keep reading

F1 Academy provides talented female racers with the opportunity to showcase their skills on the main stage of motorsport, and this year, many new drivers will be given that chance.
And the addition of a new team, Hitech, means the grid has increased from 15 to 18 cars, with one of those serving as a wildcard entry, allowing a driver to take part in a one-off race weekend at each of the ...Keep reading

Eddie Jordan’s team burst into Formula 1 in 1991 and immediately made an impression.
Before becoming the Midland-owned MF1 Racing for 2006, Jordan Grand Prix built up a cult following, helped launch the careers of several drivers and briefly became a championship contender.
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Early breakthrough
1991 Canadian GP (2 June ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen admits McLaren looks good across the board in 2025 as the reigning world champion believes Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes will trade blows in the battle for best of the rest.
Lando Norris won the first race of the season in Australia last weekend and will be looking to hammer home McLaren’s obvious pace advantage at the Chinese Grand Prix, with the year’s first sprint race ...Keep reading

Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu admitted he thought something was broken when his Formula 1 outfit logged its initial FP1 laps at the Australian Grand Prix, and doesn't expect an immediate fix to its high-speed corner problems.
After following a similar run plan in Bahrain testing to what it had run in 2024, by sacrificing all performance runs for long-run pace and tyre management exploration, Haas ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has hit back at media making too much of his radio exchanges with his new Ferrari race engineer during his Scuderia debut in Australia, suggesting "far worse" comments by Max Verstappen went unnoticed.
Hamilton endured a difficult Ferrari debut in Melbourne, with the team struggling for performance in both dry qualifying conditions and in a mixed-weather race, and taking wrong ...Keep reading

Edmund Patrick Jordan, who has died aged 76 while undergoing treatment for cancer, was an energetic entrepreneur who brought a disruptive touch of rock and roll to Formula 1 in the 1990s.
Born in Dublin, Jordan flirted with the idea of joining the priesthood in his youth before embarking on a career in finance – more specifically, becoming a clerk at the Bank of Ireland. But Jordan was born ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan has died at the age 76 following a battle against illness, his family has announced.
Jordan had been fighting an aggressive form of bladder and prostate cancer which spread to his spine and the pelvis, revealing his diagnosis last December.
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The Irishman was a mainstay of the F1 ...Keep reading

Liam Lawson insists he has no interest in what McLaren CEO Zak Brown has to say on Red Bull’s choice of drivers for 2025.
Speaking after qualifying for last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, Brown praised Yuki Tsunoda after he put his Racing Bulls fifth on the grid, while Lawson struggled and could only manage 18th in his first race for Red Bull.
Tsunoda was overlooked in favour of Lawson ...Keep reading

Isack Hadjar says he has spoken to Red Bull's Helmut Marko after copping criticism for his tearful Australian Grand Prix exit, and reveals he has received further support from Lewis Hamilton.
In the wet, Hadjar spun out at Turn 2 on the Melbourne formation lap, cutting a distraught figure as he saw his debut shatter into pieces before it had even truly began. After not putting a foot wrong ...Keep reading

The sixth round of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season takes place at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and according to city officials on Wednesday, that remains unchanged despite ongoing brush fires in the surrounding area.
In a statement posted Wednesday evening, the City of Homestead said: "The NASCAR Cup Series events at the Homestead-Miami Speedway are set to continue as scheduled." The same report warns ...Keep reading