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Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson is auctioning his first car, a modified 2000 Subaru Forester, to raise money for the New Zealand charity I AM HOPE. It's listed on New Zealand auction site Trade Me. 
“We wanted to really push the project and make the car as cool as we can and then auction it for I AM HOPE. A lot of people have a connection to the charity, or have some experience with, myself ...Keep reading

Felipe Massa’s legal counsel has asserted that Formula 1’s leadership was involved in a “deliberate concealment” of Nelson Piquet Jr’s 2008 Singapore Grand Prix crash, as part of Massa’s case disputing that year’s title.
Massa had filed a lawsuit against the FIA, Formula One Management (FOM), and Bernie Ecclestone seeking damages for the outcome of the 2008 championship, which is ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has announced that its collaboration with Disney will kick off with a show at the Fountains of Bellagio during the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend of 20-22 November.
The partnership between the championship and Disney was announced in May and will include the Disney x Formula 1 merchandise collection, which will be available in early November. The press release states, "The elevated ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has said stepping into a Ferrari Formula 1 car for the first time was "a lot more emotional" than similar experiences when he was a younger man. 
Hamilton joined the Scuderia for the start of the 2025 season to massive fanfare. But his performance with the team has been lacklustre for a number of reasons. The driver has struggled to adapt to such a different outfit, and both he ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner has made a U-turn on Max Verstappen's title chances, telling The Red Flags Podcast that the Red Bull star is still very much in the running for the 2025 drivers' championship. Joking, he added that McLaren could help him do so, too.
“I was completely no a few races ago, I’m saying yes,” Steiner said when asked if the Dutchman is still in with a chance of the title ...Keep reading

The Heart of Racing team boss Ian James, right back at the start of the year, threw the idea of Aston Martin’s Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar notching up a podium before its maiden season was out.
“That would be nice,” he said. It didn’t look very realistic over the first half of THOR’s parallel campaigns with the machine in the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar ...Keep reading

World Superbike star Nicolo Bulega will replace Marc Marquez for the rest of the 2025 MotoGP campaign, Ducati has confirmed. 
This year’s MotoGP champion has been sidelined since fracturing his shoulder at the Indonesian Grand Prix at the start of October and it was announced shortly afterwards that he would skip the rest of the season.
There have been two rounds since Indonesia ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has claimed that aligning his brand with Ferrari was "even more powerful" than he imagined.
The British driver made the blockbuster move to Ferrari at the start of 2025 after a 12-year stint with Mercedes, during which he secured six of his seven drivers' championships.
"I knew that aligning our brands would be big," he admitted to Ferrari Magazine. "But it still hits you and ...Keep reading

Le Mans 24 Hours winner James Calado has signed a multi-year contract extension with Ferrari starting from next season’s World Endurance Championship. 
The 36-year-old’s deal was announced on Friday ahead of next week’s WEC 2025 finale in Bahrain, where Calado will arrive leading the standings with Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi.
It will further extend a stay at Ferrari ...Keep reading

Red Bull Team Principal Laurent Mekies has stated that the squad will “take a bit more time” before settling on their driver line-up for 2026, with the futures of Yuki Tsunoda and the Racing Bulls pairing yet to be decided.

Fred Vasseur believes that Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari both needed “time to be on the same page” when it came to certain details as the partnership between the two sides began this season.

Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner has called out the FIA for the lack of penalties and the handling of the virtual safety car during the Mexico Grand Prix.
The chaotic start of the race in Mexico has come under scrutiny after multiple drivers left the track and potentially gained advantages. In addition to the start, marshals were seen crossing the track in front of Liam ...Keep reading

Sepang International Circuit aims to wrap up negotiations and sign a new contract with MotoGP’s rights holder Dorna for the Malaysian Grand Prix by the beginning of next year. 
The South East Asian nation has been a regular fixture on the MotoGP calendar since the early 1990s, with Shah Alam Circuit and Johar Bahru hosting the early rounds before the newly-built Sepang track made its debut ...Keep reading

Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has teased future projects after the success of the F1 movie.
The British driver served as an executive producer, through his production company Dawn Apollo Films, in the film directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film has grossed almost $630million at the global box office since its release in June 2025. 
The movie ...Keep reading

Our headset crackles as the first radio message heralds the start of activity. "30 seconds", a voice on the other end says, before the start of the practice session is accompanied by "Cars on track". It's Friday afternoon in the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, and we are standing on the outside at Turn 5 as cars start streaming by.
"We" means ourselves and over a dozen officials donning orange ...Keep reading

For three of the four drivers racing for the NASCAR Cup Series championship this weekend, braggadocio is not inherent to their personalities.
Kyle LarsonWilliam ByronChase Briscoe
Sure, Larson is good for what those within the industry call #BluntLarson zingers every now and then but he doesn’t go out of his way to give other teams bulletin board material. Briscoe and Byron are generally ...Keep reading

It’s still a longshot but Denny Hamlin might not be able to say he ‘beat your favorite driver,’ much longer because in a twist of irony, he’s now becoming one of them.
For the first time in his career, the polarizing veteran cracked the National Motorsports Press Association Most Popular Driver Awards finals, meaning the 44-year-old is one of the five highest vote getters as of this ...Keep reading

Justin Allgaier was something of an invested party to the Sam Mayer and Jeb Burton incident on Saturday night at Martinsville.
Well before Mayer intentionally crashed Burton during the cool-down lap, or even before the series of instances of hard racing between the two, Allgaier was also caught up in it during the first stage.
Allgaier won the first stage but had to wrestle it away from ...Keep reading

In a newly released deposition featuring Bob Jenkins, the owner of Front Row Motorsports, he reveals why he chose not to sign the 2025 NASCAR Charter Agreement. Jenkins is the owner of several fast food and restaurant franchises, but he has also been operating a Cup team since 2005.
While being questioned in a June 27th deposition, he was asked directly if 23XI actively tried to convince him to ...Keep reading

Several documents, depositions, and internal conversations have been made public as a result of the ongoing antitrust lawsuit between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports, and NASCAR. Along with the full 2025 Charter Agreement, other information offers a behind the scenes look at some 'what if' scenarios over the years, including a proposal for a very different TV package than the one we have ...Keep reading