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Arvid Lindblad, who will make his F1 debut in 2026 with Racing Bulls, has praised Red Bull’s Motorsport Advisor Helmut Marko for supporting him through his junior career ahead of his retirement from the team.

Test your knowledge of the new World Champion and his title-winning season in our quick-fire quiz.

The FIA has revealed details of a new constructor that is developing a car to compete under the World Rally Championship’s new technical regulations in 2027.
Founded by experienced motorsport engineer Lionel Hansen, former FIA rally director and Citroen WRC boss Yves Matton and Prospeed, Project Rally One represents the first project to be officially led by a tuner under the WRC’s new ...Keep reading

Under Laurent Mekies, who took over mid-season after Christian Horner’s dismissal, the Red Bull Formula 1 team came close to completing a remarkable comeback.
A significant part of that turnaround can be explained by the team finally managing to extract performance from the RB21, in part by continuing to develop the car longer than many rivals.
Another key factor has been the consistency ...Keep reading

The driver gets two penalty points but manages to clock the fastest lap of the session.

A boy, born with facial differences, enters a mainstream school for the first time. Drama.

The Haas Formula 1 team will back American driver Kaylee Countryman in the 2026 F1 Academy season.
The 15-year-old driver, who will be 16 at the time of the season start, will race with ART Grand Prix in the Haas-liveried car.
“I’m so thrilled that I’ve been given this opportunity to represent Haas F1 Team and ART Grand Prix in the F1 Academy for 2026,” Countryman said. “I look ...Keep reading

Pierre Gasly has opened up about the sense of relief he felt when he was demoted from Red Bull to Toro Rosso in 2019.
The Frenchman, currently driving for Alpine, entered his rookie Formula 1 season with Toro Rosso (now Racing Bulls) in 2018 after joining the Red Bull Junior Team in 2014.
After completing his rookie season, finishing 15th place in the drivers' standings and 25 points ahead ...Keep reading

Former Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Maurizio Arrivabene believes that there could be a sign that Lewis Hamilton's relationship with the Maranello outfit could be "over".
The seven-time champion joined Ferrari ahead of the 2025 season and struggled to adapt to the new squad. In July, the Briton revealed that he had sent several documents to the team following the British Grand Prix in a ...Keep reading

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2025 was a season for the ages, offering up long-awaited maiden podiums, rookie superstars, plenty of nail-biting moments and an unpredictable three-way title fight that saw Lando Norris join the illustrious list of champions. The trio of title contenders put on some of the best performances of their careers so far, but who impressed our judges the most across all 24 rounds? Check out the final leaderboard below…

It came as a big surprise when Max Verstappen took to the Estoril circuit in Portugal on Tuesday aboard a Mercedes-AMG GT3 from 2 Seas Motorsport. But there is a serious background to this appearance and it could also have an impact on the four-time Formula 1 world champion’s entry in the 2026 Nurburgring 24 Hours.
Behind 2 Seas Motorsport, which fielded an Aston Martin in the 2025 GT World ...Keep reading

In a somewhat surprising turn, Portugal will make a return to the Formula 1 calendar in 2027; the Algarve International Circuit (or Portimao, as it's more commonly known) has signed a deal to replace the out-going Zandvoort for 2027 and 2028.
Given F1's grand plans for expansion into global markets, with the likes of Thailand, Rwanda, and South Africa having been mentioned as prospective hosts ...Keep reading

19-year-old Connor Zilisch will be racing at Daytona next year a few weeks before his Daytona 500 debut. The Trackhouse star will take part in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona for the third time in his young career,
Zilisch will drive the No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R as a co-drier to Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber, and Frederik Vesti.
The teenager won in his very first Rolex 24 ...Keep reading

European Rally Championship title runner-up Jon Armstrong will join Josh McErlean as part of a new-look M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship driver line-up for 2026. 
The British squad’s decision to retain McErlean after an impressive maiden Rally1 season and add two-time ERC rally winner Armstrong to the line-up comes as part of an expanded collaboration with the Motorsport Ireland Rally ...Keep reading

After eight days of a bitter trial, NASCAR leadership finally settled and the lawsuit filed by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports was resolved. It was a highly contentious legal battle, and several eyebrow-raising comments were unsealed as a result of it.
But with the aforementioned settlement, teams can now expect better terms, a larger share of the profits, and it will lead to the ...Keep reading

1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has defended Red Bull after claims that the Milton Keynes outfit builds its cars around four-time champion Max Verstappen.
Red Bull has struggled in recent years to find a team-mate for Verstappen who has been able to extract the same performance from the car as the Dutchman, which has led to claims that the squad builds its cars to suit Verstappen's ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri believes that the lessons he took from engaging in a tense title battle will help him become a better driver in the future, despite losing out in the season finale to his McLaren team mate Lando Norris.

Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur has conceded that the choice to sacrifice some upgrades in 2025 in order to have more resources available for next season’s car was “quite tough to manage psychologically", despite it being a collective decision.

Haas have announced that American racer Kaylee Countryman will be representing them on the grid for the 2026 F1 ACADEMY campaign, driving with ART Grand Prix.