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Scott McLaughlin has identified areas he needs to improve upon to beat the “professor” Alex Palou to the IndyCar title - and is now more confident he can do so.
Palou has dominated the American championship in recent years, winning three of the past four titles, while McLaughlin is hunting for a maiden crown having moved across from Australian Supercars.
The 31-year-old’s best ...Keep reading

Alpine’s executive technical director David Sanchez has admitted the team will have no excuses going into Formula 1’s new era in 2026.
Since the Renault Group bought the Enstone-based outfit back in late 2015, it has consistently set long-term goals of regular podiums and wins, but the past nine seasons yielded just nine top-three finishes, including Esteban Ocon’s memorable victory in ...Keep reading

“If you have two Red Bull cars, you have kind of a magnet in between them and they always come together at a regular rate!”
Motopark boss Timo Rumpfkeil is chuckling about his year running both Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda in the 2019 Euroformula Open series, where they locked horns five years before they would be at war again, this time for the seat alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in ...Keep reading

It's very refreshing to hear Honda boss Alberto Puig talk about aspects of his life that are much more ordinary than those required of him as HRC team manager in the MotoGP world championship. 
At 58 years old and after seven years in the position, the former rider has experienced Honda's descent into hell from the inside.
The Japanese brand hasn't won a race since 2023 (Alex Rins, in ...Keep reading

“We are somewhere in the past for these drivers – from their start points to the final target. And we are super happy to see that they have success.”
No Formula 1 driver has immaculately appeared at the top level. Now a decade ago, even Max Verstappen made the briefest stop in the junior categories before his graduation to grand prix racing.
Back then, he’d just scrapped closely with ...Keep reading

“Next year is going to be my year, too.” That was the final line of Lando Norris’s radio message to his team after he crossed the line to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and guarantee McLaren’s first constructors’ championship since 1998.

Gresini Racing unveiled the livery for its 2025 MotoGP challenger at a presentation in Imola on Saturday.
During a special event at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari near its base, the Italian team took the covers off the two Ducati GP24 bikes that it will run on a customer basis this year.
Gresini has elected to retain the light blue-and-red colour scheme it first adopted in 2022 ...Keep reading

Of all the scrutiny over the so-called ‘big teams’ in Formula 1, Red Bull's new line-up is probably the one that has slipped under the radar for most.
Lewis Hamilton’s switch to Ferrari and Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s promotion at Mercedes have understandably taken the spotlight, with attention drawn to how they will compare against their new team-mates.
But it is perhaps the Max ...Keep reading

The two-time IndyCar Series champion Josef Newgarden believes the championship must have a lighter chassis when the next generation of cars are expected to debut in 2027. 
North America’s premier open-wheel series is aiming for an all-new chassis that year, having gradually evolved the current Dallara DW12 since its debut in 2012.
Team Penske driver Newgarden, who claimed his titles in ...Keep reading

M-Sport has taken the covers off its newly liveried Ford Puma that will contest the 2025 World Rally Championship, ahead of next week’s Monte Carlo opener.
The British squad has revealed a new navy blue colour scheme featuring a continuation of its association with energy drinks giant Red Bull and technology company SafetyCulture.
M-Sport will once again filed two full-time entries. It has ...Keep reading

New technical regulations and a change of tyre manufacturer has made preparations for the challenging Monte Carlo Rally among the most demanding for World Rally Championship teams in recent times. Not since the introduction of the Rally1 cars in 2022 has the WRC undergone such significant changes, heaping even more importance on teams to do the best job possible with their Monte pre-event ...Keep reading

Our writers debate the merits of Max Verstappen moving out of Red Bull after the upcoming Formula 1 season, amid rumours of a monster bid prepared by Aston Martin.
Verstappen could find it fulfilling to build new project - Ben Vinel
Verstappen has always been very vocal about the fact that, unlike Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, he won't keep racing in Formula 1 until he's in his ...Keep reading

Aston Martin will enter the fifth season of their latest F1 adventure in 2025, a point by which billionaire businessman owner Lawrence Stroll hoped the team would be fighting for world titles. With this in mind, and major regulation changes on the horizon, F1.com runs through the manufacturer’s record in the sport so far and the various pieces of the puzzle they have been assembling in that quest for glory…

Lewis Hamilton will follow in the footsteps of many illustrious names by making his debut for Ferrari this season, with the Briton having left Mercedes for the Scuderia in what marked one of the most sensational – and unexpected – driver moves in the sport’s history.

Otis Lawrence beat Jarno Opmeer to the line in a thrilling conclusion to the fourth round of the 2025 F1 Sim Racing World Championship on Thursday night – the action taking place virtually at Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Corniche Circuit.

In 2021, Daison Pursley was racing a midget car in Arizona when his entire life changed. Battling another driver for a chance to make it to the next round, he crashed, his car flipping several times in an accident that left the then-17-year-old with a broken neck, his C4 vertebra completely shattered. At the hospital, doctors rushed him into surgery. Pursley woke up to learn that he was now an ...Keep reading

The World Rally Championship will expand to 12 Rally1 cars for the second round of the season in Sweden next month.
The release of the entry list for the 13-16 February event marks the largest Rally1 field since Rally Catalunya in 2022, where 12 top-flight cars were also entered.
Privateers Lorenzo Bertelli and Jourdan Serderidis will bolster the Rally Sweden entry, with the former driving a ...Keep reading

On Thursday, The Daily Mail published the rumour that Aston Martin is reportedly approaching sponsors with the intention of signing Max Verstappen on an astronomical £1 billion salary, spread over several years.
Although that amount was mentioned in capital letters, the interest itself should come as no surprise. It is no secret that both Aston Martin and Mercedes are still hoping for the ...Keep reading

Being among the World Rally Championship’s top flight, traversing the start ramp in Monte Carlo’s glitzy Casino Square in front of thousands of fans, is the stuff of dreams for any rally driver. Next week the WRC’s latest top class debutant Josh McErlean will turn that into a reality after a whirlwind off-season that has resulted in the Irishman landing a dream full-time Rally1 opportunity ...Keep reading

Formula 1's driver market for 2026 is expected to be a lot less lively than the seat-swapping antics that spanned the entirety of last season, as many of the championship's key players are locked in for the advent of F1's new regulatory overhaul.
That said, there's one key destination that many of those left out in the cold for 2025 may choose to pursue, as Cadillac's welcome to the grid opens ...Keep reading