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Max Verstappen has labelled the 2025 season as the best he’s driven in his career, despite missing out on his fifth world championship by just two points to McLaren’s Lando Norris.

Honda have announced their launch date for the brand new power unit that will be supplied exclusively to Aston Martin from 2026, marking an exciting "new era" for both the team and manufacturer.

Genesis signing Daniel Juncadella insists a professional GT driver like him only needs one day to get up to speed in a hypercar in the World Endurance Championship, playing down the difficulty of the switch.
The Spaniard will join the WEC's top class in 2026, sharing a Genesis GMR-001 with Mathieu Jaminet and Paul-Loup Chatin as Hyundai’s luxury marque enters Hypercar.
Juncadella has ...Keep reading

Honda has confirmed that its 2026 Formula 1 power unit will be unveiled on 20 January during an event in Tokyo.
The 2026 season will kick off Honda's partnership with the Aston Martin F1 team.
After parting ways with Red Bull at the end of 2025, as the Milton Keynes outfit moves to produce Red Bull Powertrains in collaboration with Ford, the Japanese manufacturer signed exclusively with ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia admitted that it was hard for him to accept that he was no longer fighting for regular race wins and podiums during the 2025 MotoGP season.
Bagnaia entered the year with renewed motivation and a desire to retake the throne in MotoGP following his title defeat to Jorge Martin in 2024. He was also eager to assert his status at Ducati after the arrival of former Honda star Marc ...Keep reading

Lando Norris was officially crowned as a Formula 1 world champion at the FIA Prize Giving Gala in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, but while fans celebrated the driver lifting his trophy for the first time, they were quick to comment on the exchanges between the McLaren driver and FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem. 
Just days after sealing the title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Norris appeared on stage ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has today announced that it will return to Portugal in 2027 and 2028 as part of a two-year agreement with the Portuguese government, Turismo de Portugal, and promoter Parkalgar, Parques Tecnológicos e Desportivos, S.A.

Footage has emerged on social media of the McLaren Christmas party, including funny, unfiltered moments from Zak Brown's speech and Oscar Piastri poking fun at the team's double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix. 
It is fair to say the drinks were flowing at the Woking outfit's Christmas party after Lando Norris claimed his first championship title and the team secured another ...Keep reading

Some have already labelled them the odd couple, while others predict they won’t even make it together to the first grand prix of the 2026 MotoGP campaign in March. Jorge Lorenzo, however, brushes off such comments with the same mindset that defined him during his racing career - letting them go in one ear and out the other.
Now, six years after hanging up his leathers, and 10 years on from ...Keep reading

Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli has revealed that a tough post-race meeting after a poor Italian Grand Prix led to a mental reset for the rest of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Following a bright start, which included a sprint pole in Miami, Antonelli's maiden campaign was derailed due to an ill-fated Mercedes suspension update that sapped him of confidence, while the increased interest and ...Keep reading

The F1 movie has reached the top of the Apple TV streaming charts after its release on the platform.
The Brad Pitt-led film hit Apple TV on Friday 12 December, allowing subscription holders to watch the movie for free.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, F1 follows nomadic driver Sonny Hayes (Pitt) as he returns to Formula 1 to join the struggling APXGP, run by his ...Keep reading

More than a question of points scored and positions in the standings, the goal of Andrea Kimi Antonelli's first season in Formula 1 was to convince Mercedes management that it had made the right choice by turning to the teenager as its long-term replacement for seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
It was a bold choice that was not without its risks, but Mercedes knew this going in. "We are ...Keep reading

Portugal will return to the F1 calendar in 2027 and 2028, with a race held at the Algarve International Circuit near Portimao.

Algarve International Circuit will return to the Formula 1 calendar for the 2027 and 2028 seasons.
Located near Portimao in southern Portugal, the track will take Zandvoort’s spot as the Dutch circuit exits after just a six-year stint.
Algarve previously hosted F1 on two occasions, in the COVID-affected 2020 and 2021 campaigns. Both races were won by Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton – with ...Keep reading

Kyffin Simpson is thinking long-term with the addition of Sunoco coming onboard as his full-time sponsor in 2026.
How long-term? To the point of being synonymous in the archives of motorsports such as Rick Mears and Pennzoil, Al Unser Jr and Valvoline, Jeff Gordon and Dupont, or even Jimmie Johnson and Lowe’s.
Even Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR), the organization Simpson drives for in the No. 8 ...Keep reading

On 26 November, Aston Martin announced that Adrian Newey would be its Formula 1 team principal for the 2026 season.
Legendary Formula 1 engineer Newey joined Aston on 1 March as managing technical director and will take over from current team boss Andy Cowell, who is stepping aside to become chief strategy officer.
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Honda will test its 2027 MotoGP prototype for the first time at the Sepang International Circuit this week, as it bids to become a dominant force in the championship once again.
After KTM became the first manufacturer to debut its new 850cc engine at Jerez this month, Honda will become just the second manufacturer to premiere its 2027 bike with Pirelli tyres on Wednesday.
The Japanese ...Keep reading

Although the 2025 Formula 1 title fight went down to the final race in Abu Dhabi, the tension in the paddock was completely different than in 2021. Four years ago, the atmosphere between Red Bull and Mercedes was hostile at times, even though Max Verstappen laughed it off at the 2025 finale.
“Well, hostile, hostile… Nobody punched each other, right? I didn’t find it hostile,” said the ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles made his competitive racing return at the 2025 Gulf 12 Hours with Garage 59.
Vowles's appearance came three years after his previous stint in the driver's seat in 2022, when the Briton competed in the Asian Le Mans Series in a McLaren 720S GT3 with Garage 59.
After taking part in a two-day test in the same car at the Circuito de Navarra in Spain between ...Keep reading