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Honda’s leading three MotoGP riders were all glowing with praise for the RC213V following the first day’s action at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Friday.
After a form dip in Australia last weekend, the Japanese marque rediscovered its recent upward trajectory in Practice at Sepang, with LCR’s Johann Zarco second-fastest and factory rider Joan Mir fourth-quickest.
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Max Verstappen's late 2025 Formula 1 title push has received another shot in the arm as Red Bull unveiled a raft of upgrades at this weekend's Mexico Grand Prix.
Third-placed Verstappen has closed to within 40 points of McLaren's championship leader Oscar Piastri after taking three wins out of four. Heading to this weekend's Mexico GP as the pre-event favourite, the Dutchman will now receive ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton stated that Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris must become “cutthroat” to hold off Max Verstappen in the 2025 Formula 1 world drivers’ championship battle. 
Verstappen has put himself in contention for the title by winning three of the past four grands prix, plus the Austin sprint race - ending the belief that it was just between the McLaren duo. 
It comes after Red Bull ...Keep reading

Isack Hadjar laughed off the suggestion that he already knows he is set to join Red Bull for the 2026 Formula 1 campaign. 
Red Bull previously stated it aims to announce its 2026 driver line-up around this weekend’s Mexico Grand Prix, plus that of sister squad Racing Bulls, which Hadjar currently drives for.
Hadjar has impressed in his rookie 2025 season and it is expected that the ...Keep reading

Yamaha’s second wildcard outing with its new V4-powered MotoGP bike offered little fresh insight at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Friday, as the manufacturer opted to run the bike in a conservative “safe mode”.
Yamaha’s 2026 prototype returned to action for the first time since last month’s Misano test, with Augusto Fernandez completing 26 laps of the Sepang International Circuit across ...Keep reading

Lando Norris says Red Bull and Max Verstappen’s recent resurgence is anything but surprising, and believes McLaren has made much bigger steps of its own over the past few years. 
After the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, Verstappen trailed the championship lead by 104 points, but with five rounds remaining that deficit has shrunk to 40. The turnaround comes as Red Bull continued the ...Keep reading

Gresini Ducati rider Fermin Aldeguer has hinted that he might be a dark horse for this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, despite failing to make it directly into Saturday’s Q2 session.
Although things went awry for the Spaniard when he couldn’t adapt to the unpredictable conditions late in Practice, Aldeguer finished Friday quietly confident after showing generally strong pace.
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Among the starkest lessons of the 2025 season has been that if you want to win grands prix, you have to adopt extreme solutions – particularly with the way you run the floor, the most important downforce-generator on the car. McLaren offers the proof: the superiority it showed in the first part of the year stemmed precisely from hidden innovations guiding the design of the MCL39. Red Bull's ...Keep reading

Aprilia endured a difficult Friday at the Malaysian Grand Prix, less than a week on from its dominant victory in Australia.
In a topsy-turvy practice session that was affected by a brief shower and slippery condition, the fastest RS-GP finished 14th and more than seven tenths off the pace set by KTM’s Pedro Acosta.
While the changeable weather played a role in all four Aprilia bikes being ...Keep reading

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi is at a loss to explain Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia’s ongoing problems aboard the Ducati GP25, but says he is trying to help the double world champion return to his best.
Bagnaia is a graduate of Rossi’s VR46 Academy, along with VR46 Ducati rider Franco Morbidelli, factory Honda man Luca Marini and works Aprilia star Marco Bezzecchi. But, like the factory ...Keep reading

The World Endurance Championship could introduce success handicaps in the Hypercar division for its 2026 season.
The new sporting rules for the series next year contain the provision to extend the use of the performance-balancing measure from LMGT3 to the top class. 
But the FIA, which runs the WEC together with Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, has stressed that ...Keep reading

One week on from being slapped on the wrists by Alpine for ignoring team orders, Franco Colapinto enters a crucial set of races to secure his Formula 1 future. 
At the end of last weekend's United States Grand Prix in Austin, Colapinto was ordered to hold station by Alpine while fighting team-mate Pierre Gasly for 17th place. 
Colapinto ignored the order and passed Gasly anyway, given the ...Keep reading

Marking 10 years since its return, the Mexico City Grand Prix has evolved into one of Formula 1’s most playful weekends. Blending sport, culture and celebration, it’s a race where local pride and global spectacle collide – and one of the only races where the energy and noise of the crowd can overpower the roar of the engines.

Charles Leclerc took his first podium since Belgium at last week’s United States Grand Prix, but has moved to limit expectations of further successes this season.

Max Verstappen has rapidly closed in on Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in the title fight – but what does the data say about the Red Bull driver’s championship prospects?

F1 ACADEMY has announced the renewal and expansion of its support for global karting series Champions of The Future Academy.

Isack Hadjar admits that the prospect of joining Max Verstappen at Red Bull for the 2026 season "really excites me" as speculation grows about where he will be racing next year.

Struggling lead factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia admitted he got caught out by the tricky weather at Sepang on Friday, which resulted in him missing out on direct passage to Q2 after a promising day.
Bagnaia said he left the pitlane too late to win a late battle for fast laps that had looked unlikely when rain had forced everyone into their garages a few minutes earlier.
“It’s ...Keep reading

Two drivers are guaranteed a spot in the Championship 4 via wins, and they are the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates of Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe.
That leaves six drivers to fight for the remaining two spots at Martinsville this weekend. Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson have a large margin over the elimination zone, but there is just one point between the two of them.
A win by Joey Logano ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton warns McLaren's title contenders Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris about Max Verstappen's "cut-throat" character as they head into the final five races of the season.