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Re-elected FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is lining up another project with hypercar manufacturer Koenigsegg. The Dubai native has a lot of love for the Swedish car company, with him already owning two Regeras and a Chimera, but he's now working on a totally one-off build that he shared with motoring personality Tim Burton, owner of the Shmee150 brand.
The British supercar content creator ...Keep reading

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected as president of the FIA. 
Ben Sulayem controversially ran unopposed in this year’s presidential election, which took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, ahead of the 2025 prize-giving ceremony. The Emirati will serve a second four-year term, having first been elected in 2021 with 61.62% of the vote to then deputy president for sport Graham Stoker's ...Keep reading

Helmut Marko has revealed the reasons why he’s leaving Red Bull’s Formula 1 project at the end of the year, citing Max Verstappen’s 2025 title loss as a major factor.
Marko is ending a 25-year stint as one of Red Bull’s bosses in motorsport, having led its Junior Team since 2001 and acted as an advisor for the brand’s F1 squads since 2005. The Austrian played a key role in the rise of ...Keep reading

Vanwall is preparing to return to action in the World Endurance Championship after two years of work to update and improve its hypercar.
After a brief stint in the top endurance series, the British brand's car, prepared by ByKolles Racing, has remained inactive over the last two years. But the Austrian team has been working to resolve the issues that arose during its difficult 2023 adventure in ...Keep reading

Ex-McLaren Formula 1 junior Ugo Ugochukwu topped Super Formula’s post-season test at Suzuka by setting the fastest time of the final day of running and overall.
Ugochukwu, driving the #1 TOM’S Dallara-Toyota normally piloted by Sho Tsuboi, took advantage of near-perfect conditions in the two rookies-only sessions on Friday to set the fastest time of the week, a 1m36.682s, late in the ...Keep reading

It wasn't just raw emotion pouring out of Lando Norris after he was crowned the 2025 Formula 1 world champion in Abu Dhabi.
With the tears of joy came a stream of consciousness giving insight into how he had experienced his rollercoaster 2025 season - the joyous wins, the crushing defeats, the challenge of going up against cold-blooded hegemon Max Verstappen and the prospect of being usurped by ...Keep reading

Julian Clary hosts a brand new panel show celebrating everything he hates about Christmas.

United Autosports will exit its Supercars joint venture to focus on its other commitments, including McLaren’s factory Hypercar programme in the World Endurance Championship from 2027.
As per the agreement, Walkinshaw Group and Andretti’s parent company TWG Global will consolidate their ownership and acquire United’s existing shareholding in the outfit.
The change will come into effect ...Keep reading

As Brad Pitt's F1 movie lands on Apple TV on 12 December, American fans are about to get an at-home replay of a film that has done something pretty special: it made Formula 1 feel like a mainstream US blockbuster.
Long before the movie's streaming debut, F1 already had a lot to tell of its success in the States. As we've mentioned countless times before on this website, Netflix's Drive to ...Keep reading

Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner has argued that Yuki Tsunoda should not have been penalised during the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The Japanese driver was handed a five-second time penalty and one penalty point for forcing Lando Norris off the track and making more than one change of direction to defend his position during the race. 
After Norris, who was ...Keep reading

I’m pleased to say we have positively settled this matter.
Representing 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports in its antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, lead attorney Jeffrey Kessler made the announcement to Judge Kenneth D. Bell at 10:03 a.m. in the Potter Courtroom on the second floor of the Western District of North Carolina.
There was still more work to be done to formalize the end of ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda might be only a reserve Red Bull driver in 2026, but the Japanese driver has still developed a strong fan base in his five years in the sport – let’s take a look at his career so far.

Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur believes the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was "not a bad weekend" as both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton reached the points in the final race of the season.

Alex Albon has highlighted his incredible partnership with team-mate Carlos Sainz as a key reason for Williams enjoying its best Formula 1 season for eight years.
The historic British outfit came fifth in the 2025 standings, which is its best result since 2017 after it spent years at the back across the late 2010s to early 2020s. 
That down period came during financial struggles under the ...Keep reading

After over a year of back-and-forth litigation and a trial that lasted nine days, a settlement has finally been reached in the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports vs. NASCAR antitrust lawsuit.
The two parties appeared outside the courthouse with 23XI co-owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin standing shoulder-to-shoulder with NASCAR CEO Jim France. A key pillar of the compromise will be ...Keep reading

Peugeot has announced that Emmanuel Esnault will become its team principal in January ahead of the start of the 2026 World Endurance Championship.
It follows the news that Peugeot’s technical director and de facto leader Oliver Jansonnie will take on a bigger role in 2026 as the head of Stellantis motorsport, replacing the retiring Jean Marc Finot.
Esnault brings with him decades of ...Keep reading

F1 Academy star Alba Larsen has secured a Ferrari-backed seat for the 2026 season of the all-female racing series after joining the Maranello outfit's driver academy in 2025.
The 16-year-old driver delivered some impressive performances during her rookie F1 Academy season with seven top-five finishes and a seventh-place finish in the drivers' standings.
"Racing for Ferrari in F1 Academy is a ...Keep reading

WRT BMW has rejigged its driver line-up for the 2026 World Endurance Championship, with MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi departing the LMGT3 squad after two seasons.​Rossi had been a central figure in BMW’s LMGT3 programme since the inception of the category in 2024, scoring four podiums across 16 appearances in the #46 M4 LMGT3.​However, just a month after the conclusion of the 2025 season in ...Keep reading

The IndyCar Series will have an independent officiating system in place for the 2026 season, the sanctioning body confirmed on Thursday. The new system will also extend to Indy NXT, the undercard of North America’s premier open-wheel championship.
The new independent and not-for-profit organization – INDYCAR Officiating Inc. - has been established and will be governed by a three-person ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz hopes Williams' point-less finish in the Abu Dhabi season finale serves as a "wake-up call" for the team, with the the Spaniard believing it is the best catalyst to take into the off season.