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Harry Benjamin and the team reflect on the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

The 2025 season marks a decade in which the NASCAR Cup Series has functionally operated under the ‘charter agreement,’ but it’s also the first year of the second document and first extension to an agreement first crafted in advance of the 2016 season.
It’s also the first season that began with a lawsuit with two teams alleging federal antitrust violations against the sanctioning body ...Keep reading

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The betting odds surrounding the 2025 Formula 1 drivers' championship have taken a hit following the dramatic disqualification of the McLaren team after the Las Vegas Grand Prix. While Lando Norris remains at the top of the standings going into the Qatar race week, Max Verstappen's current form sees him closer in both points and odds.
Leading sportsbooks have adjusted their lines after the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 fans have been left stunned by McLaren's double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
After Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finished the race around the streets of Sin City in second and fourth place, their cars failed to meet the minimum thickness requirement of the rear skid block, leading to a double disqualification. 
While it was a disastrous weekend for the Woking ...Keep reading

The 38th annual Autosport Awards will be hosted for the first time by award-winning broadcaster and lifelong motorsport fan Greg James.
Best known as the host of BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast Show and co-host of The Fast and the Curious Formula 1 podcast, James brings a fan’s perspective alongside his trademark humour and energy to racing’s most influential night.
A Motorsport Network ...Keep reading

Winner: Max Verstappen
Even before McLaren's double disqualification, this was a pretty good day out for Max Verstappen. The Dutchman man not be a big admirer of Sin City and its mirage of faux opulence, but he can't stop celebrating one highlight after another. One year on from claiming his fourth world title, Verstappen got the better of Lando Norris at the start and then dominated the race ...Keep reading

McLaren has apologised to its drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri for its costly double disqualification at Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix, as it explained what went wrong.
Norris and Piastri finished second and fifth respectively on the streets of Las Vegas, before both drivers were thrown out of the results for excessive plank wear.
McLaren exhaustively attempted to argue to the ...Keep reading

Two races after Formula 1 race control drew criticism for a close call between two marshals and Liam Lawson at the Mexico Grand Prix, the timing of a marshal intervention during a race again became a contentious topic in Las Vegas.
After a multi-car clash at the start of the Vegas night race left debris strewn into the Turn 1 run-off area, marshals were deployed from the marshal post on the ...Keep reading

Christian Horner is understood to be a contender for the Aston Martin Formula 1 team principal role as incumbent Andy Cowell looks set to leave, according to reports.
Horner was sacked as Red Bull boss in July after 20 years in the role, winning eight drivers’ titles and six constructors’ crowns in that time. 
He then officially left in September after agreeing to a settlement, believed ...Keep reading

The FIA’s decision documents relating to McLaren’s disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix give insight into how the 2025 Formula 1 constructors’ champions fought their case – to no avail.
Championship leader Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, his team-mate and title rival, have been excluded from the race results due to excessive wear on their respective rear skid ...Keep reading

Immediately after the Las Vegas GP, Lando Norris had one hand on the 2025 Formula 1 world drivers’ championship despite losing out to Max Verstappen in Sin City.
That all changed after both Norris and team-mate – and championship rival – Oscar Piastri were disqualified when their cars failed technical checks.
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In the aftermath of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the usual post-race inspections revealed that both McLaren cars had fallen foul of Formula 1's restrictions on plank wear.
The cars of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had both demonstrated wear beyond the minimum thickness on the rearmost skid block, defined as 9mm by Formula 1's technical regulations. Given that the plank must be 10mm thick when ...Keep reading

McLaren has received a double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix because both of its Formula 1 cars failed to meet the minimum thickness requirement of the rear skid block.
It means Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have respectively lost their second and fourth-place finishes from Saturday night, having breached Article 3.5.9 e) of the 2025 F1 technical regulations.
This states ...Keep reading

Terry Crews brought his 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix to an end by serenading race winner Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and George Russell with a rendition of A Thousand Miles, a callback to his iconic moment in the movie White Chicks.
The Hollywood actor was at the wheel of a driveable LEGO 1950s Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special, built from more than 400,000 bricks, as part of the latest ...Keep reading

Mercedes CEO and team principal Toto Wolff has set the record straight after his recent stake sale led to speculation that he could be preparing to make an exit from the championship. 
After George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli secured P3 and P5 in Las Vegas, Wolff told the media that he has no plans to leave his role.
"Yeah, I have no plan to sell the team or no plan to leave my role," ...Keep reading

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McLaren has been summoned to Formula 1 stewards because both of its cars are in an alleged breach of a technical requirement after the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The MCL39s of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso has delivered a blunt assessment of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, branding the track surface “not Formula 1 standard” and questioning the race’s late-season calendar slot after finishing 13th.
The two-time champion started seventh on the Sin City Strip but slowly slipped outside of the points after sustaining damage early in the race. While he dismissed the idea that following ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 reserve Ayumu Iwasa won Sunday’s final race of the Super Formula season to overturn Sho Tsuboi’s advantage and win the championship.
Iwasa went into the finale trailing Tsuboi by 9.5 points following the morning’s sprint race, in which he finished fourth and Tsuboi seventh, but with the advantage of starting at the head of the field following his double pole position on ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton delivered arguably his most downbeat interviews of the 2025 Formula 1 season, saying he took “zero” consolation from his comeback drive at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The seven-time world champion finished 10th after a disastrous qualifying, in which he came 20th having failed to cross the line in time to set a final flying lap in the wet Q1. 
It came amid a horror debut ...Keep reading