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Formula 1’s 75 years of competition have delivered some incredible World Championship battles – but as always, there can only be one winner at the end of it all.

Francesco Bagnaia has revealed that he spent part of MotoGP’s summer break rewatching races from recent years to convince himself that the current Ducati doesn’t suit his riding style – and to reignite his hunger to find the speed he once had.
Given his impressive track record and his status as a double world champion, this year has been Bagnaia’s toughest since his debut in the premier ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell says Lewis Hamilton's fresh start at Ferrari for 2025 was good for all parties as he backed his replacement Andrea Kimi Antonelli to bounce back from a challenging spell.
Hamilton claimed six of his seven world championships with Mercedes over 13 years before departing for Ferrari last winter, as he looked for a fresh, late-career challenge with the iconic Italian ...Keep reading

Sauber's Jonathan Wheatley is confident the latest crop of F1 team bosses will act in the "interest of the sport" as they square off in F1 Commission meetings.
Wheatley joined Sauber in April after a long stint as Red Bull's racing director, while his former Benetton and Renault colleagues Alan Permane and Steve Nielsen have also landed similar roles, with Permane appointed team principal at ...Keep reading

The full potential of Haas' partnership with Toyota is yet to be explored – but it has already helped one of the team's drivers fulfil a childhood dream: Esteban Ocon got to drive the GR Yaris Rally1 car during the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
"I kept telling them since we went to Japan how I love cars and how I always wanted to test a WRC car," Ocon told Motorsport.com. "They gave me my ...Keep reading

Former F1 driver Logan Sargeant is making a surprise return to prototype racing in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, six months after a mysterious split from IDEC Sport Racing and the Hyundai Genesis team.
The 24-year-old American will contest the final two endurance rounds of the season with PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports, driving the #52 Oreca 07-Gibson.
His schedule includes the six-hour race ...Keep reading

During the NASCAR Truck race at Watkins Glen, Jack Wood suffered a major hit against the guardrail in the esses while driving his No. 91 Chevrolet.
He was evaluated and released from the infield care center, but in an announcement on Thursday, the team revealed that Wood will not be racing this weekend at Richmond Raceway.
Bill McAnally Racing stated that it was a "precautionary measure due ...Keep reading

Liam Lawson has cited Qualifying as the main area in which he hopes to improve entering into the second half of the season, with the Racing Bulls driver feeling that his best weekends have occurred when he has had a strong performance on Saturday.

Top MotoGP riders Marc Marquez and Pedro Acosta have both hit out at the stability control system being introduced at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix.
MotoGP announced earlier this week that the new software, which “reduces engine torque if/when the bike slides”, would be rolled out at the Red Bull Ring.
While teams are not obliged to use the system, there will effectively be no ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez says patience will be key as he prepares to defend the second place he currently holds in the MotoGP world championship over the latter half of the season.
The younger Marquez brother heads into this weekend’s Austrian GP 120 points behind his runaway sibling Marc. Having dismissed any realistic chance of catching the rampant factory Ducati rider, Alex must turn his attention to ...Keep reading

Christan Horner has officially left his role as director of Red Bull's various UK entities, one month after his shock sacking.
Horner was removed from his position as Red Bull team principal and CEO just days after the British Grand Prix, with his 20-year reign at Milton Keynes coming to an end after Red Bull's shareholders opted to make a change.
With the Austrian side of the business ...Keep reading

Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira are being asked to wait longer before a final call is made on which of them will keep his Pramac Yamaha ride next season.
With Toprak Razgatlioglu having been confirmed in June as one of the satellite team’s 2026 riders, it has been clear for some time that at least one of Miller or Oliveira will have to find an alternative ride for next season.
Read ...Keep reading

Explore the defining moments, mastery in the rain, and enduring presence of Ayrton Senna, a Formula 1 legend whose impact reaches far beyond the track.

Before the season kicked off, we asked F1 TV commentator and F2 expert Alex Jacques for his lowdown on the new crop of rookies joining motorsport's top tier. And now, as the drivers and teams rest up in the summer break, we asked Alex to assess how each of the rookies is doing, midway through their maiden campaign…

As Robin Frijns looks to be out of Formula E following his departure from Envision, a huge grid shake-up is unfolding for the championship ahead of the 2025-26 season.
McLaren’s exit from Formula E was unsurprisingly a big catalyst in this, guaranteeing at least two full-time drivers from last season would be out of a drive as only 10 teams remained. In addition to this, it’s understood ...Keep reading

Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri targeted improved qualifying performances in the off-season prior to 2025, which he believes has translated into stronger overall races throughout the year.
After two years spent largely in the shadow of McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, Piastri began his third season in much greater form and leads the Briton by nine points in the championship with 10 ...Keep reading

Mercedes have praised Kimi Antonelli for the progress he has made during his rookie F1 season so far, believing the teenager is now “finding his feet more quickly” at race weekends after approaching early rounds “with a degree of caution”.

If McLaren had to sprint until the final hurdle of the 2024 season to fend off Ferrari's prancing horse for the team's first constructors' crown since 1998, then it is heading towards a second title at a canter this year.
Its 11 wins in 14 is almost double the six victories claimed last year, and with no interlopers this time, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will decide amongst themselves who ...Keep reading

Ollie Bearman has been reflecting on the first half of his rookie campaign in F1, with the Briton admitting that he has had to learn from “costly mistakes” along the way.

Coming in at No. 12 on our list of F1's Greatest Races is the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix, a race that saw Ayrton Senna claim a long-awaited home victory in dramatic circumstances. Anna Francis looks back on that momentous day at Interlagos…