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After collecting 12 stage points and running somewhere between second and seventh for most of the race, Ross Chastain abruptly fell back near the end of the 500-miler at Darlington.
It was a difficult situation for the driver of the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, as he fell from seventh to 11th in the final ten laps of the race. However, it was a necessary sacrifice. 
The team informed ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier says the pursuit of a ninth World Rally Championship title was behind a couple of gambles undertaken on his way to claiming a stunning Rally Paraguay victory. 
The Toyota driver managed to fight back from dropping to eighth after a stage-two puncture to power to a fourth win of the season. The result left Ogier only nine points adrift of championship leader Elfyn Evans with ...Keep reading

Shane van Gisbergen knew the opening round of the 2025 NASCAR Cup playoffs would be difficult, but he had hoped that Darlington would be a strong showing for his No. 88 team.
Unfortunately, it was instead a frustrating 500 miles, and luck wasn't on his side either. SVG complained about the balance of the car early, and despite a daring last-lap charge to steal the free pass at the end of Stage ...Keep reading

The Southern 500 was a bit of a mess for Hendrick Motorsports.
Upon crossing the finish line in 21st, William Byron had crew chief Rudy Fugle in his ear with a message for his entire No. 24 team.
"We're embarrassed. We've got to execute a lot better all around. Nothing comfortable. We didn't do shit today. We've got to improve and get better and race our ass off every week or it's going to ...Keep reading

While Oscar Piastri had a perfect day in the Formula 1 title race, Isack Hadjar may well be the biggest winner of the Dutch Grand Prix.
Hadjar claimed his very first podium finish – and did so in impressive fashion. To the surprise of many, the rookie put his Racing Bulls fourth on the grid, and followed that up with a flawless race. He did not crack under pressure, and moved up a position ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell suffered damage at Darlington that severely impacted the performance of his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, but it didn't happen out on the race track.
While exiting his pit box during a round of pit stops under caution, the driver who caused the yellow crossed paths with him at the worst possible moment. Bell was leaving his stall while Carson Hocevar was entering his own ...Keep reading

On the opening lap of the Southern 500, it looked like Tyler Reddick's race might already be over as he got doored by an out-of-control Josh Berry and began to spin sideways. Somehow, the 23XI Racing driver managed to straighten it back out in a heart-stopping moment for the No. 45 team.
After that, he went on to nearly win the grueling 500-mile race. Reddick was closing in on Chase Briscoe as ...Keep reading

Enea Bastianini has urged MotoGP to make modifications to the new Balaton Park Circuit to prevent a potential tragedy, after suffering one of the most frightening crashes of his MotoGP career at the Hungarian venue.
The Tech 3 rider was fortunate to escape unscathed in an opening lap shunt at the returning Hungarian Grand Prix last month.
Entering the first chicane, Bastianini lost the front ...Keep reading

The lap times defied logic, and Derek Bell sidled up to the Nurburgring pitwall. He suggested it might be time to hang out the 'HOLD' board to his mercurial young team-mate.
Porsche's management didn't agree, and minutes later Stefan Bellof crashed out of the lead in spectacular fashion after taking off at Pflanzgarten.
The events of the 1983 Nurburgring 1000Km – before and after the ...Keep reading

McLaren endured the extremes of human emotion at Zandvoort on Sunday as one of their drivers excelled while the other suffered the pain of a shock retirement in a chaotic Dutch Grand Prix. Lawrence Barretto picks out his winners and losers from the first race after the summer break...

Liam Lawson and Carlos Sainz have given their opinions on the collision between themselves during the Dutch Grand Prix which ruined their chances of finishing in the points.

George Russell was the only Mercedes driver to finish the race in the points in Zandvoort, but despite coming home what seemed a credible fourth, he was left frustrated and disappointed with how his Sunday panned out.

Two crashed cars and no points made the Dutch Grand Prix a dispiriting event for Scuderia Ferrari. But actually, both team boss Frederic Vasseur and Lewis Hamilton were taking positives from it.

In a race where pit road blunders seemed to be the theme for the title contenders, and Hendrick Motorsports was surprisingly off their game, Chase Briscoe was near-perfect as he won the Southern 500 for the second consecutive year.
However, there were seven Playoff drivers who finished 20th or worse, including Josh Berry, who wrecked on the opening lap.
After 500 miles of racing at the track ...Keep reading

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has insisted that Antonelli's clash with Charles Leclerc in F1's Dutch Grand Prix is part of his rookie learning and encourages the Italian youngster to keep going for aggressive overtakes.
As Leclerc fought to hold off both Mercedes drivers for fifth place in the latter stages of the Zandvoort race, Antonelli put pressure on Ferrari with a second pitstop to soft ...Keep reading

Toyota has taken the covers off the Supra racer with which it will enter the Supercars championship in 2026.
The Japanese manufacturer released the first images of the Supra prototype at the launch event for the Bathurst 1000 in Sydney on Monday.​It followed a year after a clay model of the car was showcased to the public at Supercars’ blue-riband round in October 2024.​The ‘Supracar’ ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton cut a disconsolate figure even before turning a wheel during the Dutch GP weekend, arriving at Ferrari’s pre-event press conference with his coat zipped up around his face, and muttering his monosyllabic responses to questions into it rather than the microphone. But despite this, a pair of practice sessions which team boss Frederic Vasseur described as Ferrari’s “worst Friday ...Keep reading

Formula E star Nick Cassidy will join Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship Hypercar squad for the 2026 season. 
The move confirmed on Monday is set to be part of a wider deal for the former Envision and Jaguar FE driver with Peugeot parent, Stellantis: he looks likely to race for the team hitherto known as Maserati MSG Racing in FE in 2025/26.
Cassidy is making a move to the pinnacle of ...Keep reading

Toyota driver Mike Conway will miss this weekend’s Austin round of the World Endurance Championship with a shoulder injury and will be replaced by Jose Maria Lopez. 
Conway injured his collarbone last week in what was described by Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe as a “training incident”. 
Lopez will stand in for the Briton in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar alongside Kamui ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen had “hoped for a little bit more” from the Dutch Grand Prix and conceded that Red Bull’s limitations were “very obvious” despite finishing second at Zandvoort.