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NETHERLANDS LOWDOWN: All the key moments from the Dutch GP

Formula 1 - Mon, 2025-09-01 09:25
Zandvoort delivered the drama as F1 returned to action for a final 10-round run – Oscar Piastri storming to victory, team mate and title rival Lando Norris retiring, Isack Hadjar scoring his first-ever podium, and much, much more...

Mercedes explains delay to 2026 F1 driver contracts

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 09:21
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has explained he needs to sort out the finer details of George Russell’s 2026 Formula 1 contract before making next year's line-up official.
Wolff has always insisted he wanted to keep both Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli next season, though a layer of doubt lingered until Max Verstappen became contractually unavailable in late July due to a performance clause ...Keep reading

Genesis complete first test of new Hypercar challenge for WEC 2026

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 09:09
Genesis completed approximately 3000km with its new World Endurance Championship challenger during the first wave of track testing for the LMDh prototype last month. 
Genesis Magma Racing managed in excess of 500 laps at Circuit Paul Ricard over five days of running in the final two weeks of August with Andre Lotterer and Pipo Derani aboard the first GMR-001 Hypercar. 
Testing began on 19 ...Keep reading

Luca Marini and Johann Zarco ink new MotoGP contracts with Honda

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 08:43
Luca Marini will remain with Honda until the end of the current MotoGP rule cycle after signing a new one-year contract extension
As reported by Motorsport.com in July, the factory Honda team will carry an unchanged line-up into 2026, with both Marini and Joan Mir being retained by the squad.
Mir already had a two-year deal valid until the end of next season, while Marini’s new contract ...Keep reading

Chase Briscoe win, pit road woes shake up NASCAR playoffs

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 07:26
It would be hyperbole to say this one single race changed the entire dynamic of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs but the Southern 500 did threaten the expected status quo on Sunday night.
For one, it’s not like Chase Briscoe winning the race was some tremendous upset because why wouldn’t he challenge for the win in a Joe Gibbs Racing car after winning last year with Stewart-Haas ...Keep reading

Zandvoort DNF might unleash ‘even better version’ of Lando Norris – McLaren

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 07:16
McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andrea Stella has again praised Lando Norris’ personality, and warned he might unleash his full potential following his Dutch Grand Prix retirement.
Norris was a close second behind team-mate and championship leader Oscar Piastri in the Zandvoort race when smoke started billowing out of his MCL39 with just eight laps remaining. “The engine just shut off and that ...Keep reading

Who slept worst last night: Lando Norris

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 06:58
There he sat, forlorn and broken, among the dunes of Zandvoort. He peeled the knee pads from his legs, his gaze fixed on Oscar Piastri celebrating the Dutch Grand Prix of 2025. For this was the weekend that Lando Norris’ Formula 1 title chances became ever slimmer. 
When his McLaren failed on lap 65 of 72, Ralf Schumacher immediately grasped the gravity on commentary for Sky Sports Germany ...Keep reading

Who slept best last night: Isack Hadjar

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 06:41
Isack Hadjar isn’t your typical Formula 1 driver. He’ll come to the media straight after a session – qualifying or race – when he hasn’t really extracted the maximum, and there’ll be no excuses. He’d give very short answers. He’ll look straight at whoever is asking a question and say something really harsh about himself – to the point where some of these short meetings with a ...Keep reading

Chase Briscoe goes back-to-back in dramatic Southern 500 Darlington win

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 03:23
Chase Briscoe led 309 of 367 laps in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and swept the stages, but he nearly lost it all in the final corner. Tyler Reddick made a huge dive to the inside, but he couldn't quite get there, allowing Briscoe to earn his second consecutive Southern 500 -- doing so with two different teams.
Briscoe is the first driver to go back-to-back in the crown jewel event since ...Keep reading

Winners and Losers of the 2025 IndyCar Nashville Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 02:04
With the title race wrapped up and even second in the bag, there was little to race for but pride Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway. But that didn’t stop the NTT IndyCar Series field from putting together another hectic, unpredictable oval race to cap off the 2025 season.
There were a few key prizes up for grabs - namely third in points and the Rookie of the Year award. But for most in the ...Keep reading

Louis Foster secures 2025 IndyCar Rookie of the Year honors in Nashville

Motorsport - Mon, 2025-09-01 00:09
The 2025 NTT IndyCar Series finale didn’t go to plan for Louis Foster and the No. 45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team, but the Briton left the weekend with Rookie of the Year honors after a dramatic late race swing.
Foster qualified a distant 23rd and spent most of Sunday’s race on the back-foot. The 22-year-old was lapped early and then hit with a penalty for a controversial run-in with ...Keep reading

What the teams said – Race day in the Netherlands

Formula 1 - Mon, 2025-09-01 00:01
The drivers and teams report back on all the action from Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix.

Hamilton gets five-place grid penalty for Italian Grand Prix

Formula 1 - Mon, 2025-09-01 00:01
Lewis Hamilton has been given a five-place grid penalty for Ferrari’s home race at Monza after he was found guilty of a yellow flag breach prior to the Dutch Grand Prix.

WRC championship twist as Hyundai retires Adrien Fourmaux after Rally Paraguay

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-08-31 23:35
In a strange turn of events, Elfyn Evans’ World Rally Championship lead has been further reduced as a consequence following Hyundai’s decision to retire Adrien Fourmaux from Rally Paraguay after the finish of the rally.
Fourmaux was on course to claim a podium, having held second heading into the final Power Stage before heavy rain affected the later runners, with Fourmaux and eventual ...Keep reading

Josh Berry in playoff peril after clumsy Lap 1 wreck at Darlington

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-08-31 23:28
Many pointed to Josh Berry and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford as a first-round exit in the NASCAR Cup Playoffs, but Berry surprised many with a third-place qualifying effort at Darlington.
Unfortunately, the momentum didn't carry over into the race. In the very first corner on the opening lap, Berry's car bottomed out and he snapped sideways, slamming the door of fellow playoff driver Tyler ...Keep reading

Penske’s Josef Newgarden wins wild 2025 IndyCar Nashville finale

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-08-31 22:26
In the finale of a 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season defined by the things that went wrong, everything finally went right for Josef Newgarden at Nashville Superspeedway. “I’m just glad we got one without anything going wrong,” he said afterward.
Newgarden snuck past Team Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin after he got into the wall with 21 laps remaining and survived the final run with ...Keep reading

Early Nashville accidents claim IndyCar frontrunners Pato O’Ward, David Malukas

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-08-31 21:52
Heading into Sunday’s Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, Pato O'Ward and David Malukas were poised to square off from the front row. And for the 225-lap event’s first two stints, that’s exactly what they did.
But by the time the race entered its final 100 laps, both drivers were out of the running.
Malukas entered Nashville eager to impress, still rumored to be in the running to ...Keep reading

Norris retires as Piastri wins chaotic Dutch GP

Formula 1 at the BBC - Sun, 2025-08-31 21:14
Lando Norris retires with an apparent engine failure as McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri takes a controlled victory in the Dutch Grand Prix.

Norris retires as Piastri wins chaotic Dutch GP

Formula 1 at the BBC - Sun, 2025-08-31 21:14
Lando Norris retires with an apparent engine failure as McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri takes a controlled victory in the Dutch Grand Prix.

Norris retires as Piastri wins chaotic Dutch GP

Formula 1 at the BBC - Sun, 2025-08-31 21:14
Lando Norris retires with an apparent engine failure as McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri takes a controlled victory in the Dutch Grand Prix.

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