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The McLaren MCL39 has been voted the 2025 Autosport Competition Car of the Year.
McLaren’s last ground-effect Formula 1 challenger was the car to beat in 2025, taking 14 grand prix wins and 13 pole positions. McLaren won the constructors’ championship and Lando Norris took his first drivers’ title, with team-mate Oscar Piastri third in the points.
Motorsport readers have voted the ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has won Autosport’s 2025 Driver of the Year Award, following a fan vote.
The Red Bull star scored eight wins as he battled McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri for the crown, falling just two points short despite a difficult start to the campaign with the RB21.
Motorsport readers have voted Verstappen the best racing driver of 2025, ahead of world champion Norris ...Keep reading

The McLaren Formula 1 Team has become the first winner of the Autosport Team of the Year Award.
McLaren took an F1 title double in 2025, wrapping up its 10th constructors’ crown and 13th drivers’ championship with Lando Norris. Norris and team-mate Oscar Piastri won 14 of the 24 grands prix with McLaren’s MCL39.
Motorsport readers have voted McLaren the top team of 2025, ahead of ...Keep reading

Ross Brawn has received the prestigious Autosport Gold Medal at the 38th Autosport Awards.
The multiple-championship winning engineer, strategist and team boss was presented with his award by ex-commentator James Allen at London’s Roundhouse on 21 January.
Brawn, who scored successes with Benetton, Ferrari and his own squad before spending time as part of F1’s management, is the fourth ...Keep reading

Robert Kubica’s victory for Ferrari at the Le Mans 24 Hours has won Autosport’s 2025 Moment of the Year presented by Bahrain International Circuit.
The ex-Formula 1 driver starred at Le Mans, driving AF Corse’s satellite Ferrari 499P with Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson. The trio secured Ferrari’s 12th Le Mans win just 14.1 seconds ahead of the chasing Porsche.
Le Mans victory was ...Keep reading

P1 with Matt and Tommy has won Autosport’s new fan-voted Creator of the Year Award, recognising the duo for bringing heightened energy, curiosity, and fandom to Formula 1 throughout 2025.
The popular F1-focused brand, led by Matt Gallagher and Tommy Bellingham, collected the award on 21 January at the 38th Autosport Awards at the Roundhouse in London.
In a category designed to celebrate ...Keep reading

Formula 1 driver Isack Hadjar is the winner of Autosport’s 2025 Rookie of the Year Award.
The 21-year-old Frenchman, who is graduating to the Red Bull team in 2026 alongside Max Verstappen, finished 12th in the drivers’ standings with Racing Bulls.
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Hailie Deegan is getting back behind the wheel of a stock car. She has signed a deal to compete for the 2026 ARCA Menards Series West championship with Bill McAnally Racing (BMR). She will pilot the No. 16 Chevrolet with sponsorship from NAPA and Monster Energy.
Although she has previous experience in NASCAR, Deegan spent the 2025 season competing full-time as an Indy NXT driver for HMD ...Keep reading

Three-time Formula 1 champion and motorsport legend Sir Jackie Stewart has offered his verdict on Lando Norris after the Briton secured his first drivers' title in 2025. 
Speaking at the Autosport Awards, where the McLaren driver was celebrated by the organisation, Sir Stewart was asked about how he rated Norris as a champion. 
“He’s a very stable young man,” he said. "First of all ...Keep reading

2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin has secured a contract with Mercedes as a development driver.
After two seasons in the all-female racing series and as part of the Mercedes junior programme, the French driver will move up to be part of a team of drivers who work on simulator development, alongside other factory and trackside duties. 
In addition to the simulator work, Pin will work with ...Keep reading

Dressed to the nines at the Autosport Awards, Lando Norris stepped onto the red carpet as a Formula 1 world champion for the first time. But while it would have been easy for the Briton to wax lyrical about his performance this year, instead he reflected on a moment with racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart in 2013. 
Norris's rise in the world of racing from a young junior racer to a grand prix ...Keep reading

Ed Carpenter Racing announced several changes to its organization ahead of the 2026 season in the IndyCar Series.
Among the notable alterations to the team, which is set to contest its 15th campaign in North America’s premier open-wheel championship, is Matt Barnes being promoted to Vice President of Competition following extended runs as a race engineer and chief engineer. He carries 23 ...Keep reading

David Croft used this year's Autosport Awards to celebrate and reflect on the moments that still make him laugh out loud. 
Croft, affectionately known as "Crofty" by friends and fans, has more than a decade of grand prix experience as a commentator. Through the microphones of Sky Sports and the BBC, he's commentated on many of the championship's greatest and most defining moments. 
But ...Keep reading

Red Bull Racing team principal Laurent Mekies has detailed how the Milton Keynes outfit will support Isack Hadjar in his first season with the team.
The French-Algerian driver impressed during his rookie Formula 1 season with Red Bull sister team Racing Bulls, which secured him the seat alongside four-time champion Max Verstappen for 2026.
Red Bull has not shied away from making bold driver ...Keep reading

Heading a diverse shortlist of nominees, the female motorsport programme More than Equal took home the Award for Pioneering and Innovation at the 38th Autosport Awards, held at London’s Roundhouse.
Founded by ex-Formula 1 driver David Coulthard and Czech lottery billionaire Karel Komarek, More than Equal is the first and only dedicated research programme on women in motorsport, with the ...Keep reading

One of the viral content highlights of 2025, Red Bull’s film for Ford featuring Max Verstappen and Chris Harris, has taken home the prestigious Brand Partnership Award at the 38th Autosport Awards.
The 38-minute edit, which has so far garnered almost eight million views on YouTube and attracted over 9000 comments, came out on top in a packed field of entries, the largest so far submitted for ...Keep reading

Miami Grand Prix took home the coveted Autosport Promoter of the Year Award at the 38th Autosport Awards in London, coming out on top in a highly competitive field.
A panel of independent expert judges found that the race, which celebrated its fourth edition in 2025, had made the biggest step forward out of the shortlisted nominees, especially in comparison to the first race held in ...Keep reading

F1 ACADEMY champion Doriane Pin is increasing her duties with the Mercedes F1 team as she becomes one of their Development Drivers for 2026.

Laurent Mekies has shared an insight into how Red Bull can keep Max Verstappen onboard should the team face early struggles in 2026 as they begin manufacturing their own power units for the first time.

With the first official images of the Red Bull RB22, Racing Bulls VCARB O3 and the Haas VF-26 (as well as some footage of the Cadillac being shaken down at Silverstone), we are seeing the first signs of how the various F1 teams have responded to the all-new regulations.