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“The scary thing is he's getting better.” This is how Sebastian Vettel views fellow four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen, who recently completed a remarkable 2025 campaign.
Despite his Red Bull RB21 being inferior to the McLaren MCL39 for most of this season, Verstappen took more wins and more pole positions than any other driver (eight of each). Most importantly, he recovered ...Keep reading

Formula 1’s new 2026 power units will debut at the Circuit de Catalunya in just over five weeks’ time, but questions over a grey area of the new regulations have already come to light.
German outlet Motorsport Magazin revealed that some engine manufacturers have sent a request for clarification to the FIA regarding the compression ratio, one of the parameters changed in the 2026 ...Keep reading

The 2025 MotoGP season was unlike anything we’ve seen this decade, with Marc Marquez dismantling the field on the factory Ducati and turning the championship into a one-man show. Only two riders were able to challenge him on a handful of occasions, and even then, toppling the Spaniard proved a near-impossible task.
Marquez’s late, injury-enforced absence did briefly level the playing field ...Keep reading

After a hot lap of the Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Mercedes reserve driver Fred Vesti tells F1.com about what his role entails and how he plans to make his Formula 1 dream happen.

Carlos Sainz embarked on a new adventure in 2025 when he joined Williams and set about playing a key role in their planned return to winning ways. At the end of a rollercoaster season, which featured early headaches, hard-fought breakthroughs, memorable podium finishes and a remarkable rise to P5 in the Teams’ Championship, he joined F1.com to review it all…

While Charles Leclerc empathised with Lewis Hamilton's tribulations in his first Formula 1 season with Ferrari, the Monegasque felt he had little leeway over 2025 to help the seven-time champion adapt to the team.
Hamilton's struggles were well-publicised over the year, especially in the wake of the attention that his move had commanded. After 11 years with Mercedes, Hamilton needed to adapt to ...Keep reading

While noting the news is 'untimely' as RFK Racing and the NASCAR community are still coming to terms with the tragic plane crash that claimed the life of Greg Biffle and six others, the team has confirmed that Brad Keselowski suffered a broken leg on Thursday.
Keselowski, who drives the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford and is a co-owner at the race team, was skiing with his family when the accident took ...Keep reading

The National Transportation Safety Board has started its investigation into the aviation incident that killed Greg Biffle, his family and three others on Thursday morning at Statesville Regional Airport.
While a preliminary report will be released within 30 days, a full investigation will take 12 to 18 months before the publishing of a final report.
NTSB Member Michael Graham conducted a ...Keep reading

With Max Verstappen announcing his switch to Daniel Ricciardo’s old number 3, and Lando Norris set to take on the champion’s number 1 next season – car numbers are back in focus. Here are 11 times drivers went on to race with another driver's number.

Pierre Gasly has opened up about his rivalry with fellow French Formula 1 driver Esteban Ocon.
The two drivers grew up together and were previously very close, but the Alpine driver explained that there was a turning point in their relationship that they have not been able to recover from.
"We could make a full documentary about this," he told F1.com. "We used to spend Wednesdays and ...Keep reading

McLaren's Lando Norris has become the 21st driver to add his signature to a helmet signed by every living Formula 1 world champion.
Organised by Sir Jackie Stewart for his charity, Race Against Dementia, the helmet was part of a prize draw to raise funds for pioneering research into the prevention and cure of dementia. The winners of the prize draw will receive the helmet, having already had ...Keep reading

Lando Norris's 2025 championship title brought back memories for Jacques Villeneuve of when he won the 1997 Formula 1 championship.
During an appearance on the High Performance podcast, Villeneuve discussed the types of championship wins that take him back to his own experience of claiming a title in 1997.
“Depends which kind of world championship it is and how it's won. Because we've seen ...Keep reading

FOX Sports and IndyCar have confirmed the race broadcast start times of the 2026 season for Indy NXT.
For the second consecutive year, the developmental category for the IndyCar Series will have all 17 rounds shown on live television, with 15 scheduled for FS1 and two on FS2. All practice and qualifying sessions will be shown on a combination of FS1, FS2, the FOX Sports App and FOX ...Keep reading

As the dust settles on a stunning Formula 1 season, Lawrence Barretto looks back at the campaign and selects his overall winners and losers of 2025...

Theo Pourchaire says his move to the World Endurance Championship marks the second phase of his motorsport career, but believes he “deserved better” following his 2023 Formula 2 title.
Pourchaire will join Peugeot’s factory Hypercar team in the WEC next year, racing the 9X8 LMH for the full season after making an early debut in Bahrain last month.
The WEC seat ends a long period of ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says Lewis Hamilton’s tough 2025 Formula 1 season was “not nice to see”.
Despite a sprint victory at the Chinese Grand Prix, Hamilton most often struggled to match team-mate Charles Leclerc and failed to record a single podium finish in his maiden campaign at Ferrari.
By the end of the year, the seven-time world champion was visibly distraught and perplexed by his ...Keep reading

In 2026 Formula 1 faces its biggest technical shake-up in decades, since the rules governing both cars and engines are undergoing far-reaching change.
Inevitably some will arrive at the first race of the season with better solutions than others. But for those left behind, the task of catching up will be made all the more difficult – not just by established limits on development but also by a ...Keep reading

Arvid Lindblad, who will be joining the Formula 1 grid as the only rookie in 2026, has detailed his journey to the championship and how he started his motorsport career in motocross.
The Briton has swiftly risen through the ranks, entering Italian Formula 4 in 2022. He has since raced in F4 UAE and Euro 4 in 2023, Formula Regional Middle East and Formula 3 in 2024 and Formula Regional Oceania ...Keep reading

Gregoire Munster will rejoin M-Sport-Ford for the opening round of the 2026 World Rally Championship next month off the back of competing as a co-driver at the Dakar Rally.
After two full WRC seasons piloting a Ford Puma Rally1, Munster’s rallying future appeared uncertain after M-Sport announced Josh McErlean and new recruit Jon Armstrong as its drivers to contest the full 2026 ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton is turning his back on a difficult first season with the Ferrari Formula 1 team, but not without thanking his colleagues for the support they've given him through 2025. 
A number of photos and reports from Italy have shown that the seven-time champion had sent gifts and a card to his colleagues at Ferrari. Hampers full of Fortnum & Mason tea, biscuits and chocolate were sent to ...Keep reading