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MotoGP championship leader Marco Bezzecchi has been handed a two-position penalty on the starting grid for Sunday's United States Grand Prix, following a qualifying incident with Marc Marquez. 
The Italian will thus start the race in fourth place instead of the second place he earned on the qualifying timesheets. Pedro Acosta (KTM) will inherit Bezzecchi's spot alongside polesitter Fabio Di ...Keep reading

The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville Speedway. The Virginia native now has five poles at the half-mile short track, and 49 total in his career.
"The car is good today," said Hamlin. "We did a lot of really good things in practice. I was hoping to get somewhere in that top eight for qualifying, but ...Keep reading

Nikita Johnson wasn’t the fastest, but was in the right place at the right time to win the first race of a doubleheader weekend for Indy NXT at Barber Motorsports Park.
The Florida native was running third but vaulted to the lead after pole-sitter Alessandro de Tullio and Max Taylor collided with nine laps to go. Johnson was untouchable after leading the field to the restart with five laps ...Keep reading

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi has admitted that the latest aero updates on the factory MotoGP bikes have in part been inspired by the Aprilia package. 
An all-new rear wing appeared on the red machines during Free Practice 2 for the United States Grand Prix on Saturday morning. It evidently got a good reception from factory riders Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia, who both ran the ...Keep reading

F1's expert betting writers have picked their four Bet Builder selections for the Japanese Grand Prix.

Toto Wolff has conceded that George Russell with face a “disadvantage” entering the Japanese Grand Prix, with the team boss admitting that his driver will have to carry the issue he experienced in Qualifying forwards to race day.

Isack Hadjar admits that while scoring points in the Japanese Grand Prix is the goal, the ultimate priority is "to understand how we can make that car faster" after another difficult Qualifying session for Red Bull.

Arvid Lindblad relied on his courage in order to progress to Q3 at the Japanese Grand Prix for Racing Bulls.

The second round of the 2026 F1 Sim Racing World Championship gets underway on Saturday with drivers set to race at the Suzuka International Circuit.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from final practice and Qualifying at Suzuka ahead of the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix.

Fabio di Giannantonio edged out Marco Bezzecchi in the final minutes of qualifying to score his second consecutive pole position of the 2026 MotoGP season at the United States Grand Prix .
Di Giannantonio set a best time of 2m00.136s aboard the VR46 Ducati with just over a minute remaining in Q2, a lap seven tenths under the previous record at Austin.
KTM’s Pedro Acosta secured the ...Keep reading

Cadillac beat Aston Martin to 19th and 20th on the grid of Formula 1’s Japanese Grand Prix, on a tricky weekend for Sergio Perez.
Perez was the faster Cadillac driver on Saturday, with a 1m32.206s putting him 0.440s ahead of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, albeit 1.1s away from 18th-placed Oliver Bearman and 1.3s down on the Q2 cut-off time.
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Formula 1 fans have applauded Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad after an impressive qualifying session for the Japanese Grand Prix. 
The Briton managed to get through to Q3, knocking out four-time champion Max Verstappen, and will start the race at the Suzuka circuit from 10th on the grid.
F1 later released onboard footage showing the rookie patting his car and touching his head to the ...Keep reading

Scott McLaughlin suffered a terrifying crash during second practice at Barber Motorsports Park, impacting it around 60-70mph. The rest of the session was called off.
Going down the front straightaway in the approach of Turn 1, the New Zealander clipped the grass. The backend of his #3 Team Penske Chevrolet snapped around and skated backwards through run off,  gravel trap, and then grass with ...Keep reading

If qualifying is supposed to be the ultimate test of driver skill and all-out car performance, then F1's Saturday afternoons are far removed from that axiom.
The 2026 power unit compromises which have yielded some action-packed racing so far have also destroyed the essence of qualifying - at least for now, as F1 has a couple of weeks to figure itself out before May's Miami Grand Prix amid ...Keep reading

Over the past few months, Michael Jordan and 23XI Racing have taken NASCAR leadership to trial, secured a settlement that changed the way the pay structure for race teams (through the Charter system), and that's before we even get to what's been happening on the track.
Tyler Reddick has won four of the first races races of the 2026 season for the team co-owned by Jordan and Denny Hamlin, and ...Keep reading

Isack Hadjar revealed that Red Bull is bemused by the struggles it is facing at the Japanese Grand Prix as the Austrian outfit has regressed into the Formula 1 midfield.
Red Bull’s new-for-2026 signing will start Sunday’s race at Suzuka in eighth, having qualified 1.2s off polesitter Kimi Antonelli though it was even worse for team-mate Max Verstappen.
The four-time world champion ...Keep reading

It’s time for Round 2 of the 2026 F1 Sim Racing World Championship, with the sim racers preparing to go head-to-head at the Japanese Grand Prix.

Kimi Antonelli took a commanding pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix as Mercedes locked out the front row once again.

Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams on race day at Suzuka.