Motorsport

The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix lived up to its moniker with chaos, carnage and short tempers, with Alex Palou calmly navigating the 1.645-mile, nine-turn downtown street circuit to his fourth win of the IndyCar season.
After starting on pole in the #10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, Palou was in control throughout and led 71 of 100 laps. He also showed poise and remained unflappable during the ...Keep reading

This week’s Formula 1 Commission meeting has not led to consensus on the proposed 60/40 split for next season, the idea of making the internal combustion engine slightly more prominent compared with the 2026 regulations.
Ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, the FIA announced an “agreement in principle” regarding the engine changes for 2027, but in Montreal it became clear that the specific ...Keep reading

What Motorsport-Total.com first reported a month ago has now been officially confirmed: Porsche’s top squad, Manthey, is losing Kai Storling - the title-winning race engineer who guided Thomas Preining to the 2023 DTM championship and with whom the Austrian has formed an inseparable duo ever since. Following his title win, Preining famously described their daily communication as being "like a ...Keep reading

Anduril, a defense tech company, recently partnered with Hendrick Motorsports ahead the upcoming NASCAR Cup race at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego.
The deal will see Anduril appear as a primary sponsor for two-time Daytona 500 William Byron and the No. 24 HMS Chevrolet in two races in each over the next three years. Unsurprisingly, their first race will be the one taking place on an active ...Keep reading

Since the start of the season, Fernando Alonso has never hidden his views on the 2026 regulations. As early as pre-season testing in Bahrain, he pointed out that a Formula 1 car so heavily dependent on energy recovery ends up reducing risk through corners – the area where a driver should still be able to make the difference.
Alonso reiterated that position ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix ...Keep reading

While the Superstock TT was postponed due to weather conditions, the second race of the week was Tuesday's three-lap Supersport TT.
Michael Dunlop further extended his record to 34 TT wins and 53 podiums in his incredible career. He had already run the previous eight consecutive Supersport TT races between 2022 and 2025, extending that streak to nine on Tuesday. 16 of his 34 TT wins have all ...Keep reading

Lando Norris and McLaren singled out Ferrari as the favourite at this weekend's Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix due to the Scuderia's strength in low-speed corners.
The Ferrari SF-26 has continued a long-running strength of the Maranello's lineage of F1 cars by being strong in low-speed corners and on traction, which will be a huge asset on the highly technical Monte Carlo street circuit ...Keep reading

GT3’s architect Stephane Ratel says the backlash surrounding the World Endurance Championship’s decision to hide Balance of Performance data reflects the public’s “constant need for conspiracy theories”.
The WEC stopped publishing BoP figures for both Hypercar and LMGT3 classes at the start of the 2026 season, prompting criticism over the lack of transparency from some ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia is hopeful his podium finish at the Italian Grand Prix could mark a turning point for him in MotoGP.
The factory Ducati rider put together his most impressive performance of 2026 at Mugello, leading the first half of the race from sixth on the grid, before settling into third behind the Aprilias of Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin.
It marked the first time this season that ...Keep reading

When people think of Michael Schumacher's time at Ferrari, they usually picture the dominant years between 2000 and 2004. But the German's first season in red was anything but straightforward. After winning back-to-back world championships with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, Schumacher was persuaded by Jean Todt to join Ferrari for 1996. Yet both driver and team were embarking on a major rebuilding ...Keep reading

In Canada, Mercedes introduced a substantial package of technical updates. Beyond the work carried out on the front and central sections of the car, new solutions appeared at the rear that had not been seen before in this technical cycle.
Mercedes arrived in Canada with the first truly significant upgrade package of its season, introducing changes across several areas of the car. For example ...Keep reading

Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has used his time away from the race track to get behind the wheel of an insane car once again. This time, he explored grassroots American lowrider culture in a customised 1984 Buick Regal. 
As he met the owner of the modified American car, Hamilton admitted that he had never seen a lowrider in person, having only followed the scene online and on ...Keep reading

World Superbike rider Iker Lecuona will replace the injured Alex Marquez at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix for the Gresini Racing MotoGP outfit.
Marquez suffered a serious crash at the Catalan Grand Prix on 17 May which forced him to miss last weekend’s Mugello race with the Spaniard also skipping the Balaton Park round.
Lecuona is therefore set to start his first MotoGP race since ...Keep reading

2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg has admitted that his infamous on-track collisions with Lewis Hamilton were sometimes the result of a deliberate, psychological decision to stop yielding and shed his natural tendency to be "too nice" on track. 
The 2016 title battle between the Mercedes team-mates remains one of the most fiercely contested intra-team rivalries in the history of the ...Keep reading

BMW factory driver Dries Vanthoor explained the collision at the IMSA race in Detroit and expressed his lack of understanding regarding the penalty handed to the #24 WRT BMW he shared with Sheldon van der Linde.
The contact triggered the second caution of the race. Vanthoor was given a drive-through penalty for incident responsibility. This dropped the #24 BMW back to ninth in the final ...Keep reading

After several heartbreaking defeats to begin the 2026 campaign in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the Briton, along with co-driver Earl Bamber, were finally able to deliver a breakthrough victory for the Whelen Cadillac on the streets of Detroit last Saturday. 
Each of the opening four rounds saw the #31 Cadillac V-Series.R on the podium, including three runner-up results ...Keep reading

After another dramatic race in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series with Richard Childress Racing at Nashville, popular YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (real name Garrett Mitchell) is getting back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Truck for the first time since his Daytoan debut in February.
Cleetus returns to the third of the three national levels of NASCAR this weekend at the two-mile Michigan ...Keep reading

After losing his ride twice since the end of 2025 season, Nick Sanchez is coming back in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.
He will drive the No. 87 Peterson Racing entry in several upcoming NASCAR O'Reilly races, starting with Pocono race on June 13. He will also compete at at Chicagoland on July 4, Atlanta on July 11, and at Indianapolis on July 25.
"I am excited and ready for this ...Keep reading

After 300 laps of racing that featured 11 cautions, 31 lead changes, and a margin of victory of just over a tenth, Denny Hamlin collected his 62nd career NASCAR Cup Series victory.
Hamlin had to face-off against his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, with the team scoring a 1-2-3, but it could have just as easily ended with all three in the outside wall.
The chaotic night of exploded brake rotors ...Keep reading

Last week, Williams announced a major coup – signing leaders from the Mercedes and Alpine Formula 1 squads, as well as McLaren’s Piers Thynne, who’ll join the Grove-based outfit in August.
Having started his career with a lengthy stint as an engineering project manager at transmission specialist Xtrac, Piers joined McLaren in the late 2000s in a similar gearbox-related capacity before ...Keep reading