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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. 
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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

Jorge Martin had to undergo two surgeries in recent weeks to recover from the injuries he suffered last year and is almost certainly not expected to take part in the first MotoGP preseason test, Motorsport.com has learned.
Martin has had to go under the knife twice in recent weeks: the first surgery was to correct the injury to the scaphoid bone in his left hand, which he damaged in February of ...Keep reading

Doriane Pin has reiterated that her long-term ambition is still a seat on the Formula 1 grid ahead of this year's Autosport Awards.
Fresh off her 2025 F1 Academy championship win, Pin seems to be jumping from strength to strength as she has not only fought successfully in single-seaters but also gained plentiful experience in endurance racing with the Iron Dames. Now, she's been confirmed to be ...Keep reading

The Porsche 963 is the fastest LMDh car in the field before any Balance of Performance changes Throughout the 2025 World Endurance Championship, the only Hypercar based on a Multimatic chassis had the least favorable power-to-weight ratio in the critical range below 250kph among all LMDh prototypes.
This alone demonstrates that Porsche Penske Motorsport has pushed the LMDh concept to its ...Keep reading

Red Bull F1 team boss Laurent Mekies hopes his squad's in-season development will be enough to convince Max Verstappen to stay put as it embarks on its greatest challenge yet as a fully fledged manufacturer.
F1 is set for its biggest regulatory overhaul in a generation with major changes to both the hybrid power units and the chassis rules. Red Bull has added to that challenge by entering its ...Keep reading

Toni Breidinger has left Tricon and the No. 5 Toyota to join forces with Rackley W.A.R. and Team Chevy for the upcoming NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
Breidinger, 26, will pilot the No. 27 Chevrolet Silverado in eight races as a teammate to Dawson Sutton. Those starts will come at Daytona, Texas, Dover, Nashville, North Wilkesboro, IRP, New Hampshire, and Talladega.
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Alpine took to the track at Silverstone on Wednesday to shake down the A526, less than a week before the start of the first Formula 1 pre-season test at Barcelona on 26 to 30 January.
The team, whose Enstone headquarters is located just 40 kilometres from the British Grand Prix venue, carried out the shakedown of its 2026 F1 car car with Pierre Gasly at the wheel on a rainy day, running a ...Keep reading

Red Bull Racing CEO and team principal Laurent Mekies has discussed how the team works to protect its drivers and staff from the psychological impact of their roles, especially after demotions to the sister squad.
The Milton Keynes outfit has struggled for some time to find a long-term driver for its second seat alongside four-time champion Max Verstappen. Liam Lawson replaced Sergio Perez for ...Keep reading

Trackhouse revealed its satellite Aprilia RS-GP for the 2026 MotoGP season on Wednesday, ahead of the start of official testing in Malaysia.
Having held a joint event with its NASCAR Cup team in the United States last year, the North Carolina-based squad opted for a standalone launch in Milan to mark the beginning of its third MotoGP campaign.
The North Carolina-based squad revealed a ...Keep reading

Humble. But firm and confident.
There was never really a chance Audi would enter Formula 1 in 2026 without a proper statement. Not because it needed fireworks, but because this is one of the most long-awaited and most speculated-about arrivals the series has seen in decades. For years Audi insisted it wasn’t interested in climbing to the pinnacle of motorsport. And then, eventually, it did ...Keep reading