Motorsport

At Sonoma Raceway, Chase Briscoe nearly reached the back bumper of Shane van Gisbergen in the final corner of the race. Van Gisbergen held on, winning by just 0.357s -- the closest margin of victory in any of his 14 NASCAR victories so far.
Trackhouse Racing's Stephen Doran, who works with SVG as the No. 97 crew chief, asserted that they had the slower car in the closing laps, but SVG made up ...Keep reading

F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff says the all-female racing series must operate as a commercially viable platform rather than a "charity project".
The championship has gone from strength to strength since its inaugural season in 2023. After it initially took place in front of empty grandstands and with no televised on-track action, Wolff worked to form partnerships with Formula 1 and ...Keep reading

Red Bull's extensive Austrian Grand Prix upgrade package felt like a "B-spec" car, according to the team's former mechanic Calum Nicholas, who suspects a hidden weight reduction programme played a big part in the team's return to form.
The Milton Keynes outfit arrived at the Red Bull Ring with a substantial list of updates. The official FIA documentation listed seven modifications, heavily ...Keep reading

Jack Aitken and Action Express Racing are making excellence look routine in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, even if it feels anything but ordinary from inside the cockpit.
Following a masterful performance in Sunday'’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, Aitken admitted it “feels a bit surreal” to sustain the team's relentless momentum. The victory marks the team’s second ...Keep reading

Just three tenths separated Shane van Gisbergen and Chase Briscoe in the battle for the win at Sonoma Raceway. With his eighth career victory, SVG is now tied for second on the all-time road course wins list with Tony Stewart, and just one away from Jeff Gordon's record.
Sonoma was also the final road course of the 2026 season, so it's all ovals from here to Homestead in November. While it was ...Keep reading

Defending IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship LMP2 class champions AO Racing secured their first victory of the season in dramatic fashion, capturing a thrilling class win as the LMP2 category returned to action following a three-month hiatus.
Dane Cameron held a comfortable five-second lead in the #99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2 07 with just 45 minutes remaining, but had to withstand a furious ...Keep reading

For the first time during the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, Tyler Reddick is not the championship leader. After winning the first three races of the year, Reddick held the top spot through the first 17 rounds of the season. At one point, he had a mighty 129-point lead. Just one month later, it's gone.
Reddick has finished 25th or worse in three of the last four races, and at Sonoma, a power steering ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad will commemorate his first home Formula 1 race at this weekend's British Grand Prix with a special hand-drawn helmet, created in partnership with British-Indian artist Navinder Nangla.
The 18-year-old's special helmet design features hand-drawn sketches, which have been purposefully made to look childlike, on a white background. While his usual sponsors sit ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz and Williams are having a rough start to the 2026 Formula 1 season, and the tough times continued in Austria where the Spaniard was forced to admit "we don't have reliability, we don't have pace, we don't have a car capable of scoring points”.
Williams has made no secret of its struggles this year as it battles with a car that is overweight and uncompetitive. It has so far scored ...Keep reading

Williams has unveiled a special Union Jack-inspired livery for the upcoming British Grand Prix. 
The Grove outfit will celebrate its home race at Silverstone with the new livery and special edition team kit. Adding to its usual bold, blue look, the new design features red, white and blue accents across the nose cone and chassis side. 
To accompany the new livery and team kit, Alex Albon ...Keep reading

After several European Formula 1 weekends where energy management has appeared more natural for drivers, Max Verstappen expects the British Grand Prix to be a completely different story.
Monaco represented the most natural experience so far, where drivers could push flat out throughout qualifying thanks to the many slow corners and braking zones.
According to Verstappen, the Red Bull Ring ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has argued that Williams may be forced to "sacrifice" its 2027 development programme to fix the fundamental flaws of its current challenger.
After securing fifth in the 2025 constructors' championship, Williams has endured a nightmare start under the 2026 regulations. The Grove outfit's struggles continued during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has said “you don’t expect to go around the outside of a champion” in response to Max Verstappen’s call for him to be penalised for their Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix battle.
The 2021 F1 world title rivals resumed old hostilities in two on-track tussles at the Red Bull Ring, which Hamilton called “good fun” as he successfully held off Verstappen on lap 11 before ...Keep reading

Outside of the very intense NASCAR battle to make the Chase, there is another competition to keep an eye on this summer, and this one has no actual impact on the championship ... but it does award a $1 million prize to the winner and any fortunate fans with a perfect bracket.
The In-Season Challenge got underway at Sonoma Raceway for Round 1 of 5 as part of TNT's summer stretch of Cup races ...Keep reading

Just days after confirming a new two-year MotoGP deal with Ducati, Marc Marquez has revealed that he held what he described as an "informal conversation" with Honda representatives, who explored the possibility of bringing him back to the Japanese manufacturer.
As first reported by El Periodico, the meeting took place on the Friday afternoon of last year's Valencia Grand Prix, the final round ...Keep reading

In the early stages of the Austrian Grand Prix, fans were treated to an exciting and tense battle between former title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.
Hamilton ran wide at Turn 1 on lap 8, allowing Verstappen to get within a second of the seven-time champion. By lap 11, the battle had intensified. Verstappen made a lunge down the inside of Turn 3 to take second place, but Hamilton ...Keep reading

Trackhouse team principal Davide Brivio believes Ai Ogura and Rul Fernandez deserve all the credit for beating the factory Aprilia team to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix.
Ogura led Fernandez in a historic 1-2 for the American squad in Sunday’s MotoGP race at Assen, with the two Trackhouse riders successfully overhauling polesitter Jorge Martin in the final laps.
Read ...Keep reading

George Russell says he is still trying to gel with his 2026 Mercedes Formula 1 car and tried an "abnormal" driving style to secure the win at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Russell took pole on Saturday and converted it into his second victory of the season on Sunday as he aims to reel in championship leader Kimi Antonelli. With the Italian finishing third, Russell now heads to his Silverstone home ...Keep reading

According to F1 TV analyst Alex Brundle, Racing Bulls has established itself as the "best of the rest" in the current Formula 1 championship.
The Faenza outfit enjoyed a successful weekend at the Red Bull Ring with a double points finish. Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad finished the Austrian Grand Prix in ninth and 10th, collecting three points for the team. 
During an appearance on F1 TV's ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi’s retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix has thrown the 2026 MotoGP title fight wide open.
For the very first time this year, the Italian does not leave a grand prix weekend as the championship leader. Instead, after his third non-score in Sunday races this month, he has dropped to second in the standings, with his Aprilia team-mate Jorge Martin surging to the top spot by seven ...Keep reading