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Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has opened up about why he chose to bring his mother, Carmen Larbalestier, to the Canadian Grand Prix. 
Having spent the best part of two decades travelling around the world with the championship, Hamilton has recently convinced his mother to come to more races with him. For years, his mother was only seen at his home race at Silverstone.
Despite ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says it is "mentally not doable" for him to remain in Formula 1 if the series can't drastically improve its power unit regulations for 2027, with proposals to move to a 60-40 split between combustion power and electric energy now in jeopardy.
As F1 stakeholders try to find ways to improve the flawed 2026 power unit regulations for next year, a proposal has been tabled by the FIA ...Keep reading

Three-time W Series champion and Sky Sports Formula 1 pundit Jamie Chadwick believes Kimi Antonelli will be left feeling frustrated after being narrowly beaten to pole position by his team-mate George Russell during qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. 
As the clock ticked down to zero in qualifying at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Antonelli looked set to take pole position for Sunday's race ...Keep reading

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has been cleared of allegedly impeding Pierre Gasly in Canadian Grand Prix qualifying, which means the Ferrari driver retains his fifth place on the starting grid.
Hamilton made a trip to the FIA race stewards one hour after qualifying for allegedly blocking Alpine driver Gasly at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. On his first flying lap in Q1, Gasly ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell claimed pole at the Canadian Grand Prix, outpacing team-mate Kimi Antonelli and reigning Formula 1 world champion Lando Norris in Montreal.
Norris led the way in Q3 until the final salvo of laps, with both Mercedes cars struggling to nail a lap until that point, Russell even having to bail out of his first attempt.
But in the dying seconds of qualifying ...Keep reading

The late Kyle Busch will inevitably be enshrined into the NASCAR Hall of Fame so one of his future co-inductees and biggest rivals, Brad Keselowski, says why wait.
Earlier in the week, the voting panel elected Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton, Larry Phillips and Lesa France-Kennedy to enshrinement during a ceremony to be held at the Charlotte Convention Center in January.
Typically, NASCAR rules ...Keep reading

For the first time this weekend, cars made their way onto the track for a live session on Saturday afternoon. It was a somber atmosphere as drivers climbed into their cars, including Austin Hill -- wearing a Kyle Busch t-shirt under his firesuit as he takes over the fallen legend's renumbered No. 33 car for the Coca-Cola 600.
Bubba Wallace walked out into the infield and reflected at the site ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has dismissed recent comments from former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya after the Colombian suggested the four-time champion should face a race suspension for openly criticising the championship's new regulations. 
The comments from Montoya stemmed from a somewhat frosty reception to the new 2026 regulation changes. In the early stages of the season, Verstappen described ...Keep reading

For once, the conversation in the Gilles Villeneuve paddock was not about batteries or energy management. Instead, the focus was firmly on the on-track action. During the Formula 1 sprint race for the Canadian Grand Prix, the battle between Kimi Antonelli and George Russell flared up for the first time.
The young Italian attempted a move around the outside at Turn 1, but was forced onto the ...Keep reading

Joey Logano and Kyle Busch had a well-documented rivalry over the course of the past two decades.
Even as their relationship started to thaw, and enjoy a casual respect in recent years, ‘Rowdy’ never missed a chance to take public pot shots at his fellow Cup Series champion. As recently as a month ago, Busch went on ‘Hang Out with Sean Hannity’ and revealed that Logano, Brad Keselowski ...Keep reading

It’s said that meetings are where minutes are kept but hours are lost.
One lesser-documented but still painful consequence of the 2026 Formula 1 regulations has been the need to map out exactly how the limited quantity of electrical energy can be deployed and recharged to achieve the so-called 'optimal lap’. And that, naturally, requires a meeting – albeit, perhaps unusually, a productive ...Keep reading

Massive blow for the Land team: The traditional outfit from Germany, which returned to Porsche from Audi in the DTM this year, has been disqualified after a strong fourth-place finish by rookie Bastian Buus in Saturday's race at Zandvoort! The reason for the decision is that the No. 29 Porsche 911 GT3 R was found to be underweight.
The technical scrutineers discovered the discrepancy during the ...Keep reading

Although Kimi Antonelli believed that he was pushed off the road at Turn 1 by George Russell in their battle for the lead of the Canadian Grand Prix sprint race, the Formula 1 stewards did not see fit to intervene.
Russell maintained position on the inside of Turn 1, with Antonelli attempting to make a move around the outside. However, the Italian found his car in a rapidly closing gap and was ...Keep reading

“The nature of IndyCar is that there's highs and lows all the time, and I've had my fair share of it all.”
Pato O’Ward has certainly been on one helluva rollercoaster ride. There have been breakthrough moments, such as his first career win at Texas Motor Speedway in 2021, along with several heartbreaks, undoubtedly led by his defeat after battling with Josef Newgarden for the win in the ...Keep reading

The Formula 1 sprint in Canada began aggressively enough, as polesitter George Russell pulled up on the grid with his Mercedes angled aggressively to cut off any challenge from team-mate Kimi Antonelli at launch.
But this was nothing compared with the events of lap six, when Antonelli tried to pass around the outside into Turn 1, only to be given no room at all – and indeed a tap of ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports Germany analyst Ralf Schumacher has branded Kimi Antonelli's Canadian Grand Prix sprint race radio outburst as "one step too far", but insists that such fiery behaviour is essential for a future world champion.
Antonelli argued that his Mercedes team-mate George Russell had forced him off the track as the Italian attempted an overtake around the outside on ...Keep reading

Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli wants his team to provide further "clarity" over its rules of engagement after a tense battle with George Russell in the Canadian Grand Prix sprint left him upset at his team-mate.
Starting from the front row, poleman Russell and second-placed Antonelli fought out a close battle in the opening stages of the 23-lap sprint when the pair came to blows at Montreal's ...Keep reading

Rain continues to plague a sad weekend in Charlotte, as the NASCAR world mourns the loss of 41-year-old champion Kyle Busch.
So far, there has been no on-track activity. Practice and qualifying for both of the lower divisions was canceled, and the Truck race has been postponed twice already.
While they did manage to get on track for practice ahead of NASCAR's longest race, qualifying for the ...Keep reading

Sky Sports Formula 1 analyst Martin Brundle has explained why he wouldn't give George Russell a penalty after the dramatic Mercedes intra-team battle during the Canadian Grand Prix sprint race.
Russell secured a hard-fought victory in the Montreal sprint, but the main talking point after the race was his tense battle with his team-mate Kimi Antonelli. 
The Italian driver was left fuming on ...Keep reading

A calm and collected George Russell triumphed in the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix sprint race, as Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli endured two trips across the grass in the battle for victory.
Mercedes, which locked out the front row ahead of the McLarens, Ferraris and Red Bulls, maintained its advantage at the start as polesitter Russell led Antonelli, despite the Silver Arrows having ...Keep reading