Motorsport

Garrett Mitchell, who is better known as YouTuber Cleetus McFarland, recently sent shockwaves through the NASCAR garage after signing a two-year deal to race part-time for Richard Childress Racing in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS).
Mitchell, who has a YouTube channel with nearly five million subscribers, made his professional stock car racing debut just last year in the ARCA Menard's ...Keep reading

The Joe Gibbs Racing v Chris Gabehart and Spire Motorsports lawsuit heard arguments over expedited discovery motions in court on Monday morning before Judge Susan Courtwright Rodriguez.
The docket also called for arguments over a preliminary injunction motion but all parties in court agreed that the discovery motion’s importance was of greater priority and the results could affect the course ...Keep reading

VR46 is aiming to pair a young rider with an experienced campaigner in the 2027 MotoGP season, according to team director Uccio Salucci.
While the five factory squads have largely settled their line-ups for next year behind the scenes, several seats remain open across the six satellite teams.
Among them is VR46, which is set to renew its relationship with Ducati into MotoGP’s new 850cc era ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli revealed that he spoke with Isack Hadjar before the 2026 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix, after the Frenchman refused his apology following their clash in Saturday's sprint.
During the sprint race in Shanghai, Antonelli made a poor start and found himself stuck in the middle of the pack. Attempting to quickly make up positions on the opening lap, the Italian understeered and made ...Keep reading

Jacques Villeneuve has argued that Mercedes' dominance in the 2026 Formula 1 regulations is not like 2014.
The Brackley outfit dominated the championship from 2014 to 2021, winning seven drivers' championships with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg and eight constructors' titles.
While Mercedes has won every race of the season so far, including the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the ...Keep reading

Surrounded by his family, Denny Hamlin secured an emotional win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, taking sole ownership of tenth place on the all-time wins list and breaking a tie with Kevin Harvick.
It was a race dominated by Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, with their drivers combining to lead 253 of 267 laps. Impressively, there was only one natural caution during the entire event, and ...Keep reading

The World Rally Championship will return to Great Britain in 2027 following the announcement of a three-year deal to bring rallying’s top tier to Scotland.
An all-new gravel-based Rally Scotland event ends the WRC’s seven-year hiatus from the UK following Wales Rally GB’s departure from the calendar after 2019, which was due to a loss of funding from the Welsh government. Britain has a ...Keep reading

Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner gave a shoutout to his fellow countryman Kimi Antonelli during his Indian Wells title acceptance speech after the Mercedes Formula 1 driver claimed his first grand prix victory at the Chinese Grand Prix.
Antonelli became the second-youngest F1 grand prix winner in Shanghai after successfully converting pole position to victory and fending off his team-mate ...Keep reading

1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has admitted that the new 2026 regulations are fun, but he "would have hated it".
The 2026 regulations have been met with a mixed response from fans and drivers after the first two rounds of the season. The changes include an almost 50:50 split between internal combustion and electric power, active aerodynamics and smaller, lighter cars.
"It's ...Keep reading

A purpose-built BMW M3 GT3 Touring is set to join the grid for the 2026 edition of the 24 Hours of Nurburgring, competing in the experimental SPX category.
The project was born from a digital prank on April 1, 2025. When BMW's social media channels teased a rendering of a G81-based GT3 machine, the racing community didn't just laugh – they demanded it.
With more than 1.6 million views and ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports Germany pundit Ralf Schumacher has joined the argument that the new 2026 regulations are "too artificial."
While the German agreed that more overtakes make for more exciting viewing, he claimed that the balance is currently not where it should be in terms of the drivers' input in overtakes.
"Well, I have to say when I saw the first few laps in ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has endured an incredibly frustrating start to the 2026 Formula 1 campaign with the four-time world champion lingering eighth in the standings. The Red Bull driver started with sixth in the Melbourne opener, which was actually respectable considering he started 20th following a crash in Q1.
So it wasn’t all doom and gloom at the Austrian outfit a week ago, because it looked ...Keep reading

F1: The Movie has continued its award season success after winning an Oscar for Best Sound.
The blockbuster, directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, was nominated alongside Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Sinners and Sirât in the Best Sound category.
F1 had also been nominated in the Best Picture, Film Editing and Visual Effects categories, but failed to win ...Keep reading

After the first two race weekends under the new technical regulations, opinions in the Formula 1 paddock remain divided. Lewis Hamilton said in Shanghai that he had not enjoyed the racing this much in a long time.
“I think it’s the best racing that I’ve ever experienced in Formula 1,” he said after securing his first Ferrari podium. “It felt like go-karting, back and forth, back and ...Keep reading

The countdown is almost over and Lamborghini Squadra Corse is preparing to debut the Temerario GT3, the brand-new car entirely designed, developed and built in Sant’Agata Bolognese.
As announced during the car’s presentation, the 12 Hours of Sebring — scheduled for March 19–21 — has been chosen as the debut race for the successor to the Huracan. The second round of the IMSA SportsCar ...Keep reading

The fight for the final points-scoring place in the Chinese Grand Prix became physical as Esteban Ocon launched a highly optimistic move up the inside of Franco Colapinto’s Alpine at Turn 2 on lap 32 of the race. As Colapinto took the racing line into the corner, he clipped the front wing of Ocon’s Haas and they both spun.
Colapinto recovered and later passed Arvid Lindblad’s Racing Bulls ...Keep reading

During the final grand prix of last season in Valencia, the organisers of the MotoGP championship gathered around a table several riders who have been inducted into its prestigious ‘Hall of Fame’, a select club made up of some of the most illustrious names in the sport’s history.
At the dinner — also attended by Giacomo Agostini, Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner, Freddie Spencer and Kevin ...Keep reading

It must have been a great race for any Italian to watch. Two Ferrari drivers, in what appears to be one of the best cars produced in Maranello for many years, battled for the lead with the sport's most promising young rising star, Italy's best hope for a world title since… Mamma mia! Alberto Ascari in 1953. The first victory for the new national hero was delivered in almost dominant fashion, but ...Keep reading

Someone made the mistake of suggesting to Max Verstappen in the post-race media ‘pen' in China that some of the racing seemed less ‘artificial' this weekend, at least enough to get the people in the grandstands energised and cheering.
"It's terrible," he fired back. "If someone likes this, then you really don't know what racing is about.
"It's not fun at all. It's playing Mario Kart ...Keep reading

Crossing the finish line on Sunday, Denny Hamlin said ‘old dogs can still hunt,’ and that might have enough legs to become the slogan for his 2026 season.
There were a lot of reasons to expect that maybe this old dog might start to get a little bit sluggish. For one, he went through absolute hell over the winter, with the death of his father in a house fire, that also hospitalized mother ...Keep reading