Motorsport

The 2026 World Endurance Championship will mark the third season to feature the LMGT3 class. Introduced in 2024 as a secondary division to Hypercar, it enabled GT3 manufacturers to contest the Le Mans 24 Hours and a full range of endurance events across the year, offering a more affordable and accessible way to enter the WEC.
There is no denying that LMGT3 has been an instant success. The 2026 ...Keep reading

Toyota’s Sami Pajari continues to lead Rally Croatia, but his overnight advantage has been cut to 12.4s over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, while Takamoto Katsuta lost ground in the victory fight.
Pajari took an overnight lead into Saturday for the first time in his WRC career, and the Finn continued to show pace and maturity to hold on to the top spot through Saturday morning’s loop of four ...Keep reading

Yamaha has decided to sign Ai Ogura for the 2027 MotoGP season, where he will partner Jorge Martin in the manufacturer’s factory team, Motorsport has learned.
The Japanese rider, currently in his second MotoGP campaign with the Trackhouse Racing team aboard an Aprilia, will replace Alex Rins, following Fabio Quartararo’s long-confirmed move to Honda.
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Dr Helmut Marko has taken on a new role as ambassador for the Red Bull Ring, home of the Austrian Grand Prix, which will take place on 26-28 June.
The 82-year-old stepped down from his position as motorsport adviser and leader of the junior team at Red Bull at the end of 2025. Speaking during an event in Vienna on Thursday, Marko confirmed his new role to Austrian publication OE24.
Marko ...Keep reading

Red Bull’s start to the new Formula 1 regulations has been anything but encouraging.
Internally, it was already clear that the project could get off to a bumpy start – after all, it is the first time in the team’s history that it is building its own engine – but the scale of the current struggles likely has taken many by surprise.
With just 16 points from the first three race ...Keep reading

Toyota took its first Supercars win and Brodie Kostecki maintained his championship lead on an action-packed and dramatic day of Supercars racing at Taupo Motorsport Park.
In a program first modified and then reduced to one day due to the impending arrival of Cyclone Vaianu on New Zealand’s North Island, Kostecki won the opening race and Ryan Wood the second for Walkinshaw TWG.
The latter ...Keep reading

Roughly a year ago right now, Stewart Friesen was fed-up with racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and threatened to leave it in a knee-jerk reactive fit. 
It was a really bad day.
Now, the organization he co-owns with Chris Larsen won a race at Bristol Motor Speedway with his personal favorite race car driver behind the wheel and the excitement was palpable.
This is ...Keep reading

Immediately after the race, Christian Eckes could not have been any more contrite about the incident that ended the race at Bristol for Corey Heim and his chance at a $500,000 Triple Truck Challenge sweep.
“That sucked for sure,” Eckes said. “They deserved a half million bucks and I took that away from them. Obviously, it wasn’t intentional to spin (him out) or even hit him. I was just ...Keep reading

Seven NASCAR Cup drivers entered Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway, so it's no surprise one of the sport's top drivers captured the win.
Driving for Halmar-Friesen Racing, Christopher Bell won after taking and extending his lead on a late-race restart.
"Oh man, that was just so awesome to be able to win a truck race," said Bell. "It’s been since 2017 I ...Keep reading

Kaulig Racing has announced Parker Kligerman as the next driver for its No. 25 'free agent' truck, with the veteran driver joining the five-truck Ram lineup at Texas Motor Speedway.
Kligerman has 125 previous starts in the Truck Series, including three wins. He was victorious at Talladega in 2012 and 2017, and also Mid-Ohio in 2022. Kligerman also has two runner-up finishes at ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans says he was simply “caught out” by a corner at Rally Croatia as the World Rally Championship leader suffered a rare back-to-back rally retirement. 
The Toyota driver took early command in Croatia winning the opening two stages to open up a 15.8s lead before that advantage was wiped out on stage three. 
Evans usually carried way too much speed into a tight right hand corner ...Keep reading

Toyota’s Sami Pajari will hold an overnight World Rally Championship event lead for the first time in his career after emerging from a dramatic opening day in Croatia.
Pajari produced an impressive drive through what proved to be eight tricky asphalt tests that resulted in retirements for championship leader Elfyn Evans, Monte Carlo winner Oliver Solberg, and M-Sport-Ford’s Jon ...Keep reading

How much will the Porsche 963 have to be slowed down to bring back exciting competition in the IMSA SportsCar Championship? Following the 1-2 finish at the 12 Hours of Sebring, officials are bringing out the heaviest hammer in their arsenal.
For the first time in the history of the entire Hypercar/GTP regulations, a car is receiving the most unfavorable power-to-weight ratio possible: 480 ...Keep reading

Corey Heim finds himself the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship leader through five races but that isn’t exactly the newsworthy part.
It’s the fact that Heim has only participated in three of those races. Of course, he’s won twice and added a fifth-place finish to boot and inherited the championship lead last weekend only after Chandler Smith was disqualified for rear ride height ...Keep reading

A new study commissioned by the FIA revealed that it takes more than 20,000 volunteers per year to adequately organise Formula 1's 24 grands prix weekends, at an average of 838 per weekend.
Motor racing is the global sport that relies on volunteers the most for the safe running of its wide pyramid of events, from grassroots racing all the way to its range of world championships.
To more ...Keep reading

Now in his third season in MotoGP as owner of the Trackhouse team, Justin Marks is one of the most recognisable faces in NASCAR and believes the time has come for Liberty Media to step up and help MotoGP unlock the level of popularity and business potential many believe it can reach.
Motorsport.com sat down with the team owner to discuss Trackhouse’s place in MotoGP, what he hopes Liberty ...Keep reading

Former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt has rejected the idea that Michael Schumacher's confidence bordered on arrogance during his Formula 1 career.
Todt argued that the narrative could not be further from the truth, and in reality, it was an underlying sense of self-doubt that was one of the seven-time champion's biggest strengths.
During an appearance on the High Performance podcast, Todt ...Keep reading

Arvid Lindblad is the next man up in the Red Bull Formula 1 family, and the teenager appears to have hit the ground running rather than feeling the weight of expectation.
Still just 18, Lindblad was fast-tracked through the ladder by Red Bull's former driver adviser Helmut Marko, with sky-high expectations around the Briton of Swedish and Indian descent as he made his debut for Racing Bulls in ...Keep reading

KTM is confident that Maverick Vinales will be able to bounce back from his injury woes and establish himself as the “second leader” alongside Pedro Acosta.
Vinales was forced to withdraw from last month’s US Grand Prix due to severe pain, as a screw inserted in his left shoulder following his Sachsenring injury came loose.
The setback followed a difficult start to the 2026 season for ...Keep reading

Toyota’s Sami Pajari has inherited the Rally Croatia lead after a dramatic Friday morning that saw the World Rally Championship’s top two Elfyn Evans and Oliver Solberg crash out.
Pajari, searching for a maiden WRC win, completed a tricky morning loop of asphalt stages with a surprise 8.4s lead over Safari Rally Kenya winner Takamoto Katsuta, with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville three tenths ...Keep reading