Motorsport

2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin has revealed that Mercedes plans to give her a private test in a Formula 1 car. 
The French driver, who was backed by the Brackley outfit throughout her campaign in the all-female racing series, signed with Mercedes as a development driver in 2026. 
After impressing during her simulator duties, Pin revealed that the plan was for her to test an F1 ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports analyst Martin Brundle has argued that while Max Verstappen's exit from the championship would be a huge loss, F1 would "move on".
The four-time champion has hinted that he could retire from F1 earlier than expected after failing to enjoy the new regulations. He is under contract with Red Bull until the end of 2028, but could activate a performance clause ...Keep reading

Ford says it may wait until the end of the year before finalising the remainder of the driver roster for its 2027 Hypercar programme in the World Endurance Championship.
The American manufacturer has so far signed just three names for its return to the top echelon of sportscar racing, with Logan Sargeant, Sebastian Priaulx and Mike Rockenfeller leading development of its as-yet-unnamed LMDh ...Keep reading

Aleix Espargaro suffered a serious crash last Tuesday in Sepang, where he was on track with the entire Honda MotoGP test and development team. The Spanish rider posted a photo and an explanation of what happened on his social media.
"On Tuesday, during the test here in Sepang, I suffered a very serious crash,” he explained in the post.
“As a result, I had several contusions and four ...Keep reading

Lance Stroll says Aston Martin’s ongoing woes in Formula 1 played a role in his decision to enter this weekend’s GT World Challenge Europe event at Paul Ricard.
The Canadian will take advantage of an unexpected gap on the F1 calendar to contest the opening GTWCE Endurance Cup event of 2026, driving Comtoyou Racing’s Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo with Roberto Merhi and Mari Boya. It will ...Keep reading

Red Bull driver Isack Hadjar says Formula 1 overtakes are now possible with similar pace, while they previously required the attacking car to be much faster.
F1’s new power unit era features more electrical power and therefore a much greater emphasis on energy management.
In turn, energy management means drivers get to overtake much more easily as they slow down earlier before corners, and ...Keep reading

In a Wednesday night legal filing, Spire Motorsports and co-owner Jeff Dickerson responded to Joe Gibbs Racing’s motion for expedited fact discovery with retorts that the Toyota flagship organization’s posture has devolved into a series of hypotheticals.
“In a case that is supposed to be about JGR’s ‘crown jewels’ and ‘secret sauce,’ JGR’s primary focus in the preliminary ...Keep reading

Overall, Chris Gabehart, through his legal counsel, is objecting to the latest expedited discovery motions made to the court from former employer Joe Gibbs Racing but also says he is making efforts to recover the deleted texts with Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson at the center of the latest legal wrangling.
Big picture, the Gabehart legal team wants these latest series of motions denied because ...Keep reading

Richard Bowman has been named NASCAR's first director of Artificial Intelligence. 
"Excited to share that I’m now Director, AI at NASCAR," Bowman said in a Linkedin post. "Even in my relatively short time here, it has been clear that this is an organization willing to engage seriously with both the opportunities and responsibilities that come with AI. I’m grateful for the chance to help ...Keep reading

Legacy Motor Club has confirmed Michael Guttilla  as the team's new president, effective immediately. 
Guttilla has two decades of experience working with the global engineering firm, Multimatic. He filled the role of  Vice President of Engineering and R&D and Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing. His career also took him to General Motors and Mechanical Dynamics Inc.
Most recently ...Keep reading

NASCAR now has a five-year sample size of data that concluded there is no doubt a better way to do superspeedway racing using the NextGen car but it needs to determine a pathway of getting there.
In the short term, the Sanctioning Body is adjusting stage lengths to combat fuel saving strategies used by teams since the debut of this car, but it will also target regulation changes during a winter ...Keep reading

AF Corse unveiled its privateer Ferrari hypercar to the world on Tuesday, offering a first look at the Italian marque's updated aero package for the 2026 World Endurance Championship.
At an event organised at the headquarters of its new partner ESA NanoTech, the Italian team showcased the #83 Ferrari 499P to be driven once again by 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours winners Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and ...Keep reading

The entry list for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s annual trek out to the West Coast with this year’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach has been revealed. 
The first sprint race on the calendar is also one of the shortest, with a field of 28 cars between Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) classes taking to the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street ...Keep reading

Opel is set to make its return to world championship-level motorsport after announcing its entry into Formula E for the Gen4 era. The four-year programme was formally confirmed at last month's Madrid E-Prix, shortly after DS announced that it would be leaving the championship at the end of the current season.
Rumours about Opel joining Formula E had been rife for some time, and the head of its ...Keep reading

At the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), major decisions are most often made on the ground floor of the building that houses the pitboxes, at the end closest to the pitlane entrance. Most of the offices there have windows overlooking the paddock.
On Sunday, hours before Marco Bezzecchi completed his perfect run of victories since the start of the 2026 MotoGP season, all of them were open except ...Keep reading

Change, as always, stirs debate – and while Formula 1 has been through many regulatory shifts before, the scale of reaction in 2026 has been notably different.
The new rules have pushed several aspects of the sport into unfamiliar territory, prompting strong responses from drivers, fans and stakeholders alike. Opinions remain divided, as ever, but it is clear that some adjustments may be ...Keep reading

As Formula 1 enters a month-long break from racing, its key stakeholders are set for a series of talks to tweak the divisive 2026 energy management regulations.
March's three race weekends in Australia, China and Japan have offered F1 a decent sample size of a wide range of circuits that put the full scope of the new regulations on display.
The series and a significant part of its fanbase ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta has admitted that joining nine-time world champion Marc Marquez in a MotoGP team would be a “dream come true” for him.
The KTM rider is all set to make a high-profile move to Ducati for the start of the 850cc regulations in 2027, replacing the underperforming Francesco Bagnaia at the factory squad. 
Although the deal was agreed before the start of the season, as reported ...Keep reading

Takamoto Katsuta revealed he feels 'lighter' and “more relaxed” now that the burden of trying to clinch a maiden World Rally Championship victory has been lifted.
The Toyota driver will head into this week’s Croatian round of the 2026 campaign after he and co-driver Aaron Johnson secured a breakthrough victory at Safari Rally Kenya last month.
It came on Katsuta’s 94th WRC start and ...Keep reading

From Le Mans to Indy cars via Formula 1, Mark Blundell had a successful career in motorsport – but how much more successful could it have been?
Born on 8 April 1966 in London, Blundell had a first taste of motorsport on motorbikes before switching to single-seaters in 1984, which yielded two championship titles in Formula Ford, followed by mixed results at the higher echelons of junior ...Keep reading