Motorsport

Pirelli has announced Mario Isola is leaving his role as its head of motorsports, which includes managing its Formula 1 programme, with Dario Marrafuschi his replacement.
Isola had been in his role as Pirelli's F1 programme manager since 2017, when he took over from Paul Hembery. In 2021 he became the overall motorsports director for the Italian manufacturer. But on the eve of the 2026 season ...Keep reading

Jake Dennis will remain with Andretti at the start of Formula E’s Gen4 era after signing a new multi-year deal with the American squad.
Despite ‘seriously considering’ other options amid interest from rival manufacturers, the Briton has committed to the team with which he won the 2023 Formula E title.
The contract extension will see him continue at Andretti until at least the 2027-28 ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad has opened up about the "special moment" he found out he would be a Formula 1 driver.
The 18-year-old is the only rookie of the 2026 Formula 1 season and will race alongside Liam Lawson at Red Bull's sister outfit. After Isack Hadjar replaced Yuki Tsunoda at Red Bull for the upcoming season, Lindblad secured the open spot alongside the New Zealander.
"Since ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez admitted he does not yet have the same physical strength as last year, as he continues to recover from the shoulder injury that cut short his title-winning MotoGP campaign in Indonesia.
The Spaniard begins his title defence in Buriram this weekend as one of the favourites, having shown strong pace throughout pre-season testing. But his winter preparations have been far from ...Keep reading

Two years ago at Rally Sweden, there was a beaming smile on Esapekka Lappi’s face after successfully ending a victory drought that stretched six and a half years. However, after this year’s run to sixth you could argue Lappi’s smile was even broader. 
Granted, Lappi was incredibly satisfied to be immediately on the pace on his World Rally Championship return, a comeback he thought ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has warned that the championship could lose fans with the new regulations. 
2026 brings in a new wave of regulations to F1. The major changes include an almost 50:50 split between internal combustion and electric power, smaller, lighter cars and the introduction of active aerodynamics, which replaces DRS. These changes mean there will be a bigger emphasis ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports Germany reporter Ralf Schumacher has branded Aston Martin's start to the 2026 season a "massive disaster and a total surprise".
The Silverstone outfit heads into the 2026 season with a new Honda power unit partnership and the first Aston Martin F1 car designed under Adrian Newey, who is now also the team principal. Needless to say, expectations were high ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has received high praise after he met the young fan behind his lucky Sparkles helmet sticker, Thea.
To celebrate Thea's seventh birthday, she took a tour of the Williams headquarters in Grove and met team principal James Vowles and Sainz. This all started when Sainz and his team-mate Alex Albon answered fan questions in a social media video in September 2025.
Thea asked Sainz if ...Keep reading

Luke Browning praised the HANS device for ‘saving his neck’ in a high-speed crash at Suzuka in this week’s Super Formula test.
A GB3 champion, Macau Grand Prix winner, and F3 and F2 frontrunner, Browning has switched to Japan’s premier single-seater championship for the 2026 season, competing for Toyota-powered Kondo Racing.
The Williams Formula 1 reserve driver got to grips with ...Keep reading

Toyota driver Nirei Fukuzumi set the fastest time across two days of Super Formula pre-season testing at Suzuka this week.
Fukuzumi, who has switched to Rookie Racing for the 2026 campaign after two seasons at KCMG, set the benchmark time of 1m36.290s in the second afternoon on Thursday in dry conditions.
Second-fastest was Nakajima Racing’s Igor Fraga, 0.055s behind, while Fraga’s ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo says finalising his plans for the 2027 MotoGP season has “helped him mentally” amid his ongoing frustrations with Yamaha.
As reported by Motorsport.com, Quartararo has already agreed terms to join Honda for the start of MotoGP’s 850cc era in 2027, although the move is yet to be formally announced.
When confirmed, the deal will mark the end of his long association with ...Keep reading

Chris Gabehart said in a Wednesday legal filing that the lawsuit against him by former employer Joe Gibbs Racing isn’t about protecting trade secrets but instead ‘punishing a former employee for daring to leave.’
And while seemingly less consequential on the merits of the lawsuit itself, Gabehart also revealed his reasons for leaving Joe Gibbs Racing in the first place by citing a culture ...Keep reading

In its first year being held at Dover Motor Speedway, the NASCAR All-Star Race now has a format to be contested under the shadow of Miles the Monster.
And this one is going to be a marathon that requires a good bit of arithmetic.
First and foremost, there will no longer be an ‘open’ race for drivers not already locked-in to race their way into the decisive segment of the event. With ...Keep reading

As the 2026 Formula 1 season gets under way, we have a new American outfit on the grid in the form of Cadillac.
Interest in F1 has been rising on the United States market, with Haas and Cadillac two full-fledged constructors while Red Bull Ford engines power the Red Bull and Racing Bulls cars. Three grands prix take place in the country, in Texas, Miami and Las Vegas.
Read ...Keep reading

All eyes were on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season-opener at Daytona, and that was partly due to the entry list. An extreme sports athlete joined the grid alongside a famous YouTuber, a child sitcom star, a NASCAR Hall of Famer, and several other interesting names, which made it must-watch TV.
Well, the third round of the 2026 NCTS season has similar intrigue, as the Truck Series takes ...Keep reading

Above all else, Peugeot should be admired. Imagine building a hypercar for a completely different set of regulations that gets drastically altered due to the LMH-LMDh convergence just as the car’s development is finished. 
Then overhauling the car completely two years later only to find out that five Evo Jokers weren't enough to catch up to the competition ...Keep reading

Austin Hill, 31, is a proven winner in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series with nearly 150 starts and 15 wins. He was victorious in the 2026 season-opener at Daytona and nearly went back-to-back at Atlanta before last-lap contact while trying to block Ross Chastain.
All of Hill's success in the secondary level of NASCAR has been with RCR. He also 15 Cup starts, finishing as high as ninth at ...Keep reading

Ed Carpenter Racing (ECR) and AVL RACETECH have entered into a technical partnership ahead of the 2026 IndyCar Series season.
In what began as a collaboration in 2021, the new phase of the alliance sees AVL RACETECH as the Official Dynamic Vehicle Simulation Partner for ECR. Through the partnership, ECR’s engineering capabilities receive a boost with the increased usage of AVL’s simulation ...Keep reading

Marcus Ericsson is carrying an edge with him into the 2026 IndyCar season.
That’s because the 35-year-old Swede is desperate to get back to his winning ways.
While it might feel like a century ago with Alex Palou’s dominance, one would only have to go back to the 2023 season to find Ericsson winning races, fighting for podiums and finishing sixth in the championship. Uniquely, Chip ...Keep reading

It is no overstatement to say 2025 was Lewis Hamilton's annus horribilis, with the seven-time world champion's blockbuster move to Ferrari not exactly going the way he had imagined. Amid struggles with a difficult-to-drive SF-25, a pole-to-flag win in the Chinese Grand Prix sprint turned out to be a false dawn as he went on to record his first-ever campaign without a grand prix podium in his ...Keep reading