Motorsport

Nick Yelloly admitted that the impending departure of Acura from the IMSA SportsCar Championship leaves him with a “bittersweet” feeling, as he prepares to join Ford in the World Endurance Championship next year.
The Briton joined the factory Meyer Shank team at the start of the 2025 IMSA season after two years with BMW, teaming up with veteran Renger van der Zande in the #93 Acura ARX-06 ...Keep reading

In a display of patience, racecraft, and rapid oval adaptation, Mick Schumacher delivered the strongest performance of his young IndyCar Series career, securing an eighth-place finish in the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway.
The 27-year-old German rookie, driving the #47 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, systematically sliced through the field on the ...Keep reading

Eight rounds into the 14 events of the 2026 Formula 2 season, three Formula 1 juniors have emerged as clear title contenders – with another one a dark horse.
Red Bull Junior Team member Nikola Tsolov currently leads the standings on 161 points from Alpine Academy racer Gabriele Mini (134), Rafael Camara (125) from the Ferrari Driver Academy, and Alpine’s Alex Dunne (108).
Campos ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso insists his Formula 1 future will not depend upon Aston Martin’s performance over the remainder of 2026, but whether he can enjoy driving the current hybrid cars.
The Spaniard’s future has become a major talking point in recent months, with his contract with the Silverstone-based squad due to expire at the end of the year.
Aston Martin is banking on a major upgrade at ...Keep reading

After months dominated by headlines about departing personnel – with reports surrounding Paul Monaghan's expected move to Cadillac still continuing – two more positive stories emerged for Red Bull during the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
First of all, the Milton Keynes-based team managed to convince Tom Hart not to complete his move to Williams and instead remain with Red Bull ...Keep reading

Mercedes is still trying to figure out why George Russell had more energy deployment issues at Formula 1's Belgian Grand Prix despite tweaking his driving style, after he kept losing time to his team-mate on the straights.
Russell's side of the Mercedes garage has been mystified by a lack of energy deployment and hence top speed on power-sensitive circuits, which already manifested itself in ...Keep reading

Honda has officially confirmed the signing of Fabio Quartararo on a two-year contract, several months after securing the Frenchman as the cornerstone of its new MotoGP project.
As previously revealed by Motorsport.com, the deal was finalised at the end of January, although several factors delayed the announcement until the summer break.
One was the manufacturers' agreement not to make any ...Keep reading

Mercedes might enforce team orders if Kimi Antonelli and George Russell risk losing victory due to their wheel-to-wheel action, its Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff stated.
The Silver Arrows took their eighth victory of 2026 when Antonelli won Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, but Wolff has previously made it clear that he was displeased by the team losing out to Ferrari on two ...Keep reading

Honda confirmed on Tuesday morning that it has signed David Alonso for 2027 and beyond, but stopped short of revealing whether he will race for its factory MotoGP team alongside Fabio Quartararo or at LCR Honda.
The announcement comes several months after Alonso's move to Honda was agreed, securing one of the sport's brightest young prospects for the Japanese manufacturer. Still only 20, the ...Keep reading

Reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou turned a tactical stroke of fortune and pure driving grit into a landmark night at Nashville Superspeedway, holding off defending race winner Josef Newgarden to claim Monday’s Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix.
The victory was the 24th of Palou’s career and his fifth of the season, extending his championship lead by 27 points ...Keep reading

Starting dead last on an injured knee, David Malukas sliced through the field and led 59 laps en route to an improbable third-place finish in Monday's postponed Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix.
The 24-year-old Chicago native overcame a hospital visit, a grid penalty, and an ill-timed caution at Nashville Superspeedway to claim his fifth podium of the season. 
Malukas entered the ...Keep reading

With his fifth victory of the 2026 IndyCar season, Alex Palou is now 83 points ahead in the fight for the championship.
Despite being briefly hospitalized on Saturday following a practice crash and starting from the rear of the field, David Malukas snagged a podium and jumps up into second in the standings. Kyle Kirkwood is now third, 87 points back of the lead and four points behind ...Keep reading

Nashville native Josef Newgarden fell just short of a repeat victory in his backyard, finishing second to reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou at the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix.
Newgarden, 35, entered the weekend as the defending winner at the 1.33-mile concrete oval. Despite a strong front-row start of second, Newgarden was unable to lead a single lap during ...Keep reading

It was a big weekend for Spain in both the World Cup and IndyCar, as Alex Palou claimed victory over a trio of Penske drivers in the Monday afternoon race at Nashville.
Josef Newgarden finished second, while David Malukas drove from the very back to a podium after being briefly hospitalized following a Saturday practice crash.
Of note, Mick Schumacher earned his career-best finish in eighth ...Keep reading

Reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou continued his assault on the 2026 season by winning the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Speedway.
After starting fourth in the #10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, the Spaniard took control just past halfway and went on to win by 0.8731s over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden at the 1.33-mile concrete oval. It marks ...Keep reading

This is becoming repetitive at this point, but Shane van Gisbergen continues to impress as he rapidly progresses his craft on ovals in NASCAR. 
The three-time Supercars champion keeps adding milestone after milestone. In September, 2025, he earned his first oval top ten in Cup. In May, 2026, he earned his first top five. And this past weekend at North Wilkesboro, he was less than a car length ...Keep reading

Following the Belgian Grand Prix, Racing Bulls team-mates Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad were spotted returning home on an easyJet flight.
Formula 1 is typically associated with luxury travel, VIP hospitality and private jets. But the Racing Bulls pair opted for a more budget-friendly option after the race at Spa-Francorchamps.
Lawson shared a selfie alongside his rookie team-mate on his ...Keep reading

After 30 years, NASCAR has finally returned to North Wilkesboro with a points-paying Cup race, and it was the No. 22 Team Penske Ford of Joey Logano holding off Denny Hamlin to claim the win.
He lapped most of the field, leaving just six cars on the lead lap and putting everyone from 11th on back at least two laps down. It was a sensational showing in a surprisingly clean race.
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Todd Gilliland has done it again with his season-best finish Sunday at North Wilkesboro, advancing into the finals of the In-Season Challenge, where the winner will receive a $1 million prize.
The Front Row Motorsports driver finished eighth, eliminating 2020 NASCAR Cup champion Chase Elliott, who finished 17th after being trapped off the lead lap when an ill-timed caution flew. 
Gilliland ...Keep reading

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago at Spa-Francorchamps, a teary-eyed Kimi Antonelli struggled to maintain his composure in the media pen, amid an ordeal of a sprint weekend where he was twice out in Q1 and finished both races well down the order.
Now, Antonelli is Italy’s second-most successful driver in Formula 1 history, having triumphed in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix – ...Keep reading