Motorsport

NASCAR isn’t typically known as a winter sport but they’ve decided to use their tools in order to help Team USA go faster at the Winter Olympics. The NASCAR research and development team is building virtual models of Olympic athletes and creating life size 3D printed versions of them in order to do wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) testing in order to find tweaks to help the ...Keep reading

Giovanni Ruggiero, 19, is already a proven winner in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with Tricon Garage. Last year, he was victorious at Talladega and ended the year eleventh in the standings.
He will again compete full-time in Trucks, but on Wednesday, Joe Gibbs Racing announced that he will also run the first two races of the 2026 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts (NOAPS) season. Ruggiero will ...Keep reading

Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has set out his vision for the upcoming season as the Apple TV partnership begins, claiming he would like the series to become "part of the culture" in America.
Apple TV will take over the United States coverage of the championship from ESPN from 2026, as it becomes the exclusive US broadcast partner. 
Speaking at a press day in Los Angeles with Apple's ...Keep reading

The DTM is enjoying a resurgence. After the difficult COVID years and the switch to GT3 regulations in 2021, fan interest has developed positively in recent seasons. This is evident not only from a look at the grandstands, but also in the figures: in 2025 there was another strong increase of almost 10%, and since ADAC’s first season in charge in 2023, attendance has risen by around 20%.
It's ...Keep reading

The issue is highly topical and risks becoming a thorny subject: the electric motor in Formula 1’s new power units has almost tripled its power, rising from 120 kW last year to 350 kW, but the battery capacity is only slightly greater than the one used up to 2025.
Under these assumptions, it is clear that the available electrical energy is not sufficient to cover an entire lap, which is why ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has revealed how he stays grounded and maintains his mindset in the whirlwind of Formula 1. 
The four-time champion has a strong network of friends and family around him, but also does not feel the need to change as his fame and success grow. His main focus remains on his on-track performance.
"I try to just be myself, to be honest. I don't need to meet a famous person. I ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia is becoming increasingly comfortable on Ducati’s 2026 MotoGP bike following the second day of pre-season testing at Sepang.
Having already been encouraged by an initial run on a prototype version of the GP26 in November, Bagnaia has largely been able to confirm those positive impressions in Malaysia this week.
As soon as he jumped on the bike on Tuesday after the winter ...Keep reading

Former Red Bull boss Christian Horner has addressed rumours linking him to a return to Formula 1.
After leaving his role as Red Bull Racing CEO and team principal in July 2025, there have been several rumours of a return for the Briton. Most recently, it has been reported that he is part of a consortium of investors who are keen to buy into Alpine.
"Well, look, so far I've been going to ...Keep reading

Fresh off the winter break after his 2025 Formula 1 championship win, Lando Norris returned to his former primary school in Bristol, where he led an assembly on the importance of perseverance before leaving each child a gift.
After securing his maiden championship win last season, the McLaren driver returned to Chew Stoke Church School in the hope of inspiring the next generation. 
After ...Keep reading

Lando Norris is eager to discover how rival Formula 1 teams have interpreted the new ruleset for the forthcoming campaign - claiming one must accept when others do “better”. 
The 2026 season will introduce what’s arguably the biggest regulation overhaul in F1 history, with changes to the chassis and power unit meaning the pecking order is currently a guessing game. 
So for all ...Keep reading

Williams Formula 1 team boss James Vowles says the jump from fifth to fourth will be "exponentially more difficult" as he rules out the squad fighting at the front in 2026.
Williams vaulted from ninth to fifth in 2025 with a much-improved car in the midst of a wide-ranging overhaul of its factory, while still concentrating almost all of its in-season development efforts on the 2026 project ...Keep reading

Joan Mir put Honda on top on the second day of MotoGP pre-season testing at Sepang, as Yamaha sat out the action to investigate an engine issue. 
While riders were keen to preserve their limited allocation of soft tyres for the final day of the test, it didn’t take long for lap times to tumble once the track opened at 9am.
Less than an hour into the session, Mir beat Marc Marquez’s ...Keep reading

Factory Aston Martin driver Nicki Thiim will join Comtoyou Racing for his third full season in the DTM in 2026.
The Dane will race one of the two Aston Martin Vantage GT3s fielded by Cometoyou in the ADAC-run championship, with Nicolas Baert remaining in the sister car after his debut campaign in 2025.
The announcement means Thiim will represent his long-time employer Aston Martin for the ...Keep reading

George Russell is eager to contest a Formula 1 title battle against Max Verstappen in 2026 with the Mercedes driver heading into the campaign as the world championship favourite. 
F1 will introduce a new set of regulations this year meaning the car is completely new and with such wholesale changes, the pecking order is currently unknown.
But considering how Mercedes dominated the last ...Keep reading

Yamaha has decided to suspend all on-track activity during the second day of the Sepang MotoGP test while it works to determine the cause of the issue that forced Fabio Quartararo to stop on Tuesday.
The Frenchman crashed at Turn 5 of the Malaysian circuit on the opening day of the official test and fractured the middle finger on his right hand. Despite the swelling and heavy bleeding, he ...Keep reading

Tyler Courtney was of mixed minds in the immediate aftermath of a violent crash at the Knight Before the Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway in July that broke his T7 vertebrae and left him with a concussion.
When can I raceIs this a sign that I shouldn’t
 
This was the second crash in three years at Eldora that sidelined ‘Sunshine’ with back injuries and it would be easy for anyone in ...Keep reading

In hindsight, the Cook Out Clash could have been run on Tuesday but when the decision was made on Sunday to run the preseason exhibition on Wednesday, there were so many variables for numerous decision-makers to sort through.
It’s objectively true that the snowstorm that passed through North Carolina was one of the five most impactful in the history of the state. In Winston-Salem, where the ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles has explained the context behind the team missing the private test at Barcelona’s Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, admitting it was a consequence of chasing maximum performance and pushing the organisation's operating limits.
Speaking before the reveal of the 2026 livery, the former Mercedes strategist linked the delay to how late the teams are pushing to ...Keep reading

In a late move coming just weeks before the start of the 2026 season, NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway have decided to take the Charlotte Roval off the calendar, replacing the sixth race of The Chase with a traditional oval race.
Marcus Smith, the CEO of Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI), confirmed the news first reported by The Athletic in a Tuesday appearance on the Dale Jr. Download. He ...Keep reading

 The transition into the IndyCar Series has been relatively smooth for Mick Schumacher, so far.
It will get a bit steeper on Wednesday, though, as the 26-year-old German is set for his first oval test at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The private test at the 1.5-mile oval marks the first step of what he expects to be the toughest challenge: learning how to race on ovals.
“The challenges of it ...Keep reading