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Brad Pitt's F1 movie has done something no other Formula 1 film has been able to do in the United States: it has become a mainstream blockbuster rather than a niche racing drama. At the North American box office the film took approximately $189.5million out of a $631.5million global haul, making it the highest-grossing racing film worldwide. But how does it compare to other racing films in the ...Keep reading

Red Bull's F1 2025 runner-up Max Verstappen will not attend Friday night's FIA Awards after being struck with what was described as seasonal flu.
As part of the top three finishers in the 2025 F1 world championship, narrowly losing out to McLaren's Lando Norris, Verstappen was expected to attend the FIA's end-of-season gala in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent to make an appearance alongside Norris ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean was left puzzled by Oscar Piastri's performance at the end of the 2025 season, claiming it "felt like it was his cousin driving".
The McLaren driver had a strong start to the year, securing 12 grand prix podium finishes ahead of the summer break, six of which were victories. But after the summer break, he won the Dutch Grand Prix and finished third in ...Keep reading

Guenther Steiner believes that Max Verstappen's move on George Russell during the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix ultimately made him a better driver, adding that "He'll be even more unstoppable and more clinical".
Verstappen crashed into the Mercedes driver after an earlier incident in the race when Russell made contact with the Dutchman on a race restart. The contact resulted in Verstappen running ...Keep reading

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been returned as president of motorsport's governing body the FIA after an election in which he was the only candidate.

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been returned as president of motorsport's governing body the FIA after an election in which he was the only candidate.

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been returned as president of motorsport's governing body the FIA after an election in which he was the only candidate.

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been returned as president of motorsport's governing body the FIA after an election in which he was the only candidate.

Kondo Racing has come out in defence of Jack Doohan following the ex-Formula 1 driver’s troubled maiden Super Formula test blighted by three crashes at the same corner.
Driving for the Toyota-powered Kondo squad in this week’s Suzuka post-season test ahead of a likely switch to Japan next year, Doohan hit the barriers at the Degner 2 right-hander on all three days of running - all of which ...Keep reading

Lancia has unveiled its driver line-up ahead of its long-awaited return to the World Rally Championship next year.
The Italian brand that won a record 10 WRC manufacturers’ titles named Yohan Rossel and Nikolay Gryazin as its drivers for its comeback, which will see the automaker contest the second tier WRC2 championship.
Rossel and Gryazin will pilot Lancia’s all-new Ypsilon HF ...Keep reading

Re-elected FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is lining up another project with hypercar manufacturer Koenigsegg. The Dubai native has a lot of love for the Swedish car company, with him already owning two Regeras and a Chimera, but he's now working on a totally one-off build that he shared with motoring personality Tim Burton, owner of the Shmee150 brand.
The British supercar content creator ...Keep reading

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected as president of the FIA. 
Ben Sulayem controversially ran unopposed in this year’s presidential election, which took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, ahead of the 2025 prize-giving ceremony. The Emirati will serve a second four-year term, having first been elected in 2021 with 61.62% of the vote to then deputy president for sport Graham Stoker's ...Keep reading

Helmut Marko has revealed the reasons why he’s leaving Red Bull’s Formula 1 project at the end of the year, citing Max Verstappen’s 2025 title loss as a major factor.
Marko is ending a 25-year stint as one of Red Bull’s bosses in motorsport, having led its Junior Team since 2001 and acted as an advisor for the brand’s F1 squads since 2005. The Austrian played a key role in the rise of ...Keep reading

Vanwall is preparing to return to action in the World Endurance Championship after two years of work to update and improve its hypercar.
After a brief stint in the top endurance series, the British brand's car, prepared by ByKolles Racing, has remained inactive over the last two years. But the Austrian team has been working to resolve the issues that arose during its difficult 2023 adventure in ...Keep reading

Ex-McLaren Formula 1 junior Ugo Ugochukwu topped Super Formula’s post-season test at Suzuka by setting the fastest time of the final day of running and overall.
Ugochukwu, driving the #1 TOM’S Dallara-Toyota normally piloted by Sho Tsuboi, took advantage of near-perfect conditions in the two rookies-only sessions on Friday to set the fastest time of the week, a 1m36.682s, late in the ...Keep reading

It wasn't just raw emotion pouring out of Lando Norris after he was crowned the 2025 Formula 1 world champion in Abu Dhabi.
With the tears of joy came a stream of consciousness giving insight into how he had experienced his rollercoaster 2025 season - the joyous wins, the crushing defeats, the challenge of going up against cold-blooded hegemon Max Verstappen and the prospect of being usurped by ...Keep reading

Julian Clary hosts a brand new panel show celebrating everything he hates about Christmas.

United Autosports will exit its Supercars joint venture to focus on its other commitments, including McLaren’s factory Hypercar programme in the World Endurance Championship from 2027.
As per the agreement, Walkinshaw Group and Andretti’s parent company TWG Global will consolidate their ownership and acquire United’s existing shareholding in the outfit.
The change will come into effect ...Keep reading

As Brad Pitt's F1 movie lands on Apple TV on 12 December, American fans are about to get an at-home replay of a film that has done something pretty special: it made Formula 1 feel like a mainstream US blockbuster.
Long before the movie's streaming debut, F1 already had a lot to tell of its success in the States. As we've mentioned countless times before on this website, Netflix's Drive to ...Keep reading