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McLaren's Lando Norris takes pole position for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix with Oscar Piastri fourth and Max Verstappen down in 16th.

Lando Norris has defeated Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Charles Leclerc to pole at Formula 1's Brazilian Grand Prix, with Oscar Piastri fourth and Max Verstappen sensationally down in 16th.
After making a mistake on his first Q3 flyer with a lock-up in Turn 1, Norris pieced together a much-improved lap to blitz the field with a 1m09.511s lap.
That proved nearly two tenths faster than Mercedes ...Keep reading

Toyota scored its first victory of the 2025 World Endurance Championship in the Bahrain 8 Hours finale, while Ferrari clinched both drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles in the Hypercar class.
Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and Nyck de Vries controlled the majority of the race in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, securing a long-awaited victory for the Japanese manufacturer and ending its winless ...Keep reading

Gabriel Bortoleto suffered a major crash on the final lap of the Sprint at Interlagos and missed out on Sao Paulo Grand Prix Qualifying as a result.

Live coverage of the Formula 1 Qualifying session for the 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil.

1. Lando Norris (McLaren), 2. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), 3. George Russell (Mercedes)

Max Verstappen conceded after the Sprint at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix that Red Bull “need to find something now” if they hope to be more competitive in Qualifying, the Dutchman having ended the 100-kilometre dash in fourth place.

Kimi Antonelli has admitted that “confidence is high” at Mercedes despite the competitive nature of the field, after he was able to challenge Lando Norris during the Sprint at Interlagos and secure a spot on the podium.

Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies revealed that the team opted for a bold approach ahead of the Brazil Grand Prix qualifying session after struggling since arriving at the circuit.
Unfortunately for the Milton Keynes outfit, the risk did not pay off. Max Verstappen qualified in 16th with his team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in 19th.
"Obviously, nobody expected something like that," Mekies ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta says narrow defeats like the Portimao sprint on Saturday are only making him a better rider as he edges closer to an elusive first MotoGP win.
The highly-rated Spaniard, who is approaching the end of his second season in MotoGP, qualified on the front row for the first time in 2025 in Portugal. But despite trying every trick in the book to keep the faster Alex Marquez behind him ...Keep reading

The Williams Formula 1 team has shared a heartfelt tribute to 2009 F1 champion Jenson Button as he retires from racing.
The British driver is competing in his final World Endurance Championship race in Bahrain today.
After entering his rookie F1 season in 2000, he accumulated 15 grand prix wins, eight pole positions, eight fastest laps and a championship victory in 2009 before he retired ...Keep reading

The first race of the Lamborghini Pro and Pro-Am World Finals featured a thrilling three-way battle, which ended on the final lap with a collision that overturned the standings after the chequered flag.
Danny Formal (Wayne Taylor Racing) got off to a perfect start from pole position, immediately opening a comfortable lead over Will Bamber (TR3 Racing) and Paul Levet (VSR).
The Wayne Taylor ...Keep reading

Oliver Bearman and Liam Lawson have both been penalised, for dangerous driving and causing a collision respectively, in Formula 1's Brazil Grand Prix sprint race after tangling on the opening lap.
On the exit of Turn 3, Bearman had just lost a battle with hometown hero Gabriel Bortoleto and switched to the inside line on the run to Turn 4. However, Lawson had filled the space to the left of him ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton lamented their Ferrari Formula 1 car’s lack of top speed after the Brazil Grand Prix sprint – and were at a loss to explain it.
Leclerc and Hamilton qualified eighth and 11th respectively for the sprint, with Leclerc openly struggling with the SF-25’s instability, which has been a recurrent theme this season.
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Oscar Piastri took full responsibility for his crash during the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race, which continued his capitulation in the 2025 Formula 1 world title fight.
The McLaren driver was running third just moments before he spun out on lap six after he took too much kerb at Turn 3 in damp conditions at Interlagos.
It means he is now nine points behind team-mate and title rival Lando ...Keep reading

Four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen has claimed he was in "no man's land" during the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race.
The Dutchman crossed the line in fourth after starting from sixth, but was 4.423 seconds behind race winner Lando Norris.
"We will make some changes and hopefully that will bring the car in a better window," Verstappen explained to the media after the race. "Hopefully ...Keep reading

The start of Race 1 of the AM-LC Lamborghini World Finals threw up the first major surprise when polesitter Stephane Tribaudini was forced to retire just a few metres after the start. Oregon Team driver Pietro Perolini then took full advantage to break away from the field on the opening lap.
The Italian driver immediately opened a good margin on the first of his pursuers, the Italo-Argentinian ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri has given his take on the crash that put him out of the Sprint at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with the Australian labelling the incident a “silly mistake”.

Grey skies and a damp circuit were not enough to dissuade Lando Norris from storming to victory in the Sao Paulo Sprint, narrowly beating the Mercedes duo of Kimi Antonelli and George Russell.

Lando Norris has conceded that McLaren have “homework to do” in order to keep their competitors at bay after he came under intense pressure from Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli before winning the Sprint in Sao Paulo.