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Will Power’s opening three races with Andretti Global has been a rollercoaster. 
The 45-year-old Aussie has shown flashes of brilliant pace at times and gone over the limit on others, with four incidents combined through practice sessions or in the race, including crashing out while leading at Phoenix Raceway earlier this month. However, his latest result, a third-place finish in the Grand ...Keep reading

Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu is “very proud” of the way Esteban Ocon handled his collision with Franco Colapinto in Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix.
The incident occurred after Colapinto pitted from eighth on lap 32 of the race; the Alpine emerged out of the pits right in front of Ocon, who attempted a late lunge down the inside in the Turns 1-2 curve but ended up with nowhere to go ...Keep reading

We look at the best early bets to consider before the action gets underway at Suzuka.

Kimi Antonelli joined the F1 race winners’ club after he beat George Russell to the chequered flag in China, but is not getting carried away.

Oscar Piastri has joked that he hopes to “at least see the lights come on” at the Japanese Grand Prix after failing to start in both Australia and China already this season, with the Australian also sharing an insight into how he has reacted to experiencing a back-to-back DNS.

Lewis Hamilton has shared an insight into why he feels that Ferrari’s 2026 car suits him much better than its predecessor, with the seven-time World Champion admitting that he is “really grateful” to the team for taking his feedback onboard.

Honda come to their home race on the back foot this time around, but the work continues to chase performance improvements with Aston Martin.

Oliver Solberg, Elfyn Evans and now Takamoto Katsuta have grabbed World Rally Championship headlines with victories this year, but Toyota’s other young driver Sami Pajari is fast becoming its next star.
Right now, Toyota has an embarrassment of riches within its WRC driver roster. All five of its drivers, Evans, Solberg, Katsuta, Pajari and part-timer and reigning world champion Sebastien ...Keep reading

George Russell channelled his inner Han Lue in a The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift-inspired shoot ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. 
The Briton did the iconic pose as he leaned against a Mercedes AMG GT 63, sporting the wolf-inspired livery that will be on the Brackley outfit's Formula 1 cars at this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix. 
"Georgie understood the assignment," one fan ...Keep reading

"Best close your DMs now" was one journalist’s advice to Esteban Ocon in the post-race media ‘pen’ after a collision with Franco Colapinto in the Chinese Grand Prix. The Haas Formula 1 driver was duly on the receiving end of a torrent of online abuse in the days that followed.
While Ocon brushed off the abuse, which included death threats, as the work of "keyboard warriors", it forms part ...Keep reading

Can anyone stop Mercedes as we head to the Suzuka Circuit for the Japanese Grand Prix?

Top officials from the MotoGP world championship visited the Oscar y Juan Galvez Autodrome on Monday to oversee the work being carried out in preparation for the series’ return to Buenos Aires in 2027.
Following the Brazilian Grand Prix held last weekend at the Autodromo Ayrton Senna in Goiania, Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group, and Carlos Ezpeleta, sporting ...Keep reading

In the aftermath of Kimi Antonelli’s heartwarming win in China, there is plenty to discuss as the paddock resets for the Japanese Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton has shared a "full circle" moment after having a samurai lesson from the artist who choreographed the sword-fighting scenes from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
After doing karate as a young boy, Hamilton shared how he began the martial art as a way of dealing with bullying at school, but learned so much more from it than he originally expected. Now, using the time between the ...Keep reading

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has poked fun at the awkward slip-up at the Chinese Grand Prix, when Kimi Antonelli was announced as 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen.
The Italian driver was noticeably taken aback and confused as he stepped on the podium following his maiden grand prix victory at the Chinese Grand Prix. For those who were not there in person, footage was later released of the podium ...Keep reading

The FIA is pulling one of its levers to help restore Formula 1 qualifying to its former glory, but regardless of its fixes, drivers feel Suzuka is still one of the best challenges on the calendar.
Ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend, the FIA reduced the maximum allowed energy usage from 9 to 8MJ per lap in qualifying, which is estimated to significantly reduce the amount of super clipping ...Keep reading

Fan-favourite Sky Sports Formula 1 presenter Natalie Pinkham will return to screens for this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix after being absent from the coverage for five months.
Pinkham was forced to skip the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix due to a slipped disc in her neck that was pressing against nerves affecting her left arm and her spinal cord. After undergoing surgery, the Briton took time to ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen ejects a journalist from his news conference at the Japanese Grand Prix over a row that dates back to Abu Dhabi last year.

Max Verstappen ejects a journalist from his news conference at the Japanese Grand Prix over a row that dates back to Abu Dhabi last year.

Max Verstappen ejects a journalist from his news conference at the Japanese Grand Prix over a row that dates back to Abu Dhabi last year.