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Madrid will host the 2026 Spanish Grand Prix in September, and construction has begun on the pit building.
The 2026 Spanish Grand Prix will be set around the IFEMA MADRID exhibition centre and the north-east of the city, on a 5.4km circuit with 22 corners.
The pit building will house the pit garages, FIA technical areas and the VIP Paddock Club. In addition to the pit building, the first ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Laurent Mekies says it would be "naive" to think his squad will nail the 2026 power unit regulations from the start, and admitted the team is bracing for a few "very tough months".
Red Bull will introduce its first-ever F1 engines for the 2026 regulations cycle, developed at its Milton Keynes campus at the Red Bull Powertrains division, with support from ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has given gifts to the Williams Formula 1 team after his first season with the Grove outfit. Members of the team were seen with gift bags, which included a letter from the Spanish driver.
Sainz joined the James Vowles-led team in 2025 after being replaced at Ferrari by seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. The Spanish driver was drawn to the long-term plan of the team as Vowles works ...Keep reading

Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Fred Vasseur has revealed the Scuderia will unveil its new 2026 car on 23 January, with a shakedown at its Fiorano test track.
Car launches for 2026's new regulation era are kicking off earlier than usual given the demands of F1's busy pre-season, with three tests scheduled in Barcelona and Bahrain between the end of January and the middle of February.
Ferrari ...Keep reading

Karun Chandhok has argued that Isack Hadjar's fate at Red Bull lies in which 'philosophical' direction the Milton Keynes outfit takes in 2026.
Red Bull has struggled to find a team-mate for four-time champion Max Verstappen in recent years who has been able to extract the same level of performance out of the car as the Dutchman.
Liam Lawson replaced Sergio Perez at Red Bull for 2025, but ...Keep reading

Greg Biffle was just days away from his 56th birthday when he died in a tragic plane crash in Statesville, North Carolina, which occurred on Thursday morning. Among the passengers were Biffle's wife Cristina, daughter Emma, and son Ryder, as well Craig Wadsworth, Dennis Dutton, and his son Jack Dutton.
‘The Biff’ is being remembered by the NASCAR community in an outpouring of tributes, but ...Keep reading

Unfortunately, NASCAR has been rattled by another tragedy involving aircraft. On Thursday morning, Greg Biffle and his family were among those killed in an accident at the Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina.
A champion in both the Craftsman Truck and O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, achieving double-digit victories at all three national levels of the sport, Biffle was a true legend of ...Keep reading

Lia Block has shared a recovery update after undergoing minor surgery on her wrist following the F1 Academy season.
The American driver shared the news with her followers after the close of the F1 Academy season, saying that she was due to have surgery to correct nerve damage from a previous incident in 2020.
"No one freak out," Block wrote on social media. "Just a minor surgery. I broke my ...Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 driver Esteban Ocon has shared his interest in taking part in a drift championship outing.
The Frenchman, who joined Haas ahead of the 2025 season after a five-year stint with Renault/Alpine, has already taken part in the World Rally Championship and is keen to give drifting a try.
"It’s still related to cars, but swapping seats with some drift championship guys would be ...Keep reading

Retired NASCAR star Greg Biffle alongside wife Cristina Grossu Biffle, daughter Emma, son Ryder and three others were killed in an aviation crash on Thursday morning at Statesville Regional Airport north of Charlotte, North Carolina.
First Sergeant Chris Knox of the North Carolina Highway Patrol first confirmed the death of the Biffle family and added it was 'one of the worst crashes' he had ...Keep reading

FOX Sports and IndyCar have announced the race broadcast start times for the upcoming 2026 season.
For the second consecutive year, IndyCar will have a record 19 network windows, with all 17 races featured on broadcast television. It is also the second time in as many years that IndyCar will be the only premier motorsports series in North America with all races broadcast on network ...Keep reading

Williams Formula 1 driver Alex Albon says he has "so much confidence" his team can take another step forward after its rise to fifth in 2025.
Williams secured a comfortable fifth place in last season's championship as the experienced and rapid combination of Albon and new team-mate Carlos Sainz combined for 137 points,- the Grove-based squad's best result in a decade.
Even if the squad has ...Keep reading

From the very start of the 2025 MotoGP season, when Alex Marquez strung together three consecutive second-place finishes in Thailand, Argentina and the United States, one question followed him everywhere: ‘Would he receive upgrades on his GP24?’
The younger Marquez’s answer was always the same, as the contract between Ducati and his team Gresini Racing did not stipulate any upgrades ...Keep reading

Lando Norris made his childhood dream a reality at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix when a hard-earned podium finish secured the 2025 F1 World Championship title. As well as the euphoria and relief felt by the McLaren driver, his family and his friends trackside, a quiet corner of Somerset, England – where Norris went to school – beamed with its own pride over the completion of a special journey…

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The FIA has offered up a first look at the World Rally Championship cars of the future, built under the new technical regulations that will come into force from 2027.
The new technical regulations, which will span a 10-year period, are designed to be more affordable and flexible in a bid to attract new manufacturers and teams to the series. Cars will be built to a €345,000 cost cap, deliver ...Keep reading

Sky Sports strategy analyst Bernie Collins believes that the job for the Cadillac Formula 1 team cannot be underestimated.
The American outfit is set to join the grid in 2026 as the 11th team with experienced drivers Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas. And while the regulation changes next year will reset the order of the grid, Collins argued that the General Motors-backed team will likely ...Keep reading

Red Bull's Max Verstappen has explained why missing out on a fifth consecutive Formula 1 world title by two points doesn't really feel like a loss.
Verstappen came just two points short of overhauling McLaren's Lando Norris, who sealed his maiden world championship with third place in the Abu Dhabi season finale.
After a tough first half of the campaign, Verstappen trailed the second McLaren ...Keep reading

2026 Racing Bulls Formula 1 driver Arvid Lindblad has shared some insight into the now-viral clip of him approaching Lando Norris five years ago.
Lindblad told the McLaren driver to remember him and that he would see him in F1 in five years, taking inspiration from Lewis Hamilton's Ron Dennis story. Following the news that the British driver had signed for Racing Bulls for 2026, footage of the ...Keep reading