Francesco Bagnaia suffered disappointment yet again this season as he didn't even progress directly to the Q2 qualifying session following the official practice session on Friday afternoon.Purely on pace, Bagnaia appeared to be in the mix throughout the entire session, however, he appeared to be in the pitlane at exactly the wrong time throughout the magic hour. He explained to the media ...Keep reading

The Belgian WRT team is in the running to expand its programme with the BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh into the IMSA SportsCar Championship next season. BMW’s representative in the World Endurance Championship has revealed that it is in negotiation to take over Rahal Letterman Lanigan's IMSA programme, after the German manufacturer opted against renewing its partnership with the US ...Keep reading

Our Motorsports has been operating in the NASCAR Xfinity Series since 2020, running nearly 300 races with nine top fives, 41 top tens, and a pole position at Portland in 2022. The team also ran a handful of ARCA races over the past few years, placing as high as second at Talladega.Today, the team revealed that Dover will be their final race, as Our Motorsports plans to cease operations after ...Keep reading

With the paddock watching with bated breath, Jorge Martin got back on track with Aprilia during Friday's practice sessions at Brno for the Czech Grand Prix.The first practice session was held in drying conditions, with a dry line emerging throughout the 45-minute session. Martin appeared to be taking things easy, a sensible option considering his Aprilia team-mate Marco Bezzecchi and Ai Ogura ...Keep reading

Oliver Solberg continued his dream return to the World Rally Championship top flight by extending his Rally Estonia lead to 12.4s over Hyundai’s Ott Tanak on Friday.Solberg produced a stunning display to claim his first WRC stage wins, making the most of a special opportunity to join the factory Toyota squad on Estonia’s fast gravel stages this weekend.After only two days of testing to ...Keep reading

Current MotoGP runner-up Alex Marquez narrowly secured a direct pass to Q2 on Friday, crashing with seven minutes left on the clock during the official practice session. Along with his brother Marc Marquez, the Gresini rider is the only rider on the MotoGP grid who has qualified in the top 10 every Friday, advancing directly to Q2. However, in practice for the Czech Grand Prix, Alex Marquez ...Keep reading

Since the death of Dietrich Mateschitz, much has changed at Red Bull. In the aftermath of Christian Horner’s sacking as Red Bull Formula 1 team boss, focus on power and who holds control at the parent company has come into sharp focus.The mystery surrounding the 2% stake in Red Bull GmbH that changed hands on 31 May appears to be solved. An investigation by Motorsport.com sister site ...Keep reading

Nolan Siegel missed Race 2 of the Iowa Speedway doubleheader after crashing during Saturday’s Synk 275.The 20-year-old lost control of his Dallara-Chevrolet exiting Turn 4 on lap 246 of 275 and hit the wall with enough force to suffer a mild concussion and punch a hole in the SAFER barrier.He was ruled out of Sunday’s Farm to Fresh 275 and scheduled for reevaluation later in the ...Keep reading

Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin revealed he doesn’t “regret” his contractual standoff with Aprilia having now dropped the saga. Martin joined Aprilia for 2025 on a two-year contract from Pramac Ducati, but in May confirmed his desire to trigger a contractual clause that allowed him to leave at the end of the season.The clause stated that if he was not in contention for ...Keep reading

In almost any other IndyCar season, Kyle Kirkwood would be a strong contender for the title heading into the final stretch, having scored three wins, five top-five finishes, and eight top-10s in 12 rounds. However, the driver of Andretti Global’s No. 27 car didn’t account for what is shaping up to be a historic run by Palou.Nevertheless, rather than being frustrated by what the Chip ...Keep reading

The courts have ruled against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports in their request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) as they seek a new preliminary injunction. The hope was that they would secure a TRO in order to prevent NASCAR from revoking their charters, but that has failed. They will compete as open entries at Dover Motor Speedway this weekend. 23XI fields the No. 23 of Bubba ...Keep reading

Williams boss James Vowles has said his team is still chasing a permanent solution for its cooling issues as its temporary fixes are costing it valuable performance in the 2025 Formula 1 season.Both Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz have regularly suffered from engine overheating issues in recent races, most notably in Spain, Canada and Austria, with Albon being forced to retire in Montreal and ...Keep reading

Some people think of Marseille as bandit country. There’s some justification for this. As a port it has many connections… some shady.Out in the bay lies the ancient French equivalent of Alcatraz, the Chateau d’If, where the fictional Count of Monte Cristo was incarcerated.A tangled knot of streets lead away from the famous Vieux Port, the natural harbour where Greek seafarers first ...Keep reading

“I might sound really stupid – my shoulders feel lighter. My whole body feels lighter, my head feels lighter.”You’d forgive Oliver Rowland for feeling this way, with the Briton winning Nissan’s very first Formula E world title after his championship lead dwindled of late – but always remained substantial.This was unprecedented success for a manufacturer whose team was born as ...Keep reading

Toyota has labelled this year’s World Endurance Championship as “boring” and made a thinly-veiled call for changes to the system of Balance of Performance to improve the spectacle.David Floury, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, bemoaned the quality of the on-track action in the WEC's Hypercar division during 2025, labelling it “a sad season” and suggesting that it has ...Keep reading

Yamaha test rider Augusto Fernandez has claimed its V4 engine is “still not fast enough” with the Japanese marque hoping to use it for the 2026 MotoGP campaign. The organisation has been developing the new power unit since last year, with Yamaha being the only MotoGP manufacturer to use an inline four rather than a V4. That has seen a correlation with performance as Yamaha, a ...Keep reading

Franco Morbidelli will miss out on this weekend’s Czech GP following the injury he sustained in the MotoGP sprint race at the Sachsenring.The VR46 rider suffered a severe contusion to his left collarbone in a high-speed crash at the German track, having lost control of his Ducati in the rain before cartwheeling to a halt in the gravel trap.Read Also:MotoGPFranco Morbidelli to ...Keep reading

Red Bull has an interesting history in NASCAR, entering the sport with a race team in the mid-2000s and attempting to form a championship-caliber organization. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as well as their Formula 1 venture as Red Bull Racing's NASCAR branch shut down at the conclusion of the 2011 season. Now, if you want to learn more about that tumultuous era, you can find the full rundown ...Keep reading

Amid frequent speculation over his future at Alpine, Franco Colapinto vows to keep chipping away at the underwhelming results that he's achieved while struggling with a difficult 2025 F1 car. For a variety of reasons, Alpine's switch from Jack Doohan to Colapinto hasn't worked out yet. After six race weekends marred by several incidents and no points, Doohan was relieved of his duties after ...Keep reading

When Katherine Legge saw the first render for her pink race car, covered in e.l.f. branding, her reaction was swift. “Oh god, that’s so cliché. Do we have to do a pink car?” she recalls asking her team. The veteran driver, whose expansive resume includes open-wheel racing, endurance and now NASCAR, had spent most of her career carefully sidestepping the ‘female driver’ label. In a ...Keep reading