George Russell reacted to the FIA’s President’s comments regarding changing strict rules that would see drivers fined for swearing.
Earlier this week, Mohammed Ben Sulayem posted on Instagram that he was contemplating reviewing plans to punish drivers for using foul language after receiving “constructive feedback” from drivers across the world and that he was open to making ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda believes he still needs more time to push the Red Bull Formula 1 car to the maximum after a mixed start to life at the team. 
The Japanese driver started the 2025 season with sister squad Racing Bulls, but then replaced the underperforming Liam Lawson at Red Bull after just two grands prix.
Although Tsunoda has been an improvement on Lawson, the 24-year-old has only scored two ...Keep reading

Honda-powered squad Dandelion Racing started its 2025 season with four consecutive wins, across the opening double-headers at Suzuka and Motegi, with its drivers Tadasuke Makino and Kakunoshin Ohta picking up two wins apiece.
Including last year’s closing double at Suzuka, which was swept by Ohta, Dandelion has won the last six races in a row — the last time that was done was by Nakajima ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton wants the F1 Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA) to be given a seat of power to help run the sport.
While in Miami, Hamilton has led calls for the formation of a union to establish a position of authority which means drivers can have some input on shaping the sport's rules and plans for the future. It comes after a standoff between drivers and the sport’s governing body, the ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has no time for anyone questioning his ability as he admits it could take months for him to fully get to grips with his Ferrari Formula 1 car.
Despite winning the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix, it has proved a tough start to life at Maranello for the seven-time world champion.
Cutting a forlorn figure in the post-race media pen in Saudi Arabia a fortnight ago, he ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has said he is confident he will soon be able to fire on all cylinders after diving into McLaren's simulator to find answers to his 2025 Formula 1 car struggles.
Norris won the 2025 Melbourne opener, but on balance last season's runner-up has struggled to gel with McLaren's new car, which has undergone substantial changes compared to 2024 to stay ahead of the curve.
His ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso thinks designer Adrian Newey would have liked to start even earlier at his new Aston Martin team to attack Formula 1's 2026 regulations.
Newey was presented last year as Aston Martin's new managing technical partner, but Aston waited until early March for the former Red Bull design guru to start at his new employer. Once in position, his firm focus is now on kicking off the 2026 ...Keep reading

Williams driver Carlos Sainz has revealed he is "not surprised" that his Ferrari replacement Lewis Hamilton has struggled to adapt to his new Formula 1 squad.
The seven-time world champion replaced Sainz as Charles Leclerc’s team-mate for 2025, but the Shanghai sprint is the only time Hamilton has beaten the Monegasque in the five race weekends thus far. 
Sainz similarly struggled against ...Keep reading

Alex Albon detailed several key improvements that Williams made to its 2025 car that allowed the British squad to make its best start to a Formula 1 season in nearly a decade.
After five races Albon and his new team-mate Carlos Sainz have scored 25 points between them, which is eight more than the Grove-based team collected over the entire 2024 campaign and marks its best season start since ...Keep reading

Aston Martin has admitted it is "not a happy camp" given its disappointing 2025, but is vowing to use this Formula 1 season to prepare for 2026 rather than panicking.
Over 2025's first five grands prix, Aston Martin is on the wrong side of a tight midfield battle heading into this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix seventh in the championship with 10 points. All of those points were scored by Lance ...Keep reading

As the Cadillac Formula 1 team gears up for a first public announcement at the Miami Grand Prix, rumours around Sergio Perez's comeback are increasing. Would the Mexican be a good pick for the American team?
Contrary to reports in Germany, Motorsport.com understands Perez to Cadillac is not a done deal just yet, with 2026's new entrant one of several options he is still holding conversations ...Keep reading

In a war of words playing out across podcasts, NASCAR has hit back at Denny Hamlin and his claims about the proposal to let teams run cars outside the scope of the rule book at the All-Star Race. With the hope of it yielding new ways to improve the short track package, the sanctioning body was going to let teams build cars out of Next Gen parts that would essentially be illegal at any other race ...Keep reading

By one of those whims of fate that seem to be straight out of a science fiction movie, Alex Marquez had to wait 93 – Marc's famous race number – grands prix in the heavyweight class to be able to call himself a race winner.
But the younger Marquez’s triumph at Jerez last weekend was richly deserved. Ever since the start of winter testing, the Gresini Ducati rider’s approach to the ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez is currently in talks over a three-year contract with the Cadillac Formula 1 squad but also has other options, Motorsport.com understands.
The six-time grand prix winner has been without an F1 drive since leaving Red Bull at the end of 2024, having endured a difficult campaign, finishing 285 points behind team-mate and world champion Max Verstappen.
Perez previously said he ...Keep reading

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” as the famous Peter Drucker quote goes.
As a karting mechanic, Jonathan Wheatley wore white gloves. As Red Bull’s sporting director, he was the drill instructor who hustled Formula 1’s fastest pit crew.
And now, as team principal at Sauber, his task is to help transform one of the smallest teams on the grid into a squad worthy of carrying ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen is skipping Thursday media duties ahead of the Miami Grand Prix.
The reigning champion, who is expecting his first child with girlfriend Kelly Piquet, won’t be at the Miami track on Thursday for his regular scheduled media sessions, which drivers usually only miss for serious medical reasons.
Red Bull cited the four-time world champion’s baby as ...Keep reading

Donald Trump’s appearance at the Miami Grand Prix at the Hard Rock Stadium last year was one of the more surreal moments of the season. At the time, the then former-president and standing candidate, was greeted with a remarkable and warm reception as he walked on the grid and was given a tour of the McLaren garage.
The fans chanted his name while Trump also told race winner Lando Norris that ...Keep reading

Rally Portugal will welcome the strongest Rally1 line-up since 2022 when it hosts the next round of the World Rally Championship later this month.
Twelve Rally1 cars are set to tackle Portugal’s 24 gravel stages for round five of the season from 15-18 May.
Toyota will once again field five GR Yaris Rally1 cars with the most successful driver in Rally Portugal history, six-time winner ...Keep reading

Jonathan Wheatley was in his fourth season of Formula 1 as a mechanic in 1994, having started on Roberto Moreno’s car at Benetton before the Brazilian was ousted in favour of Michael Schumacher.
That gave him a ringside seat for the early stages of what was shaping up to be one of motor racing’s great rivalries – until tragedy struck at Imola during the San Marino Grand Prix weekend 31 ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda finally got his chance at the Red Bull main team after four full seasons and two races with the junior squad. But the challenge is proving to be difficult, with stand-out performances still missing. A mere 12th place in Japan, two points in Bahrain and a first-lap crash in Jeddah are not results a Red Bull driver can be proud of. Yet, Tsunoda has at least shown more promise than Liam ...Keep reading

It is a quirk of Italian law that, if a fatality occurs, even on a race track, someone must be held responsible. The tragic deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix weekend resonated through the world and put Formula 1 under intense scrutiny.
While Ratzenberger’s accident was clearly caused by front-wing failure, Senna’s became the object of ...Keep reading

The Racing Bulls Formula 1 team has unveiled a striking one-off livery for this weekend's Miami Grand Prix.
Its drivers Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson will tackle the Miami sprint weekend in a bold pink and white livery on their VCARB 02, that the team says is inspired by the Red Bull Summer Edition White Peach. Hadjar and Lawson, as well as their trackside teams, will also sport magenta race ...Keep reading

When Ryan Preece flipped violently at Daytona International Speedway in the summer of 2023, NASCAR was not shy in their reaction, quickly moving to remove the grass from the entire backstretch at the superspeedway. 
Thankfully, no one went up and over at Talladega, but Christopher Bell and Chris Buescher crashed fairly hard at the exit of Turn 2 on a mid-race restart. Bell slammed the inside ...Keep reading

Jenson Button's wife, Brittny Button, was targeted by a thief in London following a romantic Valentine’s Day getaway with the former F1 driver. The model’s Goyard suitcase, which contained more than $333,000 worth of handbags, jewelry and sentimental items, was swiped outside London’s St Pancras station in February. 
She told the Daily Mail she has “no interest” in returning to the ...Keep reading

Jonathan Wheatley is aiming to install a big-team mentality at Sauber before it completes its switch to Audi from 2026 – although the former Red Bull sporting director admits it will take “years” to get to the top of Formula 1.
Having left Red Bull two years ago, Wheatley has now started his new role as team principal of Sauber, which finished bottom of the constructors’ championship ...Keep reading

Connor Zilisch was involved in a violent head-on impact on the final lap of last Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity race at Talladega Superspeedway. Zilisch was leading the field when he got turned trying to block a run from Jesse Love, crashing heavily into the inside wall. He was later checked and released from the infield care center.
After the race, he said: "That was one of the wrecks when you move ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso is the fifth-most selected driver currently in the F1 Fantasy game but at the same time he is the lowest point scorer of the season to date.
A tricky first five races for Aston Martin means Alonso’s team-mate Lance Stroll is only the 18th most popular driver in the game, while the team itself makes the cut in just 14% of selections.
Alonso’s reputation, though, is ...Keep reading

There are two ongoing legal cases surrounding NASCAR Charters. The first is the highly publicized court battle between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR as the teams seek to the challenge the terms of the 2025 Charter Agreement. However, the second, lesser-known case, focuses on the ownership of a single charter.
Legacy Motor Club, co-owned by seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion ...Keep reading

Formula 1 has signed a fresh three-year contract extension with promoters of the Mexico Grand Prix to keep the race on the calendar until 2028.
The 2025 edition of the race at Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is the last one of its current contract, with promotor CIE having to negotiate new terms with F1.
The race, which was revived in 2015, has grown into one of the most popular ...Keep reading

Racing Bulls team boss Laurent Mekies says losing Yuki Tsunoda to Red Bull was a success for his Formula 1 squad despite his fluctuating driver line-ups conflicting with the outfit's performance targets.
Mekies' squad has received "super ambitious targets" to fight in F1's tighter upper midfield, which the team slowly but surely is succeeding in. Strategic decisions have cost the Anglo-Italian ...Keep reading

Shaila-Ann Rao has returned to the FIA after the world governing body for motorsport confirmed her appointment as a presidential advisor.
It marks another post for Rao, who previously worked for the FIA as legal director between 2016-2018 and as interim secretary general for motorsport for a five-month spell in 2022.
Her initial return followed a stint working at Mercedes and saw her step ...Keep reading

Everything you think about F1 Academy is wrong. Since its launch in 2023, opinions have been plentiful, but facts are harder to come by. The series marked a visible step forward for women in motorsport: a glossy, all-female grid backed by Formula 1, aimed at widening the pipeline and shifting the narrative. But here’s the catch: F1 Academy isn’t a proving ground for the next female F1 driver ...Keep reading

Can Oscar Piastri hold on to the championship lead?
Having scored his third win of the season in Jeddah, Oscar Piastri moved to the top of the standings. Fun stat: any driver with such a win rate in the first five races either won the championship or was already a champion. Piastri has made a strong case for himself, forcing the public to reassess the pre-season expectations – he’s now the ...Keep reading

The trailer for an upcoming documentary on Formula 1 hotshot Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been released ahead of its premiere next week.
Netflix will publish ‘The Seat’ on Monday 5 May, and it will be a 45-minute documentary charting the previous year of the Italian’s life as he geared up for his promotion to F1.
In August of last year, Mercedes announced Antonelli as its Lewis Hamilton ...Keep reading

There was a time when you had to have a race in your own country to see a Formula 1 grand prix, a feat that only two major countries in Latin America were lucky enough to achieve in the early days of the championship.
Argentina hosted a race for most of the 1950s, allowing locals to enjoy the exploits of the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán González. When the South American ...Keep reading

Ott Tanak felt Hyundai was 'clearly unprepared' for the demands of Rally Islas Canarias after suffering a crushing defeat to World Rally Championship rivals Toyota. 
Hyundai admitted that it underestimated the difficulty of the first pure asphalt event of the 2025 WRC season as it was unable to take the fight to a dominant Toyota that recorded an impressive 1-2-3-4 result. 
The Korean ...Keep reading

This article was initially published on 30 April 2024.
Gorianstrasse is a small, dead-end street in Salzburg’s Riedenburg neighbourhood, around halfway between the old city nestling at the foot of the Hohensalzburg fortress and the airport on the western outskirts. There, in a new-build block, Roland Ratzenberger bought a two-storey apartment with beautiful views of Untersberg mountain from ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta underwent surgery on Tuesday to treat the compartment syndrome in his right forearm, a condition that has affected him since his MotoGP debut last year.
In a brief statement released by KTM late on Tuesday, the Austrian manufacturer confirmed the intervention on its rider, though it stopped short of providing much detail.
“Pedro Acosta underwent surgery for chronic compartment ...Keep reading

“It’s probably at the bottom of my list of preferred circuits,” said Lewis Hamilton, the dismissive tone and matching facial expression indicating that no elucidation would be forthcoming. Pity the poor scribbler who had clearly accepted a commission from some outlet or other to write a story talking up the Miami race, spending the most recent grand prix weekends doggedly working the rounds ...Keep reading

Ferrari fans have been treated to a number of special edition collections from PUMA in recent years and this time the drivers will also be setting the trends, joining a number of other famous Ferrari drivers who have raced in white over the years.
The first driver to do so, according to our best research, was Jody Scheckter, who wore a white and blue suit reflecting the colours of his personal ...Keep reading

Before switching to Mercedes in 2013 and becoming one of the most successful drivers in Formula 1 history, Lewis Hamilton kicked off his F1 career with McLaren where he won his first world title and, apparently, helped finesse the company’s road cars.
Hamilton joined the Woking-based team in 2007 and won his first F1 race with Mclaren later that year. The following season, he went on to claim ...Keep reading

NASCAR's weekly penalty report is out and while there were no further issues in Cup beyond the Sunday disqualifications of Ryan Preece and Joey Logano (with both RFK Racing and Team Penske deciding against an appeal), there were some issues in the Xfinity Series.
The No. 99 Viking Motorsports Chevrolet, driven by Matt DiBenedetto, was hit with a fine and points penalty after the series ...Keep reading

With the month of May just around the corner, and continuing the hype following last week's open test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar on Tuesday unveiled the pace car for the 109th Indianapolis 500.
Michael Strahan, a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, two-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, longtime “FOX NFL Sunday” analyst and “Good Morning America” co-host, will sit behind the ...Keep reading

It’s nearly lights out in the 305. Formula 1 is returning to Miami for the fourth time, and the who’s who of the sports, entertainment, and business worlds will descend upon South Florida for star-studded soirées ahead of the May 4 race. 
Lando Norris, who earned his long-awaited maiden victory at the Miami International Autodrome last year, will be hoping to defend his title. However ...Keep reading

Helio Castroneves will drive in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series in 2025, having been confirmed in the grid of the category ahead of this weekend's season opener at Interlagos.
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and one of the greatest Brazilian drivers in history, Castroneves will combine his new activities on home soil with his United States duties, where he is chasing his 5th Indy 500 ...Keep reading

For the sixth round of the 2025 world championship, Formula 1 returns to Florida for the Miami Grand Prix. Lights go out at the Miami International Autodrome on Sunday, 4 May, and here’s how you can make sure you don’t miss a minute of the action.
Make sure to join us for Race Center Live, our live coverage of the race, complete with pre- and post-show coverage starting a half hour before ...Keep reading

The NASCAR Cup Series will be joined by both the Xfinity and Truck Series divisions this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Cup field will feature the expected 36 chartered teams with no driver changes there, but that is not the whole story. Two open teams have also entered the event with the No. 66 of Chad Finchum (Garage 66 team, formerly known as MBM ...Keep reading

adidas is bringing a summertime feel to the paddock in Miami. The sportswear manufacturer, which launched its partnership with Mercedes earlier this year, has unveiled their new summer collection inspired by the mangroves of Miami. 
Crafted to stand out from the rest of the grid, the design team incorporated elements of the city’s mangroves, which are a native shrub rooted in the foundation ...Keep reading

Ferrari may have achieved just one podium finish in the 2025 Formula 1 season so far, courtesy of Charles Leclerc in Jeddah, but it expects much more to come in the next few months.
The Maranello-based outfit is counting on the FIA’s stricter front wing tests, which will be introduced at the Spanish Grand Prix in late May, to make substantial progress compared to other top teams.
Leclerc ...Keep reading

Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli is preparing to test the new compounds it is developing for MotoGP during an event in Spain later this year, Motorsport.com has learned. The test will see five manufacturers trial new compounds that Pirelli is developing ahead of its MotoGP debut in 2027.
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