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Follow live text coverage of the Bahrain pre-season test here It is already the final day of pre-season testing for the 2025 Formula 1 campaign after an eventful two days at the Bahrain International Circuit. A circuit-wide power outage suspended afternoon running for over an hour on Wednesday, while unpredictable weather conditions continued to cause havoc on Thursday. It is not ideal ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BnFDtpC via IFTTT

Formula 1’s 2025 pre-season test in Bahrain has been hit by a second logistics shambles in two days – as rain temporarily left only two teams able to run midway through Thursday’s first session. This follows Wednesday’s power cut at the Sakhir track, which led to an hour’s delay ahead of the evening running on day one and an eventual extension to the action. PLUS: How rare Bahrain ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/08Sknj1 via IFTTT

Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia have something to prove as they start the 2025 MotoGP season at the Thai Grand Prix this week. Marquez has a bike capable of fighting for the championship for the first time in five years. In Bagnaia’s case, it’s the desire to reclaim his throne in MotoGP that is the driving force. Whoever emerges on top at the Valencia GP in November will earn a special ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/skX9bpW via IFTTT

Follow live text coverage of the Bahrain pre-season test here. Formula 1 pre-season testing is under way in Bahrain with Day 2. It is already the penultimate opportunity for teams and drivers to get their 2025 cars up to speed for the new season which starts in Australia on 16 March. Each team can only run one car per day meaning drivers are set to contest just one and a half days each, with ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OgIUVo4 via IFTTT

The reigning British GT champion Ricky Collard is likely to miss the 2025 campaign as Barwell Motorsport has announced a changed driver line-up for the forthcoming season. The 28-year-old clinched the title in his rookie season with father Rob, yet Collard Sr will now partner Hugo Cook in the #1 Lamborghini Huracan GT3. Cook also contested his rookie campaign in 2024, with the 20-year-old ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MkdvszS via IFTTT

Take a step back in time to January 2024 and tell yourself that in a year's time you'll know that Lewis Hamilton has moved from Mercedes to Ferrari, Carlos Sainz is at Williams, Liam Lawson has landed a Red Bull seat, and a fellow called Franco Colapinto (did you even hear of him back then?) is in line for one of the Alpine seats after having competed in nine grands prix at the end of last ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JoNwK83 via IFTTT

Taking over from Barcelona, Bahrain has become F1's go-to spot for winter testing thanks to its more benign, reliable weather and its central location in the Middle East, with cars then shipped off to the opening round of the season. In previous years teams would just stay in Bahrain for the season opener the following week, but due to the Ramadan the 2025 calendar has a rejigged opening leg of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ZtaiRbW via IFTTT

The new TOCA Junior championship will not be held in 2025 and instead it is intended to launch next year under a revised format where all cars are centrally run. The category was set to begin this year and act as a replacement for Ginetta Junior at British Touring Car Championship events after the Yorkshire manufacturer decided to switch to the British GT package from 2023. TOCA Junior was ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4FJdvcI via IFTTT

A race engineer has one of the most important roles in any Formula 1 team. It is their job to optimise the performance of the driver-and-car combination. Throughout the race weekend, they translate the feedback coming from the driver into set-up decisions to achieve the best possible result. And, except in rare cases, they are the only ones who communicate directly with drivers via team ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/QuAi5WB via IFTTT

Red Bull has taken the covers off the RB21, the car with which Max Verstappen aims to conquer his fifth straight Formula 1 drivers' title. Ahead of F1's three-day winter test in Bahrain, which kicks off on Wednesday, Red Bull was the last team to unveil its updated car design for the upcoming season, the final one under the current ground-effect based regulations cycle that will be driven by ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BFOiCuZ via IFTTT

Two-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Dan Rowbottom has committed to the Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus squad for two more seasons - after receiving open heart surgery at the end of last year. The 36-year-old joined the team in 2023, when he took a single race win en route to seventh in the championship after turning heads by claiming pole position for the opening round – ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/T4tGXIw via IFTTT

New Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has insisted he does not view himself as filling in for Lewis Hamilton and he is keen to write his own story in Formula 1. After the seven-time world champion decided he would join Ferrari at the completion of his 12th season at Mercedes, the squad evaluated its options for 2025 and eventually opted for its Italian protege, despite the latter’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/geVodUT via IFTTT

World Rally Championship drivers have called for communication with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to find an “urgent solution” following the governing body's move to sanction drivers for swearing.    WRC drivers and co-drivers through the World Rally Drivers Alliance (WoRDA) have today issued a statement opposing the measures the FIA has taken to impose fines on drivers for ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/vrVIHmS via IFTTT

After the razzamatazz of Formula 1’s first collective season livery launch in London last week, attention now turns to something far more meaningful: pre-season testing. As has become traditional, the event will be staged over three days in Bahrain – kicking off at 7am UK time on Wednesday. Once again, it will be screened across the F1TV and Sky Sports platforms. But, for the first time ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5pvaofN via IFTTT

Formula 1 mechanics are often described as the championship’s unsung heroes. But what does it really take to be part of the pitlane action at the highest level of motorsport? Calum Nicholas, Senior Power Unit Assembly Technician for Red Bull and author of the book Life in the Pitlane, has opened up on this subject and how he dovetails his individual role with the team effort in the pitstops ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/IDNRUdv via IFTTT

What Carlos Sainz thinks about the lengthy modern Formula 1 calendar might seem an odd place to start when assessing his appointment to a directorship of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association. But it handily sums up why he’ll be so useful to his peers in their ongoing struggle with the FIA. The drivers regularly moan about having to do 24 grands prix these days – and probably more if ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8scorf1 via IFTTT

Yamaha has conceded that introducing a new V4 engine on its bike before the end of the 2025 MotoGP season is “unrealistic”. Since Suzuki’s exit after 2012, Yamaha has been the only manufacturer on the grid that continues to use an inline four-cylinder engine in the championship. Although Yamaha has won six titles with this engine configuration since the advent of the MotoGP era in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CXsmjHW via IFTTT

The Italian press are some of the most revered figures in the Formula 1 paddock. For decades their opinions have held sway and dictated the outcome of many debates. Ferrari itself is steeped in passion and enthusiasm; the Scuderia is a national icon. Now, with the arrival of Lewis Hamilton at the country's most famous sporting team, what has been the reaction of the press and the fans? Here ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8f49lcn via IFTTT

The FIA has called for respect from fans after boos were heard during the F1 75 event in London on Tuesday, which launched the 2025 season. During the ceremony, where all new F1 liveries and some novel cars were unveiled, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner and his driver Max Verstappen appeared on stage, which prompted some jeers from the mostly British crowd. Verstappen and Red Bull ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cY06uZ4 via IFTTT

In years gone by, following one’s favourite team on Twitter largely amounted to enjoying the gentle joshing with pitlane rivals. The banterous back-and-forth raised smiles but these days social media content is seen as a way of raising profiles, engagement, awareness and – ultimately – money. Autosport spoke to key personnel from across different areas of motorsport to determined just ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dGHXVu4 via IFTTT

Pre-season testing at Sepang and Buriram has strengthened early predictions about 2025 being a walkover for Ducati in MotoGP. Most analysts and experts point to the championship being a head-to-head battle between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia, who are teaming up at the works Ducati squad this year. Together, Marquez and Bagnaia boast an impressive 11 titles - including eight in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9e3PKsJ via IFTTT

The story of Ford's return to Formula 1, from Red Bull's point of view, is well known by now. The Milton Keynes-based team held lengthy talks with Porsche to develop a works engine for the all-new 2026 power unit regulations, but those ultimately collapsed. The German sports car brand was keen on becoming an equal partner, including shares, but Red Bull feared losing control. And given the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wCcqvK8 via IFTTT

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem thinks Formula 1 should at least consider switching back to V10 engines in the future, running on sustainable fuel. F1 is switching to fully synthetic fuel from next year as part of its change in engine formula, which will feature a near-50/50 split between output from a V6 internal combustion engine and a more powerful MGU-K electric motor, increasing the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ZB025dH via IFTTT

Porsche Carrera Cup GB runner-up Charles Rainford has secured a plum seat at the West Surrey Racing BMW team for the 2025 British Touring Car Championship campaign. The 26-year-old from Sussex has taken the final seat in WSR’s four-car squad of 330i M Sport machinery, shortly after the team had to part company with its quadruple champion Colin Turkington due to commercial reasons. Rainford ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/UJwmNSa via IFTTT

Four-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Dan Lloyd has finally cemented his series return in 2025 at the wheel of a Restart Racing Hyundai. The 32-year-old Yorkshireman dropped off the grid last season in the wake of the collapse of Team Hard after the 2023 campaign, and spent the year racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB. In joining Restart, Lloyd reunites with some of his ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/mGcjrQ1 via IFTTT

The British Rally Championship has endured a whole range of fortunes in recent times.  After struggling to gain traction in the immediate post-COVID period, in two short years Britain's premier rally championship has since been rebuilt to a position of strength and the 2025 line-up is packed with quality. Its standing changed in 2024 when mainstream TV returned and a gaggle of serious ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8vpSgW6 via IFTTT

Ferrari and Toyota will go to the grid for this month’s Qatar World Endurance Championship season-opener significantly lighter than 12 months ago when they both proved uncompetitive.  The Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar will race at a 1037kg minimum weight compared with 1075kg last year, and the Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH 1065kg, versus 1089kg at the Losail International Circuit in 2024. For ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/c6KgOZb via IFTTT

Zak Brown believes McLaren is commercially the most successful team in Formula 1 history after taking its first constructors’ title for 26 years in 2024.  It began last season with 53 partners, which was the most on the F1 grid when teams lined up for the Bahrain opener in March. When Brown was appointed CEO in 2018, McLaren had 31 partnerships so bringing more on board – specifically ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/oEz1Rfw via IFTTT

There was one line in the middle of F175 livery launch event that particularly stood out. Above all the whooping every time Lewis Hamilton’s image was shown on the big stage. And the booing of Christian Horner and Max Verstappen. More poignant too than the loudest jeers of all, which were reserved for a mention of Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA. It was a line from the host, comedian ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/tSluwvF via IFTTT

Marc Marquez believes he will continue to enjoy a harmonious relationship with Francesco Bagnaia after joining him at the factory Ducati team in MotoGP this year. Marquez’s move to the Italian marque alongside two-time champion Bagnaia has created the kind of all-star line-up not seen in MotoGP since Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo teamed up at Yamaha in the early-to-mid 2010s. Ducati is ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/GEopTbj via IFTTT

Alpine driver Jack Doohan has issued a firm riposte to questions about his long-term Formula 1 future after Franco Colapinto joined the team as a reserve driver over the off-season – pointing out he was in the Argentine’s exact position a year ago. Alpine signing temporary 2024 Williams driver Colapinto as one of its reserves this year added fuel to rumours that suggested Doohan only has a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/v17hFAX via IFTTT

“It could be an absolute s***show” was a phrase uttered more than once in the Jeddah Corniche Circuit’s paddock last weekend, and not just because the decision had been taken to add a surplus of chicanes to the truncated layout ahead of Formula E’s debut. After more than two years of development and thousands of individual tests, the Pit Boost concept was finally implemented for the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Fj0akob via IFTTT

Joan Mir feels it was tough for him to accept an uncompetitive bike at Honda because he had been “spoiled” by his early success in MotoGP with Suzuki. Mir’s arrival at Repsol Honda in 2023 coincided with a slump in the Japanese manufacturer’s performance in the premier class, and he has since struggled to get the best out of the RC213V. The Spaniard ended up 22nd and last in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/DA5cCSr via IFTTT

The two-time world rally champion has struggled in the opening two rounds of the 2025 World Rally Championship season, but history has proved Rovanpera always overcomes a challenge. “It was in my mind that it was going to be difficult [before the rally] but I did not expect it to be this difficult,” said a disappointed Kalle Rovanpera at the end of Rally Sweden last weekend. Statements ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qf7H4ZV via IFTTT

As Britons locked out the podium for the first time in Formula E history last weekend, Oliver Rowland headed the charge and proved himself to be the all-electric championship’s in-form driver.   The Nissan driver’s victory in Mexico City a month ago was somewhat fortuitous after being aided by a late safety car, while remaining Attack Mode compared with his Porsche rivals ahead meant he ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/tqJQz62 via IFTTT

On the eve of its livery launch event at London’s O2 Arena, Formula 1 has announced that British comedian and actor Jack Whitehall will host the show. The F175 celebration will see all 10 teams unveil their livery for the 2025 season, with each squad given seven minutes on stage to do so. Autosport revealed last month what fans can expect from the evening, while on Monday morning F1 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wFKjALR via IFTTT

Claire Schonborn has claimed a fully funded drive in the Junior World Rally Championship after winning the Beyond Rally Women’s Driver Development Programme shootout at Rally Sweden. The WRC conducted a global search to unearth the next female rally star last year with the programme reaching its culmination in Sweden. A group of 15 finalists were whittled down to three, featuring Schonborn ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/z9hoLOs via IFTTT

Elfyn Evans has thrown down the gauntlet to his World Rally Championship title rivals. The Toyota driver survived an intense Rally Sweden pressure cooker to deliver a statement victory, denying team-mate Takamoto Katsuta what would have been an emotional maiden WRC triumph in dramatic circumstances. Evans’ 10th WRC win, to tie with WRC champions Richard Burns (2001) and Ari Vatanen (1981) ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/WGMSk1Z via IFTTT

After Max Gunther’s victory in the first of the two Jeddah Formula E races, it was the French driver of the DS Penske team, Jean-Eric Vergne, who stood out in the second race, spending most of it at the front of the pack. However, he lost a few positions in the final corners before crossing the finish line in seventh place. While the rain had the courtesy to wait until the end of the first ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4NSc1ZL via IFTTT

Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin is set to return to action in the Thailand Grand Prix after missing almost all of pre-season testing, Motorsport.com understands. This Saturday marks one week since Aprilia’s new star rider was discharged by doctors following surgery on the right hand he broke at the start of the Sepang test.  Over the past week, the Spaniard has been resting at home ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/PJMQCxj via IFTTT

Jeddah E-Prix winner Maximilian Guenther believes the new Pit Boost concept was “a great addition to the championship” after its inaugural use in a Formula E race, while other drivers remained wary of its implementation. The technology – whereby drivers were required to make a mandatory pitstop to receive a 10% battery recharge – was used for the first time during Friday’s 31-lap race ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MfFp0ld via IFTTT

It's customary to make the usual predictions ahead of a brand new Formula 1 season: who's going to win the title, which team is going to be the constructors' champion, yada and indeed, yada. In recent years, even a crystal ball from Temu would likely lead any clairvoyants on a budget to predict Max Verstappen would win the title, so there's not been much fun to be had in that area. The 2025 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VQtgNq2 via IFTTT

Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a confident impression as they presented the 2025 McLaren Formula 1 car to the world on Thursday at a wet Silverstone. Norris is adamant he has learned a huge amount from his first title battle, admittedly a long shot, last year and going up against now four-time world champion Max Verstappen wheel-to-wheel, having stewed over a number of confrontations ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/QP0TYVt via IFTTT

Three men have been convicted of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher’s family for millions of pounds. A German court has jailed one individual for three years after he threatened to upload 900 photos, 600 videos, plus medical reports of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion to the dark web unless Schumacher’s family paid a ransom of €15million. A second man has been charged with ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5kF8LZv via IFTTT

MotoGP held five days of testing in Malaysia and Thailand in February, giving all five manufacturers a chance to hone their new bikes before the start of the season later this month. The winter turned out to be a lesson in humility for Ducati, which is set to begin the season in practically the same way as it ended last year: mostly likely winning and with a bike that is nearly ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VT7EgIh via IFTTT

Reigning British Touring Car Independents champion Aron Taylor-Smith has lined himself up a Toyota Gazoo Racing UK seat for 2025. The 35-year-old Dubliner, a four-time race winner in the championship, will campaign a Speedworks Motorsport-run Corolla GR Sport after two seasons with the under-threat Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall squad. Taylor-Smith is the second driver named for the four-strong ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/mB1bP2R via IFTTT

New Mercedes team leader George Russell is the cover star for the second Autosport monthly magazine, out today (13 February). Much of the focus last year was on the title battle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, and Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari. But Russell also made his presence felt in Formula 1 in 2024. Not only did he win two grands prix, but he beat Hamilton in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Hy5exOd via IFTTT

The Honda NSX GT3 is set to make its British GT debut in 2025 which comes 18 years after the Japanese marque last appeared in the series. Honda powered the Lotus Exige GT3s of Mackintosh Motorsport and Cadena Motorsport in 2007, while it has not had a car in British GT since the 1990s. The NSX GT3 will be run by series debutant Bridger Motorsport, which has contested UK single-seater ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wfGg0Ey via IFTTT

Driver of the Day is a fan-voted feature which can add an exciting element to an F1 race. Although there is no prize - other than bragging rights - it can still be a great achievement for a driver to claim at the end of the race.   The award was first introduced in 2016 at the opening race of the season - the Australian Grand Prix - with the award being handed to Romain Grosjean at Haas. The ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6yBkIzs via IFTTT

Oliver Bearman believes the unexpectedly large crop of rookie drivers joining him in Formula 1 2025 will provide a lift for his first full-time year with Haas. The 19-year-old is one of six rookies on the F1 grid in 2025 after the 2024 season began with zero driver market transfers.  Things started changing last February when Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari for this year was announced ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qM2VuLI via IFTTT

The McLaren Formula 1 team has extended the contract of its aerodynamics chief Peter Prodromou, who played a key part in its 2024 constructors' title. The Woking outfit announced on Tuesday Prodromou would continue in his capacity of aerodynamics technical director on a long-term deal as the team intends to keep together the squad that returned it to the front of F1 over the past two ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/UHdJrnW via IFTTT

Lottery operator Allwyn has signed a multi-year deal to become Formula 1’s latest official partner. Allwyn, which owns the licence to operate the National Lottery in the United Kingdom, will join F1’s growing list of partners from the 2025 season. The deal is aimed to be mutually beneficial, with the partnership seen as a growth opportunity in the respective markets while also promoting ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/mr2OvcL via IFTTT

If MotoGP’s season launch is anything to go by, then Formula 1 could also be on to a winner. When both series announced plans for a 2025 season kick-off event last year, it was met by some reservations, especially within the media and the teams, as to whether it would be worth it. MotoGP had confirmed its plans first and that the event would be held in Bangkok ahead of the season opener in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9UnCtBT via IFTTT

In just his 10th rally at this level, Yorkshireman Dan Mennell joined the elite ranks of drivers to score British Historic Rally Championship victories after triumphing on the Riponian Stages. Partnered by John Roberts in his Ford Escort Mk2, Mennell stormed to victory on Sunday's Riponian Stages Rally in his local forests to bag a result that he has threatened to score for the past 12 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wveAj9b via IFTTT

Ducati has all but decided to incorporate the 2024 engine on its 2025 MotoGP bike ahead of this week’s Thailand test. During the three days of testing at Sepang in Malaysia, both Marquez and Bagnaia refused to reveal the engine specification Ducati plans on using in the GP25 this year. However, the riders had made the position for engineers very clear – it was necessary to leave Sepang ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6FNHKUz via IFTTT

Gulf Air has extended its record-setting title partnership of the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix ahead of the new season. The airline has signed a new deal until 2027, continuing its run of sponsoring the race since its first running in 2004. No other partner has been attached as to a race for as long a period of time, with the fresh agreement announced just over two weeks before F1 testing ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zi7USXI via IFTTT

Last week’s Sepang test offered the first opportunity to analyse the performance of MotoGP teams and understand where they stack up against the competition. In previous years, the two pre-season tests in MotoGP were separated by a gap of at least two weeks. But on this occasion, the Buriram test is scheduled just four days after the end of the running at Sepang. Manufacturers had their say ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/H7SrAOq via IFTTT

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In one very small way, pairing Alex Albon with Carlos Sainz is a gift from Williams team principal James Vowles to the designers of his squad’s 2025 Formula 1 car. Both appendix-less these days, that’s a rough 9g saving per car no other team can make. Handy, given car weight problem was what really held Williams back last year. The team now has something else more subjective, but ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JZexcGj via IFTTT

Honda’s satellite team LCR showcased the MotoGP bikes of Johann Zarco and rookie Somkiat Chantra in Bangkok on Saturday. Both Zarco and Chantra flew to the Thai capital after the conclusion of the Sepang MotoGP test on Friday to appear at the team’s 2025 launch event. As was the case in previous years, LCR has opted for a split design with its two Honda RC213Vs. One-time grand prix ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/1NToXPb via IFTTT

While it’s easy to be cynical about the up-or-out nature of Red Bull’s young driver programme and the scars its abruptness has often left, no other enterprise has done more to promote young talent in motorsport. To assemble an exhaustive where-are-they now on paper of everyone who has been through the system would require something akin to the size of a telephone directory – if such ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ByUgbmq via IFTTT

Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu will clarify “rules of engagement” for new drivers Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman to follow in the 2025 Formula 1 season. The American squad has a history of flashpoints between team-mates – with former drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean colliding several times in 2019, while Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin regularly tried to occupy the same ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/vtwszSQ via IFTTT

Alex Marquez led the way on the third and final day of the Sepang MotoGP test, as Ducati riders occupied four of the top five spots in the classification. Riding last year’s GP24, Gresini’s Marquez set a best time of 1m56.493s at the start of the running on Friday to edge out factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia by 0.007s. The Spaniard’s lap was seven tenths quicker than the time ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/p1LKWfu via IFTTT

Netflix is emerging as the potential new home for Formula 1 in the US as a bidding process for the live broadcast rights from the 2026 season onwards is due to begin. The streaming service already plays a key role in growing the championship, with its seventh series of the Drive to Survive documentary series airing in the near future. But Autosport understands Netflix is now strongly ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qWYLCVh via IFTTT

Watching Luke Littler hit a nine-dart finish or competing in an esport tournament at Comic Con are not two activities you would usually associate with the Middle East – but the team at Bahrain International Circuit have been looking to change that in recent years. The circuit celebrated two decades of hosting Formula 1 last year but has been keen to add more offerings when motorsport is not ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/rd7CYfy via IFTTT

Moet & Chandon has become the latest LVMH brand to partner with Formula 1 as the luxury champagne makes its return to the podium this season - while also becoming title partner of the Belgian Grand Prix. F1 and LVMH signed a 10-year global partnership last year, worth around $1billion, which has seen a number of ‘maisons’ enter the series as part of the agreement. Last week, it was ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/LrYe68n via IFTTT

Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín suffered a horror crash just two hours into the the Sepang MotoGP test on Wednesday, forcing medical services to take him to a nearby hospital. At around ten minutes to twelve in Malaysia, the Spaniard was approaching the entrance to Sepang's second corner, a tight left-hand turn, when his Aprilia RS-GP threw him out violently, sending him spinning in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VNo3tRw via IFTTT

Williams team boss James Vowles is aiming to push forward on track in 2025 with a new driver line-up and renewed optimism - but he will also remain steadfast in his approach to nurturing young talent away from the Formula 1 glare. Vowles was on stage at the Autosport Awards last Wednesday to announce the first cohort of the Komatsu-Williams Engineering Academy, with 10 candidates from across ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0R4ubgp via IFTTT

The FIA has changed its stance by imposing stricter tests on F1's controversial flexing wings to avoid the topic causing more drama over the 2025 Formula 1 season, but by delaying their introduction it is guaranteed to remain a talking point. Until late last season the FIA's single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis said the FIA was satisfied with the current - if admittedly imperfect - static ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/m7PlQk4 via IFTTT

Peroni Nastro Azzurro 0.0% was able to toast its own success at the Autosport Awards last week after being named Brand Partnership of the Year alongside Scuderia Ferrari. The brand began its partnership with Ferrari at the start of 2024 and launched a one-minute heist film starring team principal Fred Vasseur and then-driver duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. As part of the activation ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/29EhnZH via IFTTT

MotoGP will host its first full-fledged pre-season test of 2025 at the Sepang International Circuit outside Kuala Lumpur on 5-7 February.  The series had already organised a shakedown at the same venue last week, but only test riders, rookies and race riders from Yamaha and Honda were allowed to take part in that three-day event. As such, this week’s test marks an opportunity for the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JnBUVaX via IFTTT

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has advised his protege Francesco Bagnaia to ‘not fall into Marc Marquez’s traps’ as the two pair up at the factory Ducati team this year. Double champion Bagnaia is set for his biggest MotoGP challenge in 2025, with former Honda star Marquez joining him as a team-mate after starring performances with Gresini Racing last season. Although Bagnaia is well ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zuJBXmW via IFTTT

British Touring Car Championship race winner Ronan Pearson has switched to the official Toyota line-up for the 2025 season. The 23-year-old Scot left Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai with three rounds remaining of the 2024 campaign, but a very strong post-season test with Speedworks Motorsport at Donington Park has encouraged him to join the Cheshire operation. As a result, Pearson will race a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/r4PwKvt via IFTTT

It was rather unexpected. George Russell, atop the sun-soaked Mercedes hospitality/engineering building in the Abu Dhabi paddock ahead of the 2024 season finale, about to unleash 15 minutes just savaging Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Russell’s agitation even shone through his dark-tinted sunglasses. This clearly wasn’t a path he found comfortable, and there were awkward missteps in his ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/SOGA1xN via IFTTT

To define ‘enigmatic’ in the context of the British Touring Car Championship, look no further than Dan Cammish. Not, you understand, because of the man himself; he’s a refreshingly open, honest, self-analytical chap. It’s more his results. In 2023, when Ash Sutton swept to the title in the lead NAPA-liveried Ford Focus ST, Cammish took the sister car to sixth in the standings. Last ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/rwcZmPA via IFTTT

Factory Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo topped the times in this week’s MotoGP shakedown test at Sepang with a last-minute flier. Quartararo broke the 1m57s barrier with just 10 minutes remaining on Saturday evening, despite race control waving red and white flags and warning against light drizzle on track. The 1m57.794s effort from the 2021 champion was four tenths up on the best time set ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/mfY4WvI via IFTTT

Pierre Gasly has set a bold target of a top-five finish for Alpine in the 2025 Formula 1 constructors' championship. Alpine endured a difficult campaign last year, partly down to its A524 car being overweight at the start of the season. The team languished in ninth place until its position in the standings was substantially boosted by a double podium finish in Brazil, which vaulted it to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JL0rzxa via IFTTT

BMW has won the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour, with the WRT BMW M4 GT3 of Kelvin van der Linde, Sheldon van der Linde and Augusto Farfus taking its maiden win in the race's GT3 era and leading a 1-2 finish. Two of the changes in the race regulations since 2024 proved to be crucial and went some way in determining the winner of the race, held in hot and dry conditions at the 3.86-mile/6.213km Mount ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/GqRcKyw via IFTTT

For the first time ever, the Autosport Awards opened its doors to motorsport fans, invited to join in the celebrations at London’s Roundhouse on Wednesday evening. Alongside hearing from the likes of Bernie Ecclestone, David Coulthard and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, attending fans were treated to numerous special exhibits displayed across the venue. The most eye-catching was undoubtedly ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/lKQrDV2 via IFTTT

Lucas Auer has taken pole position for the Bathurst 12 Hour for Mercedes. The Austrian, who took provisional pole in the split qualifying sessions, lapped the Mount Panorama track in a time of 2m01.2760s in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo he will share with Maximilian Gotz and Jayden Ojeda. After such a close first part of qualifying in which the top five cars were split by 0.136s, Auer’s gap of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/FDWsY4U via IFTTT

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner believes Formula 1's governing body the FIA was right to part ways with steward Johnny Herbert. On Wednesday the FIA stated that Herbert, a long-time driver steward as the veteran of 160 grand prix starts, would no longer act as a steward at race weekends. The FIA felt Herbert's media activities, especially those as a pundit for gambling websites, were ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/QNjVp5u via IFTTT