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Pirelli’s ongoing quest to provide strategic variation has come up short at Zandvoort, largely owing to the relatively short lap (4.259km) and the narrowness of its layout. Overtaking hasn’t been easy here given the speed of modern F1 cars, even with the conversion of the final corner to a banked profile. A narrow, crowded lap naturally prompts teams to default to a one-stop strategy here to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/HAqyFYk via IFTTT

As expected, McLaren locked out the front row for Formula 1's Dutch Grand Prix. The outcome was, however, slightly surprising in two ways. Firstly, Oscar Piastri struck when it mattered most, despite Lando Norris having had the edge in all practice sessions. Secondly, the gap to Max Verstappen was significantly smaller than anticipated after FP3. During that final practice session, McLaren had ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9oksu4c via IFTTT

Rally Paraguay leader Sebastien Ogier says the fight for victory is “not over” and “many things can still happen” following a stunning fight back from eighth. The eight-time world champion has so far endured an eventful maiden visit to Paraguay, beginning with a puncture on Friday’s second stage that cost the Toyotas more than half a minute. After dropping to eighth, Ogier reeled ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bjMNdaQ via IFTTT

Tom Chilton bounced back from triggering a red flag to topping the times in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship’s visit to the Donington Park Grand Prix circuit. The Surrey veteran was the only driver to eclipse Dan Rowbottom’s FP1-topping effort, managing to dip below the bearded Midlander’s standard just before the chequered flag was unfurled. Chilton’s trip into ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/F48BewN via IFTTT

Toto Wolff has conceded it feels odd not to have his bitter long-time Formula 1 rival Christian Horner to spar against after the latter's Red Bull exit. Horner was removed from his position as Red Bull boss after July's British Grand Prix, ending a successful two-decade reign that made him one of F1's biggest and divisive players. On his way to the top, Horner often sparred with his ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xgso8wU via IFTTT

McLaren's Lando Norris has edged Oscar Piastri to top third and final practice at Formula 1's 2025 Dutch Grand Prix. Norris will go into qualifying after taking a clean sweep of practice sessions in the Netherlands as he aims to repeat last year's pole-to-flag victory to further close the gap to his team-mate and title rival. The final one-hour session got off to a tepid start, largely due ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ktVmnYv via IFTTT

Flavio Briatore has declared “everybody’s happy” at the Alpine Formula 1 outfit and a change of CEO at parent company Renault will not affect the project. The Renault Group confirmed Francois Provost as its new CEO in July following the departure of Luca de Meo, who started the role in 2020. But Alpine executive adviser Briatore reckons this will not affect the F1 team, which has been ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/eztUcGf via IFTTT

20 years ago, Fernando Alonso was engaged in a thrilling championship run-in with Kimi Raikkonen, and a young tyre engineer with a bright future was about to join Alonso’s Renault team. Ayao Komatsu had got his F1 break working for BAR-Honda’s test team in a high-spending era where leading manufacturer-backed organisations had two windtunnels running continuously and fully manned test squads ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ISXGzd2 via IFTTT

McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have given their blessing for split strategies to continue at the team as they battle for the 2025 Formula 1 title, but both feel Hungary was something of an outlier. Norris was running third during the Hungarian Grand Prix and took the plunge to switch to a one-stop strategy - which put him out ahead of the two-stopping Piastri and offered him the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/oyErYQH via IFTTT

Performance gains have become harder to find as F1’s second ground-effect aerodynamics era matures, but for some the process has been more challenging for others. Aston Martin has noticeably struggled to unlock more relative pace from its cars ever since making a strong start to the 2023 season. This has not been for want of trying since the Silverstone-based team has been among the most ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/LrSupQU via IFTTT

Suggestions from Toto Wolff that 2026 F1 cars could get near top speeds of 400km/h have caused a stir, but both the real picture and what the Mercedes chief actually meant are more nuanced than that. As is well documented, F1 is facing a radical regulations shake-up in 2026, driven by a desire to obtain a near 50/50 split between energy derived by the V6 turbo engines and a much expanded ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/A2sEeqJ via IFTTT

MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez has revealed he is “not getting used” to the dominance which has put him on the cusp of a seventh world title. The factory Ducati rider leads the standings by 175 points with eight rounds remaining, after winning 10 of the 14 grands prix thus far including the last seven. Marquez has also won all but one of the sprint races, but the Spaniard knows ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VNqfaE8 via IFTTT

Does Verstappen need (a lot of) rain for another Zandvoort win? - Ronald Vording Max Verstappen has won the Dutch Grand Prix three times, but last year Helmut Marko called Red Bull’s performance in the dunes “alarming”. Lando Norris won with a 23-second lead, and over the past 12 months McLaren has only become stronger, while Red Bull’s decline has continued. As the second half of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/l5atoFc via IFTTT

Aston Martin chief Andy Cowell says he wants his team to become a "creative, chaotic innovation machine" as it works its way to the front of Formula 1 under 2026's new regulations. Aston Martin has suffered a number of lean years while it is undergoing a rapid transformation and expansion process at its state-of-the-art headquarters opposite the Silverstone circuit. The 2025 season turned ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/DAek4r5 via IFTTT

The Cadillac Formula 1 team has revealed it is planning to use a rival squad to help with the completion of a Testing of Previous Cars programme ahead of its championship debut in 2026. TPC programmes allow teams to complete up to 20 days of running in machinery that is at least two years old, a requirement that Cadillac cannot meet on its own as a new squad. After announcing its 2026 driver ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/tjfVuGJ via IFTTT

Cadillac's announcement of Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas as its Formula 1 drivers had been hanging in the air for several weeks but became official on Tuesday. This means General Motors' F1 project is taking shape: the drivers are known, so are the three home bases (the team will operate from Fishers, Charlotte and Silverstone across the United States and United Kingdom), and Graeme ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/HEygNWd via IFTTT

Two Formula 1 race winners – a Latin and a Finn – joining a new team? This is not unprecedented, and the last time it happened, the outcome was far from optimal. Sixteen years ago, Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen signed with the new Lotus outfit for the 2010 season; however the promised budget cap never materialised, Lotus was accepted as a 2010 entrant as late as September 2009 (just ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/UebAxjk via IFTTT

The nascent Cadillac F1 team has officially confirmed series veterans Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez will form its experienced driver line-up for its 2026 debut season. As previously reported by Autosport, both Perez and Bottas had been on the verge of an F1 return for some time as the series' 11th team is banking on experience to get it up to speed during what will be a challenging debut ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/H8VAhLj via IFTTT

BMW has unveiled revised aerodynamics for its M Hybrid V8 LMDh ahead of its campaigns in next year’s World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship. The revisions, which include a significantly smaller version of the marque’s signature ‘kidney’ grille, are designed to improve the consistency of the car’s performance across the range of circuits on which it races and to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ETvnDJ7 via IFTTT

“Very confident.” That’s the way Williams racer Alex Albon described his fourth Formula 1 season with the team at the halfway point. The ex-Red Bull driver has already amassed more points in 2025 than his last three years with the Grove-based team combined and this, he says, is changing the way Williams goes racing.   The historic British team has undergone a seismic change in recent ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/sXBPzhc via IFTTT

Aston Martin F1 CEO and team principal Andy Cowell admits he sometimes wonders how his team could have performed in 2025 if it hadn't kept star signing Adrian Newey's focus firmly on 2026. After leaving Red Bull, Newey joined Aston at the start of March in his role of Managing Technical Partner, developing the technical side of a heavily expanded team in Silverstone. In his capacity Newey ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pV37A0C via IFTTT

Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss edged closer to their maiden British GT title after the 2 Seas Mercedes pair won 2025’s two-hour penultimate round at Brands Hatch.  They fended off the Optimum McLaren of Morgan Tillbrook/Marvin Kirchhofer for their third win of the season, while Rob Collard/Hugo Cook (Barwell Lamborghini) completed the podium. It means Dawson/Jewiss lead the championship ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/x8aoVPC via IFTTT

Last October, Haas and Toyota announced a partnership in which they would “Share Knowledge and Resources for Mutual Benefit”. A generous portion of corporate word salad, but lacking in substantive detail. It soon became clear that one of the new partnership’s priorities was to develop a new driver-in-loop simulator, a critical piece of infrastructure Haas currently lacks. Not only do these ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/DMzwlry via IFTTT

A stunning collection of Formula 1 cars celebrating 75 years of the world championship provided the centrepiece for the 2025 Silverstone Festival. Cars representing 33 of the 34 title winners formed a display at the Wing but, as ever, the on-track action provided most of the highlights. Twenty races over two days covered single-seaters, touring cars and sportscars, from the 500cc F3 machines of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jzLrsPq via IFTTT

The sweeping overhaul of Formula 1’s regulations for 2026 presents a challenge for all teams and engine manufacturers, but that also applies to the drivers. Charles Leclerc has said the new cars feel “very different” based on his first simulator runs, while Alex Albon added that F1 becomes far more complex. Drivers will have to manage more, prompting Williams team boss James Vowles to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jSwtO8C via IFTTT

Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Marc Marquez overcame a difficult first lap to win the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position. The Spaniard thus completed a sensational seventh straight ‘double’ win in MotoGP after taking the Saturday sprint. He stretched his world championship points lead over brother Alex – who only managed two points – to a yawning 175.  Drama began long before ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/nDGUeHE via IFTTT

For the second time in three MotoGP events, Pol Espargaro is a racer once again. Two races ago he stood in for injured Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales at the Czech GP; this weekend he is in action at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Replacing an injured team-mate “is not what I like the most, nor does it make me feel comfortable,” admits Espargaro in Hungary, where he progressed directly to Q2 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cFBHqEW via IFTTT

While McLaren's baseline form over the early part of the 2025 Formula 1 season had been strong, any weaknesses that emerged in the year's nascent stages appear to have been ironed out with development. The team has secured 1-2 finishes in each of the last four races, putting it 299 points clear of Ferrari in the constructors' championship with 10 rounds remaining. If it continues that form, it ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6L8eZMm via IFTTT

Factory Ducati rider Marc Marquez strolled unchallenged to a 13th sprint win of the MotoGP season at Balaton Park on Saturday.   Several major contenders were eliminated at the first corner, in a crash triggered by the Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo.  Fears that difficulties overtaking around the new circuit would lead to early mayhem proved entirely founded at the start, when the usually ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/q7TpPun via IFTTT

“We haven't always been listened to. And this is why some of the issues still remain after five years in this team." This is how Esteban Ocon assessed his time within the Alpine squad right before Formula 1’s 2024 summer break, which came before he had even departed the Enstone-based outfit. At the time, Ocon had just signed with Haas for 2025; he was already pledging to create a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/gbImDfu via IFTTT

An expected head-to-head fight for pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix failed to materialise as Pedro Acosta crashed his factory KTM early in the session, leaving his Ducati counterpart Marc Marquez to claim honours. The world championship leader will share the front row with Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) and Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati). As in Austria a week earlier, Q1 featured ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/W5SrnKc via IFTTT

George Russell is leading his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli in Formula 1’s points standings, qualifying results, and he is the only Mercedes driver to take a race win so far this season. However, the British driver says these stats don’t paint the full picture of Antonelli’s start in F1. The Italian rookie filled the gap left by Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes this year after ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cjfK1XP via IFTTT

As reported by Autosport in June, Valtteri Bottas is primed to agree terms with Cadillac to complete his return to a Formula 1 race seat. This leaves one much-coveted seat as the grid expands to 22 cars, and anyone without a contract next year has been linked to it. Of them, Sergio Perez is considered the most likely and most attractive candidate to the team, given his experience and support ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/R2EmJOP via IFTTT

Get your Azerbaijan Grand Prix tickets now on GooTickets and secure your spot for one of F1’s most exciting races.   Five tips for attending the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku Debuting on the F1 calendar in 2016, the Baku race has quickly become one of the most dramatic events of the season. The mix of narrow, wall-lined corners and one of the longest straights in Formula 1 guarantees ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3hPONor via IFTTT

The regulatory overhaul planned for 2026 is already one of the main talking points in the Formula 1 paddock. Drivers have spoken out about a “different feeling” based on their first simulator runs, while questions have also arisen whether F1 will become more of an “energy management championship”. Read Also: Formula 1F1 2026 rules still "evolving" to prevent "unnatural ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/gqAP9eR via IFTTT

Williams driver Alex Albon says he took Carlos Sainz's high-profile arrival at Williams as a positive as the pair pushes both each other and the team forward ahead of Formula 1's 2026 overhaul. After losing his Ferrari seat to seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, Sainz suddenly became the most attractive free agent on the market for 2025, with Williams beating Sauber and Alpine to the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/UybcsNp via IFTTT

At Goodwood's Festival of Speed, Alain Prost spoke of his admiration for Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri - and the Australian says it was "very cool" for a four-time champion to be so effusive in his praise. Prost and Piastri had previously worked together at Alpine, where the Frenchman was an advisor and non-executive director at the team, while Piastri was part of the team's ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KrUIkfv via IFTTT

"He's not being demoted — he's moving to Racing Bulls, which has a very competitive car, much easier to handle than the RB21," Helmut Marko told Autosport in early spring, after Red Bull decided to replace Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda in its main squad. Marko was adamant this was not the end of the road for the New Zealander. "The change happened after a start that I’d say was rather ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0XPdBb9 via IFTTT

Formula 1 rookie Oliver Bearman believes it is “crazy” how much his confidence has changed since Haas brought an upgrade to the British Grand Prix in July.  The American outfit fitted a revised floor and sidepod inlets and they made an immediate impact as Bearman recorded his highest qualifying position of the year with eighth. Although he eventually finished 11th on the Sunday, largely ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/veIX7tz via IFTTT

1. Pirelli Motorsport – Travel and Administration Assistant - 25 hours per week - Didcot Pirelli Motorsport has an opening for a Travel and Administration Assistant to work 25 hours per week. Some aspects of this role include the application and monitoring of all necessary visa’s for the Motorsport Team and raising purchase order numbers for all invoices using EBP. You will have ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ymu0zPJ via IFTTT

When TGM Grand Prix agreed to become Toyota’s newest Super Formula team for the start of the year, it robbed the Japanese series of one of its few true independent outfits. For years, the Super Formula grid has been dominated by drivers hand-picked by engine suppliers Toyota and Honda, leaving precious few openings for any talents not belonging to either of the two domestic auto ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/duEPkHj via IFTTT

Williams boss James Vowles believes the performance gains the outfit has recently found on its 2025 Formula 1 car are a sign of bigger things to come as the team becomes more efficient. Its upgrades at the Belgian Grand Prix were more than welcome. The Grove-based squad made a flying start to 2025 at the front of the midfield and looked certain to secure fifth in the championship, but it ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/sSfyDuA via IFTTT

Diogo Moreira is finalising the details of an agreement that will see him step up to MotoGP next season, riding a Honda for the LCR team, Autosport has learned.The move, which will promote the 21-year-old Brazilian – currently battling for the Moto2 world championship with Italtrans – to the premier class, is expected to be completed in the coming days, most likely at this weekend’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0Gp69gM via IFTTT

Competing for a Formula 1 championship "feels similar" to fighting for those in the junior categories, says Oscar Piastri, who notes that his intra-team battle with McLaren stablemate Lando Norris is the key differentiating factor. Piastri won the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup, 2020 Formula 3, and 2021 Formula 2 titles consecutively before spending 2022 on the sidelines as Alpine's reserve ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wWnv9uA via IFTTT

Sometimes in Formula 1 the flow of dynamic young drivers splutters or even takes a year off. 2025 wasn’t going to be one of those seasons; in recent years only 2019, where the likes of Lando Norris, George Russell and Alex Albon arrived hot from F2, provided such a rich and exciting influx of talent. But many of those either new or new-ish to the game have struggled to make an impact. Jack ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/SK3qCfA via IFTTT

Fears of a dull second half to this year’s Marc Marquez romp towards a seventh MotoGP title proved – for now, at least – entirely unfounded in Austria. Sure, the usual suspect won both the sprint and the grand prix, but he did have various challenges to deal with, while others dared to dream. Controversial new technology made its debut, while at least one team’s work over the summer ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/rJeahiP via IFTTT

Jake Hill produced a dominant Knockhill weekend with two wins in the British Touring Car Championship, but there was also plenty of action in the support categories. British F4, Mini Challenge UK, Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Porsche Sprint Challenge GB were all on display at the sunny Scottish venue. Some drivers extended their championship leads, others series had title rivals colliding ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MYyxdie via IFTTT

Teams are currently preparing for Formula 1's technical overhaul on both the chassis and engine side for 2026, although the prospect of new regulations is not welcomed equally by all. Several drivers have spoken out after their first runs in the simulator. Max Verstappen was the first one two years ago, followed more recently by Charles Leclerc, Alex Albon and Lance Stroll. Drivers fear that ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2SUN1AK via IFTTT

From the outside, Andrea Stella's tenure as a McLaren team boss has looked pretty straightforward. After taking over from Andreas Seidl ahead of the 2023 season, the Italian oversaw a technical restructuring that turned the team into a regular podium finisher over the second half of a Red Bull-dominated campaign, and then the next major step in May 2024 saw it become F1's most consistently ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qFm7oQt via IFTTT

“At the start, I didn’t like motorsport.” As soon as our chat with Leonardo Fornaroli begins, he candidly opens up. The Piacenza native, born in December 2004 within 200km of both Monza and Imola, did grow up around racing. His father, Valentino Fornaroli, raced competitively from 2008 to 2015 – mostly in the Italian GT Championship, with a short foray into International GT ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3cnSlPw via IFTTT

Despite one of his strongest race showings of the season, Raul Fernandez cut a surprisingly disappointed figure after the sprint at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday. The Trackhouse Aprilia rider believed he had the pace to challenge for a top-three position, but was forced to retire from sixth place when his ride-height device stuck in place. Read Also: MotoGPBagnaia at a loss to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9GkxK0u via IFTTT

When Williams team principal James Vowles and his wife Rachel took to their annual New Year's tradition of setting themselves a challenge, the idea was to learn a new skill over the new year. Taking piano lessons, learning a new language; you get the idea. But in 2020 Vowles set himself a slightly loftier target. Unbeknownst to his wife, the then Mercedes engineer embarked on secret helicopter ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OcGo41q via IFTTT

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella thinks some of the philosophies that made his 2025 F1 car so successful can be carried over to 2026's all-new regulations. In 2026 F1 is moving away from a heavy reliance on ground effect, reverting to cars with a flat underfloor and reduced downforce levels, while using active aerodynamics on the straights to compensate for a near 50-50 split between the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VJXfoFr via IFTTT

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I expected chaos and glamour at the Monaco Grand Prix this year and both appeared on demand. It was my first time back in the principality since I was one of five drivers who could have won the chaotic 1982 grand prix that nobody wanted to win. The podium photos this year of Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri made me think of a lady I met in Texas back in 2013. She was confused then ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/T2bM0p6 via IFTTT

Despite noticing a perceptible change in his approach while competing for a Formula 1 title, Oscar Piastri says it is far too early in the season to consider minimising risk and settling for positions in races. In an exclusive interview with Autosport, Piastri was asked about the challenges involved in fighting for a title against his team-mate Lando Norris, and if there was any intentional ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0qv8d2u via IFTTT

Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell says Lewis Hamilton's fresh start at Ferrari for 2025 was good for all parties as he backed his replacement Andrea Kimi Antonelli to bounce back from a challenging spell. Hamilton claimed six of his seven world championships with Mercedes over 13 years before departing for Ferrari last winter, as he looked for a fresh, late-career challenge with the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dE682qB via IFTTT

Francesco Bagnaia has revealed that he spent part of MotoGP’s summer break rewatching races from recent years to convince himself that the current Ducati doesn’t suit his riding style – and to reignite his hunger to find the speed he once had. Given his impressive track record and his status as a double world champion, this year has been Bagnaia’s toughest since his debut in the premier ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qWQfUzd via IFTTT

Sauber's Jonathan Wheatley is confident the latest crop of F1 team bosses will act in the "interest of the sport" as they square off in F1 Commission meetings. Wheatley joined Sauber in April after a long stint as Red Bull's racing director, while his former Benetton and Renault colleagues Alan Permane and Steve Nielsen have also landed similar roles, with Permane appointed team principal at ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BH2w87x via IFTTT

Haas is yet to explore the full potential of its partnership with Toyota - but it has already helped one of its drivers fulfil a childhood dream, as Esteban Ocon got to drive the GR Yaris Rally1 car during the Goodwood Festival of Speed. "I kept telling them since we went to Japan how I love cars and how I always wanted to test a WRC car," Ocon told Autosport. "They gave me my first taste of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xIqCsNd via IFTTT

The gap between Ali Bray and George Line at the top of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings remains at four wins after each took a hat-trick last weekend. Many of the Rankings’ heavy-hitters were in action, and there has been plenty of change towards the top of the table – albeit with a stalemate between the leading pair. Bray has absolutely dominated the Mazda MX-5 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/hbfwPLH via IFTTT

Alain Prost’s 1985 Formula 1 title success and our school report on the crop of 2025 feature in the latest Autosport magazine, out today (14 August). McLaren’s domination of F1 in the 1980s began with the MP4/2 in 1984, with Prost taking the first of his three titles with the team the following season. To celebrate 40 years since that success, Autosport joined McLaren at Pembrey recently ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OT16Sf5 via IFTTT

Porsche will celebrate its privateer Le Mans 24 Hours successes with a special livery for next month’s Suzuka 1000Km based on the colours of the famous New Man Joest 956. The colour scheme with which Joest Racing won Le Mans in 1984 and ‘85 will feature on a Porsche 911 GT3-R to be driven by reigning World Endurance Championship title winners Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor in the Suzuka ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/uwcLAOY via IFTTT

George Russell says the long wait for a Mercedes title challenge has made him "more hungry than ever" for success in Formula 1. Russell has been part of the Mercedes set up since joining its junior programme in 2017, and after waltzing through title-winning campaigns in GP3 and F2 Russell looked like the natural heir to Lewis Hamilton at the Silver Arrows. Russell served three seasons on ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CAw62dJ via IFTTT

Next year, both chassis and power unit regulations will undergo sweeping changes. Several technical directors in the F1 paddock have called it the biggest overhaul of the past 50 years. In addition to concerns from drivers about the racing in general, some fear it could pave the way for long-term dominance by a single manufacturer. Memories go back to 2014, when Mercedes’ engine proved ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cjR4g0A via IFTTT

The Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award will not take place this year, ahead of a re-evaluation of the prestigious competition. The Young Driver Award, which aims to find and assist the best up-and-coming British single-seater racing talent, began in 1989. The inaugural prize, which included a McLaren Formula 1 test, was won by David Coulthard. Since then, the Award has ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7ERiBfX via IFTTT

It’s been one of the recurring patterns in the first half of the season: where the Red Bull RB21 car has a very narrow operating window and is particularly tricky to handle, but the Racing Bulls VCARB 02 car has proven to be far more forgiving. That’s been a factor in the storming debut of Isack Hadjar, but also in the ongoing struggles with Red Bull’s second seat. Early in the year ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JfSCzs6 via IFTTT

Rene Rast charged to an unchallenged victory in the DTM at the Nurburgring on Sunday, but the Schubert BMW driver had one major moment of concern during the first pitstop. "When I arrived there, there was nobody there except my lollipop. And the mechanics were not there," he said after the race. The incident wasn't quite as bad as Rast described it in the post-race press conference. TV ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/aCD7Bvu via IFTTT

"Britain’s least successful grand prix driver." With that headline, running in 40-odd-point text on the right-hand side of a double-page spread, readers of the August 1992 edition of Car magazine were introduced to Perry McCarthy. On the opposite side, in a singularly ‘route one’ piece of art direction, McCarthy was photographed in his regular clothes – apart from a crash helmet – at ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/JOGQrKz via IFTTT

Kuala Lumpur has emerged as the frontrunner to host the 2026 MotoGP season launch, a format first introduced last year in Bangkok, Autosport has learned. While Dorna is yet to announce its final decision, Autosport understands that the Malaysian capital city currently enjoys the broadest support. Another option under consideration has been Melbourne, but various factors make its selection ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qP6NMSw via IFTTT

As Formula 1's calendar has ballooned over the past couple of decades, it's a bit easier to get away with an off-weekend - nonetheless, championship credentials are still awarded to those who make the least mistakes. With just nine points between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris at this stage in the season, the final 10 rounds effectively work as a shootout. Thus, each error carries a bit more ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2mRlrzD via IFTTT

Williams team principal James Vowles says Formula 1 teams still have work to do to ease driver complaints over the increased workload with the all-new 2026 cars, but plays down initial panic over the seismic changes. Next year F1 is changing both chassis and power units in what is seen as one of the biggest regulation changes in history, placing a much bigger emphasis on electric energy, close ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/RlNPQrv via IFTTT

BMW dominated the second Nurburgring DTM race with Rene Rast taking victory ahead of Schubert team-mate Marco Wittmann, as its rivals had no answer to its performance: “It was a bit scary with the top speed machines I had around me,” smiled third-placed Landgraf Mercedes driver Lucas Auer. The DTM leader started from second but had to admit defeat to Rast after just four laps: “I saw ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Y5KhfQ6 via IFTTT

Alex Palou has secured the 2025 IndyCar title with two races to spare, as Will Power took Team Penske’s first win of the season in Portland. Having dominated in IndyCar this season, the title-decider was effectively handed to Palou after Pato O'Ward, who had started on pole, slowed and had to make an unscheduled pitstop when a wire connected to his #5 Chevrolet’s DI box malfunctioned on lap ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bOtCopP via IFTTT

Halfway through his seventh season in Formula 1, George Russell has become a stalwart of Mercedes as Lewis Hamilton's heir, but the 27-year-old has also firmly established himself off the track. Russell has become one of the most outspoken drivers on the grid, never shunning tough questions on the bigger picture, whether the focus is on safety or the direction the championship's governing body the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/oHEWimc via IFTTT

With a riders’ market that activates earlier each year, and is expected to be highly active heading with an eye on 2027, Fabio Quartararo will decide in the coming months whether to renew his trust in Yamaha or seek his fortune with another manufacturer that may offer less money but more guarantees. Quartararo’s sense of loyalty is unquestionable. It was Yamaha that believed in him and ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pKm3l6c via IFTTT

Broc Feeney has underlined the Supercars Sprint Cup title he secured on Saturday by demolishing the field in the third and final race of the weekend in Queensland. Polesitter Feeney launched his Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro off the line and powered clear of the field, as not even a brief shower and a mid-race safety car could derail his quest for a 13th win of the year. During that safety ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Hnf5bx3 via IFTTT

One of the foundations of McLaren's successes in Formula 1 over the past two years has been in the team's in-season development of its cars, following its immediate turnaround in form at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix. McLaren had identified a series of inefficiencies in the aerodynamic platform of that year's MCL60 in the season's prelude, prompting a restructure of its technical department and ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/N0wMAFR via IFTTT

The latest battle between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in Hungary shows McLaren isn't going to play it safe in the Formula 1 title race. After losing ground at the start, Norris was given the freedom to go onto an ambitious one-stop strategy, which turned out to be the race-winning move. One week prior, the roles were reversed in Spa when Norris' decision to go onto a harder tyre compound ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/kgipo5j via IFTTT

The Red Bull Tech3 KTM MotoGP team has entered Maverick Vinales for next weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, one month on from his serious crash at the Sachsenring. Vinales suffered a spectacular crash at the start of Q2 for the German GP on 13 July, which left him with a fractured shoulder and caused him to miss both the Sachsenring round and the Czech GP. He was replaced in the latter by KTM ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qFcG3o8 via IFTTT

Triple Eight’s Broc Feeney and Will Brown have completed a day of dominance at Queensland Raceway, with two wins and a 1-2 finish. Racing at the Ipswich circuit for the first time in six years, the two Chevrolet Camaros clearly were the cars to beat, with Feeney taking the opening race easily. In the second he looked on course to make it double until officials determined that he had crept by ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/59Lrxn3 via IFTTT

Formula 1 drivers tend to look forward, with a laser focus on what they can do better to cement the place on the grid they have worked towards for so long. A belated appreciation for what they have already achieved often comes later, sometimes only after their careers have ended. Gabriel Bortoleto is a wonderful exception. Aged 20, his youth shines through but it's paired with thoughtful ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/XJMydU9 via IFTTT

Get your Italian Grand Prix tickets now on GooTickets and secure your spot for one of F1’s most legendary races.   Five tips for attending the Italian Grand Prix at Monza The Italian Grand Prix is one of F1’s most iconic weekends — a high-speed temple of racing history, set in a royal park and fuelled by the passion of Ferrari’s Tifosi. Monza is famously known as the Temple of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/vIlOjuL via IFTTT

With three major European manufacturers already on the MotoGP grid – Ducati, KTM and Aprilia (from the Piaggio Group) – the absence of German giant BMW has always felt like an anomaly. More so given its current presence and success in the WorldSBK production bike series with Toprak Razgatlioglu. BMW has flirted with the idea of entering MotoGP since its birth in 2002, when the new 990cc ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/nmZp7IR via IFTTT

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull – at least in Max Verstappen’s case – will challenge for wins across the remainder of the 2025 Formula 1 season. The Woking-based squad is the runaway leader in both F1 world championships, with 11 wins from the opening 14 rounds which includes seven 1-2s, but its dominance has been under threat – albeit ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wWaXodt via IFTTT

The emergence of Alex Marquez, alongside Ducati’s commitments to Fermin Aldeguer and Fabio Di Giannantonio, among other factors, presents the ideal scenario for the Italian brand to field six identical bikes on the MotoGP grid next year. Over the last decade – roughly since Gigi Dall’Igna arrived as general manager – Ducati has gradually pulled away from its direct rivals in MotoGP ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/LWrsK2n via IFTTT

Paul Sibley has dominated the Midget & Sprite Challenge this year, and another two wins have sent him charging towards the top of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings. Sibley has now guided his Midget to 10 victories in 2025 after his latest double at Castle Combe last weekend, catapulting him from 10th to third in Autosport's winners' table. Sibley is now part of a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/p3GE2ZU via IFTTT

From 1999 to 2004 Ferrari won six consecutive Formula 1 constructors’ championships and five drivers’ championships. In 2000 it won 13 out of 17 grands prix; in its most dominant years, 2002 and 2004, it won 15 out of 17 and 15 out of 18 grands prix respectively. The F2004 car set lap records which at many venues lasted for years. Throughout this era it was dogged by unproved accusations of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/N5fMZrj via IFTTT

1. McLaren Racing - Senior Social Media Executive - Woking McLaren Racing has a vacancy for a Senior Social Media Executive. In this role you will be creating content for all McLaren F1 social channels, including, phone capture, photography, photo and video editing, graphics preparation and copywriting and publishing content across all social media channels in line with the teams overarching ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Yexqw3O via IFTTT

Ducati sent seven units of its Panigale V4 super sport bike to Hungary on Tuesday, so that its riders could learn the Balaton Park circuit, which makes its debut on the MotoGP calendar later this month. Despite comfortably leading all three world championships – riders’, teams’, and constructors’ – the Italian manufacturer is leaving nothing to chance. Hence the private test with its ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Z9WbAOJ via IFTTT

Franco Colapinto crashed Alpine’s A525 Formula 1 car in a Pirelli test at the Hungaroring on Wednesday. The Italian tyre supplier has been running regular tests, like this two-day session following the Hungarian Grand Prix, to prepare its 2026 F1 compounds. The new tyres are smaller and narrower as part of the world championship’s new technical rules. Three 2025-spec cars were on track ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5nY0tQv via IFTTT

Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies has stated his Formula 1 team’s struggles couldn’t be fixed simply by copying elements of a more consistent Racing Bulls car. Racing Bulls drivers have performed much better than the second Red Bull driver – regardless of the latter being Liam Lawson or Yuki Tsunoda – over the 2025 season so far, collecting no fewer than 45 points when Lawson got none ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4ZUzTKg via IFTTT

Yuki Tsunoda has been enduring a torrid time at Red Bull since making the jump from Racing Bulls earlier in the 2025 Formula 1 season. But despite another lacklustre result at the Hungarian Grand Prix, he said there were 'positives' to take from the weekend. Tsunoda’s campaign in Budapest never really got off the ground, with the Japanese driver struggling for pace in practice before ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pGRkzxa via IFTTT

Plans to add a second Asia/Pacific round to future World Rally Championship calendars is among the reasons for a reshuffle in the schedule of events for 2026. The WRC unveiled its 14-round calendar last week that featured several changes including the omission of Rally USA and the Central European Rally. However, one of the most notable alterations was the decision for Japan and Italy to switch ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ChTjUAu via IFTTT

Super Formula’s 2026 calendar has been revealed, featuring several changes owing to the impact of the date change for Formula 1’s visit to Japan. With the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka moving forward to March 29, the famous figure-of-eight venue will no longer host the first round of the Super Formula schedule next year, as it has done both in 2024 and this year. That role has fallen to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/eLhJYix via IFTTT

Lewis Hamilton seems to be struggling more than he ever was in Formula 1, but he does have an unwavering ally in Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc. Leclerc has always played the team game; this was exemplified by his recent comments at the Belgian Grand Prix, when he was asked whether he was surprised to have the upper hand on Hamilton in terms of performance. The Monegasque then insisted ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xjLYsA2 via IFTTT

Sebastien Ogier is setting his sights on a push for a record-equalling ninth World Rally Championship title after finishing third in Rally Finland. Ogier’s sixth podium from six events contested during a part-time season this year has cut the deficit to new championship leader and team-mate Elfyn Evans to 13 points, with rounds in Paraguay, Chile, Central Europe, Japan and Saudi Arabia ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KnThCHF via IFTTT

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda is set to start the Hungarian Grand Prix from the pitlane after breaking parc ferme to take new power unit components. The Japanese driver had originally qualified 16th for the race at the Hungaroring after a difficult weekend for the Milton Keynes-based outfit.  The FIA stated in the technical delegate's report that Tsunoda is "using a new internal ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/83KJzLR via IFTTT

Charles Leclerc's shock Formula 1 pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix has set up an intriguing battle at the Hungaroring as he aims to fend off the McLaren duo of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. While the McLarens can be expected to be quicker over a race stint as rear tyre wear comes into play, Leclerc was actually in the same ballpark during Friday's FP2 long runs, splitting long-run ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/s4PT20j via IFTTT

The Hungarian Grand Prix weekend has so far proven to be a tough challenge for the Red Bull Formula 1 team. Max Verstappen will start from eighth on the grid, while Yuki Tsunoda is lining up in P16. This underlines the ongoing struggles this weekend, with technical director Pierre Wache summarizing the situation as “nothing is working”. Helmut Marko added that the Milton Keynes-based ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qETsrOc via IFTTT

But for a snap of oversteer midway through the Hungaroring’s final corner, George Russell could have been on pole for Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix. His last ‘push lap’ ended up just 0.053s slower than surprise polesitter Charles Leclerc for Ferrari. The picture of relative performance in the final part of qualifying was clouded by huge swings in track temperature and wind direction ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/NxFOHwI via IFTTT

Kalle Rovanpera extended his Rally Finland lead on Saturday morning despite suffering a puncture, as changeable weather continued to create drama at the World Rally Championship event. The Toyota driver picked up from where he left off on Friday, winning three of the four gravel stages to increase his 4.9s overnight advantage over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville to 14.7s. Rovanpera admitted he ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/1JNWtba via IFTTT

Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner is finalising the purchase of the Tech3 MotoGP team, Autosport has learned. Sources close to both parties estimate the deal, involving the structure founded in 1990 by Herve Poncharal and Guy Coulon, at just over €20million. Tech3 made its debut in the premier class in 2001 after winning the 250cc world championship with Olivier ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8AHaPc7 via IFTTT

Stewards have handed Ott Tanak a five-minute penalty and a suspended World Rally Championship 35-point deduction following an incident involving a scrutineer at Rally Finland. The incident occurred at the end of Friday’s stage seven, which proved to be eventful for the championship leader after sliding off the road and striking a tree. The impact caused damage to the cooling system of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qrcwMsV via IFTTT

Get your Dutch Grand Prix tickets now on GooTickets and secure your spot for one of F1’s most exciting races on the calendar.   Five tips for attending the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort The Dutch GP is one of F1’s most vibrant events — a full-on party with race cars. Set in a beach town, packed with passionate fans, and just a short hop from Amsterdam, it’s a unique weekend on ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/psgKkXH via IFTTT

Fernando Alonso will not be driving in FP1 for Aston Martin at the Hungarian Grand Prix due to a "muscular injury in his back" which developed after the Belgian GP. In a statement from the Silverstone-based team, it confirmed that the two-time F1 world champion's part in the weekend is still under assessment as he continues treatment, with Aston Martin's reserve driver Felipe Drugovich called ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ztoVITg via IFTTT

Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu was effusive in his praise of his Formula 1 team for responding to the sudden emergence of a "bomb": its shattering weakness in high-speed conditions at this year's Australian Grand Prix.  The American squad had largely kept its powder dry during pre-season testing as it followed a similar run plan to the one it had operated with a year prior, which prioritised ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/oEn1d6O via IFTTT

Following the Belgian Grand Prix, it was already more or less clear, but Max Verstappen confirmed it during media day ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest: the Dutchman won’t go anywhere for the 2026 F1 season and will remain with Red Bull. “I think it’s time to stop all the rumours now,” Verstappen said in the team’s hospitality area. He added that much of the speculation ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7Xw2gkh via IFTTT