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Fabio Quartararo says he will no longer help Yamaha with development work pertaining to the 2027 MotoGP season after being denied a chance to test Pirelli’s new tyres. The 2021 champion made that comment following last weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix, where he felt he was reduced to the role of a “test rider” as Yamaha evaluated several new components. Quartararo is leaving Yamaha after ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/RhOm58e via IFTTT

McLaren’s win in Zandvoort, their second in a row after Budapest, highlighted a key point: the updates introduced on either side of the summer break did more than restore the aerodynamic load the car had been missing. They also enabled the team to take a decisive step forward. At the Barcelona Grand Prix, for instance, McLaren’s strengths had already begun to emerge, and the same was true ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bszYkS3 via IFTTT

MotoGP title rivals Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi have described their “scary” but “amazing” slipstream battle for victory at the Aragon Grand Prix. On lap 6 of 23, reigning world champion Marquez sent his Ducati up the inside of Bezzecchi into Turn 15, repeating a move that he had pulled off on the other factory Aprilia of Jorge Martin at the beginning of the race. But the fight ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/1dl9tpg via IFTTT

Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez outgunned Pedro Acosta and Marco Bezzecchi to claim a commanding victory in the Aragon Grand Prix and strengthen his title challenge.   Starting second on the grid, the Ducati rider passed polesitter Bezzecchi on lap 7 of 23 and then fended off a challenge from KTM rival Acosta to secure his fourth win of the season. Aprilia’s Bezzecchi had no ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wtUeY2A via IFTTT

When Toto Wolff held his annual media session with a select group of Dutch journalists at Zandvoort, one of the topics that came up was how a Formula 1 team can get the maximum out of a driver and, related to that, how much freedom a team principal should give a star driver. The most recent example is Max Verstappen and the considerable freedom he is given at Red Bull, for instance with his ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/uM9IvQR via IFTTT

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas has unveiled a simulation of the new Adelaide street circuit, which will host the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix from next year. The project, which is expected to be completed around November 2027, when the race is scheduled to take place, represents an investment of close to €51million (A$96m), Malinauskas revealed. The circuit will be built in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/G5hZKcP via IFTTT

With what is undoubtedly coming with a salary befitting a world champion, Lando Norris has put pen to paper to a deal tying him to the Woking-based team until 2030, with options for multiple additional years after that, taking Norris into his 30s. Imagining Norris wearing a different-coloured race suit has always felt like a mind-bending exercise. Now, the 26-year-old's bumper McLaren contract ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/NpudSTL via IFTTT

Lando Norris and McLaren have agreed to a long-term contract extension, keeping the world champion at the Formula 1 team until at least 2030. On Saturday morning McLaren announced it had tied Norris to the team until 2030, with multi-year options to further extend the 26-year-old's stay. Norris personally announced the news to the Woking factory staff during the team's annual family and ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2E5wak4 via IFTTT

Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin rated the team’s pace through Zandvoort’s high-speed corners as “rubbish” and is looking for answers on its inconsistency between both stints and drivers in the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix. After a strong start to the Zandvoort weekend, with George Russell taking pole and victory in the sprint race, Mercedes dropped behind ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/uEgDJUx via IFTTT

Hyundai’s Hayden Paddon led a World Rally Championship event for the first time since Portugal 2018 after emerging from a brutal morning at Rally Paraguay that decimated the Rally1 field.   Paddon and co-driver John Kennard were the only Rally1 crew to avoid trouble across four stages that resulted in Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta, Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and reigning world champion ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/20mAJI8 via IFTTT

Marco Bezzecchi topped Friday practice for the Aragon Grand Prix with a new all-time track record, beating the Ducatis of Alex Marquez and Marc Marquez. The factory Aprilia rider set a time of 1m45.455s with just two minutes left on the clock, dethroning pre-weekend favourite Marc Marquez from the top. Alex Marquez also managed to deliver a late improvement on the Gresini Ducati, splitting ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/EjzRGvJ via IFTTT

Ferrari will use its ADUO-permitted upgrade on its engine for the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, while also bringing aerodynamic updates and track-specific parts for its home round. Following reliability checks and the announcement of Ferrari being over 4% behind on the Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities (ADUO) benchmark – and therefore permitted to two upgrades this season – ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Mnh1uGr via IFTTT

Ukraine has lodged a formal complaint to the FIA ethics committee following the lift to the ban on Russian competitors in international motorsport. The Ukrainian Automobile Federation (FAU) requested an urgent investigation into the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF) on Thursday, stating it is in breach of FIA rules over national sporting authorities. The FAU has alleged that the RAF has ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BcMRiQ9 via IFTTT

Almost three months after the Monaco Grand Prix, the result of Formula 1’s most prestigious race is still not definitive. Pierre Gasly’s penalty for pitlane speeding was overturned in the week after the race, restoring him to third place at the expense of Isack Hadjar, but that was far from the end of the matter. McLaren and Red Bull have since challenged the decision before the FIA’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/h7wZczB via IFTTT

Legends form man Chris Needham has jumped to the top of the Autosport National Rankings table thanks to his recent burst of success. The former Superkart champion claimed two wins out of three races at Oulton Park to move onto 13 victories for the season, which means he has displaced historics ace Connor Kay from the top of the pile. Needham shot into contention in late July when he swept up ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/b4YdFkK via IFTTT

The FIA’s ADUO announcement – the Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities for Formula 1 power units – had been a long time coming. In fact, after the results of the first period were shared with all teams and manufacturers at the Monaco Grand Prix, the press release was ready to go in exactly this form. The only thing missing was the sentence about the second period. The long ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0cPyVXD via IFTTT

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella is sceptical about his Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff's claims that Mercedes doesn't have the available budget to fast-track car upgrades. In recent weeks Ferrari and especially McLaren have made drastic improvements to their 2026 cars, allowing them to take two wins apiece and put significant pressure on the erstwhile dominant Mercedes ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0U8xvhp via IFTTT

Fermin Aldeguer will join VR46 for the start of MotoGP's 850cc era in 2027, it has been confirmed. The Spaniard, who extended his contract with Ducati at the beginning of this year, will race for Valentino Rossi's team as a factory rider for the next two seasons, with full backing and official material from the Borgo Panigale constructor. In this way, Aldeguer will have the same weapons as ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Pk1soeQ via IFTTT

Luca Marini will leave Honda and race for Tech3 KTM in the 2027 and 2028 MotoGP seasons, it has been announced. Unlike in the last two seasons, when Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales raced under direct KTM contracts, Tech3's new ownership structure led by Guenther Steiner is now responsible for negotiating and signing its own riders from 2027. However, despite paying for riders itself, it ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4z71qxr via IFTTT

A brand-new 911 Challenge car that has closer links to road-going machinery will be introduced into the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB next season. Since the British Touring Car Championship support category was launched in 2020, it has always been exclusively for Porsche Caymans - initially for the 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport and then the RS Clubsport. But now an all-new car will be used that ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/eFSVk7z via IFTTT

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella says its appeal against the Monaco Grand Prix result, which is being held on Tuesday, stems from its concern for "the integrity of the sport". On Tuesday, the FIA's International Court of Appeal is handling an appeal by McLaren and Red Bull against the result of June's Monaco Grand Prix, in which several drivers were handed time penalties for ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7PyVh6i via IFTTT

Liberty Media has announced Carlos Ezpeleta as the deputy CEO of MotoGP, while confirming his father, Carmelo, in the role of CEO. The move is being interpreted as a sign that the US company is doubling down on its confidence in the Ezpeleta family as the senior executives within the structure of MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group (MotoGP SEG), formerly Dorna.  Tuesday's announcement also ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ww6a4cj via IFTTT

Opel has announced that 16-time race winner Mitch Evans will spearhead its entry into Formula E in the 2026-27 season. The Kiwi joins the German manufacturer after spending a full decade at Jaguar’s factory team, where he claimed the all-time wins record but fell short of winning the championship on several occasions. He will join 2023 Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire, who will be ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qymEw7b via IFTTT

KTM has finally been able to 'revitalise' its MotoGP engines following reliability issues in the 2026 MotoGP season. In a procedure that began last Monday at the brand's engine production centre in near Mattighofen, its engineers and technicians opened the engines that caused so many headaches during the first part of the season. During the process, the parts that supposedly caused the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ht0pzU5 via IFTTT

A plague of technical problems beset the train network out of Amsterdam on the Saturday morning of the Dutch Grand Prix weekend, raising the possibility that thousands of fans might miss the sprint race. Lucky them. Sitting, or indeed standing, on a crowded vessel of public transport reading one of those wretched pieces of AI-generated slash-fiction slop which bedevil the Kindle Unlimited ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/IEFgZV8 via IFTTT

Mercedes has officially decided its Formula 1 world championship leader Kimi Antonelli will start from the back of the grid at the upcoming Italian Grand Prix after it decided to give him a new power unit, exceeding his allowance for the year. Drivers are allowed to use up to four power units for the season, but Mercedes' reliability woes over the first half of the campaign meant it has always ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/61gGrxO via IFTTT

Enea Bastianini will join Aprilia’s stable in the 2027 MotoGP season, racing for its satellite Trackhouse team. In a series of coordinated announcements on Monday, Tech3 KTM said that Bastianini will leave the squad at the end of the year, before Trackhouse revealed that it has signed the Italian on a two-year deal. The seven-time grand prix winner will take the place vacated by Ai Ogura ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/DWtG2ac via IFTTT

Formula 1's Dutch Grand Prix has been red-flagged after one lap following an enormous accident for home hero Max Verstappen. At the end of lap 1 on a damp circuit, Verstappen lost control of his Red Bull as he tagged the white line on the inside of Zandvoort's final turn - the banked, flat out Luyendyk corner leading onto the main straight. Verstappen veered head on into the outside wall ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/EsjSvHt via IFTTT

Adam Morgan kept up the rich vein of form for the ‘Team Formerly Known As Plato Racing’ with victory in Sunday’s British Touring Car Championship opener at Donington Park. Morgan and his CPRL Mercedes A35 Saloon led from pole position to the chequered flag in a race interrupted by two safety-car interludes – the first triggered by a spectacular roll for BTCC newcomer Lewis Gilbert’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/A0sxnOM via IFTTT

Broc Feeney scored victory in the third race of the Queensland Raceway Supercars weekend and with it, took an unlikely Sprint Cup title. Feeney started from second of the grid alongside Triple Eight driver Will Brown and for most of the opening lap the two Ford Mustangs ran side-by-side, until Feeney seized track position and built a lead of around a second. By the time the opening pit stop ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KsH3WTF via IFTTT

Jason Plato may be off the scene at the team he founded, but its form continued with a dominant 1-2 in the British Touring Car Championship qualifying race at Donington Park. For the second successive BTCC race weekend, Adam Morgan became the Saturday victor, with Dan Rowbottom following him home in the sister CPRL Mercedes A35 Saloon. Morgan emerged on pole position from a rather lopsided ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/HWv21w9 via IFTTT

Reigning British Touring Car champion Tom Ingram topped free practice for the seventh round of the 2026 season on the Donington Park Grand Prix circuit. Ingram, lying second in the points, has a mountain to climb to catch runaway championship leader Ash Sutton, but looked on good form at the wheel of his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback. He set a 1m33.644s on medium compound ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dDnbz8B via IFTTT

George Russell dominated the Dutch Grand Prix sprint race from pole for his third Saturday victory of the 2026 Formula 1 campaign. The Mercedes driver led all the way from lights out in a rather processional affair, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and McLaren’s Lando Norris completing the podium at a dry Zandvoort. It came after Russell grabbed pole on Friday after profiting from floor ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/hCHY8di via IFTTT

Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown shared the wins in what was a hectic day of Supercars action at Queensland Raceway, near Ipswich in Queensland. Kostecki won the opening race in Dick Johnson Racing’s Ford Mustang from Matt Payne (Kelly Racing Ford) and Will Brown (Triple Eight Ford) before a second, blockbuster of a race saw Brown put a full stop on his recent technical issues to take the win ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Xq6LrbU via IFTTT

Kimi Antonelli was fastest in practice for the Dutch Grand Prix as the championship leader picked up where he left off upon Formula 1’s return from its summer break. The Mercedes star set a 1m12.949s lap at Zandvoort and was the only driver to go sub-1m13s as second-place went to McLaren’s reigning world champion Lando Norris with a 1m13.070s. Drivers were quick to head out for the sole ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/GjtMTgh via IFTTT

Sebastien Ogier says he is ready to make a World Rally Championship return in Paraguay next week after recovering from a high-speed crash at Rally Finland. The reigning world champion and stand-in co-driver Julien Ingrassia were leading in Finland when their GR Yaris fired off the road and into a series of rolls. The pair managed to escape the car unaided, but were transported to hospital where ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/a95MDOQ via IFTTT

Ginetta GT Championship find of the season William Antrobus has leapt into second place in the Autosport National Rankings – firmly in contention for the top spot. The young karting graduate took a clean sweep of all three races at Snetterton over the weekend to move himself onto a total of 12 victories for the season – but these are not all in the meaty G56 machinery, because he’s also ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/lB1QGUK via IFTTT

For one final time, Formula 1 cars will race around the sand dunes of Zandvoort this weekend as the seaside circuit prepares to host its final Dutch Grand Prix. After its re-entry into the calendar in 2021, the track announced its exit at the end of 2024.  Ahead of the chequered flag flying for the final time, our writers look back on some of their fondest memories from Zandvoort - including ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/iSclEbL via IFTTT

LCR has announced that Johann Zarco will make his MotoGP comeback at the Aragon Grand Prix, which is due to take place from 28-30 August, provided he passes a medical evaluation next Thursday. Zarco suffered a horrifying crash at Turn 1 during the first restart at the Catalan Grand Prix in May. In the accident, which also involved Luca Marini and Francesco Bagnaia, Zarco’s left leg became ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OPq2baG via IFTTT

The FIA will enforce its sporting regulations more strictly in Formula E’s Gen4 era to clamp down on teams colluding to “manipulate” races. Manufacturers in Formula E hold significant influence over their customer teams, with some agreements extending far beyond the supply of powertrains. This was particularly evident in last weekend’s London finale, when Cupra Kiro driver Dan Ticktum ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OeoCJRB via IFTTT

Max Verstappen had quashed any speculation about his future in Formula 1 by signing a new contract with Red Bull until the end of 2030. While Verstappen’s current deal already extended until the end of 2028, his dislike for the new generation of cars and exploits in other disciplines of motorsport had led to question marks over whether he would see out his term with the team. But Red Bull ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bWG4AVv via IFTTT

Red Bull has officially confirmed that Liam Lawson will replace the injured Isack Hadjar at this weekend’s Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix. News emerged on Wednesday morning that Hadjar had sustained a wrist injury from a gym session and was therefore set to skip Zandvoort, with a formal decision impending. It means Hadjar is unable to compete at the track which has so far given him his only ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KG6wfim via IFTTT

After the practice starts during winter testing in Bahrain proved rather problematic for several Formula 1 outfits, the issue quickly sparked a political debate in the paddock. Many teams wanted more time during the starting procedure to spool their turbochargers and build up the revs, but Ferrari was not keen on that idea as its smaller turbo gave the Scuderia a competitive advantage off the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BrnRCDa via IFTTT

Plato Racing will continue in the British Touring Car Championship with a new name after the departure of team principal Jason Plato. Since the team’s stellar weekend at Knockhill last time out, which netted the first win for its Mercedes A35 Saloon in a full-points Sunday championship race, Plato Racing was placed into administration with losses of over £800,000. Following a statement ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/h7IPbaV via IFTTT

Max Verstappen could have a different team-mate alongside him for his final home race on the Formula 1 calendar. Hadjar is dealing with a wrist injury sustained during a gym session ahead of the race weekend at Zandvoort and could be forced to miss the Dutch Grand Prix. Laurent Mekies' team has yet to make a formal decision and, at this stage, declined to comment when approached by Autosport ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6UJKk8E via IFTTT

One of the most eye-catching innovations of the first half of the 2026 Formula 1 season has been the rotating rear wing, quickly dubbed the Macarena wing by Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur. Ferrari was the first to unveil the concept during winter testing and managed to surprise several rivals – including McLaren – with the innovative solution. At that point, Red Bull was ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/mdLXciB via IFTTT

At the recent London E-Prix, an important chapter in the history of Formula E came to a close with DS Automobiles’ final appearance. From DS Virgin Racing to DS Penske, via the triumphant years with DS Techeetah, the French manufacturer has left its mark on the championship’s evolution, going out on a high note with Taylor Barnard’s victory in the final race. It is difficult to separate ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/QwqVnxp via IFTTT

Back at a very different-looking Silverstone to that at which Jenny Nadin (later Birrell) won the first British Formula Vee race on 18 June 1967 - a fortnight before Formula Ford debuted at Brands Hatch - Dubliner Dan Polley moved two steps further towards the 750 Motor Club’s championship at its annual International circuit weekend. A consummate brace of victories in the fabled WEV (Worm’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Kzr1tbe via IFTTT

The finale of the annual Bentley Drivers Club meeting last weekend was its Allcomers race and this featured the unusual spectacle of modern Bentley GTs, two Bentley T-type specials, a 750 Formula car and a Citroen Saxo (among others) going head-to-head. The winners in the end were Clubmans machinery, led by the Mallock Mk29 of Steven Dickens, over 30 seconds ahead of Steven Chaplin in a Phantom ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ClgdQLW via IFTTT

When Adrian Newey appeared at the FIA team principals' press conference during the Formula 1 season opener in Melbourne, the legendary designer attracted attention for several reasons. Newey spoke openly about Honda's battery problems, acknowledged that his role as team principal had distracted him from his design duties to some extent, and said – with some exaggeration – that Honda had ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8zDHZBE via IFTTT

The smiling winner of the second DTM race at the Nurburgring is Marco Wittmann: the Schubert BMW driver, who started from sixth on the grid, benefited from his rivals’ mistakes after the start and at the first pit stop to snatch his third DTM victory in the Eifel overall. "A superb race," Wittmann said happily on ProSieben. "A very wild race, especially in the early stages, but we were able ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jqOhYfB via IFTTT

BMW has emerged as a serious World Endurance Championship contender in the third year of its Hypercar programme. Robin Frijns and Rene Rast lead the Hypercar standings at the halfway point of the season, while BMW itself sits second in the manufacturers’ standings, behind only Toyota. It’s a major turnaround from where the German brand was just last season in the WEC, when it ended up ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/y5f9rGB via IFTTT

Formula 1’s competitive order was shaken up in 2026 with the roll out of sweeping new regulations across the chassis, aerodynamics and power units. Mercedes came out on top, with it now leading the constructors’ standings and Kimi Antonelli is on top in the drivers’ championship. But the team hasn’t been bulletproof this year, and strong performances from drivers up and down the grid ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/lzGDR9x via IFTTT

Pascal Wehrlein dominated the opening race of the London E-Prix weekend to grab the Formula E championship lead ahead of Sunday’s title decider. The factory Porsche driver won by six seconds ahead of erstwhile points leader Jake Dennis for Andretti with Jaguar’s Antonio Felix da Costa completing the podium at the tight ExCeL Arena. It leaves Wehrlein five points ahead of second-placed ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/G3VdNLf via IFTTT

The Prancing Horse was unstoppable at the Nurburgring on Saturday: Emil Frey Ferrari driver Matteo Cairoli celebrates his third win of the season in a crazy race in which only twelve cars even saw the chequered flag, also taking an important step forward in the overall standings. "This win was really important," Cairoli, who had two bad weekends at the Norisring and Oschersleben, said happily ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/sE9eOu3 via IFTTT

The 2026 MotoGP season has proved to be extremely competitive so far. As the 1000cc era draws to a close ahead of the switch to new 850cc prototypes with less aerodynamic influence next year, there is an interesting variety at the front of the championship, even if the main protagonists are clearly defined. As was evident in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Aprilia appears to have the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/o5QNCWJ via IFTTT

During Formula 1's summer break, Max Verstappen finds himself no fewer than 110 points behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli. Last season, the four-time world champion launched a spectacular comeback from Zandvoort onwards and finished on the podium in every grand prix during the second half of the season, but this time he is absolutely not expecting that scenario. Red Bull's problems ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/lVPu4HR via IFTTT

Fabio Quartararo lost the points he had originally scored at last weekend's MotoGP British Grand Prix, plummeting to 16th place with a 16-second penalty. This penalty is usually imposed when a rider has not completed enough laps with tyre pressure above the level specified by Michelin for safety reasons, but that was not the case on Sunday. The Yamaha rider was penalised because the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/NldczLP via IFTTT

For long-time Audi stalwart and Le Mans winner Allan McNish, becoming Audi's first racing director in Formula 1 feels like the natural progression of his storied career on both sides of the pitwall. After climbing the UK single-seater ladder in the late '80s and early '90s, McNish's road to the top took a number of strange turns, with a McLaren F1 test role that ultimately didn't lead to an F1 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/UeoDCJR via IFTTT

After this weekend’s season-ending London E-Prix, the last two active drivers who competed in Formula E’s inaugural race in 2014 will bow out of the all-electric championship. Sebastien Buemi will now focus on his WEC programme with Toyota, while Lucas Di Grassi is retiring from racing altogether. Combined, they have taken 21 pole positions (including 17 for record co-holder Buemi) and a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/nSkgGbE via IFTTT

Autosport: Are you satisfied with the expansion process that MotoGP has set out? Carlos Ezpeleta: People tend to immediately think about the number of races when we talk about the global footprint, but the business is much broader than that. This year, we have 14 events in Europe and eight outside Europe. Next year, it will be nine and 13, and I think that figure will probably balance out at ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/p2YZ3a4 via IFTTT

Mini Challenge Clubsport champion Oli Willmott and Pickups star Aaron Thompson have shot into the top five of the Autosport National Rankings.  The Clubsport series held its final round of the 2026 season – a very early finish – at Donington Park, and Willmott’s clean sweep of the three races put him onto 11 victories for the season. That means he has leapt 14 positions to second spot in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VFsjPGS via IFTTT

Sebastien Buemi will retire from Formula E at the end of this weekend’s London E-Prix to take on an advisory role with DS Virgin Racing, it has been announced. The Swiss driver will bring the curtain down on a glittering stint in the all-electric championship after 12 seasons during which he scored 14 wins, 36 podiums, 17 pole positions and the 2015-16 drivers’ title. Speculation has ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ps0TFvV via IFTTT

More than a week before the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, the Formula 1 world was abruptly awakened from its summer break. At 3pm UK time, Cadillac decided the time was right to make a shock announcement: Graeme Lowdon had been replaced as team principal with immediate effect by Marcin Budkowski. Two elements of that news are not particularly strange in themselves. For many in the paddock ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/djpxoIm via IFTTT

The complaints have been rumbling since before the start of the Formula 1 season. Periodically they intensify, especially at so-called ‘energy-starved’ circuits where the ratio of corners to straights, and the type of corners, mitigate against the new-generation cars being able to recharge their batteries through the lap. A tweak to the regulations implemented ahead of the Miami Grand Prix ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/z1e0fYq via IFTTT

The explosion in popularity experienced by Formula 1 over the past five years has been described by some as a unique phenomenon in the history of sport. Labels aside, one of the factors that has turned F1 into such an attractive proposition for manufacturers is its profitability. And that cannot be explained without the introduction of the budget cap, which in 2021 put the brakes on the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ao2Si5D via IFTTT

Few topics in the Formula 1 paddock have generated as much political debate during the first half of the season as ADUO, the Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities. The system was introduced as a safety net for a manufacturer that falls behind, partly in response to Honda's situation under the previous regulations, but in practice it has turned into a political battleground. Toto ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xR0rgPJ via IFTTT

Triple Eight has pointed the finger at Supercars over the recent lack of speed of the Ford Mustang driven by Will Brown, and Supercars has admitted that a part it supplied to the team was undersized. On Wednesday afternoon Triple Eight team principal and co-owner Jamie Whincup issued a statement in which he revealed that an engine air restrictor, a part Supercars stipulates all the Ford engines ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/rYFK6tN via IFTTT

Formula E’s Gen3 Evo era is set for an epic conclusion in London this weekend, with the fight for the 2025/26 title going down to the wire. As many as nine drivers remain in mathematical contention heading to the ExCel double-header, the most since the chaotic 2020/21 season when 18 drivers went into the final races in Berlin with a chance of becoming champion. Prior to last month’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7vFwLtd via IFTTT

While Aston Martin introduced its first major upgrade package for the AMR26 in Hungary, Honda will bring its first update of the 2026 Formula 1 season to Zandvoort. With Adrian Newey’s first upgrade package of the year, the deficit on the chassis side has been reduced considerably. Aston Martin is still a long way from where it wants to be, but figures from Paceteq show that its deficit in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/x9rWzpD via IFTTT

This weekend, IndyCar is visiting Canada's Ontario province for the inaugural race at Markham, where the Toronto-based event has been moved. This will be our opportunity to speak to David Malukas, who, albeit still winless in IndyCar, truly burst onto the scene this season. Racing alongside Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin at Penske, the 24-year-old from Chicago has displayed impressive ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Dz2NFT4 via IFTTT

Rally Scotland will deliver fast gravel stages and prove to be quite the challenge for World Rally Championship crews in 2027, according to Elfyn Evans. The World Rally Championship points leader was among a group of drivers that took part in the British Rally Championship’s Grampian Forest Rally held in Aberdeenshire, last weekend, which also acted as the FIA’s Rally Scotland candidate ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dbt1VuT via IFTTT

It may only be early August but already some of the club racing seasons are drawing to an end and Mini Challenge Clubsport champion Oli Willmott concluded his campaign in style with a dominant winning treble at Donington Park last weekend. The Mini Cooper S pilot led home Adrian Linggi in race one, with James Dudley a distant third. But Linggi cooked his engine and retired from the sequel ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CV1KfPp via IFTTT

Having started the 2026 season on the back foot, McLaren is showing signs of what made this iteration of the storied team so successful in the first place over the past two years. True to its successful strike rate with in-season upgrades in 2024 and 2025, McLaren's latest upgrade package in Hungary, featuring a revised floor and the latest iteration of its front wing, was another significant ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2WQuajn via IFTTT

Ash Sutton took a hefty stride towards a record-breaking fifth British Touring Car Championship title with victory in race two at Knockhill. With the morning rain blown away on the Scottish air, and the track merely damp off-line, Sutton and his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus Titanium were the clear favourites for victory. That’s because Adam Morgan, Dan Rowbottom and Gordon Shedden ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/yFmwfxH via IFTTT

Raul Fernandez annihilated the competition at the British Grand Prix to claim his first victory of the 2026 MotoGP season, leading another podium lockout for Aprilia. Having crashed out of Saturday’s sprint, the Trackhouse rider redeemed himself in the main race, grabbing the lead at the start and leading every lap in what was arguably the most convincing performance of his MotoGP ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/FokXlHf via IFTTT

Adam Morgan led home Dan Rowbottom for an emotional Plato Racing 1-2 in the first British Touring Car Championship race of the day at a soggy Knockhill. Read Also: BTCCBTCC Knockhill: Morgan claims qualifying race win for Plato team As qualifying race winner, Morgan started his Mercedes A35 Saloon from pole position, with Rowbottom third on the grid behind the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/7tQGo8k via IFTTT

Nirei Fukuzumi scored his second win of the Super Formula season amid a strange turn of events involving the safety car that left Igor Fraga furious at losing out on victory. Rookie Racing driver Fukuzumi and Ayumu Iwasa were the two biggest beneficiaries of the safety car being called at the end of lap 27 of the 51-lap contest, owing to Sena Sakaguchi and Roman Stanek both hitting trouble at ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/KQcJaq2 via IFTTT

Jorge Martin converted pole position into a commanding victory in the British Grand Prix sprint to extend his lead at the top of the MotoGP standings. The Spaniard nailed the start and then led every lap of the half-distance race at Silverstone, only facing a brief threat from Trackhouse’s Ai Ogura during the middle stages before pulling comfortably clear in the final laps. With Marco ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/O7R3cxC via IFTTT

Adam Morgan led all the way from pole to claim victory in the British Touring Car Championship qualifying race at Knockhill. This was the new-for-2026 Plato Racing squad’s second taste of glory with its Mercedes A35 saloons following Dan Rowbottom’s win in the half-points Saturday race at the Donington Park opener. Morgan topped his qualifying group and his time was only just good ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Th0YakZ via IFTTT

MotoGP points leader Jorge Martin beat Raul Fernandez by 0.021s in a last-lap effort to claim pole position for the British Grand Prix. Trackhouse rider Fernandez appeared to have done enough to top qualifying for the first time in his MotoGP career, having lowered Marco Bezzecchi’s circuit record at Silverstone on his final run. But factory Aprilia rider Martin had little more left in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/njzeCJD via IFTTT

Power Maxed Racing claimed a 1-2-4 in British Touring Car Championship free practice at Knockhill on the first anniversary of its miracle return from a disastrous fire. The Midlands squad’s Vauxhall Astras were among the casualties of the blaze, which destroyed its premises 12 months ago. But the team arrived phoenix-like at Knockhill with loaned and hastily prepared Cupra Leons, with ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dfPibuT via IFTTT

When the 2026 Formula 1 rules were introduced, the FIA frequently spoke about the so-called "nimble car concept". The machinery was supposed to become smaller and lighter, although it has to be said that the changes are still relatively marginal. The wheelbase is 20cm shorter this year, while the new cars are also 10cm narrower. The minimum weight has been set at 768kg, a reduction of 32kg ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/C3QF04W via IFTTT

KTM will be able to open the sealed engines of its RC16 bikes the week before the Aragon GP, after receiving approval from the rest of the manufacturers in MotoGP. As Autosport revealed in mid-July, KTM formally requested the remaining manufacturers, through the MSMA and IRTA, for permission to open the sealed engines of its four MotoGP bikes to replace a part that is causing the RC16 to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/e2vVPH3 via IFTTT

The second half of the 2026 World Endurance Championship promises an intense fight, with four rounds scheduled in the span of just over two months. The calendar had to be reshuffled twice in the wake of the Iran war, and the impact of the changes is multifold. The gap left by the cancelled Qatar round has been filled by a first-ever WEC visit to Barcelona, while Monza replaces Bahrain as the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/awKyeZE via IFTTT

Juan Manuel Fangio – 38y, 10m, 27d 1950 Monaco GP The first-ever grand chelem – leading the whole race from pole position and setting the fastest lap on your way to victory – occurred in just the second race of the Formula 1 world championship. Future five-time title winner Juan Manuel Fangio was fastest by 2.6s in qualifying. The 38-year-old Argentine made it past Tabac corner ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/XVELfsl via IFTTT

Marco Bezzecchi has admitted that he is not fully fit as he prepares for a potential MotoGP comeback at the British Grand Prix, conceding his chances of a strong result at Silverstone. The factory Aprilia rider broke his collarbone during the opening lap of the Sachsenring sprint, forcing him out of the remainder of the German Grand Prix weekend in July.  During the summer break, he ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Sd7lO3u via IFTTT

Thierry Neuville believes last weekend’s Rally Finland was “too fast” following an unusual number of high-profile crashes at the fast gravel World Rally Championship event. Finland is renowned for its ultra fast gravel stages, with this year’s event the second fastest in WRC history clocking an average speed of 128.2km/h – falling just shy of the record set last year. Neuville had ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xjQGCFf via IFTTT

MotoGP has announced a new two-year contract with Silverstone, ensuring the British Grand Prix will remain on the calendar until at least 2028. The news was made official on the eve of this year’s United Kingdom round of MotoGP, which marks the start of the second half of the 2026 season. Although MotoGP hasn’t been able to replicate the same success that Formula 1 has enjoyed at ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/X91ZVKq via IFTTT

While Formula 1 insists - based on its own Formula 1 Fan Voice programme - that fans are enjoying the racing, drivers have been far more critical of the 2026 regulations so far. One of the biggest talking points emerged at Spa-Francorchamps, where Oscar Piastri highlighted the issue of drivers being surprised by their own power units. During qualifying, the Australian lost significant time ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/YnDqeKX via IFTTT

There wasn’t much national motorsport in the UK last weekend, but even so there are four drivers moving up inside the top 10 of the Autosport National Rankings. Junior Saloons ace Ollie Smith is the highest-placed of them. The Citroen Saxo-based series in which he competes was in action at Brands Hatch on the support card of the Touring Car Rewind extravaganza. Of the three races, Smith ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Q9faDou via IFTTT

Trackhouse has announced that it has renewed its contract with Raul Fernandez for the 2027 and 2028 MotoGP seasons. After a tug-of-war that lasted almost half a year, the two parties reached an agreement for the next two seasons. In fact, it was precisely the length of the contract that stalled the negotiations for months, as Fernandez had always asked for a two-season deal, while the team ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/GiCmyRn via IFTTT

Theo Pourchaire will make his return to full-time single-seater racing after signing with Opel for the 2026/27 Formula E campaign - which will debut the Gen4 car. The 22-year-old has contested various championships since winning the 2023 Formula 2 title, starting six IndyCar races in 2024 - the same season in which he entered a Super Formula race. Neither were full-time campaigns, though ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5q3OLHf via IFTTT

Formula E has brought forward the 2027 Monaco E-Prix by two weeks to eliminate a clash with the World Endurance Championship. The two races on the famous streets of Monte Carlo will now take place on 1 and 2 May 2027, a week before the scheduled double-header in Berlin. When the full 2026/27 Formula E calendar was released in June, Monaco was slated to host the 10th and 11th round of the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/TbvW1jR via IFTTT

McLaren will race its version of the so-called 'Macarena' rear-wing concept – but not until an unspecified point in the future, according to team principal Andrea Stella. It's understood that the reason for not rushing to race the new rear wing is not linked to Red Bull's well-documented issues with its similar design. Instead, McLaren is being cautiously pragmatic, since the rotating rear ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/AENQsO3 via IFTTT

Since its launch in 2012, the World Endurance Championship has visited a wide variety of tracks around the world, racing across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Some events like Spa have become permanent fixtures on the calendar, while others disappeared quickly without leaving a mark. At its peak, the WEC hosted as many as 10 rounds in a season before shrinking to just six during the COVID-19 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Q9DBLzP via IFTTT

Touring Car Rewind: South brought an array of retro tin-top machinery to Brands Hatch last weekend. Amid the nostalgia, 2013 British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan in a Super Touring BMW and Ford Capri-mounted current BTCC star Charles Rainford were among those to catch the eye. Star Car: BMW 318i E36 Few Super Touring cars were as successful – or numerous – in period as BMW’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/WF29COX via IFTTT

Drivers are excited for the future of the World Rally Championship following what the FIA has labelled the “biggest deal in history” for rallying. After months of discussions, French automotive company Cosmobilis and private credit investor Park Square Capital have officially acquired WRC Promoter GmbH to take over the commercial rights of the WRC and the European Rally Championship in an ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BrZQYyg via IFTTT

With the first Formula 1 season under the new technical regulations approaching its halfway point, the summer break provides a good opportunity to take stock. The 2026 rules, with their much greater emphasis on electric power, have sparked considerable debate both in and outside the paddock. F1 insists that fan ratings – for example in its own Formula 1 Fan Voice programme – have been ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/wcl67zs via IFTTT

Sami Pajari claimed back-to-back World Rally Championship wins with an emotional home victory in a drama-filled 75th-anniversary edition of Rally Finland. After securing a maiden WRC win in Estonia two weeks ago, Pajari and co-driver Marko Salminen produced a faultless drive in hugely challenging conditions to take a second career WRC win by 26.7s from Toyota team-mate Oliver Solberg, who had ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2t4Hu6e via IFTTT

Matt Payne and Broc Feeney left the field behind as Supercars' elite drivers fought for the win in the third Supercars race at Wanneroo Raceway, Payne emerging victorious in the Kelly Racing Ford Mustang. Read Also: SupercarsSupercars Perth: Payne builds championship lead with near-perfect day Feeney took pole position in his Triple Eight Ford and led the opening stint ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4ZHlWDy via IFTTT

Max Verstappen says he is "feeling good" about his place in Formula 1 as he detailed his mindset about Red Bull and the regulations heading into the summer break. Verstappen and Red Bull have not had an easy ride this year with a RB22 chassis that has fallen short of expectations and has been tricky to set up and drive. At the same time Red Bull-Ford Powertrains delivered above expectations ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5Ssj3ty via IFTTT

World Rally Championship organisers have red flagged stage 17 at Rally Finland after Sebastien Ogier suffered a high-speed crash from the lead. The reigning world champion and co-driver Julien Ingrassia were heading towards the end of stage 17 when their Toyota GR Yaris Rally 1 car fired off the road at speed. The car was pitched into a series of rolls heading towards the trees. Toyota has ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/hbLrfev via IFTTT

Elfyn Evans’ World Rally Championship hopes suffered a blow after rolling out of a victory fight with Sebastien Ogier at Rally Finland. The championship leader had been chasing down rally leader Ogier, reducing the gap from 16.3s to 11.6s heading into the final stage of the morning loop (SS14 Leustu) when drama struck. Evans misjudged a left hander towards the end of the stage which ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cX38bzs via IFTTT

Matt Payne has extended his lead in the Supercars championship with a win and a second place in the two races at Wanneroo Raceway in Perth. The Kelly Racing Ford driver started from pole position in both 50-lap races and except for a slow start to the opening race, the New Zealander made no mistakes worth mentioning, to take the win. Even a safety car in race one, which erased a lead of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8lMPR7C via IFTTT

Audi won’t add to its first Formula 1 power unit update by the end of the 2026 season, racing director Allan McNish has revealed. Having taken over the Sauber squad this year and introduced its very first F1 engine project, Audi rarely troubled the top 10 early in the season but launched a power unit upgrade at the Barcelona Grand Prix, providing “driveability mostly” as per Nico ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/PfB6O2o via IFTTT