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Honda Racing Corporation president Koji Watanabe has revealed that Honda actually introduced its second ADUO (Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities) upgrade as early as Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, with the upgrade focused on the power unit's turbocharger. Aston Martin and Honda struggled from the start of the season, but their performance slightly improved after a major chassis ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3hj5iRH via IFTTT

Japan has always been a special place for Marc Marquez, who has maintained particularly strong ties with the Asian country, where he has celebrated four of the seven world titles he has accumulated in the premier class. Winning the last of them, in 2025, was probably the most intense and satisfying of them all for a rider who had spent his entire life getting used to winning, only to stop ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dzb16p2 via IFTTT

1. Cadillac F1 Team - Race Strategy Industrial Placement - Silverstone The Cadillac F1 Team is looking for a Race Strategy Industrial Placement. This 12-month placement will give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience in supporting race strategy and tyre performance engineers with race preparation, race weekend operations and simulation activities. Candidates will be studying ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ev5gy3i via IFTTT

Esteban Ocon will officially leave Haas at the end of the 2026 Formula 1 campaign with his replacement yet to be announced. The 30-year-old joined the American squad from Alpine for 2025, but a very disappointing 18 months means the one-time grand prix winner will depart Haas after just two seasons. Ocon spent both 2025 and 2026 alongside youngster Oliver Bearman, who was a rookie last year ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/zuWCEqM via IFTTT

The FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest have announced a 10-year deal to jointly promote the World Endurance Championship, securing the long-term future of the sportscar racing series. As part of the agreement, the partnership between motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, and Le Mans 24 Hours operator, the ACO, will extend until the end of the 2037 season. The announcement comes ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/lridSu2 via IFTTT

If there is a definition of a mixed bag, that's what the Baku weekend was to Williams. It progressed to Q3 for the first time in 2026, but didn't start there due to a grid penalty for Carlos Sainz. It scored points for the first time since Monaco, with some fortune, but also saw Alex Albon crash out. Azerbaijan was a key weekend circled in red on Williams' calendar as it finally upgraded an ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/AMonH8j via IFTTT

This year’s Martin Donnelly Trophy promised much in the days leading up to it. But a capacity 26-car grid of Formula Ford 1600 machines at Kirkistown last weekend surpassed most expectations, and that was before all 26 lined up to do battle in bright sunshine. With United Championship points available as well as the local Northern Irish ones, there was potential for plenty of action. Jason ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/BAV7XQJ via IFTTT

Gordon Johncock, the legendary open-wheel driver who won the Indianapolis 500 twice and claimed the 1976 USAC National Championship, passed away peacefully at his home in South Branch, Michigan, on 28 September 2026. He was 90 years old. Born on 5 August 1936, Johncock began driving aged just five on his family’s farm behind the wheel of a John Deere tractor. He started racing Midwest ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/kqQt82B via IFTTT

For all the talk of rivals catching Mercedes, which has held fire on its more significant upgrades until next weekend's Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, the Brackley team has been able to weather the storm by excelling on some of the most power sensitive circuits like Monza and Baku, vindicating its patience.  But while Mercedes' dominant power unit package helps explain its gap to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xUG7iaT via IFTTT

The Alpine Formula 1 team has again spoken out against social media abuse following Franco Colapinto’s shunt in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Argentinian fans’ behaviour has been scrutinised lately following waves of hateful comments. Those were aimed at FIA stewards and the Alpine squad when Colapinto was handed a drive-through penalty for overtaking under a double yellow flag in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Wwo8ETV via IFTTT

Mikey Doble inherited victory in the first British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Silverstone thanks to a five-second track-limits penalty for team-mate Aiden Moffat. While the Power Maxed Racing Audi A3 Saloon duo dominated the race at the front, Ash Sutton fell just one point short in his efforts to clinch his record-breaking fifth BTCC title when Chris Smiley nabbed 11th ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pXaAncS via IFTTT

After his wrist injury, Isack Hadjar certainly did not return behind the wheel of the Red Bull Racing RB22 at the easiest track on the Formula 1 calendar. The Baku City Circuit not only carries a considerable risk of crashes, but also features several very technical sections around the city's old town. It requires confidence, but Hadjar had plenty of it despite missing three race weekends – ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/WI2UtEJ via IFTTT

Toyota pulled off a strategic masterclass towards the end of the Fuji 6 Hours to claim a narrow World Endurance Championship victory over pre-race favourite Alpine. Ryo Hirakawa, Brendon Hartley and Sebastien Buemi emerged victorious in the #8 Toyota TR010 Hybrid after the Japanese manufacturer made a shorter pitstop under the final Virtual Safety car to grant Hirakawa track position. For ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5wNDuhK via IFTTT

British Touring Car Championship Hyundai team Excelr8 Motorsport has switched engine suppliers on the Hyundai i30 N Fastback of Tom Chilton for the rest of the season. Excelr8 has used bespoke Hyundai engines built by Swindon Powertrain since the 2022 season, when Tom Ingram took the first of his two titles with the team. But now the decision has been made to equip the machine of Chilton ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/n1ORzdk via IFTTT

A problem with the internal combustion engine cost Max Verstappen a good starting position for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The four-time world champion readily acknowledged that he probably could not have matched George Russell’s pole time, but given the large gap behind him, a place on the front row would have been a logical outcome. However, due to a problem with Red Bull’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/PZwfIm3 via IFTTT

The World Endurance Championship has cancelled qualifying for the Fuji 6 Hours after torrential rain hit the track on Saturday afternoon. While the final practice session of the weekend took place in wet conditions without any drama, a fresh bout of rain just before qualifying severely limited the visibility on the circuit. The opening session for LMGT3 started as planned at 3pm local time ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/fQogIR8 via IFTTT

Following its late-race drama at the Austin, Toyota has reworked parts of the hydraulic system and the software code for its Le Mans-winning TR010 Hybrid ahead of the World Endurance Championship's Fuji 6 Hours. The #7 Toyota of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, and Nyck de Vries was leading the Lone Star Le Mans when a hydraulic failure forced de Vries back into the pits, retiring the car just 10 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3APUELR via IFTTT

Red Bull's Max Verstappen has surprisingly topped third and final practice for Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, pipping Mercedes driver George Russell and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton on Baku's tricky street circuit. Verstappen took command at the very end of the one-hour session as teams switched to qualifying runs, defying Mercedes' favourite status in Baku by catching a big slipstream to go ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Iorq4lD via IFTTT

Lewis Hamilton was reprimanded for impeding Liam Lawson during Thursday's second practice in FP2 but this wasn't the end of the matter. Even before a single car had turned a wheel on the Baku City Circuit, concerns had been raised about how cars running slowly to harvest or conserve electrical energy through the final corners could represent a hazard to those on a push lap.  In previous ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xkMBnOb via IFTTT

Red Bull has announced its Baku updates will be its final major Formula 1 car upgrade package as it shifts focus to 2027. The Azerbaijan Grand Prix had already been circled in red for a long time as a venue for key upgrades to arrive, with Williams delivering a 'B-spec' car, while McLaren has arrived with significantly revised sidepods, among other changes. The FIA’s technical document ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/AOg97kQ via IFTTT

Mercedes driver George Russell led Max Verstappen in first free practice at Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix as Kimi Antonelli hit trouble. Russell's 1m45.387s lap, set with 20 minutes to go in the one-hour session, was comfortably enough to hold off the competition as his Mercedes team-mate disappeared from the session early, with Verstappen and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc rounding out the top ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/O78ZBJL via IFTTT

Williams is bringing a major update package to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, one that team boss James Vowles promised earlier in the season would result in an "almost completely new" car. What remains to be seen, at this late stage, is how useful it will be – both in terms of immediate performance uplift and the direction of 2027 development. Alex Albon has described it as a "big step" but ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/B4W6xsp via IFTTT

1. Formula E - Video Editor - London Formula E has a vacancy for a Video Editor. You will be completing assembly and high-retention editing of weekly YouTube videos, while reformatting and cropping primary assets into high-performing short-form content for TikTok, Reels and Shorts as well supporting live race weekend coverage with fast-turnaround content directly from the broadcast ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/TJLHD83 via IFTTT

The World Rally Championship will test a Formula 1-style helmet camera at next week’s Rally Sardinia season finale as it looks to upgrade its television broadcast output. Helmet cameras have become popular in circuit racing with Formula E, Supercars and F1 utilising the technology to elevate the coverage it delivers to fans.  The WRC had previously evaluated the technology in 2024 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ze8kYtg via IFTTT

Red Bull has confirmed it will field an unchanged Formula 1 driver line-up in 2027, with Isack Hadjar staying put alongside Max Verstappen. Hadjar stepped up in 2026 after a rookie season at sister team Racing Bulls, and has impressed with his speed in what has historically been a difficult second Red Bull seat. The Frenchman, who is making his return in Azerbaijan this weekend after ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/SxBQnjd via IFTTT

Every time Ferrari and Charles Leclerc agree to extend their relationship in Formula 1, the news comes against a background of allusions to other suitors Charles has spurned to remain with his true love. "For that, I'm also lucky to be in the position where I've got my manager," he said on a recent episode of F1's Beyond the Grid podcast when asked how seriously he had considered a life away ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/rMdzF5N via IFTTT

Isack Hadjar will return to Red Bull for this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku after recovering from a wrist injury, as Liam Lawson moves back to the Racing Bulls Formula 1 team. Hadjar had injured his wrist in training over the summer break and, following medical advice, was told to avoid driving to manage his recovery. Lawson therefore deputised for the Frenchman at Red Bull ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/B9muvdk via IFTTT

Honda MotoGP rider Joan Mir remains sidelined and will not take part in the Japanese or the Indonesian grands prix, the Tokyo-based team announced on Tuesday. The 2020 world champion retired on the fifth lap of the San Marino GP, held last 13 September, and he travelled to Barcelona that same Sunday, where he underwent medical tests the following day to assess his physical condition after not ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/8r1HJc7 via IFTTT

Charles Leclerc has explained why he refrained from trying to copy Lewis Hamilton’s driving style when extracting the most out of Ferrari’s 2026 Formula 1 car was tricky. As F1 switched to new regulations for this season, Leclerc sometimes struggled with the Scuderia’s SF-26. After the Monegasque noticeably outperformed team-mate Hamilton last year, their head-to-head has been a lot more ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9K6zpuc via IFTTT

Lukas Halusa and Andre Lotterer’s one-second victory in the Royal Automobile Club TT Celebration brought the 28th Goodwood Revival to a spectacular conclusion on a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon. The Halusa family’s ex-Peter Lumsden/Peter Sargent Jaguar E-type lightweight low-drag coupe 49 FXN – the Sami Klat-designed Playfords-bodied car, the most beautiful of all iterations on an ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/RfwialF via IFTTT

Until this weekend, KTM's last MotoGP victory had come courtesy of Miguel Oliveira, in the 2022 Thai Grand Prix - a race heavily affected by rain. That same Sunday at Buriram, Pedro Acosta finished 16th in the Moto2 race. It was his first season in the intermediate class, before being crowned champion the following year (2023) and making his MotoGP debut in 2024.  A lot has happened ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jJb8PG6 via IFTTT

During several weekends this season, Verstappen has complained that the Red Bull Formula 1 car gets worse over the course of a session or race. It usually happens at the rear axle, including during qualifying at Monza, where Verstappen called the RB22 "a car made of paper". Notably, the four-time world champion added that he has been complaining about this internally for years. According ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ftmDquI via IFTTT

There has never been much doubt about Pedro Acosta’s quality or talent, but since making his MotoGP debut three years ago, he had been waiting for KTM to give him a bike to challenge for a grand prix win. That wait finally ended at the Red Bull Ring, KTM’s home circuit, where Acosta was first across the finish line on Sunday.  The Spaniard made his MotoGP debut in 2024 with KTM’s ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3tKNoSp via IFTTT

Pedro Acosta claimed his maiden MotoGP victory with a dominant performance at the Austrian Grand Prix, while Jorge Martin extended his points lead over Marc Marquez with second. Lining up fourth on the grid, Acosta dropped to fifth at the start but quickly recovered lost ground, picking his rivals with ease aboard the factory KTM. Passing polesitter Martin on lap nine of 28, the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/hmYDEPL via IFTTT

The Daytona 24 Hours is easily one of the highlights of the sportscar racing calendar, and its twice-round-the-clock format is a huge part of the charm. Modelled after the Le Mans 24 Hours, it was originally conceived as a three-hour race, before switching to the same format as the French endurance classic in 1966. Since then, every single Daytona endurance event was scheduled for 24 hours ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/t832Dmk via IFTTT

There are still eight races remaining in the 2026 season, with uncertainty surrounding the Qatar round, but much of the MotoGP grid is already looking ahead to next year. That is hardly surprising, not only because several riders will change teams and take their careers in new directions, but also because 2027 will bring one of the biggest technical revolutions in MotoGP history. It is ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jO85zuw via IFTTT

Pedro Acosta has taken full responsibility for the crash that robbed him of certain victory in the Austrian MotoGP sprint race on Saturday. The KTM rider had a comfortable lead when he flew into the Turn 2/2A chicane impossibly fast with three laps remaining in the race, leading to the spill. Read Also: MotoGPMotoGP Austrian GP: Martin claims sprint win after Acosta crashes ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Fr96Nt1 via IFTTT

Jorge Martin claimed an unlikely victory in the Austrian Grand Prix sprint after Pedro Acosta crashed out of the lead with three laps to run. Acosta appeared on course to win in front of KTM’s home crowd on Saturday, having capitalised on an early battle between Martin and Marc Marquez to seize the lead on the opening lap. The 22-year-old was leading by almost three seconds when he dumped ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/TVbZoP9 via IFTTT

While all eyes were on Pedro Acosta's campaign to win his first grand prix on KTM's home ground in Austria, it was Aprilia's Jorge Martin who claimed pole position for the race in a tight qualifying session on Saturday. Acosta will start third behind the joint championship leaders, with Marc Marquez squeezing ahead of him on the factory Ducati. But there was almost nothing to choose between the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5DmfMco via IFTTT

Mercedes has confirmed its next big Formula 1 car upgrade will arrive at the forthcoming grand prix in Malaysia, where it hopes to get back into contention for pole. The Silver Arrows is the runaway leader of the 2026 championship with a 145-point advantage over second-placed Ferrari, despite its last major upgrade package being Montreal in May. Mercedes has instead preferred to fit minor ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/oE0JUyL via IFTTT

The FIA says it already has an agreement with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest covering the promotion of the World Endurance Championship until the end of 2027, following a report about an alleged dispute between the two organisations. Renowned German outlet Auto Motor und Sport dropped a bombshell on Thursday when it reported that the FIA and the ACO, the joint organisers of the WEC, could ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cIaPyB3 via IFTTT

For better or for worse, there seems to be no slowing down Kimi Antonelli. Just ask Pete Bonnington, who channelled his inner schoolteacher in Madrid as he relentlessly had to remind the 20-year-old Italian to pay attention to track limits. Having benefited from an earlier virtual safety car on a circuit where overtaking proved impossible, all Antonelli had to do was to keep it clean until ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/AXmSFaz via IFTTT

The World Rally Championship will be broadcast live on the BBC as part of a new three-year UK broadcast rights deal, beginning from 2027.   It will see the BBC broadcast select live stages, including the Power Stage from all WRC rounds alongside 60-minute highlight programmes from each rally. The agreement from 2027-29 will also include extensive live coverage from Rally Scotland, which is ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/VQIKNs4 via IFTTT

Alpine has appointed Mike Elliott as chief technical officer of its Formula 1 team, further bolstering the Enstone-based team's technical structure. Alpine announced on Thursday that Elliott will "oversee the technical and engineering functions at the team's factory at Enstone" in what is a newly created position as CTO. For the 52-year-old Briton, it presents a return to Enstone after ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/rZE8yuY via IFTTT

It seems almost unfathomable for a title contender's team-mate to end up 17th in the Formula 1 drivers’ standings, yet that’s what happened to Yuki Tsunoda alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in 2025.  In a way, it was unprecedented – the closest modern example perhaps was Felipe Massa lying a lowly 16th eight rounds into the 2012 season while Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Nn7Km3j via IFTTT

Kimi Antonelli’s rise to become Formula 1 world championship favourite and a celebration marking 60 years of Can-Am feature in the October issue of Autosport, out today (17 September). It’s not just his substantial points lead that makes Antonelli the likely 2026 world champion. His consistent level of performance, with a reducing list of apparent weaknesses as each week passes, makes him ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/WiLQpvm via IFTTT

Toto Wolff is confident that George Russell can overcome a bruising 2026 Formula 1 campaign and still become world champion in the future. The Mercedes driver is second and 81 points behind his dominant team-mate Kimi Antonelli with just nine rounds remaining, meaning a maiden crown for the 20-year-old is a matter of time. It comes despite Russell entering 2026 as the heavy title favourite ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/w1OhSkx via IFTTT

Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu says the team is making "positive" progress with his team's search for new sponsorship, as the American Formula 1 team seeks to start pushing its yearly budget towards the cap. F1's smallest team, Haas employs just north of 400 people and has been operating well below the budget cap in both of its iterations. Although the team currently has a title sponsorship ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Npa43OJ via IFTTT

F1 has unveiled its 24-race calendar for the 2027 season, increasing the number of sprint weekends to 10, as it kicks off the season in Bahrain and finishes in Abu Dhabi. The 2027 season is slated to get underway on 14 March with the Bahrain Grand Prix, which returns to its usual opener slot as a double-header with Saudi Arabia, while Melbourne's Australian Grand Prix becomes the third event on ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9YrWNAG via IFTTT

Strange things can happen in Formula 1. Just ask Max Verstappen, who couldn't believe his luck when McLaren handed him a way into the 2025 title fight on a silver platter. Although he eventually missed out by two points to Lando Norris, he was essentially battling with one hand behind his back in an inferior car. But this year's fight has a distinctly different feel to it. Dominant ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/I8a0H3Q via IFTTT

Tech3 announced on Tuesday that Pol Espargaro will replace the injured Maverick Vinales, who has not competed in a MotoGP race since 12 July, when he retired in the closing stages of the German Grand Prix. "Pol Espargarp will continue racing with Tech3 at this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix, replacing Maverick Vinales at the Red Bull Ring circuit," Tech3 announced. "As KTM's official test ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3U8MVFG via IFTTT

Formula 3 runner-up and Audi Formula 1 junior Freddie Slater will step up to Formula 2 with Invicta Racing in 2027. The 2024 Italian F4 and 2025 Formula Regional European champion was signed by Audi to spearhead its new Driver Development Programme in 2026, while he moved to F3 with Trident. Four consecutive feature-race podiums meant Slater snatched the lead of the championship away from ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/FcmlbNz via IFTTT

British sportscar icons of the 1960s - Austin-Healey 3000s, MGBs and Lotus Elans - coloured last weekend’s 15th Castle Combe Autumn Classic. As a warm, dry Saturday gave way to a dreich Sunday, fine driving and close finishes thrilled onlookers. The paddock vibe and relaxed ambience underlined why it has long been competitors’ favourite event. The return of big Healeys provided a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3jgLu2P via IFTTT

September in Ireland has become synonymous with the awarding of the highly desirable Leinster Trophy, this year again being granted to Formula Vee. The highly popular series didn’t disappoint at Mondello Park last weekend and turned out in strong numbers for this historic occasion. Formula Ford frontrunner Jordan Kelly made a welcome return to the championship, focused on adding his name to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6OqDPYx via IFTTT

Organisers of Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid are ready to make tweaks to the Madring circuit to boost overtaking for 2027, and have already received recommendations from the FIA. The 5.4km circuit around Madrid's IFEMA fairgrounds, which made its competition debut last weekend, was praised by drivers and teams for its facilities and its driving challenge. But while the tricky ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/AkvgtBd via IFTTT

Aston Martin's engine partner Honda has replaced the project leader of its Formula 1 power unit programme as it aims to claw its way back into contention. On Monday the Japanese manufacturer announced engine development leader Tetsushi Kakuda is set to be replaced by his current assistant Yoichiro Fukao, effective on 1 October. Honda Racing Corporation said the move was part of a "planned ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/A20k43b via IFTTT

The circuit in Madrid has offered Formula 1 drivers a surprisingly high level of grip during their first visit, something that is certainly not a given at a new circuit. The grip level has taken some teams in the paddock by surprise, although the very high tyre degradation so far has done the same. "It was tricky at the start of the weekend because this track has so much grip, even though it's ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/edM0JGw via IFTTT

Ugo Ugochukwu became the 2026 Formula 3 champion on Sunday, despite coming into the Madring weekend as a dark horse. Campos Racing’s Ugochukwu and Trident’s Freddie Slater emerged as the two title contenders over the summer, courtesy of their consistency in feature races. In the first seven rounds of the season – until the summer break – Slater finished six feature races on the podium ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/98mZdXH via IFTTT

Toyota and Walkinshaw TWG Racing have taken an impressive 1-3 result in the first of Supercars’ endurance races at The Bend in South Australia. Chaz Mostert led home Ryan Wood in the black GR Supras, answering a number of questions about the reliability of the cars’ engine packages in the 500km race, run for the first time on the shorter, 3.4km West circuit. The pair looked to be on the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bAYtRxT via IFTTT

Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli will head into qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix’s challenging Madring circuit with the fastest time - following a final practice session marred by two crashes. The Mercedes driver fended off advances by Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to reclaim top spot after a lengthy stoppage during the middle of the practice session in Madrid. FP3 was halted ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/1BKjeHJ via IFTTT

Marco Bezzecchi smashed the Misano circuit record to claim his second consecutive pole position of the 2026 MotoGP season at the San Marino Grand Prix. The factory Aprilia rider posted an incredible time of 1m29.982s on his first run in qualifying, beating reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez to the top spot by almost two tenths of a second. Gresini’s Fermin Aldeguer came from Q1 to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/cQt6k52 via IFTTT

Every Thursday, the media day in the paddock begins with a roundtable session with Mike Krack and Honda's chief engineer Shintaro Orihara. Besides the usual questions about power unit driveability and potential upgrades, one topic returns every race weekend: when can we expect an announcement about Fernando Alonso’s future? Krack already said in Monza that the team is in no rush, and Alonso ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/TltmpP1 via IFTTT

The 2026 season will be the last in MotoGP for an entire generation of top-level riders, all of whom have enjoyed long careers and grand prix victories. The group comprises of five talents in Maverick Vinales, Alex Rins, Jack Miller, Brad Binder and Franco Morbidelli, all born in 1995 except for the Italian, who was born in December 1994. Between them, they have 25 premier class grand prix ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/t0JFynZ via IFTTT

Ginetta GT title contender William Antrobus and historics ace Connor Kay have moved onto the tail of Autosport National Rankings table-topper Callum Grant after last weekend’s action. Antrobus and Kay have each moved onto 14 victories for the 2026 season to sit just behind the 15 of Grant, who therefore sits atop the Rankings for a second successive week. The field isn’t big in the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/WYCrkVc via IFTTT

Alex Rins will switch to four-wheel racing in 2027 after losing his seat at Yamaha’s factory MotoGP team. The six-time grand prix winner announced his decision to step down from motorcycle racing on the eve of this weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix, a little over two months after Yamaha confirmed that he will be dropped from its MotoGP programme at the end of MotoGP’s 1000cc ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/4egaDM0 via IFTTT

1. Aston Martin F1 Team - Engineering Student Placement Opportunities - Silverstone The Aston Martin F1 Team has Engineering Student Placement opportunities available. You will work on live engineering projects that make a direct impact on car performance in one of the following areas; Aerodynamics Design, Aero R&D Design, Composite Design, Garage Equipment Design, Mechanical Design, AMPT ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/9TguwHQ via IFTTT

10 September 2006 was one of the more consequential days in Formula 1 history, as title contender and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher announced his retirement. The Ferrari hero did so moments after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Pole position had eluded the Ferrari hero by just 0.002s in front of the tifosi, with McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen edging ahead, but Schumacher was heavier ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/n8f6Jow via IFTTT

When stars die young, they inevitably become trapped in the popular consciousness in a state of eternal youth, embodying romanticised notions of heroic nobility and sacrifice. For motor racing fans, Gilles Villeneuve’s spectacular and aggressive style came to represent the epitome of what a racing driver should be. His death at the age of 32, during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/PiG1Nqz via IFTTT

As had been expected for a long time, VR46 announced on Wednesday the arrival of WorldSBK championship leader Nicolo Bulega alongside Fermin Aldeguer for the 2027 MotoGP season. Bulega will replace Franco Morbidelli, who is expected to make the opposite move and join Ducati in WorldSBK. VR46 announced a one-year deal; Bulega will be contracted with Ducati and provided with a factory bike ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Tuyoi5Y via IFTTT

Madrid's 10-year tenure of the Spanish Grand Prix, taking over the moniker from the now biennial Barcelona race, is Formula 1's latest effort to bring its series to urban population centres. It does so for 57 laps on a two-headed monster of a circuit that will take drivers and teams some time to wrap their collective engineering minds around. Initial concept renderings of the so-called ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/ZD4nhlt via IFTTT

If there is one thing those who regularly work with Marc Marquez agree on, it is that none of his moves are made at random. That applies to every aspect of his life, but particularly to his public image, which is managed by his own company, Vertical. With that in mind, it is easy to conclude that the image the Spaniard posted on his Instagram account last week – showing him shirtless, with his ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Hy1KVEF via IFTTT

Dries Van Langendonck extended his British Formula 4 championship lead as he returned to action at Croft last weekend with two straightforward wins.  The Belgian looked like his enforced break from the campaign, having accumulated 12 penalty points on his licence, fired him up as he bagged a double pole to get the weekend under way. His first race start was perfect and the Rodin driver ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/RZDOegh via IFTTT

Talent finding initiatives such as FIA Rally Star could be set for a revival as part of the FIA’s plan to inject funding back into the World Rally Championship and grassroots rallying. Last year, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem promised that funds generated by the sale of the WRC’s commercial rights will be directly invested back into rallying. That plan is set to come into force now ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/1NsCjoU via IFTTT

Robert Shwartzman will return to the World Endurance Championship Hypercar ranks with Peugeot next season. The 26-year-old is moving back to sportscars with the French marque to drive one its revised 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars. It comes after the withdrawal from the IndyCar Series of the Prema Racing team with which he claimed pole position for the 2025 Indianapolis 500. Shwartzman previously ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/jlO3qQG via IFTTT

A frantic penultimate round at Donington Park has completely turned the 2026 British GT title picture on its head as Rob Collard and Hugo Cook emerged victorious. The Barwell Lamborghini pair obliterated the field from lap one to cross the line 15.595s ahead of Kevin Tse and series debutant Chris Lulham, with their 2 Seas Mercedes team-mates Charles Dawson and Aaron Walker completing the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/b8KfJC9 via IFTTT

For the first time A2RL, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, held a competitive race away from its Yas Marina home. Italy’s infamous Imola was the stage, A2RL’s five Pro teams were the players. With blind crests, lumps, bumps, and obstacles they’d never encountered before, the autonomous pilots tackled the new challenge with aplomb. How did it play out in a new territory? Locals ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/gb0Uuic via IFTTT

Josh Cook took victory in the first British Touring Car Championship race at Croft after surviving a last-corner attack from Ash Sutton, despite not crossing the finish line in front. Tom Ingram was first past the chequered flag but, in the wake of a crackdown on track-limits offences, he had been given a five-second penalty, which relegated him to third in the results. The race began on a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/1uTk5J7 via IFTTT

There are magical days, but there are also special places. Monza is one of them for Pierre Gasly. Six years after his triumph with AlphaTauri, in what was one of the most unpredictable Formula 1 races ever, the Frenchman took the first pole position of his career in the most unexpected way possible. Even Alpine itself had not predicted that it could get involved in the fight for the very top ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/K86npTH via IFTTT

Revenge is a dish best served on a hot Monza afternoon. A day after being “robbed” (his words, to Canal+) of his Monaco Formula 1 podium, Pierre Gasly claimed his first career pole at the track where he registered his sensational maiden victory in 2020. It wasn’t just a case of beating George Russell by 0.060s on a day when Mercedes only had one car in the mix for pole, owing to Kimi ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/AmVL4Xr via IFTTT

Going into the Italian Grand Prix, of all the storylines and narratives being composed, absolutely none of them involved Pierre Gasly and Alpine. That’s not dismissive of the French driver or the Enstone team, but Ferrari competing on home soil with a decent chance of victory and an Italian in Kimi Antonelli leading the championship was always going to take every column inch available this ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/j0zuPJm via IFTTT

Mercedes driver George Russell has beaten Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton to top spot in Formula 1's final practice session at the Italian Grand Prix. Russell comfortably held off the seven-time world champion on a toasty Monza circuit, with Max Verstappen and championship leader Kimi Antonelli third and fourth respectively. After a calm opening quarter of the session, the medium-tyre shod ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/u7y0oJb via IFTTT

The CPRL Mercedes team kept up its recent rich vein of form with Dan Rowbottom going quickest in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship round at Croft. The bearded Midlander and sidekick Adam Morgan – who has won five times including qualifying races across the past two race weekends – spent much of the session with hard tyres (mandated for one race this weekend) fitted to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/pj3k5Kt via IFTTT

Project Rally One has commenced testing its all-new 2027 World Rally Championship challenger ahead of its debut next year. Founded by experienced motorsport engineer Lionel Hansen, former FIA rally director and Citroen WRC boss Yves Matton and Prospeed, Project Rally One announced plans to design, build and homologate a WRC27-specification car for the start of the championship’s next ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/t9Zls8q via IFTTT

Charles Leclerc is expecting to give Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton a tow in Italian Grand Prix qualifying, with Kimi Antonelli ready to help Formula 1 title rival George Russell at Mercedes. Slipstreaming has always been paramount at Monza’s ‘Temple of Speed’ when it comes to single-lap performance, and this still is the case in 2026 despite F1’s new machinery’s less drastic ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OBJINFP via IFTTT

Formula 1 grands prix are set to become shorter in 2027 as the series changes the balance between electrical and internal-combustion power. This has been a possibility since changes to the technical formula were discussed by the stakeholders earlier this season, but at that stage it was believed only a few events would be affected. Instead, it has been agreed that the maximum length of all ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/0jdLrH5 via IFTTT

Takamoto Katsuta will be co-driven by James Fulton at next week’s Rally Chile as regular navigator Aaron Johnston continues to recover from a fractured collarbone sustained in a heavy crash in Paraguay. Toyota confirmed on Friday that Johnston will miss the gravel rally after the Irishman was found to have injured his collarbone in a violent crash alongside Katsuta, which forced officials to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Orm2v7W via IFTTT

After competing in the British and Aragon grands prix, Pol Espargaro will contest next week's San Marino Grand Prix with Tech3 KTM, replacing Maverick Vinales. Vinales continues to recover from the injury he suffered last year to his left shoulder, in a qualifying crash at the Sachsenring. Since then, he’s had ups and downs in his recovery. Vinales had to miss several races early in 2026 ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3FeLU5Z via IFTTT

Monza's high-speed 5.5km layout has always been seen as the ultimate test of speed and horsepower in Formula 1, with a throwback layout that hasn't undergone too many dramatic changes over the last 50 years. In 2026, though? It's complicated. Long straights and high-speed circuits have had a difficult relationship with F1's energy-starved power unit regulations. On the back of tricky weekends ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/gnRerjF via IFTTT

Historic single-seater ace Callum Grant has shot to the top of the Autosport National Rankings following his stellar weekend at the Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting. Grant took no fewer than five race wins across the prestigious event at the Cheshire parkland circuit, to move onto 15 victories for the season. He scored a double in the Formula Junior races aboard a Merlyn Mk5/7, took a Merlyn ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6hQygbq via IFTTT

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is optimistic that Argentina could return to the World Rally Championship calendar in the near future. The South American nation has a rich history in the WRC, featuring regularly on the calendar from 1980 to 2019 with only 1995 and 2010 being its only absentees from the series. COVID-19 ultimately dropped it off the calendar and when the WRC returned to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/S0XQTDR via IFTTT

Formula 1's governing body the FIA has declared a heat hazard for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix, forcing drivers to either wear cooling vests or attach ballast to their cars. Temperatures across Italy have soared once again in recent days, with a sixth heatwave of the summer affecting the country over the next week. The region around Milan and Monza is bracing for temperatures north of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/5O0q38S via IFTTT

Isack Hadjar will sit out this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza as he recovers from a wrist injury he sustained during Formula 1's summer break. As a result, Liam Lawson will once again replace him at Red Bull and Yuki Tsunoda slots back into the Racing Bulls car. Hadjar sustained a wrist fracturing during a boxing session during the summer break, forcing him to watch the Dutch Grand ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ye1mu4T via IFTTT

MotoGP has announced the dates for the 2027 pre-season tests as the championship gears up for the switch to new technical regulations. As has been the case in recent years, MotoGP will host three official tests through January and February, with Sepang and Buriram again chosen as the host venues. However, despite sweeping changes planned to engine, chassis and electronics, as well as the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MYbyCvF via IFTTT

The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, A2RL, is entering its third year. Two seasons of testing and racing in both virtual and real worlds have seen huge leaps in autonomous race tech, and it’s time to see how circuits outside of the Middle East will adapt to autonomous racing. Now familiar with Yas Marina, the five A2RL Pro Teams, the best of the autonomous best, will face a new challenge at ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/XIoyhcz via IFTTT

Jorge Martin’s lacklustre performance at the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix was track-specific rather than indicative of a wider problem with his Aprilia. The 2024 MotoGP champion never appeared to be a frontrunner at MotorLand, qualifying half a second off pole and finishing well behind the podium runners in fifth. This was a marked downturn from his outing at Silverstone just three weeks ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/MVn763d via IFTTT

A huge 64-car Roadsports entry topped Snetterton’s Bank Holiday 750 Motor Club event as the large field necessitated the fifth round of the championship to be split into two 45-minute races. A race-long battle between the Volkswagen Golfs of Jonathan Packer and Chris Freeman entertained in the Class B bout. They traded positions multiple times until Freeman’s car cut out with two laps to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/TvjJS8k via IFTTT

Mario Andretti and Jacky Ickx were remarkably versatile even by the standards of their generation, competing and succeeding across multiple disciplines. Having won some of the biggest prizes in motorsport between them, both can look back on their journeys with immense pride.  But competition was only one part of the story, and the relationship Andretti and Ickx built stands out from the rest ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CrubiBd via IFTTT