Ben Hunt and Alex Kalinauckas report from Silverstone as reigning Constructors Champions McLaren took to the track, the first team to do so to kick off the 2025 F1 Season. The pair discuss why team principal Andrea Stella is confident McLaren can retain their place at the top of sportContinue Reading
It was a rare thing these days. A team hosting an in-person car launch, rather than pressing ‘send’ on an email containing some made-up quotes from its drivers and rendered images of its F1 car.It was even rarer that it was the reigning world champion squad that would be firstContinue Reading
Ahead of his second Formula 1 season with McLaren last year, Oscar Piastri could feel an awkward “weaknesses” he wanted to address. Now, as his team launches its 2025 challenger, he’s crystal clear he has what it takes to become world champion.After all, the 2024 campaign that ended with McLarenContinue Reading
MotoGP has revealed that it will host no more than two races in Spain and Portugal from 2027 after signing a new contract with Barcelona.On Wednesday, MotoGP announced that it had agreed terms with Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to keep the Catalan GP on the calendar until 2031. It’s a five-year dealContinue Reading
Former Formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan has acquired a rugby team with links to his native Ireland, heading a consortium to buy it out of administration.Sunbury-based London Irish had just achieved its highest Premiership Rugby finishing position in 14 years – fifth – when it collapsed with £30m debtsContinue Reading
Formula 1’s 2025 launch season kicked off in cryptic fashion with the constructors’ championship winners, no less.McLaren opened the yearly cloak-and-dagger proceedings with a quintet of images of its MCL39 from a distance while undergoing its Silverstone shakedown, dressed in a papaya and black dazzle camo livery that makes itsContinue Reading
The teenage son of 13-time Formula 1 race winner David Coulthard will make his car racing debut in GB4 this year with Douglas Motorsport.Dayton Coulthard, 16, first began karting in 2019 and has contested several different categories, including winning the WM plate at Whilton Mill last year.He has already begunContinue Reading
A one-time British Touring Car Championship pole sitting Mazda Xedos 6 will make its first UK racing appearance for more than 30 years at Brands Hatch this summer.The ex-Patrick Watts car from 1993 is among several machines being shipped from New Zealand for the third edition of Super Touring PowerContinue Reading
The future of the reigning British Touring Car Championship Independents’ title holder Power Maxed Racing has been jeopardised by the withdrawal of its main backer.Pendragon Management Services, whose CarStore and Evans Halshaw divisions featured as title sponsor of the Midlands squad’s Vauxhall Astras in 2022-23 and 2024 respectively, has endedContinue Reading
McLaren has revealed its MCL39 Formula 1 car at a Silverstone season launch event – becoming the first team to show off a 2025 design, albeit with temporary restrictions on its livery.As all 10 teams are committed to only fully revealing their 2025 liveries at the F1 75 Live eventContinue Reading