Kalle Rovanpera says victory at the Central European Rally has made him even hungrier to leave the World Rally Championship at the end of the season with a third world title.Rovanpera headed into the 18-stage asphalt rally knowing a strong result was required to keep his title hopes alive afterContinue Reading
Organisers of Austin’s United States Grand Prix have agreed an eight-year contract extension with Formula 1 to host the race until the 2034 season.The Circuit of the Americas revived the US Grand Prix in 2012 after a four-year hiatus and the challenging 5.5km road course proved an instant hit withContinue Reading
If you can’t remember what happened in Formula 1’s 2024 United States Grand Prix, that’s no surprise.Last year’s race at the Circuit of the Americas was dominated by Charles Leclerc, who snatched the lead at the start and was subsequently never at threat.One reason for the rather uneventful 2024 contestContinue Reading
Trackhouse MotoGP boss Davide Brivio joked that it was “feeling pressure” from the American squad’s success in NASCAR after achieving a debut win at the Australian Grand Prix.Raul Fernandez led the majority of the race at Phillip Island from fourth on the grid, taking Trackhouse’s satellite Aprilia RS-GP to victory laneContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari has improved its processes in Formula 1, following a satisfying qualifying performance at the United States Grand Prix.Hamilton qualified in the top five for the eighth time out of 19 grands prix so far this year, with his deficit to second-placed Lando Norris and team-mate CharlesContinue Reading
McLaren F1 team principal Andrea Stella says his squad is “a long way” from backing championship leader Oscar Piastri over Lando Norris.The 2025 title fight long looked like a two-horse race between the McLaren team-mates, but Red Bull’s resurgence has provided Max Verstappen with an outside chance of taking aContinue Reading
Trackhouse first appeared as a race team in 2021 when they entered the NASCAR Cup Series as an unremarkable single-car team. However, when they bought Chip Ganassi Racing in its entirety, they shocked the NASCAR world and got everyone to pay attention to them, and not for the last time.Since then,Continue Reading
Kalle Rovanpera boosted his hopes of a third World Rally Championship title after taking a dominant victory at the Central European Rally, helping Toyota seal a ninth constructors’ crown. A matter of days after announcing plans to leave the WRC at the end of the year for a bold career move toContinue Reading
McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella says “a couple of features” explain Oscar Piastri’s atypically uncompetitive pace this weekend at the United States Grand Prix.Piastri was three tenths down on team-mate Lando Norris in free practice and both qualifying sessions, marking some of his worst drives of the seasonContinue Reading
Saturday in Austin turned out to be an even better day than expected for Max Verstappen’s championship hopes. The Dutchman saw both McLarens drop out of the sprint, scored eight points himself, and later that day secured pole-position for the grand prix. Despite that, Verstappen and Red Bull were not entirelyContinue Reading