Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award winner Deagen Fairclough drove a Formula 1 car for the first time last week as part of his prize.Fairclough, who won the 2024 British F4 title, beat Arvid Lindblad, Freddie Slater and Louis Foster to the Award, and scooped £200,000, asContinue Reading
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff thinks Red Bull Powertrains has “Mount Everest to climb” as it introduces its 2026 Formula 1 power units – but he won’t underestimate its long-term chances.After current partner Honda initially decided to pull out of F1 and a subsequent deal with Porsche failed to materialise, RedContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton shocked the Formula 1 paddock with his move from Mercedes to Ferrari for the 2025 season. But while the change in teams hasn’t heralded the change in fortunes he may have hoped for, it did mean that Mercedes boss Toto Wolff avoided making a call he “dreaded”. HamiltonContinue Reading
Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has revealed his Formula 1 squad still gets left “amazed” by the capabilities of its world champion driver Max Verstappen after the Dutch Grand Prix.Verstappen has raced for Red Bull since 2016 and during that time, he has clinched the last four world titles andContinue Reading
Team Penske has announced it will end its 17-season partnership with double IndyCar champion Will Power now that the 2025 campaign has finished.Power joined the team in 2009 following his rookie season with KV Racing Technology, and they went on to forge one of North America’s most successful racing partnerships.ItContinue Reading
Pushing boundaries and innovation like never before. In episode two of our Road to 2026 series with PETRONAS Motorsports, we delve deeper into the significant Power Unit changes being introduced. SourceContinue Reading
Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has never been shy in admitting that his DNA pushes him to seek the limit of the bike almost every time he takes to the track.That tendency usually makes him prone to more crashes, and he has ended most seasons in MotoGP among the listContinue Reading
When Formula 1 returned to Zandvoort last weekend, the atmosphere was as electric as ever. But amid the sea of orange, the trackside parties and the on-track drama, a media briefing in the press conference room signaled something new for the championship. At the Dutch Grand Prix, Formula 1 and itsContinue Reading
Two-time MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia made a striking admission last month when he revealed his race time in the Austrian Grand Prix was 12 seconds slower than in 2024. Remarkably, this year’s winner Marc Marquez completed the distance in exactly the same time Bagnaia had managed on his way toContinue Reading
There’s nothing unusual in drivers messing up the pre-race routine and getting punished for that.Lewis Hamilton himself picked up two penalties in Sochi, 2020 for misinterpreting then-race director Michael Masi’s instructions on practice starts, performing them in a place which the stewards deemed inappropriate – and therefore had to serveContinue Reading