McLaren driver Lando Norris edged team-mate Oscar Piastri to lead Friday’s first free practice at Formula 1’s Dutch Grand Prix.Following several heatwaves that scorched Europe’s summer, the second leg of the season got underway in cool conditions in the NetherlandsThere was little time to waste at the start of theContinue Reading
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has promised an investment into the World Rally Championship following the sale of the series’ commercial rights. The world motorsport governing body announced last week that a tender process is now underway to find a new WRC commercial rights holder.Current rights holder WRC Promoter, owned byContinue Reading
20 years ago, Fernando Alonso was engaged in a thrilling championship run-in with Kimi Raikkonen, and a young tyre engineer with a bright future was about to join Alonso’s Renault team.Ayao Komatsu had got his F1 break working for BAR-Honda’s test team in a high-spending era where leading manufacturer-backed organisationsContinue Reading
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have given their blessing for split strategies to continue at the team as they battle for the 2025 Formula 1 title, but both feel Hungary was something of an outlier.Norris was running third during the Hungarian Grand Prix and took the plunge to switchContinue Reading
Performance gains have become harder to find as F1’s second ground-effect aerodynamics era matures, but for some the process has been more challenging for others. Aston Martin has noticeably struggled to unlock more relative pace from its cars ever since making a strong start to the 2023 season. This has notContinue Reading
Suggestions from Toto Wolff that 2026 F1 cars could get near top speeds of 400km/h have caused a stir, but both the real picture and what the Mercedes chief actually meant are more nuanced than that.As is well documented, F1 is facing a radical regulations shake-up in 2026, driven byContinue Reading
The World Rally Championship is set for a voyage into the unknown this weekend as Paraguay makes its series debut offering up stages unlike any other on the calendar.Exactly what will unfold on brand new stages held in conditions unfamiliar to WRC crews is difficult to predict. The prospect ofContinue Reading
George Russell reckons Lewis Hamilton was talking “nonsense” when he claimed Ferrari should “change driver” after disappointing in qualifying for the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix.Hamilton suffered a Q2 elimination last time out in Budapest, before finishing outside of the points the following day, continuing his difficult debut campaign forContinue Reading
Could we be on for an end-of-season slugfest in the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings?Long-time leader Ali Bray has had his advantage trimmed to two victories after George Line scooped a pair of further successes at Donington Park last Saturday as he continues his dominant season in the MonopostoContinue Reading
MotoGP champion Jorge Martin is making inroads on his road to recovery, following his early-season injuries.The Aprilia rider returned to racing at Brno, just before the summer break, then took part in the Austria-Hungary double-header with a high of fourth at Balaton Park – just over three seconds behind team-mateContinue Reading