Pedro Acosta weighs in on Martin/Aprilia saga, KTM prospects and Vinales regrets
Pedro Acosta has refused to take sides in the ongoing conflict between Aprilia and Jorge Martin, with the reigning MotoGP world champion intending to leave his new team at the end of the season.Acosta and Martin have the same agent, the now well-known Albert Valera. Still, the KTM rider isContinue Reading
Tsunoda on older Red Bull car spec in Monaco after Imola F1 crash
Yuki Tsunoda has admitted his huge Imola qualifying crash will have lingering effects, as he has to revert to a previous floor design at this weekend’s Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.Tsunoda suffered an enormous accident last Saturday in Q1 as he overstepped the limit of the Red Bull in the fastContinue Reading
Lundgaard confident of launching 2025 IndyCar title challenge
The start of the 2025 IndyCar Series season has been a very promising one for new Arrow McLaren star Christian Lundgaard.Having claimed three podiums in the opening five rounds, he is third in the championship and sits just one point behind Kyle Kirkwood while Alex Palou is the runaway leader. SuchContinue Reading
Supercars announces second New Zealand round for 2026 season
Supercars has announced that it will have two events in New Zealand from next year.Ruapuna Raceway, 15km west of Christchurch, will host the first-ever Supercars event on New Zealand’s South Island — part of a groundbreaking NZ double-header. The length of the deal means that there will be three yearsContinue Reading
F1 Monaco GP 1982 retrospective: Remembering F1’s craziest finish
“A real strange one,” is how Autosport’s Nigel Roebuck opened his report for the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix, offering a fitting precis for a chaotic race with a chaotic finish.It is widely remembered as being the race that nobody wanted to win. Monaco, the jewel in the crown, the oneContinue Reading
Chang: Liberty has taken F1 “well beyond” a core sports product
Liberty Media chief executive Derek Chang believes Formula 1 has shifted from being a series to becoming a “cultural phenomenon” in the past decade.Chang was appointed as successor to Greg Maffei at the start of January, eight years on from when Liberty completed its acquisition of F1 and set aboutContinue Reading
Verstappen admits Monaco F1 “track isn’t for our car” due to low-speed weakness
The Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix showed Red Bull is making progress with its 2025 Formula 1 car, but Max Verstappen doesn’t believe the team’s form will carry over to this weekend’s race in Monaco.Verstappen was pipped to pole last weekend in Italy, but passed polesitter Oscar Piastri at the start before comfortablyContinue Reading
Australian Supercars veteran Jack Perkins to make NASCAR debut at Portland
Jack Perkins, 38, has over 150 starts in Australian Supercars, winning the 2015 Gold Coast 600 Race #2 as a co-driver to James Courtney. He is a veteran of 19 Bathurst 1000s, earning a podium result there in 2019. His father, Larry Perkins, is a six-time winner of the iconicContinue Reading
Kanaan: “Respect the race track” key to McLaren’s Indy 500 redemption
Arrow McLaren team principal Tony Kanaan said his team is “not doing anything different” in its approach to this year’s 109th running of the Indianapolis 500, despite its driver Pato O’Ward losing out to Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden in the closing stages of the 2024 race.Kanaan, who won the IndyContinue Reading
Leclerc: Ferrari F1 car must ‘surprise us’ to repeat Monaco GP fairytale win
Charles Leclerc says Ferrari’s specific low-speed weakness is going to make it extremely difficult to repeat 2024’s home win at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.Last year Leclerc finally found redemption around his home streets, taking his first win from pole following several years of heartbreak and near-misses at the Principality.Continue Reading