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
Penske: “We let people down” over rules violations at Indy 500
Team Penske is in the spotlight again for rules violations, this time for modifying the rear attenuators of the #12 and #2 cars ahead of Sunday’s Fast 12 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.As a result, both cars were penalised and sent to the back of the field for Sunday’s IndyContinue Reading
How will F1 Monaco GP’s two-stop race play out?
A contrivance? On the face of it, enforcing a two-stop minimum for the Monaco Grand Prix seems like one – although at the same time, a plot-generating device one might think nothing of, had Formula 1 ratified the idea 50 years ago.The effect of ensuring every driver takes at leastContinue Reading
Does MotoGP need an F1-style contract board, amid Martin/Aprilia saga?
Leading MotoGP riders including Marc Marquez have said there is no need for the kind of contract arbitration authority seen in Formula 1.The topic has surfaced in the light of Jorge Martin’s attempts to get out of his current Aprilia contract early – a deal the Italian factory claimed onContinue Reading