George Russell puts his comprehensive Formula 1 2024 defeat of former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying down to being “psychologically in a really good place”. 
The 26-year-old ended the 2024 season with a 24-6 qualifying record against Hamilton, with all sessions including those that set the grid for sprint events taken into consideration. 
This compares with their 8-12 ...Keep reading

The first F1-sanctioned TV drama series is in development, and it sounds a lot like another non-sanctioned project in the works at a rival studio. Felicity Jones is attached to star in and executive produce the drama, which has landed at Amazon MGM Studios for Prime Video, Variety reports. Much like Brad Pitt's and Jerry Bruckheimer's creatively-titled upcoming movie "F1", the series in ...Keep reading

The stage was set for Yuven Sundaramoorthy to make a run at battling for the Indy NXT championship in 2025, but that was before his expected financial support faded just a couple of weeks ago.
“At this point, we're just focusing on finding money for '26 and trying to do the same thing,” Sundaramoorthy told Motorsport.com. “I don't see any reason why, if we do find money for '26, that it ...Keep reading

KTM has reiterated that it is committed to competing in MotoGP despite pressure from creditors to withdraw to save cash.
The flagship brand of Pierer Mobility Group underlined that its future in the championship is not under threat after an agency responsible for handling its debts issued comments to the contrary on Friday.
In a report after a first meeting between KTM and its creditors at ...Keep reading

McLaren surpassed even its own pre-season expectations in 2024, taking its first Formula 1 constructors’ championship title for 26 years.
Whilst the team clearly had a couple of major waypoints in its development cycle that improved the general operating envelope of the MCL38, a standout feature of its campaign was how it honed its car to the varying circuit characteristics.
These updates ...Keep reading

The second season of the all-female F1 Academy championship was notable for having closer ties to Formula 1, as cars were decked out in the liveries of grand prix teams, and for the stunning dominance of its champion who curiously was crowned twice.
But across the spectrum of motorsport categories, there were numerous noteworthy performances to be found in 2024.
Here we chart 10 of the ...Keep reading

The 2025 MotoGP season will be upon us within a few weeks. And while cost-saving regulations limit bike development for most of the motorcycle manufacturers, fuel suppliers are relishing the chance to chase even more performance in year two of the renewable fuels era.
2024 was a significant year for the fuel companies involved, which include French giant TotalEnergies. In line with the global ...Keep reading

When former Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto accepted the calling to head up Audi's Formula 1 operations earlier this year, he knew it was going to be a tough task.
It is one thing honing an established team as he did at Maranello into fighting for world championship glory; it is quite another building something up from the back of the grid.
But even he admits that the Audi challenge has ...Keep reading

Hyundai Motorsport has produced a special behind-the-scenes documentary charting Thierry Neuville’s run to a maiden World Rally Championship title.
Titled “Never just win”, the film has been produced in-house by Hyundai Motorsport, led by the team’s videographer Sebastian Scott and has today been released on YouTube. 
The documentary offers rare insights into the 2024 WRC season as ...Keep reading

Trackhouse Racing’s Raul Fernandez has said he doesn’t want to go through a bike change in the middle of the season again in MotoGP.
Fernandez was the only rider within the Aprilia contingent to start the 2024 season with a year-old RS-GP, as the Noale-based brand could only build limited examples of its overhauled MotoGP contender.
It wasn’t until after the summer break at ...Keep reading

Rory Butcher is best known for winning 11 races during an accomplished British Touring Car Championship career that he elected to pause at the end of 2023. But the amiable Scot, also a handy historic racer who pedalled a Lotus Elan 26R to third in September’s Spa 6 Hours, had also proven himself a force in GT racing before entering the BTCC in 2017.
Butcher still regards his 2016 season with ...Keep reading

Hyundai Motorsport’s World Rally Championship programme manager Christian Loriaux has left the team ahead of the 2025 season.
Loriaux has played a critical role within the Korean marque since first joining the operation in 2021 as a technical consultant, before graduating to the role of WRC programme manager.
Shock news of Loriaux’s departure arrives after a 2024 season where Hyundai ...Keep reading

Reigning Formula E champion Pascal Wehrlein will join Porsche customer JDC-Miller for his maiden outing in the Daytona 24 Hours next month.
The factory Porsche driver will share the #85 963 LMDh with Tijmen van der Helm and Bryce Aron in the blue riband round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship on 25-26 January, 2025.
The announcement follows Wehrlein making a surprise appearance with ...Keep reading

‘Silly season’ is a common term in F1 referring to the time of year in which many teams announce their driver line-up for the following season.
It usually takes place during the summer as that’s when the market is at its most frantic, with driver changes causing doubt over the futures of others.
But, silly season started a lot earlier this year due to Lewis Hamilton announcing his move ...Keep reading

Having been signed by Racing Bulls for the 2025 Formula 1 season, Isack Hadjar had very much been in and out of the conversation as speculation surrounding Sergio Perez’s Red Bull future mounted. With Liam Lawson always viewed as the most likely candidate to step up and replace the Mexican after he took Daniel Ricciardo’s RB ride midway through 2024, the opportunity for new blood presented ...Keep reading

The Racing Bulls Formula 1 team has confirmed Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar will partner Yuki Tsunoda in 2025, as the starting grid for the new season is now set.
Hadjar will take up the seat vacated by Liam Lawson, whose own move to the main Red Bull squad as Sergio Perez's replacement was announced on Thursday.
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George Russell has implored FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to “express what his goal is” with motorsport’s governing body, amid the ongoing tension between the Emirati former rally driver and Formula 1 racers. 
The 2024 F1 season finished with the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association still awaiting a formal response to its request for its members to be treated as “adults” in a ...Keep reading

Just like any other sport, tomorrow's champion is always waiting in the wings and in the pinnacle of stock car racing, the final two steps before the big show are the NASCAR Truck and NASCAR Xfinity Series. 
We looked at the most promising drivers under 25 from these two divisions, choosing the ten brightest prospects based on their history of on-track successes, their backing, but also their ...Keep reading

There’s no shortage of traditions when it comes to the Indianapolis 500, but the major part that Will Behrends plays in the race's heritage — crafting the race winner’s likeness on the famed Borg-Warner Trophy — had to forgo its own usual tradition after the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. 
Helene formed in the Caribbean Sea on September of this year, developing into a Category ...Keep reading

The European Union's highest institution will open an "in-depth investigation" to determine whether the purchase of MotoGP by Formula 1 owner Liberty Media violates its antitrust framework.
The European Commission, one of the EU's decision-making bodies with executive power, is determined to closely analyse Liberty's acquisition of Dorna, which holds the rights to the MotoGP World ...Keep reading

Junior Formula driver Sophia Floersch turns Stateside for her next racing endeavor, as she joins HMD Motorsports for the 2025 season in Indy NXT. 
A 24-year-old from Grünwald, Germany, Floersch is making the move to North America as part of a switch to the top developmental category for the IndyCar Series following an extended run in several series — mostly junior formula — throughout ...Keep reading

Rising MotoGP star Pedro Acosta feels "relieved" after visiting the headquarters of beleaguered Austrian manufacturer KTM, according to his manager.
Acosta travelled to Mattighofen in Austria on Tuesday to understand how KTM's dismal financial situation could have consequences for its MotoGP programme, now that he has become an integral part of its factory team.
Latest reports indicate that ...Keep reading

While Formula 1 continues to make good gains in improving its sustainability, one of the most obvious areas of wastage clearly still needs addressing.
With the quest to reduce environmental impact being all about marginal gains rather than delivering a silver bullet solution, it is quite remarkable that F1 finds itself left with so many unused tyres over the course of a season.
The reality ...Keep reading

BMW has announced that Kelvin van der Linde will join its pool of factory drivers in 2025, two years after he split with rival German brand Audi.
As reported by Motorsport.com last week, the South African will unite with younger brother Sheldon van der Linde in BMW’s factory roster next year after spending the last two seasons as an independent driver without any manufacturer ...Keep reading

Valtteri Bottas has been signed by Mercedes to be its third driver for the 2025 Formula 1 season, after he missed out on keeping his seat at Sauber.
The Finnish racer scored 10 grand prix wins with the Silver Arrows in a 100-race stint between 2017 and 2021 when he was partnered with Lewis Hamilton.
He was dropped from the team ahead of 2022 as team boss Toto Wolff opted to promote long-time ...Keep reading

An insolvency administrator has put KTM's shares in MV Agusta up for sale, as the Austrian company continues to reel in from a financial crisis.
KTM's parent company Pierer Mobility AG had acquired a 25.1 per cent stake in MV Agusta in November 2022, before taking over the majority of the company in March of this year.
Now, its entire 50.1% stake in the Italian motorcycle company is being ...Keep reading

Let's recap the saga of Red Bull's second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It's a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a 'normal' approach to the driver market.
Carlos Sainz became unexpectedly available for 2025 when his Ferrari seat went to Lewis Hamilton. The Verstappens did not want Sainz in the ...Keep reading

It's somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don't necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team's driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they came to the point where they had to replace Sergio Perez with Liam Lawson.
It's fairly easy to say now that it was a ...Keep reading

Josh McErlean will graduate to the World Rally Championship’s top tier in 2025 after securing a deal to join M-Sport-Ford. 
The 25-year-old will pilot M-Sport’s second Ford Puma Rally1 in a full 14-round WRC campaign next year, joining Gregoire Munster, who was announced as the British squad’s team leader on Wednesday.
McErlean will be joined by fellow Irish co-driver Eoin Treacy next ...Keep reading

Liam Lawson will step up to Red Bull as Max Verstappen’s team-mate in Formula 1 next year, it was announced on Thursday.
Just a day after the Milton Keynes-based squad revealed that a deal had been reached to part ways with Sergio Perez, it confirmed that it had elected to promote RB youngster Lawson.
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Ferrari has become the first Formula 1 team to reveal the date of its 2025 car launch.
The Italian outfit posted on social media a teaser image above the 19 February date, with the message "Get ready to meet our 2025 challenger".
 
While no further details were offered, the outfit has traditionally held such launch events at its Maranello base.
The Ferrari reveal will take place the ...Keep reading

'Fast Freddie' Lorenzen was just a couple weeks shy of his 90th birthday when he passed away on Wednesday. The Elmhurst, Illinois native was an early star of the sport of NASCAR, competing from 1956 to 1972. He had many nicknames including 'Golden Boy,' 'Fearless Freddie,' the 'Elmhurst Express' and was beloved by fans. Lorenzen was a two-time recipient of the sport's Most Popular Driver ...Keep reading

It had been pretty clear for a while that Sergio Perez would not be a part of Red Bull’s future in Formula 1 on the back of his troubled 2024 campaign.
However, what was not so obvious was exactly how the parting of ways would play out because of the complications caused by him having a firm contract.
That was the result of the decision made by Red Bull in June to hand Perez a two-year ...Keep reading

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been granted the preliminary injunction to keep their charters for the 2025 season while the antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and the France family continues. The ruling is just for next year and states that the disputed sections of the 2025 Charter Agreement that caused this lawsuit are not enforceable while the legal battle is ongoing. Cited in ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career haul now ends at five wins, three poles and 932 points. That he only added to the last of those three categories in the 2024 Formula 1 season is one of three key reasons why he’s finally been cast off as Max Verstappen’s team-mate.
The other two are firstly how it’s thanks to Perez bringing in just 35% of the world champion’s points total that Red Bull ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez has announced his exit from the Red Bull Formula 1 team after four seasons with the squad.
As widely expected, the Mexican will vacate the seat alongside world champion Max Verstappen after a tough 2024 campaign in which he struggled for performance and dropped to eighth in the drivers' championship.
Pérez's historically bad lack of form had long left his future in doubt ...Keep reading

Williams is on a “mission” to return to the top of Formula 1 – and at the very heart of that assignment lies the team’s early careers programmes.
Whether it is a graduate programme, an industrial placement, apprenticeships or work experience, the platform to launch a career into F1 with the team based in Grove has never been more accessible.
Add to that a scheme such as the ...Keep reading

Is Conor Daly the mercenary that finally found a home?“The nomad that finally got a place to take residence,” was his response to Motorsport.com in an exclusive sit down roughly an hour before his announcement confirming his full-time IndyCar Series return with Juncos Hollinger Racing for 2025. 
The native Hoosier was thrust into a last-gasp situation for the small organization at the end ...Keep reading

Gregoire Munster will team up with M-Sport-Ford for a second full-time season in the World Rally Championship next year. 
Munster has agreed a new deal with the British squad to pilot one of two Ford Puma Rally1 cars after completing a maiden full season in the WRC’s top tier with the operation this year.
The Luxembourger, who will turn 26 on Christmas Eve, had been in the running to ...Keep reading

Finding the right #2 driver is as much art as science. Teams need someone talented enough to score podiums, and savvy enough to understand their role. Make a mistake, and your #1 driver can spend the season dragging dead weight, particularly in the fight for the constructor's title. Which brings us to Sergio Pérez (who just announced he'll be leaving Red Bull).
Red Bull Racing brought Pérez ...Keep reading

Mattias Ekstrom has said he is willing to contest the Dakar Rally for the next 15 years if that is what it takes to win the world’s most prestigious rally-raid.
Although best known for his success in the DTM where he claimed two titles with Abt Audi, Ekstrom has increasingly shifted his focus to avenues outside of circuit racing in recent years.
After success in the World Rallycross ...Keep reading

Enea Bastianini feels he needs to be more “explosive” on track after ending a four-year stint with Ducati in MotoGP.
Bastianini has been associated with Ducati in his entire premier class career, but is parting ways with the Borgo Panigale marque at the end of 2024 to start a new chapter with Tech 3 KTM.
The Italian rider impressed with his speed and skills on satellite machinery in ...Keep reading

Formula 1’s current ground-effect cars are unlikely to go down as fond favourites for the engineers and designers who have worked with them.
Running ultra low to the ground, with super stiff suspension to keep ride heights at their optimum, they are tricky beasts to keep in the perfect balance window – as many teams have found out to their cost.
But there is another truth that has ...Keep reading

Timo Glock will return to the DTM for the first time in three years after signing a deal with Dorr Motorsport for the 2025 season.
The five-time race winner will pilot a McLaren 720S GT3 EVO for Dorr Group, replacing Clemens Schmid in the squad’s two-car line-up.
This would be the German’s first foray into the DTM since he made a wildcard appearance with Ceccato in 2022 at the wheel of a ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen says he sees no reason to change Formula 1 teams before his current Red Bull deal is up in 2028.
Verstappen and Red Bull went through a turbulent first half of the season both on and off the track, marked by power plays behind the scene behind team boss Christian Horner and advisor Helmut Marko, who enjoys the support of Verstappen's entourage.
Horner survived calls from ...Keep reading

Simulation has become a vital part of modern racing. Drivers from multiple series and racing disciplines have put digital tracks and cars through their paces to familiarize themselves with the tracks they’ve never raced, or cars they’ve never tracked. As an added bonus, they don't have to put actual miles on the car, or spend the money to run it. This approach to testing and racing has ...Keep reading

Yamaha is ready to begin track testing of the new V4 engine for its MotoGP bike, although the initial run at Jerez last week had to be delayed.
Yamaha, the only MotoGP manufacturer still running inline four-cylinder engines, has been pushing with the development of the new unit in an attempt to catch up with its rivals after several difficult seasons.
Its engineers in Iwata have been working ...Keep reading

Citroen Racing will field brothers Yohan and Leo Rossel as its driver line-up to tackle the 2025 World Rally Championship.
The French manufacturer has elected to continue its relationship with Yohan Rossel following a 2024 season where the 29-year-old challenged for the WRC2 title.
Yohan took victory in the Monte Carlo and Chile rounds driving the C3 Rally2, run by DG Sport, but his title ...Keep reading

Abt Sportsline has announced its split with Kelvin van der Linde ahead of his anticipated switch to BMW.
The 2024 DTM championship runner-up will depart the Abt fold after four years in the DTM with eight race wins, having also won his first of two ADAC GT Masters titles with the squad in 2014.
The German outfit will switch to running Lamborghinis in the 2025 DTM after ending its lengthy ...Keep reading

McLaren CEO Zak Brown thinks a management team that is "constructively critical" of itself has been a cornerstone of his team's success in Formula 1.
The Woking-based squad ended a 26-year wait for constructors' championship success this year with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri securing the crown at the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
For Brown, the success is the culmination of efforts ...Keep reading