The saga surrounding Yuki Tsunoda’s promotion and Liam Lawson’s demotion to Racing Bulls is thus: for years now, around and through Max Verstappen’s multiple world titles, Red Bull has been a one-car Formula 1 squad.
Since Daniel Ricciardo’s exit from the peak of his F1 career in 2018, Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Sergio Perez and now Lawson have tried and failed to cope with driving a car ...Keep reading

On the evidence of the first three MotoGP weekends in 2025, it’s easy to conclude that Alex Marquez has a mental barrier to conquer when it comes to beating his brother Marc.
After all, Marc is a six-time MotoGP world champion, while Alex is still waiting patiently for his first race win in the top category.
At this stage of the season, however, Alex Marquez has established himself as the ...Keep reading

Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s smartphone pings to signal the arrival of his Thursday schedule. As with all things Mercedes, its promptness is matched by its detail: a little over 24 hours remain until his first race-weekend track session as a fully-fledged Formula 1 driver, but he has already been in Melbourne for several days to align his body clock with the local timings.
"Are we really going to ...Keep reading

Ryo Hirakawa will drive Jack Doohan’s Alpine in opening practice for this weekend’s 2025 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.
The Toyota World Endurance Championship champion has joined Alpine as a reserve driver for the season after fulfilling the same role at McLaren last year.
Hirakawa made his F1 weekend debut at the 2024 Abu Dhabi GP, replacing Oscar Piastri in a McLaren ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez has settled into life as a factory Ducati rider perfectly well, having won five (three sprints and two grands prix) of the opening six races in the 2025 MotoGP season.
The six-time world champion is second in the championship, one point behind younger brother Alex, largely due to Marc’s crash at the Americas Grand Prix in Austin. 
Nevertheless, very insightful footage has ...Keep reading

Will Tsunoda prove Red Bull right?
It's a huge weekend for Yuki Tsunoda, as all eyes will be on him from the first laps on Friday – not just because he's finally got himself in the Red Bull seat he's been dreaming about for so long, but because his debut with the team coincides with his home race.
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Red Bull has unveiled a special livery for Formula 1’s upcoming Japanese Grand Prix, paying tribute to its engine partner Honda.
The Suzuka race will be Honda’s last home event with the Milton Keynes-based outfit before the latter collaborates with Ford from 2026 onwards.
A white livery will adorn the RB21, inspired by the Honda RA272 which Richie Ginther drove to Honda’s maiden F1 win ...Keep reading

The term 'commissioner' is something fans of most stick-and-ball sports are extremely familiar with. The NFL has Roger Goodell, the NBA has Adam Silver, the MLB has Rob Manfred, but it's a role that hasn't really existed in the same form in NASCAR.
Now, stock car racing has used the title before, but not in the traditional sense. It's been purely ceremonial or limited in its actual power ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda is gearing up for a very busy week — both on and off the track. The Japanese driver, who is set to replace Liam Lawson at Red Bull when F1 heads to his home country this weekend, is also launching his clothing brand, Venti Due, set to be available for fans to purchase online, or at a pop-up in Suzuka City.
His first drop features hoodies, crew necks, oversized jerseys, balloon ...Keep reading

NASCAR completed its triple-header weekend at Martinsville Speedway featuring three very different races and plenty of drama. Most of the conversation centers around the highly controversial finish to Saturday's Xfinity race, but there was plenty of action beyond that. Denny Hamlin, Austin Hill and Daniel Hemric walked away with checkered flags as Hendrick Motorsports failed to repeat their 1-2-3 ...Keep reading

The early signs have been positive for Lewis Hamilton. While the team has not been able to execute either race weekend in Australia and China perfectly, Hamilton took his first sprint pole and victory in Shanghai as a welcome boost to his stint with the Italian powerhouse.
Hamilton has spoken at length about how he is still getting up to speed to extract the maximum out of the 2025 car, which ...Keep reading

What began as a rainy race weekend at the Circuit of Americas morphed into an insightful, albeit chaotic event for MotoGP. Perhaps all set off on race day by Marc Marquez's sudden sprint off of the grid, which led to the rest of the field abandoning their bikes, aborting the start, and causing a 10-minute delay as everyone rethought their tyre strategy for the race. What it did provide was an ...Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier will contest the Rally Islas Canarias next month as Toyota will field five cars at the next round of the 2025 World Rally Championship season.
The eight-time world champion is undertaking a partial campaign and the Spanish asphalt rally will be his second start of the year in what is the event’s WRC debut.
Ogier’s inclusion on an entry list featuring 10 Rally1 crews will ...Keep reading

The man himself frames it as fate. After an often frustrating four-year F1 apprenticeship with Red Bull’s junior team, during which the prospect of promotion diminished and then seemed to vanish entirely, Yuki Tsunoda is now where he thinks he always should have been.
Trouble is, that’s what the driver he is replacing thought. And the one before him. And – rinse and repeat.
Being Max ...Keep reading

Victor Martins has joined the Williams Racing Driver Academy following his recent exit from Alpine’s counterpart.
Martins had been part of the Enstone-based program in 2018-19, then from 2021-24, with a one-year hiatus when he narrowly lost the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup title – and his spot in the academy – to Oscar Piastri.
Although he was eventually crowned in FR Eurocup as well ...Keep reading

Fifth in the championship, 17 points. Such is Ferrari's situation, two grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 campaign. The Scuderia was a pre-season favorite alongside McLaren, but has not lived up to expectations thus far – though it's not the first time in the last decade and a half with the current points system for the top 10 finishers of a grand prix.
 2025 - 5th, 17 points (after two ...Keep reading

There’s another common denominator beyond Lando Norris on the first two grand prix podiums of 2025: George Russell. He was third in both the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix – and yet, as with Orson Welles in The Third Man, the spotlight has flitted over him but briefly before alighting on other targets.
Principally that’s because he extracted the maximum from his Mercedes in both races ...Keep reading

Erik Jones finished 24th in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville, one lap down. Thanks to a fifth-place finish in the opening stage, he managed to score a total of 19 points. Unfortunately for Jones, he will now leave Martinsville with just a single point due to problems in post-race inspection.
While the race-winning No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin was cleared without issue ...Keep reading

After rain fell shortly before the race start, the red flag shown by race direction just before the warm-up lap, moments after polesitter Marc Marquez abandoned his bike on the grid set up for wet running to switch to his dry bike in pitlane.
Upon seeing Marc Marquez leave his position and his bike, nine other riders followed him, creating a mess, with people running up and down the pitlane in ...Keep reading

Joey Logano won the opening stage at Martinsville Speedway and went on to earn his first top-ten finish of the year, but he still leaves the Virginia short track frustrated.
The three-time and reigning Cup Series champion was battling hard on a late-race restart when Ross Chastain cut down in front of Logano, in an effort to get back to the bottom lane on a restart. He did clear the No. 22 Team ...Keep reading

It was a dominant showing for Denny Hamlin at Martinsville, leading over half the race (274 of 400 laps) in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. This is Hamlin's first win of the 2025 season and the 55th of his career -- tying Rusty Wallace for 11th on the all-time wins list. It was also the first victory for Hamlin with new crew chief Chris Gayle, as well as his first with new sponsor ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia took full advantage of his factory Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez crashing out of the lead to take an emotional victory in a chaotic Americas GP.
Bagnaia made no mistake after inheriting the lead from Marquez, who had won every sprint and grand prix of the season up until today.
The error was enough for Marc to lose the lead of the world championship to his brother Alex ...Keep reading

Just 30 minutes before the start of the MotoGP race, light rain appeared, prompting race officials to declare a flag-to-flag race — resulting in total chaos.
As the Americas GP was about to begin, everything started to go wrong, with the unexpected arrival of rain and a crash involving Fabio Quartararo as he made his way to the grid on the formation lap. Once on the grid, all the riders, set ...Keep reading

The FIA has given a further clarification over its decision to keep tightening Formula 1's rear wing deflection tests, and defended the delay of its stricter front wing tests until the Spanish Grand Prix.
Over the last few years exploiting aero-elasticity has emerged as a key tool to keep this generation of ground-effect cars balanced between faster and slower corners, so much so that teams ...Keep reading

Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso – in his 22nd Formula 1 campaign – is still encountering a new experience. It’s not just the six rookie racers on the 2025 grid. In Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto, he’s racing his own official protege.
Since 2023, Bortoleto has been a part of Alonso’s A14 driver management stable.
This is run by Albert Resclosa Coll and Alberto Fernandez Albilares ...Keep reading

Hundreds of Formula 1 fans lined the streets of Tokyo for one last chance to visit Honda's Aoyama headquarters, the elegant white high-rise a stone's throw away from the Olympic Stadium that hosted the 2021 summer games.
The iconic Aoyama building is set to be closed and redeveloped, with a new, state-of-the-art headquarters to be built by 2030 on the same site. Sunday's closing ceremony ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda says he is targeting a podium spot at next week's Japanese Grand Prix as he reacts to his shock Red Bull switch for the remainder of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
As anticipated by Motorsport.com in China last weekend, Red Bull confirmed on Thursday that it would promote Tsunoda to the seat alongside Max Verstappen meaning Liam Lawson is back at Racing Bulls after two difficult ...Keep reading

The NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville featured 14 cautions and one red flag, with 104 of 256 laps run under yellow flag conditions. It was a rough short track race with contact all around the half-mile, culminating in a controversial finish where Sammy Smith came from several car lengths back to wreck race leader Taylor Gray. The move triggered a massive accident that eliminated Smith from ...Keep reading

Taylor Gray was attempting to win for the first time in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career, while Sammy Smith was aiming to deny him on Saturday night. Through a series of restarts and a red flag, as the race became a crash fest, tensions mounted between the two leaders.
With only a few laps remaining, Smith ended up moving Gray, snatching the top spot away just before the race was pushed into ...Keep reading

Austin Hill wasn't even in the conversation on the final restart, but the chaos that followed presented him with the opportunity to earn Richard Childress Racing its 100th win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In the end, Hill only led across the line on lap 250 -- the last lap.
Taylor Gray lined up behind Sammy Smith for the final restart at Martinsville, quickly snatching the lead away for the ...Keep reading

Francesco Bagnaia says his confidence is returning after a stirring battle with factory Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez on the first lap of Saturday’s Americas GP sprint.
While Marquez ultimately led every lap of the race to maintain his perfect win record in 2025, Bagnaia nosed ahead of his team-mate on no less than three occasions on the field’s first tour of COTA.
Although Bagnaia was ...Keep reading

Factory Ducati star Marc Marquez maintained his perfect 2025 record by converting pole position to victory in an absorbing Americas Grand Prix sprint race on Saturday. 
As in every sprint and grand prix this year so far, the six-time MotoGP champion was followed home by his brother Alex on the Gresini Ducati. But this race was more exciting than anything 2025 had delivered so far.
Francesco ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell earned his 14th career pole and his first of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, lapping the historic short track in 19.754s. Bell will be joined on the front row by Chase Elliott, who missed out on pole by 0.017s.
Bell, who already has three wins this year, is also a former winner at Martinsville, taking victory there late in the 2022 season.
A ...Keep reading

In the middle of Group B practice at Martinsville Speedway, Justin Haley took his No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet out onto the track for his 20th lap.
Unfortunately for Haley, the hood pins were not secured. While throttling up on the frontstretch, the hood shot up and wrapped around the windshield, momentarily blinding him as he locked up the brakes into Turn 1.
"It broke the hood," Haley ...Keep reading

Was it a mistake for Red Bull to pick Liam Lawson over Yuki Tsunoda in the first place? Why wasn’t the New Zealander allowed to race for the team in Japan, a track he knows well? What did Max Verstappen think of the decision? And is Red Bull risking its long-term future by continuing to build the car around a single driver?
Here’s Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko’s detailed take on the ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez sealed a third consecutive pole position of the season at the Americas Grand Prix meaning it is his first qualifying hat-trick since 2019. 
The factory Ducati rider, who has also won both sprint races and grands prix this season, will lead an all-Ducati front row alongside Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) and younger brother Alex Marquez (Gresini).
It is the first time in 2025 that ...Keep reading

When Yuki Tsunoda starts the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, he will become the 14th driver to compete for Red Bull Racing in a Formula 1 race. The pressure will be immense not only because he's suddenly been promoted to the A-team, but add in the fact that he's replacing Liam Lawson after just two races and that this is all happening around his home race. In the end, a points result would be ...Keep reading

The 2020 MotoGP champion Joan Mir believes it is only mistakes that can deprive Marc Marquez of this year’s title after an unbeaten start to the season.
Marquez has won all four races - two sprints and two grands prix - in 2025 from pole, marking the perfect start to life as a factory Ducati rider.
He already holds a 16-point advantage in the championship and victory this year would put ...Keep reading

Eddie Jordan Racing became a big player in junior single-seaters prior to the Jordan squad arriving in Formula 1 in 1991.
Before becoming the Midland-owned MF1 Racing for 2006, Jordan built up a cult following, helped launch the careers of several drivers and briefly became a championship contender.
Here’s our choice of the squad’s finest moments.
10. Winning the 1987 British F3 ...Keep reading

When Romain Grosjean's Haas car split in two and burst into flames during the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, it was the titanium halo that ultimately saved his life. But what few people know is that a groundbreaking welding technique played a crucial role in making the halo strong enough to perform as designed in that terrifying moment.
The halo, now an essential part of Formula 1's safety package ...Keep reading

Daniel Hemric's NASCAR career has taken him in several different directions across all three National divisions. He originally made it to the Cup Series in 2019 before moving back down to the Xfinity Series where he became a champion in 2021. In 2024, he was back full time in the Cup Series with a different team, but a difficult season saw him lose his ride in NASCAR's top division once more. He ...Keep reading

Friday practice for the Americas Grand Prix was a dream for anybody looking to upset the nascent 2025 form book: a genuine riders’ track that got doused with rain and then gradually dried. For racers and crews who may struggle under normal circumstances, it was a gift as generous as any Texas steak.
For keen MotoGP observers, too, the mix of conditions in Austin offered a level of intrigue ...Keep reading

Ducati general manager Gigi Dall’Igna has hit out at his Aprilia counterparts for how they revealed their request to allow world champion Jorge Martin to test aboard his MotoGP bike ahead of his return from injury.
Senior Aprilia figures Paolo Bonora (team manager) and Massimo Rivola (CEO) first raised the proposal of a mid-season change to testing regulations in the media during the last ...Keep reading

World champion Jorge Martin revealed that he was afraid he might never ride again during the lowest moments of his current injury layoff.
Martin crashed in a pre-season training ride and will not attempt to race for his new team, Aprilia, until the next (and fourth) event of the season in Qatar. He did however make his first appearance in a 2025 race paddock at the Americas GP on Thursday ...Keep reading

Earlier this week, RCR had announced that it was entering a third entry for five races in the 2025 Cup Series with Austin Hill behind the wheel. Then Friday, Richard Childress Racing announced it is also bringing a third entry to Bristol Motor Speedway in April, with the help of C4 ultimate Energy — giving Xfinity Series regular Jesse Love his Cup Series debut. The 20-year-old Love will drive ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton’s younger brother Nicolas is making a surprise return to the British Touring Car Championship after a year and a half hiatus. The 33-year-old, who has cerebral palsy and is the only disabled driver to ever compete in the BTCC, will join Un-Limited Motorsport’s three-car lineup. He’s set to race in a Cupra Leon alongside Dexter Patterson and Max Hall.
“I want to make the ...Keep reading

Actor-turned-racer Frankie Muniz has been expanding his stock car racing portfolio over the past two years with starts in both the NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series, as well as the ARCA Menards Series. This year, he is running the complete Truck Series schedule with Reaume Brothers Racing in the No. 33 Ford, and he's having fun with it.
His rookie season has already included several highs and ...Keep reading

IndyCar's first practice at Thermal was a fiery one, as Prema Racing's No. 83 entry, driven by Robert Shwartzman, caught fire during it. Shwartzman, in reaction, stopped the car and jumped out — while triggering a red flag on the session. As expected, the AMR safety team was on the scene quickly, but Prema needed to make significant repairs overnight due to the extent of the damage.
While an ...Keep reading

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has stated that Yuki Tsunoda’s future will be secure until the end of the 2025 Formula 1 season, after the Japanese driver was promoted to the main team at Liam Lawson’s expense.
Red Bull’s decision was made following the Chinese Grand Prix, where Lawson vastly underperformed again in his second outing with the Milton Keynes-based outfit – including placing ...Keep reading

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed Max Verstappen disagreed with Red Bull swapping Liam Lawson for Racing Bulls’ Yuki Tsunoda just two rounds into the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Red Bull made the call after Lawson failed to perform at both Albert Park and Shanghai, with him placing last in both qualifying sessions at the Chinese Grand Prix a fateful lowlight.
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