Jacob Abel running endurance rounds with Era Motorsport for 2026
Era Motorsport confirmed the arrival of Jacob Abel for Endurance Cup rounds for the 2026 season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Abel, 24, will co-drive the team’s No. 18 ORECA 07 LMP2 alongside Naveen Rao and Ferdinand Habsburg for all of the endurance rounds, with former Formula 1 driver Logan Sargeant also part of […]
The evolution of winglets in MotoGP
Winglets in MotoGP are now an integral part of modern bike design. Today, hardly any manufacturer has built bikes without these front-mounted wings — an innovation that started as a daring experiment. Winglets first appeared in the mid-2010s, specifically in 2015, when Ducati introduced striking bodywork elements that jutted out from the front of the […]
Why F1 teams disguise cars with camo liveries and how they work
Ahead of Formula 1’s rules shake-up in 2026, the series will host three rounds of testing to help teams get to grips with their new machines. Two tests are scheduled for Bahrain next month, where fans will get their first glimpse at the new machinery on track, while the January test in Barcelona will be […]
Toyota reveals new-look WEC Hypercar for 2026 amid wider revamp
Toyota has taken the covers off the updated version of the Le Mans Hypercar that will contest the 2026 World Endurance Championship. Christened the Toyota TR010 Hybrid, the V6 twin-turbo-powered car marks the next iteration of the GR010 Hybrid that has been in service since the inception of the Hypercar class in 2021. This is […]
Toyota’s Henk Lategan crushes rivals to take overall lead
Factory Toyota driver Henk Lategan annihilated the competition in the Dakar Rally on Wednesday, scoring a mammoth seven-minute victory in the first part of the marathon stage. In a 2026 event that has seen Toyota’s form fluctuate wildly day to day, Lategan mounted an impressive comeback from Tuesday’s disappointment to log the quickest time in […]
WEC 2025 BoP analysis: Ferrari
In 2025, Ferrari and AF Corse have pushed the Hypercar class to a new level, extracting even more performance from the 499P than in previous seasons, when the Italian LMH was already one of the fastest cars in the field. The 2025 season was defined by the Prancing Horse. Above all, the winning streak in the first […]
Nielsen wants Alpine to give Colapinto ‘time to mature and deliver’ in F1
Alpine managing director Steve Nielsen believes Franco Colapinto needs time “for that talent to mature and deliver”, as the Argentine prepares to embark on his first full Formula 1 season in 2026. Colapinto first experienced F1 when he replaced Logan Sargeant at Williams midway through the 2024 season and immediately showed strong pace. He reached […]
Ford dominant as Mitch Guthrie moves into overall lead
Mitch Guthrie led a Ford 1-2 in the third stage of the Dakar Rally to snatch the overall lead from Dacia rival Nasser Al-Attiyah. After a subdued showing on Monday in which none of its entries finished inside the top 10, Ford emerged as the class of the field in Tuesday’s 421km test around Al-Ula […]
Lambiase to remain as Verstappen’s race engineer for F1 2026
The future of Gianpiero Lambiase has been a major topic of discussion in recent months. Immediately after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, sources told Autosport that his exact role for 2026 would be discussed during the winter, linked to private circumstances. Those private conditions also explain why Lambiase missed the Austrian and Belgian grands prix, […]