Verstappen makes NLS GT3 race debut at the Nordschleife
Max Verstappen is making his GT3 race debut at the Nordschleife today in the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS). The four-time Formula 1 world champion is sharing a Ferrari 296 with Chris Lulham under the Emil Frey Racing banner for the four-hour race, which they will start from third on the grid. Verstappen recently obtained the special licence […]
Joan Mir hits back at naysayers after first Honda MotoGP podium
Joan Mir says it is “easy to hide behind the phone” and criticise MotoGP riders after securing his maiden podium with Honda in last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. Mir finished third behind factory Ducati duo Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez at Motegi, ending a 1,422-day drought stretching back to his last podium finish with Suzuki […]
Toyota to update Le Mans Hypercar for 2026 WEC campaign
Toyota will introduce the first update of its GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar for four years in time for the start of the 2026 World Endurance Championship campaign. Kazuki Nakajima, vice-chairman of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, confirmed that there will be an upgrade of its Hypercar class contender introduced in 2021 focused on aerodynamics. This […]
Winners and losers from the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix
Sunday’s MotoGP race at Motegi offered a result few could have predicted. While there were signs that Francesco Bagnaia had finally found a solution in the Misano test, even he likely didn’t expect to dominate the Japanese Grand Prix as thoroughly as he did. Marc Marquez was always expected to be competitive, but the lack […]
Honda reveals new Prelude GT500 challenger for 2026 Super GT season
Honda will be contesting the 2026 Super GT season with a new GT500 car after revealing the Prelude-GT on Tuesday. Based on the Prelude sports coupe that was launched at the start of the month, it will replace the Civic Type R-GT that has been in service since the start of the 2024 season. Honda […]
When F1 greats suffered embarrassing crashes
There are those who say that one or other of the McLaren drivers should have the 2025 Formula 1 world championship in the bag by now. Within that group it has been claimed that Oscar Piastri’s peculiar off-weekend in Azerbaijan – shunting in qualifying, getting the start wrong, then crashing on the opening lap – […]
Marco Bezzecchi reveals extent of injuries in Japan MotoGP crash
Aprilia MotoGP rider Marco Bezzecchi revealed how badly he was hurt after being taken out by team-mate Jorge Martin on the opening lap of the Japanese Grand Prix sprint. Last year’s champion Martin made a rapid launch from 17th on the grid and found a gap on the inside heading into Turn 1. But the Spaniard […]
The MotoGP champion who came back from hell
Marc Marquez’s motorcycle racing career was always tied to success. From a very young age, the Spaniard began winning in categories where his rivals were, in some cases, more than 30 centimetres taller. Besides being young in age, he was small in stature, which made it even more striking to see him on the podiums at […]
Why F1 2026 ‘moving targets’ are giving teams development headaches
In four months, Formula 1 teams will bring their first iteration of the all-new 2026 cars to an end-of-January shakedown test in Barcelona. But to streamline the development process, predicting those pre-season performance levels has to be done right now. The vast scale of the regulation changes, with new rules on both the chassis and […]