‘Don’t ever write him off’ - Toto Wolff backs Lewis Hamilton

Thruxton is the focus of the latest Autosport National Podcast with a review of last weekend's Thruxton Retro event and a look at other developments at the Hampshire speedbowl.Group National Editor Stephen Lickorish is joined by Ben Taylor, chief executive of the British Automobile Racing Club that operates Thruxton, to discuss the thinking behind the revamped historic racing festival and its ...Keep reading

The contentious legal battle between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR is not cooling off. This week has been a busy one with Judge Kenneth D. Bell of the Western District of North Carolina striking down the team's request to dismiss NASCAR's countersuit against them.But the most interesting storyline off the track and in the courtroom involves the ongoing battle to obtain ...Keep reading

Somehow the Toyota GT-One contrived never to win a race. Yet the car that moved the goalposts in the GT1 category from which it derived its name might well have triumphed in every one of the three events it contested.All that was missing from its assaults on the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1998-99 was a bit of luck. Or rather, as its creator Andre de Cortanze prefers to say, the absence of bad ...Keep reading

Will Hall and Sean Gould shared the glory at Doune last weekend as ever-changing weather made rounds 13 and 14 of the British Hillclimb Championship an unpredictable affair.Sunday dawned wet at the Scottish hill and continued wet until late in the afternoon, when the sun broke through and quickly started to dry the hill.However, for the opening run-off, it was fully wet as a heavy ...Keep reading

George Russell's current contract with Mercedes is due to expire at the end of the 2025 season.

Helmut Marko says Red Bull will introduce its latest raft of upgrades over the Austria and Silverstone grand prix weekends as it nears the end of its 2025 F1 development.Red Bull gradually introduced revisions to the floor, sidepods and front wing across the Miami, Imola and Barcelona weekends, and its latest refinements to the 2025 car are set to arrive this weekend at its home race in ...Keep reading

As part of NASCAR's new $7.7 billion dollar broadcast deal, Amazon and Warner Brothers Discovery have become new partners alongside FOX Sports and NBC Sports. Prime Video just ended its five-race run as the Cup Series went to streaming for the very first time.For this next leg of the season, TNT takes over for their own five-race summer stretch. TNT's stint begins with a Saturday night race at ...Keep reading

Helmut Marko says Red Bull will introduce its latest raft of upgrades over the Austria and British grand prix weekends as it nears the end of its 2025 Formula 1 development.Red Bull gradually introduced revisions to the floor, sidepods and front wing across the Miami, Imola and Barcelona weekends, and its latest refinements to the 2025 car are set to arrive this weekend at its home race in ...Keep reading

The Oulton Park round of the 2025 British Touring Car Championship season is reviewed in the latest Autosport Racing podcast with Tom Ingram.BTCC’s 2022 champion joins Autosport Editor-in-Chief Kevin Turner and series correspondent Marcus Simmons to discuss last weekend’s action in which Ingram claimed pole.He described the pole lap as one of the best in his career and Ingram then took ...Keep reading

Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel says he is in early talks with Helmut Marko over succeeding the Austrian as an advisor to the Red Bull F1 team in the future.Marko's contract with Red Bull runs until the end of 2026 and the Austrian has yet to confirm whether he wants to continue in his role beyond that season, when he will be 84.Marko was initially brought in at the start of the ...Keep reading

Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel says he is in early talks with Helmut Marko over succeeding the Austrian as an advisor to the Red Bull Formula 1 team in the future.Marko's contract with Red Bull runs until the end of 2026 and the Austrian has yet to confirm whether he wants to continue in his role beyond that season, when he will be 84-years-old.Marko was initially brought in at ...Keep reading

The promising teen will drive in an F1 race weekend for the first time in front of his home crowd.

Hollwyood actor Brad Pitt completed his first real F1 test with McLaren last week.

Arvid Lindblad is set to take part in Friday practice at Silverstone's British Grand Prix, Red Bull's Helmut Marko has confirmed.The 17-year-old Red Bull talent, who contests F2 with Campos, is being readied to make his grand prix weekend debut next month at Silverstone after acquiring an FIA superlicence and conducting a first fully-fledged test with Racing Bulls at Imola this week.Briton ...Keep reading

Arvid Lindblad is set to take part in Friday practice at Silverstone's British Grand Prix, Red Bull's Helmut Marko has confirmed.The 17-year-old Red Bull talent, who contests F2 with Campos, is being readied to make his grand prix weekend debut next month at Silverstone after acquiring an FIA superlicence and conducting a first fully-fledged test with Racing Bulls at Imola this week.Briton ...Keep reading

Brad Pitt revealed he wants the chance to improve on his Formula 1 debut after just falling short of his 200mph target during a run in Lando Norris’ 2023 McLaren.The star of F1: The Movie, Pitt got behind the wheel of a fully-fledged F1 car for the first time as part of a Testing of Previous Cars programme for McLaren at Circuit of the Americas.Pitt, 61, plays returning racer Sonny Hayes ...Keep reading

Last week, the Kyalami circuit in South Africa announced that its plans to upgrade to FIA Grade 1, required to host a Formula 1 grand prix, had been approved by the FIA. It was hailed as a "defining moment" and a big step towards F1 returning to the country - and with it the African continent - for the first time since 1993.The approval gives the venue a three-year timeframe to conduct the ...Keep reading

Sebastian Vettel could return to F1 in a managerial role when Helmut Marko retires from Red Bull.