Italian GP driver ratings: Gabriel Bortoleto continues to turn heads in rookie F1 year

Denny Hamlin earned his 59th career win and fifth of the 2025 season at WWT Raceway, locking himself into the Round of 12. "Yeah, it's so big for everyone at Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing," said Hamlin. "Progressive Toyota was great there at the end. So happy to get this victory. My dad's not feeling well at home. Just shout-out to him. The whole family's here.He later added: "Man, it's just a ...Keep reading

Austin Dillon entered the NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway eight points below the cutline, and desperately needed to make up ground.Unfortunately, both he and teammate Kyle Busch (who failed to make the playoffs) struggled with the balance of their Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets.Busch triggered the first caution of the race, spinning on his own at the exit of Turn 2. Dillon ...Keep reading

Austin Dillon entered the NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway eight points below the cutline, and desperately needed to make up ground.Unfortunately, both he and teammate Kyle Busch (who failed to make the playoffs) struggled with the balance of their Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets.Busch triggered the first caution of the race, spinning on his own at the exit of Turn 2. Dillon ...Keep reading

After making the playoffs for the first time in his career, Josh Berry entered WWT Raceway hoping to rebound from a difficult outing at Darlington. After qualifying third for the Southern 500, he crashed on the opening lap.The wreck left him at the bottom of the standings, 19 points below the cut line. At Gateway, he was running solid in the early laps, up in 15th place. However, before the ...Keep reading

Winner: Max Verstappen Max Verstappen, Red Bull RacingPhoto by: Mark Thompson - Getty ImagesIn Budapest, right before the summer break, Max Verstappen said his Red Bull team wouldn't win any more races this year after the drubbing it received in the Hungarian GP.That win certainly wasn't going to come at high-speed Monza, the scene of its worst performance of last ...Keep reading

M-Sport-Ford’s Jon Armstrong scored an emotional maiden European Rally Championship victory in Wales to set up a three-way fight in next month’s title decider. Ireland’s Armstrong and co-driver Shane Byrne emerged from Rali Ceredigion’s 12 tricky asphalt stages to take the win by 29.2s from reigning Junior WRC champion and M-Sport team-mate Romet Jurgenson. ERC points leader Miko ...Keep reading

Bill Davis was a staple in the NASCAR garage for two decades, operating a winning NASCAR Cup Series team between 1993 and 2008.The team won five Cup races, including the 2001 Southern 500 and  2002 Daytona 500 with Ward Burton. Burton is responsible for all five Cup wins for Bill Davis, earning the team's first victory at Rockingham in 1995, as well as its finish win at New Hampshire in ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren's call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past during the Italian Grand Prix after a slow stop for Norris was a "very difficult precedent to undo".As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren's call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past after a slow stop for Norris in the Italian Grand Prix was a "very difficult precedent to undo".As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to ...Keep reading

Oliver Bearman is on the edge of a Formula 1 race ban after his penalty for clashing with Carlos Sainz during the Italian Grand Prix.The Haas driver moved on to 10 penalty points for the rolling 12-month period, meaning if he picks up two more before his next points are erased he will be handed an automatic one-race ban in F1.Bearman was given two penalty points alongside his 10-second ...Keep reading

Oliver Bearman is on the edge of a Formula 1 race ban after his penalty for clashing with Carlos Sainz during the Italian Grand Prix.The Haas driver moved on to 10 penalty points for the rolling 12-month period, meaning if he picks up two more before his next points are erased he will be handed an automatic one-race ban in F1.Bearman was given two penalty points alongside his 10-second ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton reckoned he could have finished fifth rather than sixth in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, which in itself was a respectable return given the contentious five-place grid penalty he carried over from Zandvoort.Hamilton started 10th and had to make his way past the Red Bull of Yuki Tsunoda on the opening lap – with a move the Japanese driver complained was excessively forceful ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton reckoned he could have finished fifth rather than sixth in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, which in itself was a respectable return given the contentious five-place grid penalty he carried over from Zandvoort.Read Also:Formula 1This is why Ferrari didn’t fight Lewis Hamilton's ‘harsh’ F1 Italian GP penaltyHamilton started 10th and had to make ...Keep reading

“I expect a tough, on the limit-ish defence. I don’t think you can push people into the dirt.”

“I expect a tough, on the limit-ish defence. I don’t think you can push people into the dirt.”

Toto Wolff reckons Andrea Kimi Antonelli “made too many mistakes” in a disappointing outing for the Mercedes Formula 1 team at the Italian Grand Prix.Antonelli crossed the line in eighth, but a five-second penalty for forcing Alex Albon off at Turn 3 dropped the 19-year-old rookie to ninth while team-mate George Russell finished fifth. Russell was 32.881s off winner Max Verstappen ...Keep reading

McLaren's decision to swap positions between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri during Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix was a matter of "fairness" and "consistency of principles", per team principal Andrea Stella.The Woking-based squad found itself facing scrutiny during the race when, after Norris suffered a slow pitstop and dropped behind Piastri, it elected to swap the drivers around. This put ...Keep reading

McLaren's decision to swap positions between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri during Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix was a matter of "fairness" and "consistency of principles", per team principal Andrea Stella.The Woking-based squad found itself facing scrutiny during the race when, after Lando Norris suffered a slow pitstop and dropped behind Oscar Piastri, it elected to swap the drivers back ...Keep reading