Nurburgring 24h in sight as Verstappen ponders next step in GT

Global music superstars Beyonce, The Black Eyed Peas, Simple Minds, ZZ Top and N.E.R.D have all been lined up by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to rock the weekend of the Singapore Grand Prix next month - though ticket sales for the island city-state's second race are still struggling to get off the starting grid.

BMW has dropped hints that it may be willing to follow fellow German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz in supplying 'customer' versions of its engines to other F1 teams - with suggestions the Bavarian marque has Red Bull Racing as its prime target.

Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally underlining that it will only be workable if it is embraced by all.

Factory KTM rider Pedro Acosta led the way in the final in-season test of 2025 at Misano, as Yamaha extensively trialled its new V4-powered MotoGP bike.Acosta was among the first riders to hit the track, grabbing the top spot from the Tech3-run RC16 of Enea Bastianini with a time of 1m32.297s.Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia all enjoyed stints at the front in the next two hours, before ...Keep reading

Jorge Martin feels he has made a big step in adapting to the Aprilia at the Misano test

Factory KTM rider Pedro Acosta led the way in the final in-season test of 2025 at Misano, as Yamaha extensively trialled its new V4-powered MotoGP bike.Acosta was among the first riders to hit the track, grabbing the top spot from the Tech3-run RC16 of Enea Bastianini with a time of 1m32.297s.Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia all enjoyed stints at the front in the next two hours, before ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says wins will be required from the final rounds of the World Rally Championship season to stand any chance of lifting a third world title.The Toyota driver headed into last weekend’s Rally Chile sitting second in the standings seven points adrift, but left South America 21 points behind Sebastien Ogier, who shot into the championship lead after taking a fifth win of the ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says wins will be required from the final rounds of the World Rally Championship season to stand any chance of lifting a third world title.The Toyota driver headed into last weekend’s Rally Chile sitting second in the standings seven points adrift, but left South America 21 points behind Sebastien Ogier, who shot into the championship lead after taking a fifth win of the ...Keep reading

Final lap times during Monday’s official post-race MotoGP test at Misano.

When Lotus became the first Formula 1 team to harness ground-effect aerodynamics in the late 1970s, it went to remarkable lengths to keep the secret even though the hardware was almost in plain sight. When removing the 79 car from its transporter and working on it, the mechanics would routinely conceal the differential under a blanket.This rudimentary piece of misdirection worked, assisted by ...Keep reading

Fabio Quartararo said the V4 Yamaha felt "worse" than the Inline bike after Session 1 at the Misano MotoGP test.

Fabio Di Giannantonio achieved “every goal of the weekend” at the San Marino MotoGP.

Max Verstappen is now officially licenced to race GT3 cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, paving the way for the Dutchman to tick off one of his bucket list items.Verstappen raced a Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 CS at last weekend's four-hour ADAC ACAS Cup, in a car that was detuned as the four-time world champion hadn't yet earned a Permit A that is required to race with high-powered GT3 or GT4 ...Keep reading

Brad Binder believes that striking Misano’s high kerbs at the wrong moment may have caused the unusual chain failures that struck both him and KTM MotoGP team-mate Pedro Acosta over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend.KTM endured one of its worst-performing weekends of the 2025 MotoGP season at Misano, with Binder ending up as the only rider from its four-strong stable to finish the race and ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff is said to regret how he handled the F1 title battles between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

Formula 1 racers, GTs and touring cars all provided some fine moments in what has been one of the biggest events of the racing calendar since 1998.It’s not all about the frontrunners, which were covered in our main report, so here we pick out some of the cars and moments that you might have missed…Read Also:Historics​​Ingram defends Goodwood crown in thriller as Huff ...Keep reading

Tom Ingram is at the top of his game. The 2022 British Touring Car champion did not need to hound down 2012 world champion Rob Huff – stymied by a 10.75-second penalty for too short a pitstop – in torrential rain, but pure racer’s instinct kicked-in at the 27th Goodwood Revival meeting’s RAC TT Celebration’s climax.Equally, Huffy yearned to be first past the chequered flag and just ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta was felled by a broken chain in the San Marino GP