Red Bull facing “difficult” F1 title fight if Austria upgrades fail to deliver

Following a tripleheader weekend at Pocono Raceway, NASCAR chose to take the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Chase Elliott and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Christopher with them back to the R&D Center for further inspection.Both cars were fine, but that was not the case for the No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet that took part in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday ...Keep reading

NASCAR's annual All-Star Race offers no points and has no impact on the champion, but one million dollars is plenty of incentive for the drivers to give it their all. Well, it's no longer the only event that offers such a prize as NASCAR introduces an in-season tournament that will span five weeks through the entire broadcast run on TNT.The driver who prevails in the end will collect the $1 ...Keep reading

Carlos Checa's back-story on his year as Valentino Rossi's teammate

Any long-time NASCAR fans know the name Larry McClure, as he was the co-owner at Morgan-McClure Motorsports alongside Tim Morgan and brother Jerry McClure, which operated a NASCAR team from 1983 through 2012. Larry's family confirmed that he passed away on Wednesday at Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Virginia.McClure's race team won 14 Cup races including three Daytona 500s. They ...Keep reading

The Trackhouse Racing teammates will compete head-to-head in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Chicago Street Course in July. Shane van Gisbergen and Connor Zilisch will both be driving for JR Motorsports that weekend, running the same sponsors but with inverse paint schemes. SVG and Zilisch are both Red Bull athletes, but this will be the first time Red Bull has appeared on a JRM car ...Keep reading

Aleix Espargaro has signed up to two races

A new Formula 1 documentary film launches next week that brilliantly shows both the raw, emotional journey and the lived experience of an eventual world champion. It covers Damon Hill’s life from when his idyllic childhood was shattered after his F1 title-winning father Graham Hill died in a plane crash, to finally winning his own championship in 1996.It’s a story laced with good and ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz Sr has announced he will not run against Mohammed Ben Sulayem for the FIA presidency.The two-time World Rally Championship champion had been considering putting his hat in the ring to contest Ben Sulayem in the election later this year - but has now confirmed he will not be a candidate.Motorsport.com broke the news in May that the Dakar winner, 63, was mulling over a campaign ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz Sr has announced he will not run against Mohammed Ben Sulayem for the FIA presidency.The two-time World Rally Championship champion had been considering putting his hat in the ring to contest Ben Sulayem in the election later this year - but has now confirmed he will not be a candidate.Autosport broke the news in May that the Dakar winner, 63, was mulling over a campaign to ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz Sr has decided not to enter the FIA presidential race.

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