The key change which ‘punished’ McLaren in Hungarian GP qualifying

Leading British Touring Car Championship team West Surrey Racing has explained the absence of Jake Hill and Colin Turkington from its Laser Tools BMW for the Croft round.Reigning BTCC champion Hill has been suffering from an ear infection recently and, after feeling unwell in FP1, he was replaced by WSR’s four-time title winner Turkington for FP2.Turkington, who has had to take a ...Keep reading

During Group A practice at Iowa Speedway for the NASCAR Cup Series, two-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch was looking strong in the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. He was sitting second on the overall speed carts, but disaster struck with just under nine minutes left in the session.Busch entered the weekend on the back of a 79-race winless streak, but Busch will have to come from ...Keep reading

If anyone was to profess to expecting anything other than McLaren domination in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, then they're simply telling porkies; Charles Leclerc was completely blindsided by the revelation he'd secured his first Formula 1 pole of the year. He was quite content in his aim to get a clean lap banked, as the drivers felt a perceptible shift in wind direction; as it turned ...Keep reading

Frederic Vasseur reacts to Lewis Hamilton's Q2 exit at the Hungarian Grand Prix

Toyota is on course for a Rally Finland top-five lockout after Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and Adrien Fourmaux witnessed their World Rally Championship victory hopes vanish following punctures.Kalle Rovanpera benefited from the drama that hit his nearest rivals Neuville and Fourmaux, who were sitting second and third respectively in the rally, to open up a 36.1s lead over Toyota team-mate ...Keep reading

Toyota is on course for a Rally Finland top-five lockout after Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and Adrien Fourmaux witnessed their World Rally Championship victory hopes vanish after suffering punctures.Kalle Rovanpera benefited from the drama that hit his nearest rivals Neuville and Fourmaux, who were sitting second and third respectively in the rally, to open up a 36.1s lead over Toyota ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso has downplayed the significance of Aston Martin's best qualifying result of the season.

Andrea Stella explains the reasons behind McLaren's rare qualifying defeat at the Hungarian Grand Prix

Aston Martin is a rare sight in Q3 this season. Until this weekend, Fernando Alonso had reached the final phase of a 2025 Formula 1 qualifying session just four times, team-mate Lance Stroll only once.Only at Imola back in May have both cars started in the top 10. In Spa the Aston Martins were slowest of all in qualifying, both eliminated in Q1, and Stroll only started from 16th because four ...Keep reading

Aston Martin is a rare sight in Q3 this season. Until this weekend, Fernando Alonso had reached the final phase of a 2025 Formula 1 qualifying session just four times, team-mate Lance Stroll only once.Only at Imola back in May have both cars started in the top 10. In Spa the Aston Martins were slowest of all in qualifying, both eliminated in Q1, and Stroll only started from 16th because four ...Keep reading

George Russell missed out on pole by just 0.053s in Hungary.

Max Verstappen has lamented the regression Red Bull has taken compared to last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix as he qualified only eighth for Sunday’s Formula 1 contest - claiming “nothing works”.The reigning, four-time world champion qualified third at the Hungaroring last year, but has been far from the frontrunners this weekend and was three tenths off polesitter Charles Leclerc in ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen lamented the regression Red Bull has taken compared to last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix as he qualified only eighth for Sunday’s Formula 1 contest - claiming “nothing works”.The reigning, four-time world champion qualified third at the Hungaroring last year, but has been far from the frontrunners this weekend and was three-tenths off polesitter Charles Leclerc in ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc was left distinctly flabbergasted by his own run to a "most surprising" Formula 1 pole at the Hungarian Grand Prix, having claimed that qualifying had felt "horrible" until he'd managed to reach Q3.The Monegasque was on the cusp of the drop zone during Q2, but managed to dig out a lap good enough to progress to the final stage – just as team-mate Ferrari Lewis Hamilton fell ...Keep reading

“It’s very hard to pinpoint looking from the outside as I don’t believe it to be the driver.”

Max Verstappen explains a miserable weekend so far for Red Bull.

Tom Ingram swept to pole position for the British Touring Car Championship round at Croft after topping all three phases of qualifying.As at Oulton Park, the last round before the summer break, the 2022 champion was on invincible form in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, despite being allowed just three seconds per lap of TOCA Turbo Boost due to his runner-up position in the 2025 ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc was left distinctly flabbergasted by his own run to a "most surprising" Formula 1 pole at the Hungarian Grand Prix, having claimed that qualifying had felt "horrible" until he'd managed to reach Q3.The Monegasque was on the cusp of the drop zone during Q2, but managed to dig out a lap good enough to progress to the final stage – just as team-mate Lewis Hamilton fell out of ...Keep reading