'Here come the yellow cars' as NASCAR playoffs shift at Loudon

Lando Norris was asked about Oscar Piastri's difficult weekend at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Max Verstappen has closed the gap on the McLaren duo with back-to-back wins.

McLaren team boss Andrea Stella reckons his Formula 1 squad needs to improve its pitstop hardware after further struggles in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Lando Norris was the only McLaren driver to score points in Baku as he finished seventh while championship leader Oscar Piastri crashed out on lap one.But Norris’ bid to progress through the pack was halted by his slow, 4.1s pitstop on lap ...Keep reading

Sam Osborne’s maiden British Touring Car Championship triumph at Silverstone last weekend was emotional for many reasons, not least because of the health concerns that forced his younger brother Jamie out of the Northamptonshire Mini Challenge event.Osborne Jr had been the dominant Mini driver this season, triumphing in five of the first six races. Although the NAPA racer’s advantage had ...Keep reading

McLaren team boss Andrea Stella reckons his Formula 1 squad needs to improve its pitstop hardware after further struggles in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Lando Norris was the only McLaren driver to score points in Baku as he finished seventh, while championship leader Oscar Piastri crashed out on lap one.But Norris’ bid to progress through the pack was halted by his slow, 4.1s pitstop on ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has apologised to his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc after failing to give eighth place back to the Monegasque on the final lap of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Ferrari's plan was simple: with 10 laps remaining, Leclerc was ordered to let Hamilton past to chase down Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson. With the Briton on fresher tyres, he was the more likely driver to succeed in ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri, as everyone knows by now, is not a man of many words. When he binned his McLaren on the very first lap of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, his race engineer asked over the radio "Oscar, are you okay?"; his reply was a calm "Yeah". Moments later, he was unplugged and out.What was unusual, though, was that he didn’t head straight to the TV pen afterwards to face the journalists’ ...Keep reading

He just knows it, doesn’t he?Call it ego, call it self-confidence. But he just knows he’s the best driver in the world. Not many would disagree, either. Some would argue, but there’s nothing on this planet that can shatter Max Verstappen’s conviction in his own superiority over the rest. There are many good ones — excellent, even — in Formula 1. But there’s only one Max ...Keep reading

63 laps into the NASCAR Cup race on Sunday, leader and eventual race winner Ryan Blaney got quite the scare as Cody Ware went spinning directly in front of him. Blaney had to lock up the tires, but managed to avoid becoming collected in the incident.A replay made it clear that Austin Dillon got into the No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang of Ware, sending him spinning. At the time, Ware was ...Keep reading

“We’re all trying to win a championship for their family. It’s unfortunate that we were racing that way.”That’s how Denny Hamlin ultimately feels about the incident between himself and Ty Gibbs on Lap 111 of the NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon.This was the byproduct of roughly 10 laps of really aggressive racing for 11th between Gibbs ...Keep reading

After locking out the front row in qualifying, Team Penske dominated Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at NHMS. Ryan Blaney claimed victory, fending off Josh Berry in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford.This is Blaney's 16th career Cup win and third of the 2025 season with a victory that also locks him into the penultimate round of the playoffs as he hunts his second championship."Yeah, that was probably ...Keep reading

All of the 12 remaining playoff drivers made it to the finish, with eight finishing inside the top ten. 2023 NASCAR Cup champion Ryan Blaney captured the checkered flag, becoming the first driver with a guaranteed spot in the Round of 8.Blaney's veteran teammate, Joey Logano, did a great job dragging himself from below the elimination zone, entering -2 but leaving +24 as he looks to become a ...Keep reading

On Lap 118, a chaotic restart saw the field fanning three and four-wide as they raced through the first set of corners. RFK Racing's Brad Keselowski was bold enough to try five-wide, but there simply wasn't enough room for it.He sent it deep onto the apron, but quickly realized he was running out of space. He touched the inside wall and collided with Shane van Gisbergen beside him. SVG went ...Keep reading

During the NASCAR Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, things unravelled between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates in a huge blowup.While Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin (who are both in the playoffs) were trying to fight their way forward, teammate Ty Gibbs stood in their way.After a spirited battle, Gibbs actually made contact with Bell and radioed to the team that he "won't take anymore ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella doesn't think Lando Norris could have done much better than seventh in Baku's Formula 1 race after being stuck in traffic.After a difficult qualifying in gusty conditions, Norris qualified a lowly seventh after looking fast all weekend, not helped by a slip-up in Turn 15 on his best Q3 lap.On Sunday Norris couldn't manage to move up, losing seventh to ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella doesn't think Lando Norris could have done much better than seventh in Baku's Formula 1 race after being stuck in traffic.After a difficult qualifying in gusty conditions, Norris qualified a lowly seventh after looking fast all weekend, not helped by a slip-up in Turn 15 on his best Q3 lap.On Sunday Norris couldn't manage to move up, losing seventh to ...Keep reading

Who impressed and who had a race to forget at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix?

Bubba Wallace and Shane van Gisbergen spent a good part of the summer racing Legends cars alongside IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin. Taking part in the mid-week Summer Shootout Series, Wallace would share their weekly adventures through YouTube vlogs.A part of the fun included a friendly bet about qualifying with the slowest of the group forced to buy lunch/dinner. Wallace also made a comment ...Keep reading