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Honda confirmed on Tuesday morning that it has signed David Alonso for 2027 and beyond, but stopped short of revealing whether he will race for its factory MotoGP team alongside Fabio Quartararo or at LCR Honda.
The announcement comes several months after Alonso's move to Honda was agreed, securing one of the sport's brightest young prospects for the Japanese manufacturer. Still only 20, the ...Keep reading

Reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou turned a tactical stroke of fortune and pure driving grit into a landmark night at Nashville Superspeedway, holding off defending race winner Josef Newgarden to claim Monday’s Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix.
The victory was the 24th of Palou’s career and his fifth of the season, extending his championship lead by 27 points ...Keep reading

Starting dead last on an injured knee, David Malukas sliced through the field and led 59 laps en route to an improbable third-place finish in Monday's postponed Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix.
The 24-year-old Chicago native overcame a hospital visit, a grid penalty, and an ill-timed caution at Nashville Superspeedway to claim his fifth podium of the season. 
Malukas entered the ...Keep reading

With his fifth victory of the 2026 IndyCar season, Alex Palou is now 83 points ahead in the fight for the championship.
Despite being briefly hospitalized on Saturday following a practice crash and starting from the rear of the field, David Malukas snagged a podium and jumps up into second in the standings. Kyle Kirkwood is now third, 87 points back of the lead and four points behind ...Keep reading

Nashville native Josef Newgarden fell just short of a repeat victory in his backyard, finishing second to reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou at the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix.
Newgarden, 35, entered the weekend as the defending winner at the 1.33-mile concrete oval. Despite a strong front-row start of second, Newgarden was unable to lead a single lap during ...Keep reading

It was a big weekend for Spain in both the World Cup and IndyCar, as Alex Palou claimed victory over a trio of Penske drivers in the Monday afternoon race at Nashville.
Josef Newgarden finished second, while David Malukas drove from the very back to a podium after being briefly hospitalized following a Saturday practice crash.
Of note, Mick Schumacher earned his career-best finish in eighth ...Keep reading

Reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou continued his assault on the 2026 season by winning the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Speedway.
After starting fourth in the #10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, the Spaniard took control just past halfway and went on to win by 0.8731s over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden at the 1.33-mile concrete oval. It marks ...Keep reading

This is becoming repetitive at this point, but Shane van Gisbergen continues to impress as he rapidly progresses his craft on ovals in NASCAR. 
The three-time Supercars champion keeps adding milestone after milestone. In September, 2025, he earned his first oval top ten in Cup. In May, 2026, he earned his first top five. And this past weekend at North Wilkesboro, he was less than a car length ...Keep reading

Following the Belgian Grand Prix, Racing Bulls team-mates Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad were spotted returning home on an easyJet flight.
Formula 1 is typically associated with luxury travel, VIP hospitality and private jets. But the Racing Bulls pair opted for a more budget-friendly option after the race at Spa-Francorchamps.
Lawson shared a selfie alongside his rookie team-mate on his ...Keep reading

After 30 years, NASCAR has finally returned to North Wilkesboro with a points-paying Cup race, and it was the No. 22 Team Penske Ford of Joey Logano holding off Denny Hamlin to claim the win.
He lapped most of the field, leaving just six cars on the lead lap and putting everyone from 11th on back at least two laps down. It was a sensational showing in a surprisingly clean race.
Track ...Keep reading

Todd Gilliland has done it again with his season-best finish Sunday at North Wilkesboro, advancing into the finals of the In-Season Challenge, where the winner will receive a $1 million prize.
The Front Row Motorsports driver finished eighth, eliminating 2020 NASCAR Cup champion Chase Elliott, who finished 17th after being trapped off the lead lap when an ill-timed caution flew. 
Gilliland ...Keep reading

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago at Spa-Francorchamps, a teary-eyed Kimi Antonelli struggled to maintain his composure in the media pen, amid an ordeal of a sprint weekend where he was twice out in Q1 and finished both races well down the order.
Now, Antonelli is Italy’s second-most successful driver in Formula 1 history, having triumphed in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix – ...Keep reading

Formula 1 broadcaster and host of the official press conferences Tom Clarkson believes Ferrari missed a trick by not signing Gianpiero Lambiase to work alongside seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, describing the engineer as the ideal "buffer" for the British driver.
Hamilton endured a frustrating Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. Although he recovered to finish fourth, his race was ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes George Russell's difficult 2026 campaign will ultimately benefit him in the long term.
Russell suffered another retirement at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after an opening-lap clash with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. In addition to the collision, which left him beached in the gravel, Russell had already encountered an ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said his team has been positively surprised by its pace in the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, feeling seventh-placed Lando Norris could have finished second without his grid penalty.
Norris took a 10-place grid drop after taking a new Mercedes battery for the Spa weekend, exceeding his allowance for the year due to previous reliability issues.
While ...Keep reading

The last thing that a Formula 1 aerodynamicist wants is to see their car dangling precariously from a crane - beyond the implication of their driver being rendered unable to take further part in the session.
F1 teams like to keep their floor designs secret, since this is the part of the car that generates the most downforce. Much of the detail tends to remain hidden when the car is on-track or ...Keep reading

Sergio Perez has described his final six months at Red Bull as "toxic", revealing that the immense success of the Milton Keynes outfit ironically bred internal friction and drama.
The Mexican driver spent four seasons alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull, contributing to a dominant era for the team. However, during an appearance on the High Performance podcast following his return to the grid ...Keep reading

From the very beginning, it was clear that the Formula 1 weekend at Spa-Francorchamps would present a major challenge in terms of energy management. The "energy-starved" circuit in the Ardennes features long straights and fast corners, with few opportunities to harvest energy.
As a result, drivers had to rely solely on the internal combustion engine through the second sector (around 540 ...Keep reading

Oliver Solberg admitted that a clean weekend and a return to the World Rally Championship podium at Rally Estonia was important for him mentally after a series of costly mistakes.
Just 12 months ago, Solberg truly announced himself on the world stage courtesy of a mesmerising run to a sensational maiden WRC win on his Toyota Rally1 debut.
Last year, there was no pressure on his shoulders but ...Keep reading

Toto Wolff admitted that Mercedes has the strongest Formula 1 power unit, which has sparked interest from Red Bull, as the ADUO monitoring comes into the spotlight again.
One of the major political hot topics of the new F1 era has been ADUO when the FIA revealed Red Bull-Ford Powertrains was considered the benchmark on the grid and not Mercedes. Having taken its assessment purely from the V6 ...Keep reading