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PUMA has announced Rachel Robertson, who took part in the all-female racing series round in Las Vegas in 2025, as its full-time F1 Academy driver for 2026.
Robertson began competitive karting in 2022 and went on to compete in the British Kart Championships within a year of starting. The Scottish driver was selected at the end of 2024 to drive with Radical Racing Rebels in the 2025 Radical Cup ...Keep reading

Topps has offered a first look at a one-of-one Lewis Hamilton "Diamond Anniversary" card that has a genuine diamond embedded within it as part of the Dynasty Diamond Relics run.
This comes as the seven-time Formula 1 world champion readies himself for the new 2026 regulations - a mental reset for the driver who had a troubling first year at Ferrari after moving from Mercedes. Finishing the ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans says lessons have been learned and areas for improvement identified to become world rally champion after the agony of losing the title by four points to Sebastien Ogier last year.
The Toyota driver heads into the 2026 season as a five-time title runner-up and the most successful driver of the current WRC crop yet to secure a world title. Last year, Evans came the closest he’s been ...Keep reading

Eryk Goczal claimed a shock win for Toyota customer Energylandia in Stage 9 of the Dakar Rally, as Nani Roma surged from fourth place to assume the overall lead.
The 410km test from Wadi ad-Dawasir to Bisha turned Dakar on its head, with overnight leader Nasser Al-Attiyah and several key contenders losing significant time due to navigation issues.
Early on, reigning World Rally-Raid ...Keep reading

Alpine have announced that they are parting ways with Jack Doohan ahead of the 2026 season, ending a whirlwind experience for the Australian at the team.

Isack Hadjar has opened up about how he has managed to bounce back from difficult moments in his racing career, including the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, which he said felt like his world was collapsing.
The French-Algerian driver started his rookie Formula 1 season on a sour note when he crashed during the formation lap of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. He had just five days to turn ...Keep reading

McLaren boss Zak Brown has vowed that his squad's errors from the 2025 Formula 1 season will only make it stronger in years to come.
The British outfit dominated large spells of last year while rivals faltered, and wrapped up its second consecutive constructors' title by September's Singapore Grand Prix.
But McLaren made much harder work of securing its first drivers’ championship since ...Keep reading

Alpine release Australian reserve driver Jack Doohan before the 2026 Formula 1 season.

Alpine release Australian reserve driver Jack Doohan before the 2026 Formula 1 season.

Alpine release Australian reserve driver Jack Doohan before the 2026 Formula 1 season.

Alpine release Australian reserve driver Jack Doohan before the 2026 Formula 1 season.

Jack Doohan is leaving the Alpine Formula 1 team for the 2026 season.
A product of the Alpine Academy since his Formula 2 years, Doohan graduated to its F1 line-up at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, getting a head start ahead of his maiden campaign in 2025.
But by then, Alpine signed a number of reserve drivers, including Franco Colapinto. Doohan struggled – he outqualified Pierre Gasly ...Keep reading

More Than Equal has named five drivers to join its development programme alongside its current trio Ivonn Simeonova, Lana Flack and Skye Parker.
Alexia Danielsson, Amelia Wyszomirska, Gianna Pascoal, Julia Angelard and Zoe Florescu-Potolea have joined the programme aimed at developing elite female racing drivers after a talent search and assessment.
More Than Equal, founded by Karel Komarek ...Keep reading

Only at the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals could you see the expressions on the podium’s face after the preliminary feature and have it make sense.
Kyle Larson won the race and simply climbed out of the car softly and waved to the crowd. It was kind of a muted expression. Briggs Danner finished second and was happier than the winner. Cannon McIntosh was third and looked as if he crashed ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell won his second consecutive Chili Bowl Invitational Race of Champions, and fourth overall, but this one was especially meaningful.
It marked the first time he had won a race in a car out of his own shop, and it came at home in the star-studded preliminary, that serves as the opening salvo of the Chili Bowl.
His car was fast, but Bell was also fortunate in that he was the ...Keep reading

The return of The Chase for the Championship has immediately been pitched to NASCAR fans as a return to civility.
This of course doesn’t mean a loss of intensity or consequence but those who were part of the announcement on Monday at NASCAR Productions believe that points racing will result in a product that is a little more professional.
And in the process, everyone involved ultimately ...Keep reading

There are plenty of drivers in the IndyCar Series that Tony Stewart believes could find success at the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, but he hailed Santino Ferrucci as the only one with enough courage to do it.
Stewart, a two-time Chili Bowl winner (2002, 2007) and three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion who also hoisted an IndyCar title 1997, is back at the Tulsa Expo Center for the 40th edition ...Keep reading

NASCAR's championship format has just undergone its latest change, but it's far from the first time the Sanctioning Body has tweaked the way it crowns a champion.
Red Byron winning the inaugural season in 1949, The King earning his first crown in 1971, Dale Earnhardt winning his seventh in 1994, Jimmie Johnson's historic run of five in-a-row in 2010, and Kyle Larson's latest triumph in 2025 -- ...Keep reading

Nico Rosberg's venture capital firm, Rosberg Ventures, has now shot beyond $200million in assets under management after it closed a $100million deal for its third fund.
On the announcement of the fund's close, the German-born racer posted the following on LinkedIn. 
"We’ve just closed our $100m Fund III at Rosberg Ventures, oversubscribed with unprecedented demand, and capped allocations ...Keep reading

Starting in 2026, NASCAR will revert to a variation of the Chase for the Championship format it used to crown its champions from 2004-to-2013.
In other words, no more win and you’re in and no more multiple elimination rounds. Most importantly, the sample size to determine the champion is no longer a single race but a 10-race points race.
However, unlike NASCAR’s first version of a ...Keep reading