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Lando Norris has taken provisional pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix for McLaren ahead of Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri. Monaco Grand Prix qualifying result Penalties Stroll: One-place penalty for causing a collision with LeclercBearman: 10-place penalty for overtaking under red flags Hamilton: Impeding VerstappenStroll: Impeding Gasly None announced Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2025…

Image credit: Lauren Rowland/Instagram Formula E reigning champion Oliver Rowland has a lot to celebrate right now after winning four races this season, including the latest Round 9 race in Tokyo. The Nissan driver has now announced that he is soon going to be a father again — and this time, it’s a boy.He shared the good news with an…

May 24, 2025, 07:36 AM ET Charles Leclerc went fastest for Ferrari as teammate Lewis Hamilton crashed in final Monaco Grand Prix practice on Saturday. Leclerc, who has taken pole position in three of the last four Monaco Grands Prix and won last year, led both Friday sessions around his home circuit and completed the sweep with a lap of…

Carlos Sainz Jnr has repeated his call for Formula 1 to change its qualifying format for the Monaco Grand Prix. The Williams driver wants the world championship to adopt the same special qualifying format used by its support categories Formula 2 and Formula 3 at the Monaco circuit. Sainz says congestion is a serious problem when F1’s full field is…

The day before practice began in Monaco Charles Leclerc made it clear he did not fancy his chances of repeating his 2024 victory from pole position. “Our car hasn’t been particularly strong in low-speed corners,” he said. “And there’s only low-speed corners here in Monaco. So on paper, it doesn’t look like the most promising track for us.” But he…

May 23, 2025, 02:36 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Josef Newgarden spent the final two-hour practice for the Indianapolis 500 on Friday carving through a track full of cars. He will have to do the same thing when it counts on Sunday. The two-time defending Indy 500 winner, who will start in the last row as punishment for an illegally modified…

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Image credit: Hanna Burton/Instagram Japanese-American racing driver and content creator Hana Burton, along with rally driver Maaya Orido, took part in the FIA Girls on Track program in Tokyo on the sidelines of the Tokyo E-Prix to do their bit in encouraging several young girls to take up motorsport as a career option.As part of the program, young girls between…

May 23, 2025, 08:50 AM ET Charles Leclerc smashed into the back of Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin before giving himself an early boost with the fastest lap for Ferrari in first practice for his home Monaco Grand Prix on Friday. Last year’s winner from pole position clocked the leading time of 1:11.964 around the tight and twisty harbourside street circuit,…

The new instalment of the official Formula 1 game will arrive next week. RaceFans quizzed Codemasters’ creative director Gavin Cooper on what’s new for 2025 including the updated My Team mode, reverse tracks, the third episode in the Braking Point series – and the addition of characters from F1: The Movie. RF: What are the main changes that should attract…

It cannot be just a coincidence that Maserati MSG Racing driver Stoffel Vandoorne started from the 14th position on the grid and went on to win the Tokyo E-Prix Round 8. He even managed to beat Nissan’s Oliver Rowland, who had started from pole.Vandoorne shined while others struggled with poor visibility, a slippery track, and grip issues as it rained…

Motor racing’s Super Bowl is here. It’s race week at the Indianapolis 500, the world’s largest single-day sporting event dating back to 1911, and everything leading up to this year’s great American race has been unforgettable. But there’s plenty that Roger Penske, owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series, would indeed like to forget. Penske also owns…

Alexander Albon expects Formula 1’s new tyre rules for the Monaco Grand Prix will lead to more teams trying to tactically delay their rivals. Overtaking is so difficult at the narrow Monaco circuit that drivers can easily lap much slower than race pace while not being held up by rivals behind them. A team could use that to their advantage…

Oliver Rowland is currently far ahead of his fellow Formula E drivers when it comes to on-track competition. Not only is he leading the Formula E Driver Standings, but he has also won four of the nine races in the current season.Rowland has now said it all feels like a dream—and at times, he even feels the need to wake…

Formula 1’s new tyre rules for the Monaco Grand Prix could lead to drivers gambling on when to make pit stops, says Max Verstappen. The series has introduced a special rule for Monaco only requiring drivers to use at least three different sets of tyres during the race instead of the usual two. They will therefore likely have to make…

Image credit: Dan Ticktum/Instagram The success may have come late, but when it did, it tasted all the sweeter for Cupra Kiro driver Dan Ticktum. The 25-year-old from London, finally secured a place on the Formula E podium at the Tokyo E-Prix Round 9 on Sunday, finishing third in the race.It took Ticktum 57 starts and two previous top-five finishes…

Laurence EdmondsonMay 22, 2025, 09:00 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 MONACO — There’s an unfortunate paradox at the heart of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend: Nearly every aspect that makes the circuit unique also makes it terrible for Formula 1 racing. Nowhere in the world will you see F1 cars as close…

Formula E discovered to its cost at Homestead in March just how its regulations can be problematic when it comes to ensuring sporting fairness. On several occasions this season, races have been compromised and even effectively ended by race suspensions rendering attack mode boosts obsolete. In Miami, it felt deeply unsatisfactory that what appeared to be – to the uninformed…

Formula 1’s eagerness to prevent a repeat of last year’s processional Monaco Grand Prix has led it to take the highly unusual step of implementing a special rule for this venue only. The series hopes that by forcing drivers to use three sets of tyres during a race instead of one, it might create more uncertainty and even changes of…