Motorsport

Maximilian Gunther (Image credit: Instagram) DS Penske driver Maximilian Gunther has a fresh reason to celebrate. The German racing driver received the FIA Action of the Year award at the FIA Awards in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He won the award for clinching an unexpected victory in the Round 3 race in Jeddah. The way he cut in at the last corner…

Nick Cassidy says his move to the World Endurance Championship has been eased by simpler hypercar systems, which he claims is “like a bit of a holiday” compared to Formula E machinery. Cassidy will combine his Citroen Formula E commitments with a full campaign in the WEC’s top category at the factory Peugeot team in 2026. It will mark just the second season…

For the 31st time since the world championship began in 1950, the drivers’ title was decided at the final round of the season. Lando Norris clinched the title in his 152nd grand prix start. Only three drivers started more races than him before becoming world champion, though as is often the case with statistics like this, that is partly due…

FIA Awards (Image credit: Formula E/X) Formula E World Champion Season 11 Oliver Rowland received his title trophy amid appreciation and applause at the FIA Awards held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Sunday. The Nissan driver decked up in a black suit as he took his iconic championship trophy alongside second runner-up Pascal Wehrlein. The latter’s team Porsche won the Teams’…

McLaren team mates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri fought for the championship until the final race of 2025. Piastri led most of the way, heading the points table for six months, but Norris ultimately prevailed. The pair first teams up three years ago when McLaren lured Piastri from Alpine and ended Daniel Ricciardo’s a year early to drop him in…

Nick Cassidy charged from 15th on the grid to finish third and give Citroën a podium finish on its ABB FIA Formula E debut with a drive reminiscent of so many high points from last season. That qualifying performance belied the pace of the Citroën package in Brazil, with team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne a more representative third on the grid. So…

Lando Norris has collected his first Formula 1 world championship trophy at an FIA gala event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Norris clinched the title in a tense Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last Sunday, beating Max Verstappen by two points and McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by 13 in what went down to the wire as a three-way fight. Englishman Norris, 26, became…

Days after the launch of Season 12, Formula E has released its Season 10 Sustainability Report. With ten years of sustainable motorsport, the championship has gone to new lengths to promote sustainable motorsport, global social impact, and environmentally responsible race weekends. This year, Formula E has the longest 17-race calendar, with each venue engineered with precision, grouping destinations by continent…

Lando Norris celebrated winning the Formula 1 title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but you won’t have seen any photos of him with the world championship trophy on Sunday night. It remains a bizarre quirk of Formula 1 and one that is a throwback to the old era of the sport, before the popularity boom which made it more…

The Yas Marina circuit held the final round of the season for the 14th time, and also witnessed its fifth decisive race for the drivers’ championship. For the first time in four years the title changed hands, Lando Norris ending Max Verstappen’s run of consecutive championship wins. He did it by just two points. This was not the narrowest championship…

Dec 11, 2025, 04:26 PM ET Years ago, I was in the garage at Darlington Raceway chatting with David Pearson, Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough. All three are among the greatest racers in NASCAR history. All three had long since retired as drivers, but all three had only recently given up trying to be Cup Series team owners, the experience…

Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Norris: From Go-Kart Dreams to World Champion (BBC) ‘It was a a mixture of things. It was a mixture of me just not getting the most out of the car because it changed quite a bit from the previous year. Having that the half of me going, I’m…

Marking ten years at the forefront of sustainable motorsport, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship continues to push the limits of what’s possible both on and off the track. Formula E isn’t just racing toward the future. It’s building it. READ MORE: Formula E’s drive for sustainability Season 12 promises the biggest, boldest calendar in Formula E history, a…

Dec 11, 2025, 10:45 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse as if they were old friends following a stunning settlement Thursday of a bruising antitrust case in which the Basketball Hall of Famer was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing the top racing series…

Michaella joins Formula E after more than an eight-year tenure at Formula 1, six of which as Head of Media Rights, where she led the broadcast and distribution strategy, negotiating multimillion-dollar rights agreements, developing strategic partnerships, and expanding distribution footprints across international markets. Prior to that, Snoeck held roles at World Rugby, and with ESPN, working on the 2012 Olympics…

Formula E has officially successfully retained its ISO 9001 certification with BSI, considered as the global gold standard for Quality Management Systems. The sustainable form of motorsport par excellence came into being in 2014 and continues to meet high standards of operational excellence. The certificate confirms Formula E adheres to precision, consistency, and efficiency when it comes to delivering world-class…

Dec 11, 2025, 09:44 AM ET Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has said Christian Horner had a “sense of entitlement” which ultimately cost him his job at Red Bull. Wolff and Horner, who was sacked by Red Bull after 20 years in June, had many high-profile spats off the track during their teams’ battles on it — most notably in 2021,…

Nico Rosberg has revealed how much he and Lewis Hamilton paid Mercedes for crashing into each other on the first lap of the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix. The 2016 world champion split the bill for the damage with his team mate following their collision at turn four of the Circuit de Catalunya. “I had a contract that I had to…

Pascal Wehrlein at Sao Paulo E-Prix (Image credit: Instagram) Formula E Season 12 started on a bittersweet note for Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein. In a proud moment, he secured pole position for the third season in a row but couldn’t benefit from it after being handed a three-place penalty. As a result, he finished fourth at the Sao Paulo E-Prix….