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Australia’s last Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones ridiculed claims McLaren are favouring Lando Norris over Oscar Piastri in the championship fight. Piastri took the points lead off Norris at the fifth round of the season in July and held it until the Mexican Grand Prix at the end of last month. Norris has out-scored his team mate at every…

Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Comment of the day There were many excellent caption suggestions this week but the winner came from @Red-Andy: The latest tweak to the sprint race format was supposed to ‘improve the show,’ but the drivers weren’t convinced@Red-Andy  read more www.racefans.net

If you’ve been waiting for Formula 1 books by paddock pundits they’ve arrived like proverbial buses: Ted Kravitz’s “F1 Insider” joins Alex Jacques’ “75 Milestone Formula One Moments”, reviewed here two weeks ago. Why has Kravitz chosen to produce his first book now? “There’s no point writing a book after 12 years, you haven’t got anything to say,” he explained…

Concern over the quality of racing in Formula 1 this year has led the FIA’s F1 Commission to discuss increasing the number of mandatory tyre changes from one to two. At a meeting on Friday the commission did not agree to impose the new rules for the 2026 F1 season, but the proposal remains under consideration for the future. Would…

The state of the simracing genre is anything but united in 2025. On PC, pickings are rich. Established giants like iRacing continue to provide the most authentic virtual motorsports experiences possible, while Reiza Studios punch above their weight with their Automobilista franchise and even Motorsport Games appear to be in the midst of a comeback story with Le Mans Ultimate….

The Formula 1 field took to the track in kit cars ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix for the drivers’ parade. But it didn’t go entirely to plan as the Mercedes pair had to abandon their machine due to technical problems. George Russell managed to thumb a lift with the Red Bull drivers, squeezing in alongside Max Verstappen with Yuki…

Welcome to Saturday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X (Global Player) Jack Whitehall: ‘It was heavily policed, my script, for that F1 thing. They went through everything and they were like, ‘Right, no Bernie Ecclestone jokes. You can’t talk about Flavio Briatore.’ So they all got cut. There was this…

Nov 14, 2025, 12:37 PM ET Connor Zilisch will move up to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2026 after winning the Xfinity Series regular season championship this year. Sean Gardner/Getty Images The biggest prospect in recent NASCAR history joins the Cup Series field beginning in 2026. He hails from North Carolina, stands just under six feet tall, and has a résumé…

Formula 1 team bosses have warned plans to make races more exciting by forcing drivers to make two pit stops could backfire. The idea has been put forward as many races this year have been won by drivers making only the single change of tyre compound which is required by the regulations. However team bosses suspect forcing strategists to incorporate…

The first Formula E Gen4 group test has been taking place at Monteblanco in Spain this week, with five manufacturers in action behind closed doors.  The Race has tracked the running closely through its network of sources and uncovered key information about the test, which has been structured as six half day sessions running between Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. In…

While Lando Norris took a step closer to winning the world championship with his Brazilian Grand Prix victory, another driver on the podium claimed a rare achievement. It’s been more than a decade since a driver last arrived on the podium after starting in the pit lane, but Max Verstappen pulled it off on Sunday. The Red Bull driver became…

Nov 13, 2025, 10:39 PM ET YORBA LINDA, Calif. — John Force, a 16-time Funny Car champion and the face of NHRA drag racing for nearly four decades, formally retired Thursday night. The 76-year-old Force’s announcement came 17 months after he sustained a traumatic brain injury in a fiery wreck at Virginia Motorsports Park. A catastrophic engine failure sent him…

Nov 13, 2025, 04:33 AM ET Three more races. Three drivers in contention. One chance at glory with the 2025 Formula 1 Drivers’ Championship. After 21 rounds of twists and turns, ups and inevitable downs, a gripping 2025 drivers’ title race is heading towards its climax — and it’s all still up for grabs. Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max…

Max Verstappen’s virtuoso drive to a podium finish from the pit lane deserved a championship-reviving result. But Lando Norris’s victory meant that, for the first time since the Dutch Grand Prix in August, Verstappen lost ground in the championship chase. His hopes of winning a fifth consecutive crown are not over, but the Brazilian Grand Prix result was a clear…

Alex MeakinJournalist, Reading BBC The climate stripes feature on both of the rear wings of the Envision car A Formula E car will feature a design from a University of Reading professor which demonstrates rising temperatures on earth. Each stripe on the climate stripes show a year from 1961 to 2010 displayed chronologically with blue indicating cooler than average years…

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Nov 12, 2025, 05:52 PM ET Just 115 days before they officially enter Formula 1, Audi has unveiled its brand and livery colour along with its design concept for 2026. Audi took over the Sauber team earlier this year and launched the concept at an event in Munich, Germany on Wednesday as it rebrands the Switzerland-based F1 team, with a…

Feature by Katy Fairman Back for another year, the second running of the ‘Women’s Test’ gave the talent double the running compared to the inaugural opportunity last season. At the end of the six hours of track time, it was Chloe Chambers of Mahindra Racing who set the best time, but the day was about more than just lap times…

Nov 12, 2025, 10:12 AM ET Oscar Piastri has admitted that McLaren’s team orders at the Italian Grand Prix were still on his mind when he suffered a disastrous crash-heavy weekend at the next round in Baku. At Monza in September, then-championship leader Piastri was told to give second place back to teammate Lando Norris after gaining the position following…