Motorsport

Alpine will again run a pink livery for the final races of the 2025 season. The team has run pink liveries for selected races over each of the past four years to mark its sponsorship deal with BWT. In 2022 and 2023 it began the year using the pink colour scheme and last year it switched to using the design…

Sauber will mark the coming end of its association with sponsor Stake with a special livery for this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix. The usual liveries of the two C45s will be wrapped in chequered flag graphics for this weekend’s race at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. The third special livery Sauber has created this year will only be seen…

There will be no new Formula 1 game for major platforms next year for the first time since Codemasters took over the franchise in 2009. Franchise owner EA has confirmed the 2026 roster of drivers, cars and teams will be offered as paid-for downloadable content for owners of this year’s game, F1 25. The update will add next year’s new…

Max Verstappen won the world championship in Las Vegas 12 months ago but this year’s race could rule him out of contention for a fifth consecutive title. The Las Vegas Grand Prix is the first of three consecutive rounds which will conclude the 2025 F1 season. Here are five talking points for the third edition of F1’s race on the…

Porsche will run two factory teams from 2026-27, creating a four-car works effort in Formula E and using the new entry to develop talent for the Gen4. Porsche Motorsport will expand its Formula E programme from the 2026-27 season by introducing a second factory team, becoming the first manufacturer to operate four works cars on the grid. The new structure…

Williams will race in a special livery at this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix. The team’s “all black” design is to promote a brand of its title sponsor Atlassian. The usual predominantly blue livery will be largely black for the upcoming round at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. Other teams are expected to reveal special liveries for Formula 1’s showpiece…

Porsche will become the first manufacturer to run four factory cars in Formula E by adding a surprise new ‘junior’ works team for the 2026-27 season. The Race can reveal details of the sensational plan for Porsche to expand its factory operation, in addition to supplying one customer team at the start of the Gen4 era that begins at the…

Nov 17, 2025, 08:26 AM ET Ella Hakkinen, the daughter of two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika, has been added to McLaren’s driver development programme as the team ramps up its commitment to female talent. Just 14 years old, Hakkinen’s racing experience has so far been limited to karting, but she joins the programme in preparation for her single-seater debut…

Two years ago Formula 1 chose to extend Pirelli’s contract as its official tyre supplier, turning down a rival bid from Bridgestone. “The company’s commitment to quality, innovation and their deep knowledge of our sport will be vital in the coming years,” enthused F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali. “Quality” was not the word which sprung to mind three days earlier, during…

Porsche is shaking up Formula E convention in a big way by committing to creating a second factory team from the start of the Gen4 era. Such a decision inevitably prompts plenty of questions: where did this come from and what was the motivation? How will it work in practice? What does it mean for the state of competition? Sam…

Formula 1 begins three consecutive weekends which will conclude the season and decide the drivers’ championship with the never-underhyped Las Vegas Grand Prix. The world championship cannot be won this weekend but with points-scoring opportunities running out it could prove a make-or-break weekend for Lando Norris and his rivals. The third edition of the Las Vegas Grand Prix will start…

Formula E Tech Inside Porsche Cayenne Electric SUV In just two days, Porsche will officially unveil its second electric SUV to the world on November 19. The Cayenne Electric will be the latest chapter in the SUV’s history, which has been around since 2002. However, the new Cayenne-E will not just be another electric vehicle from Porsche, it is also…

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…