There is nothing particularly new in the way Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton conducted themselves on and off the track on Sunday, either in the history of Formula 1 or motorsport more generally. Clashes between team-mates have, in some cases, reached levels of tension that make what happened between the two Ferrari drivers at Monza look relatively minor. But in this particular case ... Keep reading
A frantic penultimate round at Donington Park has completely turned the 2026 British GT title picture on its head as Rob Collard and Hugo Cook emerged victorious. The Barwell Lamborghini pair obliterated the field from lap one to cross the line 15.595s ahead of Kevin Tse and series debutant Chris Lulham, with their 2 Seas Mercedes team-mates Charles Dawson and Aaron Walker completing the ... Keep reading
The third Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) season burst on to the legendary Imola asphalt this weekend, marking a huge leap forward for the series. Autonomous racing has, for the first time, raced at a circuit beyond Yas Marina. A2RL’s five Pro Teams - Polimove (IT), Unimore Racing (IT), Kinetiz (UAE), Constructor University (DE), and reigning champions TUM (DE) - took to the ... Keep reading
For the first time A2RL, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, held a competitive race away from its Yas Marina home. Italy’s infamous Imola was the stage, A2RL’s five Pro teams were the players. With blind crests, lumps, bumps, and obstacles they’d never encountered before, the autonomous pilots tackled the new challenge with aplomb. How did it play out in a new territory? Locals ... Keep reading
Ferrari claimed its first World Endurance Championship victory of 2026 at the Lone Star Le Mans after the race-leading Toyota suffered a late mechanical failure. Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway had appeared set to score Toyota’s first win at the Circuit of the Americas in nine attempts, having climbed their way up the pack from ninth on the grid. But with just 15 minutes ... Keep reading
The Italian Grand Prix is probably the worst venue for a spat to brew up between team-mates but that is what happened at Monza as Lewis Hamilton finished a distant sixth after Charles Leclerc barged him into the gravel on the opening lap. Leclerc then spun off into the Parabolica barrier at high speed at the end of the second lap, inducing a red flag. The outcome of the weekend was that ... Keep reading
The Audi Formula 1 team has notified the FIA of its intention to appeal against Yuki Tsunoda's non-penalty in the Italian Grand Prix. Amid confusion over where he was supposed to line up on a lap 6 restart, Tsunoda parked in his correct 14th grid slot, but at an angle towards the inside wall. Race director Rui Marques was "not comfortable" with Tsunoda's position, so imposed an extra formation ... Keep reading
Kimi Antonelli's sensational win from the back of the grid in the Italian Grand Prix was thanks to a great drive, but perhaps also a little help from strategy and a timely virtual safety car. The Italian was the only Mercedes driver to make a pitstop during the race - and ultimately defeated his team-mate and championship rival George Russell. Mercedes split the strategies between its ... Keep reading
Mikey Doble took victory in the British Touring Car Championship finale at Croft, a race in which all of the overall series contenders were involved in accidents. The Power Maxed Racing Audi A3 Saloon star-in-the-making led all the way from reversed-grid pole position while, of the championship top four, Ash Sutton, Tom Ingram and Ricky Collard were all eliminated, and Dan Cammish finished a ... Keep reading
Kimi Antonelli’s Italian Grand Prix win from 19th on the grid was a statement performance and extends his lead in the Formula 1 world championship to 66 points. With a maximum of 10 rounds left – subject to the Qatar and Abu Dhabi GPs and the situation in the Middle East – the Italian driver is in a supremely strong position to seal the 2026 world title. Read Also: Formula ... Keep reading
Kris Meeke claimed a maiden European Rally Championship win after delivering a dominant run to victory at Rali Ceredigion in Wales. The five-time World Rally Championship winner, co-driven by Noel O’Sullivan, delivered a masterclass performance on the ultra-fast and challenging asphalt stages, in his first ERC start since Rally Poland 2006. Meeke took the victory by 38.6s from Teemu Suninen ... Keep reading
Formula 1 world championship leader Kimi Antonelli has taken a sensational home win at the Italian Grand Prix, coming from 19th on the grid to defeat Mercedes team-mate George Russell. In an action-packed display of battery-led yo-yo racing, Antonelli overcame a grid penalty and a mid-race pitstop to scythe through the field and defeat long-time leader Russell, with Max Verstappen beating the ... Keep reading
Charles Leclerc says he needs “a few additional checks” following his Italian Grand Prix crash, in order to make sure he’ll be fit next weekend for Formula 1’s Madrid round. Leclerc lost control of his Ferrari SF-26 at high speed in the Parabolica at the end of lap two and suffered a hefty impact against the wall, which caused a red flag. The Monegasque was taken to the medical ... Keep reading
Ash Sutton put in a sublime drive at Croft to extend his British Touring Car Championship points lead in the second race – despite hard-compound tyres on a damp track. Sutton started his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus Titanium on the front row alongside the polesitting Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla GR Sport of Josh Cook, and passed the West Countryman around the outside into Tower ... Keep reading
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix, bringing out the red flag after two racing laps at Monza. At the end of the second lap, Leclerc was defending fourth position from McLaren's Oscar Piastri when the Ferrari driver suffered a snap of oversteer and lost the rear of his Ferrari through the fast Parabolica right-hander. Leclerc spun in the outside ... Keep reading
Josh Cook took victory in the first British Touring Car Championship race at Croft after surviving a last-corner attack from Ash Sutton, despite not crossing the finish line in front. Tom Ingram was first past the chequered flag but, in the wake of a crackdown on track-limits offences, he had been given a five-second penalty, which relegated him to third in the results. The race began on a ... Keep reading
There are magical days, but there are also special places. Monza is one of them for Pierre Gasly. Six years after his triumph with AlphaTauri, in what was one of the most unpredictable Formula 1 races ever, the Frenchman took the first pole position of his career in the most unexpected way possible. Even Alpine itself had not predicted that it could get involved in the fight for the very top ... Keep reading
Going into the Italian Grand Prix, of all the storylines and narratives being composed, absolutely none of them involved Pierre Gasly and Alpine. That’s not dismissive of the French driver or the Enstone team, but Ferrari competing on home soil with a decent chance of victory and an Italian in Kimi Antonelli leading the championship was always going to take every column inch available this ... Keep reading
Ferrari driver Antonio Giovinazzi claimed his second pole of the 2026 World Endurance Championship at Austin after ending up tied at the top of the times with Cadillac’s Jack Aitken. Giovinazzi led the way after posting a 1m52.445s lap aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar as the chequered flag fell at the end of the 10-minute Hyperpole session on Saturday. Aitken then stopped ... Keep reading
Lando Norris believes he could have set a quicker lap in Monza qualifying had his team-mate Oscar Piastri not made a mistake in the closing moments of Italian Grand Prix qualifying, which may effectively have cost the defending Formula 1 world champion a few positions on the grid. Norris was ninth in qualifying, with his best Q3 lap coming on his first attempt. His 1m22.256s put him seventh in ... Keep reading