Jenson Button’s 2009 Brawn GP car* is going up for auctionThis May, in Miami, the auction house Bonhams will put up for bid Jenson Button’s Brawn GP car from the 2009 season. The car comes with an asterisk: it's not actually the one Button drove to the F1 world driver's Read More
How Pirelli is testing 2026 F1 tyres without 2026 carsPirelli has entered the next stage of preparing its smaller tyres for the 2026 Formula 1 season, with Ferrari and McLaren conducting test work of its harder tyre compounds at Barcelona this week.A lot of attention has gone to Lewis Read More
Fernandez set for return in Thailand MotoGP test after successful surgeryRaul Fernandez will be able to take part in next week’s MotoGP test at Buriram after undergoing successful surgery on his fractured finger on Thursday afternoon.The Trackhouse rider suffered a bad crash on the opening day of pre-season testing at Read More
Magnussen's brother to make car racing debutThe half-brother of former Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen is due to make his car racing debut in GB4 this season with Fortec Motorsport.Luca Magnussen, the 15-year-old son of sportscar star Jan, has grown up around motorsport and attended Read More
Bagnaia 50-50 on new Ducati MotoGP engine amid inferior brakingFrancesco Bagnaia says he is only 50 per cent sure about Ducati's 2025 MotoGP engine due to the negative impact it has had on braking performance.Two-time MotoGP champion Bagnaia has been trialling a new motor developed by Ducati during this Read More
Is Renault meddling too much with Alpine’s F1 team? Oakes refutes that theoryAlpine team principal Oliver Oakes has responded to comments from Otmar Szafnauer hitting out at the Renault leadership, asserting his Formula 1 team is "very lucky to have that support".Szafnauer was Alpine's team principal from February 2022 to July 2023. Read More
Aprilia and Michelin at odds over cause of Martin’s Sepang crashAprilia has indirectly pinpointed the blame on Michelin for Jorge Martin’s violent crash at the start of MotoGP pre-season testing in Malaysia, but the French tyre supplier has ruled itself out of any responsibility.Martin landed face-first after suffering a highside Read More
Elkins to retire as Formula E race director after Miami roundLong-time Formula E race director Scot Elkins will retire from his role following this year's Miami E-Prix, with his deputy Marek Hanaczewski set to take over.Elkins, who has fulfilled the role since 2017 and has become a common presence during Read More
Morbidelli leads Quartararo on Day 2 of Sepang MotoGP testVR46’s new recruit Franco Morbidelli set the pace on the second day of the Sepang MotoGP test, leading Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo.Riding last year’s Ducati GP24, Morbidelli posted a best time of 1m57.210s just an hour into the day’s running to climb Read More
Hamilton back in action as Ferrari and McLaren complete Pirelli F1 testLewis Hamilton was back on track with Ferrari for the Pirelli Formula 1 tyre test that took place this week at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, with Charles Leclerc fastest overall.As the new technical regulations for 2026 make F1 cars smaller and Read More
Aston Martin reveals launch plan for 2025 F1 challengerAston Martin will unveil its AMR25 car on 23 February in an online launch, a day before it gets its first on-track run at Bahrain.This will follow the team's livery reveal at F1's 75th anniversary launch event at London’s O2 Read More
MotoGP champion Martin out of Sepang test after multiple fracturesJorge Martin will miss the remainder of the Sepang MotoGP test after suffering multiple fractures in a crash on the opening day of the running.The reigning MotoGP champion was making only his second appearance aboard the factory Aprilia RS-GP when Read More
Quartararo fastest on first day of Sepang MotoGP test, Martin crashesFabio Quartararo set the quickest time on the opening day of the Sepang MotoGP test, while Jorge Martin suffered a huge crash on the Aprilia and was taken to hospital.Yamaha's Quartararo had already laid the benchmark in last week’s shakedown Read More
Zhou joins Ferrari as reserve driver after losing Sauber F1 seat Zhou Guanyu will join Ferrari as one of its reserve drivers for the 2025 Formula 1 season, taking the role alongside current incumbent Antonio Giovinazzi.Zhou recently ended a three-year stint as a race driver in F1 with Sauber (previously Alfa Read More
Alpine announces new team-mates for Schumacher in WEC 2025Mick Schumacher will be joined by Frederic Makowiecki and Jules Gounon in Alpine’s World Endurance Championship line-up for 2025. It means the ex-Formula 1 racer will have two new full-season team-mates in the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh for his second year Read More
Martin taken to hospital after huge crash in Sepang MotoGP testReigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín suffered a horror crash just two hours into the the Sepang MotoGP test on Wednesday, forcing medical services to take him to a nearby hospital.At around ten minutes to twelve in Malaysia, the Spaniard was Read More
Aston Martin completes line-up for Hypercar project in WEC and IMSAAston Martin will run an all-British line-up in one of its Valkyrie AMR-LMHs at the Le Mans 24 Hours and across the full World Endurance Championship this season.The double Le Mans class winner Harry Tincknell, who was announced as part Read More
NASCAR to introduce F1-esque fastest lap bonus point in 2025NASCAR, in a way, is taking notes from F1's old playbook. The American stock car series recently renewed its long-standing partnership with Comcast (but will cease its title sponsorship of the Xfinity Series after 2025), and as part of the Read More
This new magazine feels like the F1 museum of your dreamsYou've no doubt come across RACEWKND, the art-book-slash-magazine where each issue carries a satisfying heft and a specific theme: say, the Miami GP's inaugural race or F1 in the 1970's. Now, the team behind those all-too-periodic periodicals is back with something Read More
How Sauber’s UK hub might solve Audi’s F1 growth troublesSauber opening a technical centre for Audi's coming Formula 1 entry appears to solve one big headache for the nascent project, while also drawing new parallels with rival squad, Haas.The news that Sauber is now searching for premises on which Read More
Sauber launches UK engineering hub ahead of Audi F1 takeover in 2026Sauber is set to establish a United Kingdom base as it prepares to morph into the Audi Formula 1 factory team in 2026.The team’s headquarters will remain in the Swiss municipality of Hinwil, while running its power unit operation in Read More
Why Haas F1 won’t use Toyota’s wind tunnel despite technical partnershipHaas will continue to work in Ferrari’s Formula 1 wind tunnel despite signing a high-profile technical partnership with Toyota last year.Although Toyota's F1 team came and went expensively during the 2000s without securing a single victory, its wind tunnel in Cologne Read More
Why the FIA's F1 flexi wing U-turn might backfireThe FIA has changed its stance by imposing stricter tests on F1's controversial flexing wings to avoid the topic causing more drama over the 2025 Formula 1 season, but by delaying their introduction it is guaranteed to remain a talking Read More
MotoGP Sepang test: Schedule, riders and how to followMotoGP will host its first full-fledged pre-season test of 2025 at the Sepang International Circuit outside Kuala Lumpur on 5-7 February. The series had already organised a shakedown at the same venue last week, but only test riders, rookies and race Read More
Luck is becoming “too much of a factor” in Formula ETwo-time Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne has warned of potential unintended consequences as the all-electric championship launches its Pit Boost next week at the Jeddah E-Prix.Formula E introduced a raft of updates to its sporting and technical regulations this season, Read More
