October 8, 2024

The Race of Champions will return in 2025 with the event heading to Australia for the first time in its storied history.Sydney will host the event that pitches the best talents from various motorsport disciplines in head-to-head nation versus nation and individual battles.The New South Wales capital’s former Olympic stadium will welcome the Race of Champions from 7-8 March, a week before the …Keep reading

For the first time in the series’ 25-year history, Supercars will switch to a three-stage split season, with the opening eight rounds counting for a Sprint Cup and the two endurance races determining an Enduro Cup champion.Should those be two different drivers, both will be seeded into the final three events along with however many other drivers are needed to make 10, and drivers will be …Keep reading

The 2024 IndyCar Season has concluded, crowning Alex Palou as its champion for a third time in just five seasons. And all while Palou was fighting for a three-time champion finish, the rest of the season filled itself out with enough intrigue, adding in drama and controversy, along with the complexities of the long-awaited hybrid system. But in the end, it was a stunning display of racing — …Keep reading

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is a very capable superspeedway racer. His first-ever Cup win came at a drafting track, along with his second, and his third, and now his fourth. Two Cup wins at Talladega and two at Daytona since moving to the series full-time over a decade ago, including a dramatic victory in the 2023 Daytona 500.But Talladega almost ended very differently for Stenhouse, who crossed the …Keep reading

When over half the field crashed near the end of Talladega’s 500-mile event, several cars were left stranded despite sustaining minimal damage. Stationary burnouts and arguments with track workers ensued as drivers were desperate to remain in the race. For the multiple playoff drivers involved, there was an added sense of urgency. Chase Briscoe was actually told to put his hand over the latch if …Keep reading

Incoming Haas Formula 1 driver Ollie Bearman has already made important impressions on the American squad concerning his “maturity” and “ability to understand the bigger picture”.This is the view of team principal Ayao Komatsu, who has signed Bearman to race alongside Esteban Ocon in an all-new 2025 Haas driver line-up.Ferrari junior Bearman, who has been impressing Haas since he made a rookie …Keep reading

Following several successful cameos in recent months, Formula 1 is set to reverse a trend by welcoming an influx of rookie drivers in 2025.For the first time in history, the 2024 Formula 1 grid featured an unchanged driver line-up compared to the one that saw out the previous season, with zero newcomers lining up in Bahrain. The contrast with 2025 could hardly be much bigger, with four expected …Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat believes Lamborghini can challenge for victories in the World Endurance Championship in 2025 by upgrading the SC63 LMDh.Lamborghini joined the Hypercar class of the WEC this year with a single car entered on a factory basis by Iron Lynx and raced by Kvyat, Mirko Bortolotti and Edoardo Mortara.The Italian marque’s best result of the year is a 10th-place …Keep reading

It’s hard to measure exactly what aspect of any given motor race excites punters the most. But if we use the tone of voice adopted by MotoGP’s various television pundits as a yardstick, the answer in Japan was clear: Pedro Acosta.And one suspects that the mixture of volume and reverence among the broadcasters when Acosta was doing absolutely anything on screen was indicative of what was going …Keep reading

Ex-Alpine team boss Otmar Szafnauer has accused the team’s Renault ownership of focusing on the longevity of their own careers rather than success in Formula 1.Speaking on ex-F1 broadcaster Jake Humphrey’s High Performance Podcast, Szafnauer opened up on his year-and-a-half as team principal at the Alpine team, explaining his sacking during the 2023 Belgian GP weekend and its fumbling of Oscar …Keep reading