February 3, 2025

The start time of the Las Vegas Grand Prix has been brought forwards by two hours to an 20:00 slot for the 2025 editions, which means the race will now start at 04:00 in the UK.This is a departure from the first two races held on the city’s Strip Circuit street track, which marked Vegas’s return to the F1 calendar following a 41-year absence, with the 2023 event and the 2024 follow-up both …Keep reading

Former BMW star Timo Glock has explained how he secured a return to the DTM this year after being out of action for the last three seasons.The German has been recruited by Dorr Motorsport to lead its sophomore campaign in the DTM, where it will field a pair of McLaren 720S GT3 Evos.Glock made a number of attempts to return to the series he called his home between 2013-21, following his …Keep reading

Japanese culture is marked by tradition, and this is perfectly palpable in MotoGP, where Yamaha and Honda have resisted as much as they could before surrendering to the cruellest evidence and concluding that their methods, infallible until just over five years ago, have become completely obsolete. Neither of them managed to register a single podium last season, a statistic that confirms the hole …Keep reading

Red Bull has named Sergio Perez’s former performance engineer Richard Wood as the new race engineer for incoming Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson in 2025.Wood garnered experience on the Red Bull pit wall several times during 2024 when Perez’s regular race engineer Hugh Bird was on paternity leave.A long-term Red Bull employee, Wood joined the team as a strategist before moving into race …Keep reading

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has advised his protege Francesco Bagnaia to ‘not fall into Marc Marquez’s traps’ as the two pair up at the factory Ducati team this year.Double champion Bagnaia is set to face his biggest challenge in MotoGP in 2025, with former Honda star Marquez joining him as a team-mate after a starring performance with Gresini Racing in 2025.Although Bagnaia is …Keep reading

It was rather unexpected.George Russell, atop the sun-soaked Mercedes hospitality/engineering building in the Abu Dhabi paddock ahead of the 2024 season finale, about to unleash 15 minutes just savaging Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.Russell’s agitation even shone through his dark-tinted sunglasses. This clearly wasn’t a path he found comfortable, and there were awkward missteps in his …Keep reading

The last time NASCAR raced at Bowman Gray, Chase Elliott’s Hall of Fame father Bill Elliott hadn’t even made his Cup debut yet. But in NASCAR’s long-awaited return to Bowman Gray, it was the younger Elliott who stole the show. He was the fastest man in qualifying, won his Saturday heat race, and took a dominant victory in the feature race by leading 171/200 laps.”We don’t race in stadiums like …Keep reading