May 8, 2025

Kansas Speedway has been on the NASCAR schedule since 2001 and while it has had its moments, no one circled it as the ‘action track’ when looking at the calendar every year. However, that changed swiftly with the arrival of the Next Gen car.While the car has made short track racing and road courses duller than before, it has shone rather brightly on intermediate tracks, and that is never more …Keep reading

William Oakes, the brother of former Alpine team boss Oliver Oakes and a director at Hitech Grand Prix, was arrested last week and charged with transferring criminal property.The 37-year-old was arrested on Thursday (May 2) in the Silverstone Park area of Northamptonshire in the UK, reports the Telegraph. He was subsequently charged with transferring criminal property by the Metropolitan …Keep reading

Satellite Honda rider Johann Zarco has spoken in the clearest terms yet about his desire to take Luca Marini’s factory seat in 2026.While the Frenchman did not use Marini’s name in an interview with Dorna ahead of his home race at Le Mans this weekend, the Italian’s contract is up at the end of this season. Honda’s other factory rider, Joan Mir, is contracted until the end of …Keep reading

After back-to-back victories by Team Penske’s Austin Cindric and Joey Logano, they will look to continue the trend this weekend at Kansas with Ryan Blaney looking to join his teammates in the playoffs.William Byron leads the regular season standings, 13 points clear of Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson. Larson is also the defending winner of this Kansas race, beating Chris Buescher by …Keep reading

Red Bull was a formidable team in 2024, but a late surge from McLaren threatened to topple the squad and snatch both titles from under its nose. But just as a real challenge from McLaren was materialising, cracks started to form, and it could only take the constructors’ crown last season. Now, with a dominant car and two drivers at the top of their game, is McLaren at risk of another near …Keep reading

It’s somehow appropriate that Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton should have banged wheels at the penultimate corner on the last lap of the Miami Grand Prix, because they were occupying a similar space elsewhere too.Such was the length and volume, though, of Hamilton’s tirade against his team over the radio that Sainz’s similar angst went almost unnoticed at the time.“Obviously, if …Keep reading

Aprilia factory rider Marco Bezzecchi has revealed that his mentor and former boss Valentino Rossi gives him advice informed by data to which the highly-connected MotoGP legend has privileged access.Speaking with Motorsport.com over the most recent Spanish Grand Prix weekend, where Rossi was present, Bezzecchi was asked whether his support remained as strong after his move from Rossi’s VR46 …Keep reading

Pedro Acosta has been declared fit to contest this weekend’s French Grand Prix following the MotoGP rider’s recent arm-pump surgery.The KTM man went under the knife on the Tuesday following last month’s race and test at Jerez, after finally admitting to a condition that has troubled him since the start of his MotoGP career in 2024.“The [previous] times I had problems, it was very …Keep reading

Robert Wickens was always going to get back into a racing car after the life-changing injuries he sustained at the wheel of an Indycar at Pocono in 2018. He never doubted it, and nor did those around him. So no one should be surprised that his comeback is gathering pace with an IMSA SportsCar Championship campaign aboard a Chevrolet Corvette equipped with the latest-generation of hand-controls …Keep reading

MotoGP races all over the world. From Spain to Japan, America to Germany, and almost everywhere in between – sorry, penguins, there’s still no Antarctic GP yet – and at tracks new and old. And some even in locales familiar to those outside the world of two-wheeled racing.Each year, MotoGP’s circus descends upon a town in France called Le Mans. And, knowing a little bit about racing, or …Keep reading