May 9, 2025

Oscar Piastri has demonstrated improved tyre management sensibilities so far over 2025’s Formula 1 season, which McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says is testament to the Australian’s work with the team’s engineers.One of the criticisms levelled at Piastri in his first two F1 seasons, with regards to his gap to Lando Norris, was that his style appeared to take more life out of the Pirelli …Keep reading

Formula 1 races are won on the track, but the groundwork to creating a winning machine kicks off months before lights go out on a grand prix weekend. In the buildup to every new season, designers and engineers pore over the rules in search of loopholes – ones they can exploit in the name of speed.The advances sometimes go a step beyond finding a gap in the regulations, and become a break in …Keep reading

Johann Zarco’s LCR Honda boss Lucio Cecchinello says he doesn’t see a benefit in the French rider switching to the factory Honda team for 2026.The 34-year-old Zarco has made no secret of his desire to step up to the works squad next season, when the incumbent Luca Marini will be out of contract.Read Also:MotoGPZarco: Talks progressing to claim Marini’s Honda seat in MotoGP …Keep reading

The promoters of the MotoGP World Championship have reached an agreement with Harley-Davidson to incorporate a one-make championship into next season’s grand prix calendar, Motorsport.com has learned.While an official announcement and further details are still to come, the series is expected to feature a calendar of up to seven events, each consisting of two races.It is still unclear …Keep reading

Cast your mind back to the 2024 MotoGP world championship, or maybe we should call it Ducati’s Championship. The Bolognese manufacturer had eight bikes on the grid – twice as many as its nearest competitors. At the Thailand Grand Prix, all eight of the Ducati’s bikes finished in the top 10 of the sprint race.Of 20 races, Ducati won 19 of them, and we saw an all-Ducati podium 14 times …Keep reading

Below is an overview of all current Formula 1 grand prix deal and the duration of the contracts as of May 2025.Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix – Imola: 2025The Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola is on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2025. The Italian circuit returned to the schedule during the COVID-19 crisis and secured a multi-year contract. Flooding cancelled the 2023 event which …Keep reading

Honda will field a wildcard rider for the third time in as many MotoGP weekends when Aleix Espargaro appears at the British Grand Prix later this month.The Japanese marque has embraced the wildcard opportunity ever since the series returned to Europe last month. Espargaro rode its ‘development bike’ at the Spanish Grand Prix before ceding it to Takaaki Nakagami for this weekend’s French …Keep reading

“Pretty shocking.” That’s how Liam Lawson assesses his results, four grands prix into his newest stint as a Racing Bulls driver, following his demotion from Red Bull.“We have no points,” Lawson said matter-of-factly after another forgettable race in Miami. “Obviously Formula 1 is a lot of variables and to put a full race together could be quite tough. The speed’s been there for …Keep reading

An updated version of the World Rally Championship 2027 technical regulations is being finalised to be presented to the FIA World Motor Sport Council next month.A number of refinements to the WRC27 regulations were discussed by the WRC Commission when it met on Thursday. According to an update issued by the FIA, the biggest update pertained to bodywork while further details regarding “how …Keep reading

When Formula 1 adopted turbocharged hybrid power units for the 2014 season, one manufacturer – Mercedes – had been ploughing resources into its project longer and more intensively than anyone else. The result was almost five seasons of total dominance while rivals struggled to catch up – and in the case of Renault, you could argue it never did.The thought that the forthcoming shift to …Keep reading