May 29, 2025

In 2024, the Nashville race weekend was the 19th race of the season, and when NASCAR took on ‘Music City,’ it ended up being one of the most consequential races of the year.Denny Hamlin was about half-a-lap away from taking the white flag and ensuring he would win the Cup race at Nashville, with Ross Chastain a close second. Joey Logano, who was winless so far that season, ran 14th. But …Keep reading

McLaren is shrugging off suggestions it will be affected by the Spanish Grand Prix’s flexi-wing clampdown, as Motorsport.com can reveal the team has already trialled its stiffer wing to good effect in Imola.After imposing stricter limits on rear wing flexing in the off-season, and tightening them further in China and Japan, F1’s governing body has also implemented harsher tests from this …Keep reading

It’s noteworthy that, amidst great intrigue over the tightening up of rules on so-called ‘flexi-wings’, and the likelihood of the Barcelona circuit layout favouring Red Bull this weekend, the main questions directed at Oscar Piastri ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix concerned his team-mate, Lando Norris.Four wins this season – including three consecutive victories between Max …Keep reading

For the first time in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series, a race was featured exclusively on streaming. The numbers are in and they are solid for the first outing. The Coca-Cola 600 peaked a 2.92 million viewers with over one million watching the extended post-race show, but most importantly, the average median age of viewers went down by seven years.As NASCAR chases a younger demographic …Keep reading

A clause in Max Verstappen’s contract to exit the Red Bull team for 2026 will close as long as he is within the top four of Formula 1’s world drivers’ championship by the end of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, Motorsport.com understands.The four-time world champion is currently third in the championship, 57 points clear of fifth-placed Charles Leclerc, and should Verstappen stay over 50 …Keep reading

Max Verstappen says the fresh clampdown on front wing flexing won’t impact his Red Bull’s performance and is sceptical about the FIA’s intervention affecting his rivals as well. After imposing stricter limits on rear wing flexing in the off-season, and tightening them further in China and Japan, F1’s governing body is also implementing harsher tests from this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in …Keep reading

As drivers prepare for the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, there we still lingering questions in Barcelona relating back to the Monaco Grand Prix and how best to improve the racing spectacle in the Principality.After the introduction of two mandatory pitstops failed to produce any noticeable uptick in entertainment this year, former racer Alex Wurz pitched in with three ideas to alter the circuit …Keep reading

Before Brad Pitt started shooting the F1 movie, he sat down with the entire grid at the British Grand Prix. The A-lister made the highly unusual move of joining the closed drivers’ briefing ahead of the race at Silverstone in 2023, where production was set to begin.In an interview with GQ, Pitt revealed he told the drivers, “if we’re ever in the way, just tell us to f**k off.” By …Keep reading