August 1, 2025

Kalle Rovanperä has explained the factors behind new speed that elevated the Toyota driver to the lead of a World Rally Championship gravel event for the first time in almost a year.The two-time world champion has been renowned for his impressive pace on loose surface rallies particularly when the conditions become slippery, having racked up 13 of his 16 WRC wins on gravel.“Obviously it …Keep reading

Toyota’s Kalle Rovanperä emerged from an intense multi-crew fight with a slender Rally Finland lead after battling through tricky changeable conditions on Friday. There were question marks over the two-time World Rally Championship champion’s form having struggled on gravel this year, and despite not being overly comfortable with his “flat out” approach, it was enough to end Friday …Keep reading

Toyota development driver Brent Crews is forming a NASCAR Truck Series team, called Brent Crews Motorsports.The new race team will make its debut at Watkins Glen on August 8th, and Crews will be driving the No. 70 Toyota. Pristine Auction will serve as the primary sponsor. As the team gets off the ground, they will operate out of the Nitro Motorsports Trans-Am shop, located in Mooresville …Keep reading

Max Verstappen says “nothing really works” on his Red Bull F1 car setup as he finished the Hungarian Grand Prix’s Friday sessions adrift of the frontrunners.Verstappen finished the afternoon’s FP2 session in a lowly 14th position, 1.1s adrift of leader Lando Norris and behind cars from Haas, Aston Martin as well as his team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.The reigning world champion rued a lack of …Keep reading

Fernando Alonso is confident of completing the remainder of the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix weekend after missing first practice due to a back muscle injury.On Friday morning, Aston Martin announced the two-time F1 world champion would skip the first practice session with reserve driver Felipe Drugovich standing in for the team.Alonso opted to miss FP1 in order to manage a back muscle …Keep reading

Corey Heim, 23, is one of the top prospects in NASCAR’s lower divisions. He currently leads the NASCAR Truck Series championship, winning five of the first 16 races of the year with ten top fives and 12 top tens. Heim made the Championship 4 in both 2023 and 2024, and holds 16 wins in the tertiary division.Heim was signed as 23XI Racing’s first official development driver in a multi-year deal …Keep reading

2025 is the first year of its seven year, $7.7 billion TV deal that has NASCAR Cup coverage split between, FOX Sports, NBC Sports, Prime Video, and Warner Bros. Discovery. With the end of the in-season challenge on TNT Sports with an altcast on Trutv, NASCAR now returns to NBC for the final four races of the regular season and the ten-race playoffs.Leigh Diffey will again serve as the …Keep reading

Lando Norris closed out Friday’s Formula 1 practice sessions with the fastest time in FP2, finishing the session 0.291s ahead of McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri. The Briton led the times after the opening set of exploratory runs on medium tyres, setting a benchmark of a 1m16.525s on the C4 tyre – a lap that chiselled Piastri off the top of the standings by over 0.15s. After Norris set …Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes the relationship between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris “keeps improving” despite the pair fiercely battling for the Formula 1 title.The Woking squad’s two drivers have been the key championship protagonists in 2025, and this has cultivated comparisons to previous championship duopolies held by the team: the likes of Ayrton Senna vs Alain …Keep reading