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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

Chase Elliott  was the fastest man in qualifying on Saturday going into The Clash, NASCAR’s pre-season exhibition race. Getting into the main race Sunday relies on a different format than the usual Cup Series race weekend, but Elliott used a tried-and-true method: he ran the fastest qualifying lap, then lead every lap in Heat #1 to secure the best starting position in the field. As it turns out …Keep reading

Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase has explained how using a “subservient” approach with the Red Bull driver aided his Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix victory charge last season.The pair’s relationship has often grabbed attention since Verstappen’s arrival at Red Bull in 2016, with Lambiase not shy in being firm with the Dutchman even in fractious moments.But …Keep reading

Factory Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo topped the times in this week’s MotoGP shakedown test at Sepang with a last-minute flier.Quartararo broke the 1m57s barrier with just 10 minutes remaining on Saturday evening, despite race control waving red and white flags and warning against light drizzle on track.The 1m57.794s effort from the 2021 champion was four tenths up on the best time set …Keep reading

Pierre Gasly has set a bold target of a top-five finish for Alpine in the 2025 Formula 1 constructors’ championship.Alpine endured a difficult campaign last year, partly down to its A524 car being overweight at the start of the season. The team languished in ninth place until its position in the standings was substantially boosted by a double podium finish in Brazil, which vaulted it to …Keep reading

BMW has won the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour, with the WRT BMW M4 GT3 of Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde and Augusto Farfus taking its first win of the GT3 era at the classic Australian circuit and leading a 1-2 finish.Two of the changes in the race regulations since 2024 proved to be crucial and went some way to determining the winner of the race, held in hot and dry conditions at the …Keep reading

On Saturday night, NASCAR held four heat races to help form the field for Sunday’s feature event at the historic short track. Of the 39 entries, only 23 will get to compete for the Bobby Allison Memorial Trophy. After four rough and wild heat races, we now know who 20 of them are.The first heat race set the tone with some intense back-and-forth over the transfer spot which directly involved …Keep reading