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Newly crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Martin has left the door open for a potential reunion with Ducati in the future.The Spaniard said he is open to working with Ducati again despite his relationship with the Borgo Panigale marque having been fractured by its decision to snub him for a factory ride.Martin was the initial favourite to step up to the seat occupied by Enea Bastianini this year, only …Keep reading

Comtoyou Racing, which won the Spa 24 Hours this year in an Aston Martin, is seriously evaluating an assault on the DTM in 2025.The Belgian squad has been holding talks with both Aston Martin Racing and DTM promoter ADAC to enter the Vantage GT3 in the championship next year.”We want to get into the series,” Comtoyou team manager Francois Verbist told Motorsport.com’s sister title …Keep reading

Fernando Alonso has claimed new Formula 2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto is the best rookie on Formula 1’s 2025 grid.Next year, Andrea Kimi Antonelli will make a highly-anticipated debut with Mercedes, Oliver Bearman and Jack Doohan will follow up on their 2024 cameos with full-time drives at Haas and Alpine respectively, while Bortoleto has been signed by Sauber alongside Nico Hulkenberg.On top of …Keep reading

Max Verstappen has conceded he sympathises with Sergio Perez’s struggles this year and insisted his Red Bull team-mate is “not an idiot” in the face of “harsh” criticism.Perez’s position with the Milton Keynes-based outfit has been hanging by a thread for the majority of the season despite signing a new contract during the campaign, with a number of disastrous qualifying runs leaving his race …Keep reading

Hours after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz was struggling to hold back the tears. A monitor was wheeled out into the paddock to display a farewell video Ferrari had produced as a send-off after the Spaniard’s four years at Maranello.All team members were wearing a special cap that Ferrari had produced for the occasion, with Sainz wearing his backwards so the embroidered “Grazie Carlos” …Keep reading

When Stewart-Haas Racing announced the imminent closure of its four-car NASCAR Cup Series operation, it sent shockwaves through the sport, while scattering a lot of talented people throughout the paddock. It’s end became the catalyst to what has become one of the silliest silly seasons in some time. Several drivers are making a change, new entries are popping up across the grid, and lawsuits with …Keep reading

Max Verstappen will not face consequences for his heated radio message at Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi season finale in which he called the FIA race stewards “stupid idiots” for handing him a penalty.On Sunday Verstappen received a 10-second penalty for colliding with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in the first corner and reacted angrily to his penalty as first-lap incidents are often judged more leniently …Keep reading

Pirelli remains unsure about exactly where its new softest C6 compound will now race, after it proved to only be good for “part of a lap” in Abu Dhabi’s tyre test on Tuesday.F1’s official tyre supplier is introducing an extra soft compound into its range for specific street circuits in 2025, which it hopes will offer better performance and open up strategy options.The initial idea was for it …Keep reading

Iron Dames has announced plans to expand its move into rallying by fielding an all-female crew in the 2025 World Rally Championship.The Italian team, working in conjunction with renowned rally squad Sarrazin Motorsport, headed by former Formula 1, WRC and WEC driver Stephane Sarrazin, will field an entry in the WRC2 class for Sarah Rumeau and co-driver Julie Amblard.Rumeau and Amblard’s …Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda described the Red Bull car as “very different” to what he is used to, after an encouraging maiden test for the squad on Tuesday at Yas Marina Circuit.The Japanese was finally given a proper test in one of Red Bull’s cars during the post-season Abu Dhabi tyre test.While lap times were largely irrelevant because of the different run programmes that everyone was doing, Tsunoda said that …Keep reading