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Sometimes, you need to believe in fairy tales, even the ones that take the longest to come true, almost an entire career. On a rainy July afternoon soaked in magic, on a track steeped in legend, Nico Hulkenberg rewrote his story by stepping onto the Formula 1 podium for the first time.For years, it had remained just an elusive dream, a finish line never crossed. But at the British Grand Prix …Keep reading

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem reiterated his support for F1 to move to much cheaper V8 engines as soon as the 2029 season and also weighed up the chances of a 12th team joining the Formula 1 grid.Speaking to Fleet Street journalists at last weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Ben Sulayem urged the series to move to a cheaper engine formula as soon as viable and thinks that move …Keep reading

Four-time WRC world champion and Toyota deputy team principal Juha Kankkunen will pilot the latest hydrogen-powered rally car from Toyota at Rally Finland. The GR Yaris Rally2 H2 Concept will make its debut on the Harju stage of the event, which runs from 31 July until 3 August.The car has been extensively developed at the Toyota WRC team’s headquarters in Jyvaskyla, Finland, and is based …Keep reading

Why did Thomas Preining stay in his cockpit after taking his third Norisring DTM victory on Sunday, then unsteadily limp to his father instead of jumping on the roof of his Porsche like he usually does?”Unfortunately, I injured my ankle while running in the woods at home three weeks ago, then there were two 24-hour races and now here,” the Manthey driver told ran.de, referring to his major …Keep reading

Ferrari will run at the Hypercar minimum power for the first time at this weekend’s World Endurance Championship round at Interlagos.The Italian manufacturer’s 499P Le Mans Hypercar, which is unbeaten in the WEC this year, will race at 480kW (644bhp) under the Balance of Performance for the Brazilian event on Sunday.That means it has lost 35kW (47bhp) since last month’s Le Mans 24 …Keep reading

McLaren CEO Zak Brown thinks Lando Norris’ Canadian Grand Prix clash with Oscar Piastri has actually helped his confidence as the two team-mates battle for the Formula 1 world title.In June’s Montreal race Norris clattered into the back of Piastri in the fight for fourth, his biggest setback so far as he aims to overhaul his Australian team-mate for a drivers’ championship that they are all …Keep reading

Shane van Gisbergen remains near-unstoppable on the streets of Chicago. In five starts between the Xfinity and Cup Series, he has won four of them. The only race he attempted but didn’t manage to win was the Cup race in 2024, and that’s because he got wrecked out of the event.With his latest victory, he joins Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, and Christopher Bell as the only drivers with multiple Cup …Keep reading

It was another wild Cup race at Chicago with non-stop action from start to finish. While Shane van Gisbergen sweeping the weekend was a rather predictable outcome, it didn’t take away from the fact that the race was full of storylines. In fact, there were so many winners and losers, we can’t possibly mention them all here.There was Kyle Busch, who came back from a lap down to score a top five …Keep reading

McLaren’s Formula E team is set to be closed down at the end of the current season as efforts to find a buyer for the outfit have proven unsuccessful, Motorsport.com understands.Following its decision to enter the World Endurance Championship with a Hypercar chassis for 2027, McLaren elected to withdraw from Formula E after three seasons in the all-electric championship and redirect its …Keep reading

Nico Hulkenberg shrugged off the unwanted record of having the most Formula 1 starts without a podium by taking third at the 2025 British Grand Prix.The shock result came at the German’s 239th grand prix start, as the Sauber driver benefited from correctly timed pitstops while rivals faltered with strategy at a wet Silverstone.It was a long time coming for Hulkenberg, who joined F1 with …Keep reading