Matt Beer

MotoGP

Silverstone MotoGP: Martin's fast start, major Aprilia upgrade

Jorge Martin came back from the summer break with blistering pace as the British GP weekend began at Silverstone, setting the fastest time in FP1 ahead of Aprilia's upgraded factory bikes

Formula 1

Three 2026 tests + no points change - latest F1 rules decisions

Formula 1 pre-season testing will be tripled in amount for 2026 when the series' significantly different new technical regulations come in

Formula 1

Aston Martin brings ex-Mercedes engine guru Cowell back to F1

Andy Cowell - who led Mercedes' engine programme through its domination of F1 from 2014 to 2020 - is joining Aston Martin to replace Martin Whitmarsh as its group CEO

Formula 1

Winners and losers from F1's 2024 Austrian Grand Prix

Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix provided some surprise winners, and a lot of losers who had a race to forget

Formula 1

'We don't want another 2021' - McLaren boss slams Verstappen

McLaren and Lando Norris launched blistering attacks on Max Verstappen's Formula 1 racecraft following his clash with Norris as they battled for Austrian GP victory

Formula 1

McLaren misses another chance to deny Verstappen in Austria sprint

McLaren missed another chance to deny Max Verstappen a F1 race win as its drivers ended up battling among themselves in the Austrian GP sprint

MotoGP

Assen MotoGP practice: Bagnaia on top, fraught Friday for Martin

Pecco Bagnaia's chances of hacking into Jorge Martin's 18-point MotoGP championship lead look good at the Dutch TT after an extremely strong Assen Friday for the reigning champion and a fraught afternoon for Martin

MotoGP

All you need to know as Bagnaia heads Marquez in Assen FP1

Pecco Bagnaia led his 2025 Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez in the opening practice session for MotoGP's Dutch TT at Assen

MotoGP

Nine more 2025 MotoGP rider deals to watch for

There are nine riders out of contract who are all dealing with the implications of a massive 2025 MotoGP silly season. Here's a rundown of what to expect from the chess pieces set to move next

MotoGP

Miller claims KTM blindsided him with 2025 MotoGP seat U-turn

Jack Miller says KTM told him it would keep him somewhere in its fold for 2025 then gave him just hours' notice that it had signed Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales for its remaining seats instead

Formula 1

Alpine brings Briatore back into F1 team in new role

Alpine has controversially hired former Benetton and Renault Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore as an executive advisor

IndyCar

McLaren drops Pourchaire in latest driver bombshell

McLaren has made yet another shock IndyCar switch by immediately dropping F2 champion Theo Pourchaire for teenager Nolan Siegel, just weeks after it replaced the injured David Malukas with Pourchaire

IndyCar

Is there still an F1 case for IndyCar's biggest enigma?

Two years on from his F1 snub, Colton Herta is no closer to the superlicence points target - or, it seems, to realising his IndyCar potential.

MotoGP

KTM's 2025 'superteam' will answer Binder doubts

KTM's signing of Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini is a huge shift of strategy - and an obvious source of pressure for its pre-2024 flagship rider Brad Binder.

IndyCar

Canapino must back up his welcome change of tone

Agustin Canapino will be back in IndyCar at Laguna Seca, which wasn't as much of a given as it might've been after the social media furore he was involved in. But he's made clear efforts to get the situation under control; if that sticks, he has the chance to restore his against-the-odds narrative

IndyCar

How Power won his first IndyCar race in two years

A first IndyCar race victory in two years - at the head of a commanding Penske 1-2-3 at Road America - thrust Will Power into the championship lead

MotoGP

Aprilia reveals how it snatched jilted Martin from Ducati

Aprilia swooped quickly for Jorge Martin when it became clear that Marc Marquez was getting factory promotion at Ducati

Formula 1

Leclerc beats Piastri to Monaco GP pole, Verstappen only sixth

Charles Leclerc claimed a third pole position for his home Formula 1 race - the Monaco Grand Prix - while Max Verstappen will only start sixth

Formula E

Jaguar wins Shanghai E-Prix with Evans but upsets Cassidy

Jaguar’s victory in Formula E’s Shanghai opener with Mitch Evans was tempered by team tactics that left its championship leader Nick Cassidy clearly disgruntled.

Formula 1

Ferrari reveals two major F1 signings poached from Mercedes

Ferrari has hired Jerome d’Ambrosio - previously Toto Wolff’s effective deputy at Mercedes - to be its deputy team principal and head its F1 driver academy, as well as confirming the signing of former Mercedes performance director Loic Serra to be its new head of chassis performance engineering

MotoGP

What Marquez learned from his best Ducati ride yet

Marc Marquez followed up his worst day and a half as a Ducati MotoGP rider with arguably his best race performance on the Desmosedici yet - converting 13th on the Le Mans sprint grid to a second-place race finish

Formula 1

What Newey's saying about his F1 future after Red Bull split

Adrian Newey dropped intriguing hints about both his Red Bull exit and particularly his future in F1 in his first interview since the news of his exit.

Formula 1

Alpine banks on doing what McLaren couldn't with its new tech chief

Alpine has hired David Sanchez - who recently made a surprise exit from the McLaren Formula 1 team just three months after his much-heralded arrival from Ferrari - in a new executive technical director role

Formula E

Jaguar choreography earns Monaco Formula E 1-2

Jaguar pulled off a team choreography masterclass to take a Monaco Formula E 1-2 with Mitch Evans ahead of its current main title hope Nick Cassidy

Formula 1

Verstappen dominates China sprint featuring best racing of 2024

For almost half of the Chinese GP sprint there seemed a very real prospect of Lewis Hamilton finally taking a first F1 race win since December 2021 - until Max Verstappen got going properly, that is

Formula E

'What a mess!' - Da Costa wins mad Misano Formula E race

Antonio Felix da Costa shrugged off the doubts over his Porsche future and emerged on top of Formula E's most extreme 'peloton' race yet in its Misano opener

Formula 1

Winners and losers from F1's 2024 Australian Grand Prix

An unlikely biggest winner and an even more unlikely loser after Formula 1's action-packed 2024 Australian Grand Prix

Formula 1

How Ferrari earned a shock 1-2 after Verstappen DNF at Australian GP

Talk of Red Bull (or Max Verstappen all by himself) winning every single race of the 2024 Formula 1 season is already over after a dramatic failure for the world champion opened the door for the returning Carlos Sainz to lead a shock Ferrari 1-2 in the Australian Grand Prix

Formula 1

Perez loses third on Australian GP grid with impeding penalty

Red Bull faces at least a small inconvenience to overcome in its pursuit of a third straight 1-2 at the start of the 2024 Formula 1 season with Sergio Perez having been demoted from third to sixth on the Australian GP grid for impeding Nico Hulkenberg

MotoGP

MotoGP podcast: Mid-season rider changes? Your questions answered

We're answering your questions on The Race MotoGP Podcast this week, including on the prospect of mid-season rider changes at two teams in particular

Formula 1

Verstappen on Saudi F1 pole, Bearman makes Ferrari qualifying debut

Max Verstappen again kept Formula 1’s main storylines at arm’s length as he took a comfortable Saudi Arabian Grand Prix pole ahead of a much closer battle behind, while Ferrari’s teenage stand-in Ollie Bearman came agonisingly close to a top 10 start on his F1 debut

MotoGP

Eight reasons MotoGP will be even better in 2024

MotoGP 2023 had its flaws, but it grew into the championship’s greatest title fight in years, and it was equally good value off-track too. But 2024 is going to be even better argues Matt Beer

IndyCar

IndyCar legend and ex-F1 team boss de Ferran dies aged 56

Indianapolis 500 winner, two-time CART champion and McLaren Formula 1 advisor Gil de Ferran has died aged 56

MotoGP

MotoGP 2023 melted my frozen heart

The 2023 MotoGP season was good enough to reignite a fan-like passion for motorsport that had retreated into the background over the years

Formula 1

Punishing Wolff and Vasseur would've been a travesty

FIA stewards have given Toto Wolff and Fred Vasseur warnings over the language they used in an explosive Las Vegas GP press conference last week. That's an extremely sensible outcome

Formula 1

Wolff and Vasseur summoned to stewards over Vegas comments

Mercedes' Toto Wolff and Ferrari's Fred Vasseur have been summoned to the stewards in Abu Dhabi over their conduct in a bad-tempered Vegas press conference

Formula 1

What caused Vegas GP crash that sent Norris to hospital

Lando Norris is undergoing precautionary medical checks after a massive crash early in Formula 1's inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix

Formula 1

'I just struggled' - Hamilton explains yet another Mercedes swing

Lewis Hamilton exited Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying in Q2 as once again Mercedes had a massive gap between its two cars' pace

Formula 1

Leclerc on Vegas F1 pole as Ferrari denied a deserved 1-2

Charles Leclerc and Ferrari carried their Thursday form into a commanding Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying performance, but Carlos Sainz's contentious grid penalty means Max Verstappen will join Leclerc on the front row

MotoGP

'I'd be very sad' - MotoGP riders sound off on Honda's sudden dilemma

Marc Marquez and several of his MotoGP peers give their view on what Honda should do for 2024, with Fermin Aldeguer emerging as an alternative option to Fabio Di Giannantonio