Matt Beer

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

Formula 1

Video: Why did Mercedes' weekend go wrong so abruptly?

A nightmarish one-off or an unwelcome sign of a wider problem? We look at the implications of Mercedes' awful Brazilian Grand Prix

Formula 1

Ferrari explains what caused Leclerc's pre-race crash

Ferrari believes it was an electronics issue that sent Charles Leclerc into the wall on the Brazilian Grand Prix formation lap, and admitted it reoccurred almost immediately while he was trying to make it back to the pits for repairs

Formula 1

'Inexcusable' Mercedes performance leaves Wolff lost for words

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff had been downcast after his cars slid backwards through the Interlagos sprint race. But his misery level plunged through the floor after the Brazilian Grand Prix itself

Formula 1

What F1's new pitlane blocking rule doesn't fix

Formula 1 has taken action to prevent a repeat of the pit exit traffic jams that have caused controversy in recent qualifying sessions. But it's not a permanent or universal fix

Formula E

What is Formula G? Heidfeld and Gill's new series relaunches

The new electric single-seater championship being created by former Mahindra Formula E team boss Dilbagh Gill and Formula 1 and FE podium-finisher Nick Heidfeld has been rebranded from its original ACE Championship name to Formula G

Formula 1

Winners and losers from F1's 2023 Mexican Grand Prix

The 2023 Mexican Grand Prix went immediately wrong for the man most in the crowd were hoping was going to win it, so it'll be no surprise where Sergio Perez ends up in our list of winners and losers this week. But who else was a big disappointment and who impressed us most?

Formula 1

F1's Mexican GP red-flagged after huge Magnussen shunt

The Mexican Grand Prix has been red-flagged at half-distance due to barrier damage from a heavy crash for Kevin Magnussen

Formula 1

Verstappen eases to Austin F1 sprint win ahead of Hamilton

Max Verstappen led home Lewis Hamilton to win Formula 1's sprint race at the United States Grand Prix at Austin

Formula 1

Verstappen hits back with sprint race pole at Austin

Max Verstappen bounced from losing out on pole position for the United States Grand Prix by topping qualifying for the sprint - and this time keeping pole after the chequered flag