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With Christian Horner sacked from his team principal position, Red Bull closes a chapter spanning all the highs and lows of the team’s history—one that includes two dominant eras, first with Sebastian Vettel and later with Max Verstappen, but it the recent downturn too. The narrative pitched to the Thai shareholders that outgoing team members were replaceable and that Horner himself was the ...Keep readingView the full article

Brodie Kostecki has taken Dick Johnson Racing back to the winners’ circle after two winless years, taking out the 20th race in the 2025 Supercars championship on the streets of Townsville in Far North Queensland. Kostecki, who took his 16th career pole and his first since moving to DJR at the start of the season, beat Tickford Racing’s Cam Waters away at the start of the race and was never ...Keep readingView the full article

Born and raised in the UK to American parents, FIA presidential candidate Tim Mayer worked with the governing body between 2009 and 2024, but his connections with motor racing go much deeper than that. His father Teddy Mayer, who died in 2007, was one of the driving forces behind McLaren for almost two decades. From the company’s foundation in 1963, Mayer Sr provided the business acumen and ...Keep readingView the full article

Bernie Ecclestone counts Christian Horner as one of his closest confidantes in the Formula 1 paddock, but the billionaire didn’t mince his words when asked about his friend’s firing from Red Bull Racing. Horner was the sport’s longest-tenured team principal when he was unceremoniously sacked earlier this week after 20 years in the role. It followed a high-profile sexting scandal that ...Keep readingView the full article

For the longest time, NASCAR had just two road courses on the Cup schedule -- Sonoma Raceway and Watkins Glen. However, the series has rapidly expanded that number in recent years with Cup races at the Indianapolis Road Course, Daytona Road Course, Road America, Charlotte Roval, Circuit of the Americas, as well as events in Mexico City and on the streets of Chicago. Some of these tracks ...Keep readingView the full article

Martinsville Speedway is one of the oldest tracks on the NASCAR schedule, and it was part of the original eight-race season in 1949. The historic half-mile hosts two Cup races every year and is part of the Round of 8 playoff round. Since 1964, the track known as the 'paperclip' has given out a very special trophy to the winner -- a grandfather clock. The first recipient was Fred Lorenzen, who ...Keep readingView the full article

Incoming Red Bull F1 team boss Laurent Mekies has paid tribute to the ousted Christian Horner in his first interview in the new role. On Wednesday morning the news broke that long-time Red Bull chief Horner has been dismissed with immediate effect, ending a 20-year reign that saw the Milton Keynes squad claim six constructors' titles and eight drivers' championships. Horner appeared to have ...Keep readingView the full article

The current MotoGP concessions system has two deadlines which determine what level of concessions manufacturers will have in the following six months. One falls at the end of the 2025 season, while the other comes just before the annual summer break – which makes next weekend’s Czech Grand Prix the cut-off point. Ducati, the brand with the fewest concessions thanks to its ongoing ...Keep readingView the full article

MotoGP title contender Alex Marquez has received the green light to take part in Free Practice 1 at the German Grand Prix this weekend. The Gresini Ducati rider, who is recovering from a hand injury sustained at Assen last time out, was passed fit for Friday morning by MotoGP’s medical team today (10 July). But the Spaniard will need to get through a further fitness test following the ...Keep readingView the full article

Emil Frey Racing boss Jurg Flach has revealed suspicions that rival DTM teams are heating tyres without permission. It is illegal in the German championship to use tyre blankets before a race with this seen as a move to save energy consumption and cost. But in the wake of last weekend’s Norisring round, Flach has launched these suspicions after watching Manthey Porsche driver Thomas ...Keep readingView the full article

The V4-engined MotoGP bike that Yamaha is developing was two seconds a lap slower than its current inline-four racer in testing at Brno last week, according to factory rider Alex Rins. Last week, Rins and Pramac Yamaha racer Miguel Oliveira conducted a private test at the Brno circuit, where the Iwata-based manufacturer’s test team also worked on the V4 project with two of its test riders ...Keep readingView the full article

Christian Horner became the youngest team principal in Formula 1 history when he took the reins at Red Bull in 2005. Two decades later, he departed as one of the championship’s longest-serving and most decorated leaders, having overseen eight drivers’ and six constructors’ world championships. Read Also: Formula 1How Christian Horner’s Red Bull exit mirrored his F1 arrival ...Keep readingView the full article

Laurent Mekies has big shoes to fill as Christian Horner's successor as Red Bull Formula 1 chief, after the former Racing Bulls, Ferrari and FIA man was confirmed in the role on Wednesday. After the shock announcement of Horner's dismissal, Red Bull Racing will get just its second CEO in its entire existence in the form of former Racing Bulls team boss Mekies. Working across engineering and ...Keep readingView the full article

After a difficult start to the 2025 season, Marco Bezzecchi won the British Grand Prix from 11th on the grid, making it his first win in more than 600 days – after last taking to the top step of the podium at the 2023 Indian Grand Prix. In a candid talk with Motorsport, his crew chief Francesco Venturato tells us everything we need to know about how Bezzecchi is slowly, but surely, rising ...Keep readingView the full article

It is the perfect time of year, in Britain at least, to have time on one’s hands to get all green-fingered. Following his unceremonious departure from Red Bull, Christian Horner should embrace the time to care for his flowers or manicure his lawn, because he will have plenty of gardening leave on which to do so. Read Also: Formula 1Christian Horner sacked as Red Bull F1 team ...Keep readingView the full article

From day one at Red Bull Christian Horner was fully aware of the ruthlessness in F1. So perhaps Wednesday’s announcement that he was being “released from his operational duties” shouldn’t have come as such a bolt from the blue. When we spoke during the writing of Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing, Horner recounted how he was asked to wait in the car park while Red ...Keep readingView the full article

Andrea Kimi Antonelli may lack experience in Formula 1 – the teenager in his first season in the series and under the Mercedes microscope – but if he is concerned about a run of grands prix that has seemingly set him back, he has the right mentor and team principal in Toto Wolff to help him rediscover his touch. Wolff has, more than once, admitted it was a risk to sign the 18-year-old to ...Keep readingView the full article

With his third career victory at the Chicago Street Course in 2025, Shane van Gisbergen became the winningest foreign-born driver in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series. Of course, NASCAR is a deeply American form of auto racing, so non-Americans winning isn't exactly commonplace. Until the top level of the sport raced in Mexico City in 2025, there hadn't been a points-paying Cup race outside ...Keep readingView the full article

After a pair of road course races, David Malukas is happy to be back on an oval this weekend for IndyCar’s doubleheader at Iowa Speedway — even if it promises to be one of the season’s biggest challenges. Ovals have been where the No. 4 AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet driver has truly shined in 2025. He scored a second-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 and led a race-high 67 laps at Worldwide ...Keep readingView the full article

Christian Horner says his sacking as Red Bull F1 team boss "came as a shock" in his first public comment since the news broke on Wednesday morning. Red Bull's Austrian leadership informed Horner on Tuesday night that it had relieved him of his duties as F1 CEO and team principal, following a stint of 20 years at the helm. Horner guided the Milton Keynes-based squad to two successful spells ...Keep readingView the full article