Articles: Motor racing

The Pole-Sitter Knows What’s Coming. “It was about getting two laps in at the beginning, not making any mistakes.” Lando Norris’s explanation of Saturday’s qualifying performance captures the problem awaiting Formula 1 drivers at Interlagos. He secured pole before the rain intensified, but Sunday’s São Paulo Grand Prix could demand another sequence of decisions made […]

NASCAR has shortened the YellaWood 500’s final two stages to discourage fuel conservation. Michael McDowell thinks teams will find a way to save fuel anyway. That disagreement may decide Sunday’s 2026 NASCAR YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. The overlooked advantage isn’t necessarily raw speed or even drafting position. It’s the ability to save enough fuel […]

“In Austin, obviously, we go back to a normal weekend, and I feel like we can explore a lot more.” Kimi Antonelli sounds like a driver discussing an engineering experiment. He is actually preparing for his first opportunity to become Formula 1 world champion. Mercedes has an awkward problem: its championship-leading driver believes the latest […]

Max Verstappen has discovered something rather useful about Singapore: when overtaking is almost impossible, starting first is an excellent business model. Saturday’s Sprint victory, followed by Grand Prix pole position, puts the Red Bull driver in command. Yet Lewis Hamilton’s relentless opportunism, Ferrari’s front-row challenge and McLaren’s spectacular failure of internal diplomacy suggest Sunday’s race […]

Max Verstappen has taken pole for Saturday’s Singapore Sprint, and the bookmakers have responded by pricing him as though George Russell has already agreed to follow him around Marina Bay like a particularly expensive escort vehicle. Russell, inconveniently, has other ideas. He topped FP1, qualified just 0.120 seconds behind Verstappen, and did it in a […]

Kimi Antonelli arrived in Baku talking about leaving himself a tiny margin for error. Mercedes promptly removed something more useful: most of his first practice. A hydraulic issue limited the championship leader to seven laps in FP1, while George Russell put the other Mercedes fastest, four tenths clear of Max Verstappen. Antonelli’s +125 price therefore […]

Lando Norris arrives at the F1 Monza GP with clear evidence. He took pole at Zandvoort by 0.102 seconds over George Russell, then won the Grand Prix after McLaren transformed when it moved from the soft tire to the hard. Norris has now won consecutive races, while championship leader Kimi Antonelli is expected to start […]

Lando Norris will start the final Dutch Grand Prix from pole position after producing a 1:11.163 as rain approached Zandvoort in the closing minutes of qualifying. George Russell missed him by 0.102 seconds, with championship leader Kimi Antonelli another 0.031 behind in third. The grid says Norris. Saturday morning supplied a less comfortable answer. Russell […]

Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Spain looked important. Charles Leclerc’s win at Silverstone made it feel significant. This is the ingredient that makes the Belgian Grand Prix prediction a fascinating journey. Now Formula 1 arrives at Spa-Francorchamps, a circuit that rarely allows flattering illusions to survive for very long. The longest lap on the calendar rewards […]

Austria gave Formula 1 an answer: Mercedes are genuinely quick. Silverstone may ask a much more interesting question: How fast is a car when expectation climbs into the cockpit with the driver? For most of this season, Mercedes have lived a rather comfortable existence. Kimi Antonelli was the extraordinary rookie collecting victories and leading the […]