Formula 1
Podcast: Which drivers deserve to be F1’s next rookies?
Three new drivers joined the Formula 1 grid this season after a wild silly season, but can we expect a similar rookie influx for 2024?
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MotoGP
KTM’s hardball Yamaha/Honda MotoGP stance is aimed at Dorna
KTM wants six bikes on the 2024 MotoGP grid. Dorna isn’t keen. But Dorna might need KTM’s help to make Yamaha and Honda more competitive…
Formula 1
Gary Anderson’s mid-season verdict on each F1 team
As the 2023 Formula 1 season takes its summer pause, Gary Anderson gives his comprehensive assessment of what each team is doing right and wrong this year across their designs, upgrades, team management and driver line-ups
NASCAR
What happened to Button and Kobayashi in latest NASCAR race
Formula 1 veterans Jenson Button and Kamui Kobayashi both had bruising midfield runs as they joined part of the NASCAR Cup Series’ latest influx of international guest stars at the championship’s Indianapolis road course round
Formula 1
The Mercedes F1 protege facing a test of his reinvention
Mercedes junior Frederik Vesti, who will make his F1 weekend debut at Mexico City later this year, prided himself on improved consistency in his second season of Formula 2, so can he bounce back from his first major wobble and convince Mercedes that he needs to be a bigger part of its F1 plans?
IndyCar
Palou escaping Ganassi’s McLaren fury feels unjust
Ganassi’s attacking McLaren over its handling of the Alex Palou situation, but Palou himself is escaping criticism from the team he’s twice appeared to try to leave. It’s obvious why Ganassi is keen to keep Palou on-side, says Jack Benyon, but it’s still uncomfortable
Formula 1
Could this ‘super-intermediates’ plan save wet F1 races?
Pirelli is open to developing what have been dubbed “super-intermediate” tyres that would be used as a single specification of wet-weather Formula 1 rubber. But the situation’s not as simple as Pirelli just getting on with making a better tyre
IndyCar
Dixon gets first IndyCar win of 2023 from 15th on grid
Scott Dixon somehow emerges from a first-lap clash to win the Indianapolis road course race from 15th on the grid, while Ganassi team-mate Alex Palou is now on the brink of the title despite being involved in that collision too
IndyCar
Ganassi attacks McLaren for ‘interference’ amid Palou row
IndyCar team owner Chip Ganassi has issued a scalding statement accusing rival McLaren of “interference” in the battle over championship leader Alex Palou’s future
IndyCar
Who McLaren could sign after Palou’s dramatic snub
With runaway IndyCar championship leader Alex Palou having seemingly backed out of a 2024 deal with McLaren to stay at Ganassi, McLaren now has a huge hole to fill
IndyCar
IndyCar’s surprise poleman has been under-appreciated too long
“I’ve seen plenty of the hate, plenty of the can’t do it, can’t compete with the kids, can’t whatever,” said Graham Rahal after ending a six-year IndyCar pole drought at Indianapolis. Jack Benyon argues any such ‘hate’ has always been unjust
Formula 1
Mark Hughes: Why a qualifying DRS ban would barely hurt Red Bull
Even if reports of plans to ban DRS use in Formula 1 qualifying sessions come to fruition, it’s not going to do much to stop Red Bull, as Mark Hughes explains