Formula E

Winners and losers from Formula E’s fraught Rome weekend

Big incidents on both Saturday and Sunday – one of which will likely have huge title implications – dominated headlines in Rome. But who were the biggest winners and losers from Formula E’s latest double-header?

MotoGP

MotoGP makes format change after apparent Ducati U-turn

MotoGP’s new-for-2023 weekend format will undergo an in-season change after all, the Grand Prix Commission has announced

IndyCar

Anomaly or start of something big? IndyCar’s shock winner

Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s long IndyCar lean times ended with Christian Lundgaard’s Toronto win. Will it turn out to be a one-off helped by a strange qualifying session, or has a corner been turned at last?

Formula 1

Gary Anderson: Red Bull’s right, 2026 rules will be bad for F1

The dominant forces in 2023 Formula 1 are very vocally against F1’s 2026 rules direction. Even if there’s a bit of self-interest in Red Bull’s stance, Gary Anderson agrees that F1 is going down the wrong path with its future regulations – albeit for slightly different reasons

Formula E

Don’t let rivals’ wipeout distract you from Dennis’s brilliance

Jake Dennis is now overwhelming favourite for the 2023 Formula E world championship. And though his nearest title and race rivals took each other out in Rome, the way he won that race spoke volumes

Formula 1

F1 Podcast: The real reasons Red Bull has become so dominant

With Max Verstappen and Red Bull so dominant in the 2023 Formula 1 season but the battle behind them so eventful, we don’t tend to actually talk much about the runaway championship leader. The latest The Race F1 Podcast puts that right

Formula 1

Ricciardo’s last mid-season F1 call-up has a key parallel

Daniel Ricciardo is once again stepping into one of the slowest cars on the grid mid-season – just as he did when he made his F1 debut in 2011. And despite everything that has changed in his career since then, he has the same point to prove to the same organisation as he did back then

IndyCar

Lundgaard ends Rahal drought and Palou’s IndyCar win streak

Christian Lundgaard converted his shock Toronto pole into Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s first IndyCar victory for three seasons, halting Alex Palou’s three-race winning streak as the championship leader finished second with a broken wing

MotoGP

‘This is real’ – Stoner’s 500cc run underlines his MotoGP point

Days after saying he felt he’d missed out by never racing a 500cc GP bike, Casey Stoner got to try two classics from the era thanks to Kevin Schwantz and Kenny Roberts Jr. And it made him even more convinced about how modern MotoGP’s going wrong

Formula E

This 2024 team-mates’ clash all but ends 2023 FE title fight

Just days after The Race revealed that Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy will be 2024 Jaguar Formula E team-mates, a frightening clash between them in Rome has effectively handed Jake Dennis the 2023 FE title. Sam Smith heard from a contrite Evans and a heartbroken Cassidy

Formula E

Dennis wins after title rivals collide in second Rome E-Prix

Jake Dennis takes a 24-point Formula E world championship lead into the season-closing London double-header after main rivals Nick Cassidy and Mitch Evans collided in his wake in Rome race two

Formula 1

Vettel: F1 risks being banned by governments in the future

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel believes motorsport could be banned by governments in the future if it doesn’t make key changes