Formula 1

Red Bull’s dodged problem it feared most after cost cap penalty

Red Bull’s started the 2023 Formula 1 season with a huge advantage over its rivals despite its cost cap breach penalty having limited its development work for five months now. Scott Mitchell-Malm looks at why it appears to have shrugged its punishment off

Formula 1

Podcast: F1 2023’s surprise early midfield star

Williams headed into the new Formula 1 season expecting to be at the back, but we explain why its start to 2023 has been better than anticipated in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast

NASCAR

What happened in Raikkonen and Button’s Austin NASCAR outing

A brief top four cameo from Kimi Raikkonen and a praiseworthy 18th-place finish for Jenson Button were the headlines of the two Formula 1 world champions’ very respectable NASCAR Cup Series appearances at Austin

MotoGP

Marquez will never serve penalty if he misses Argentine GP

Injured Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez will not have to serve the penalty he was handed for crashing into Miguel Oliveira and Jorge Martin at Portimao if he is not fit for next weekend’s Termas de Rio Hondo event

MotoGP

Injured rival calls Marquez a repeat offender who must improve

Jorge Martin – one of the two MotoGP riders collected and injured by Marc Marquez in the Portuguese Grand Prix pile-up – has lambasted the six-time champion and says he just keeps making the same mistakes

MotoGP

Marquez penalised for crash, ‘completely agrees’ with sanction

Marc Marquez has received a double long-lap penalty for hitting Miguel Oliveira and Jorge Martin in MotoGP’s season-opening Portuguese Grand Prix, and feels his punishment is the right call

MotoGP

Race ban calls over Marquez’s Portimao MotoGP crash

Marc Marquez’s riding is under fire again after the multi-bike pile-up he triggered in MotoGP’s Portuguese Grand Prix season-opener, with one leading rival calling for him to get a race ban

MotoGP

Marquez suffers hand injury in Portimao MotoGP collision

Marc Marquez will have a potential hand fracture checked in hospital after ploughing into Miguel Oliveira during MotoGP’s Portuguese Grand Prix

MotoGP

Bagnaia dominates MotoGP opener, Marquez triggers pile-up

Pecco Bagnaia opened his MotoGP title defence by keeping Maverick Vinales at a safe distance in the Portuguese Grand Prix, while Marc Marquez caused a multi-bike accident in the lead pack

Formula 1

Gary Anderson assesses modern F1’s most dominant teams

Red Bull looks like it might have the potential to pull off one of modern Formula 1’s most dominant performances in the 2023 season. But we’ve seen a lot of domination in 21st century F1 so far, as Gary Anderson explains

Formula E

Winners and losers from Formula E’s Sao Paulo debut

Gen3 underachiever no more, Jaguar was the big winner from the Sao Paulo E-Prix – while several Formula E drivers were left to rue its chaos

Formula 1

Vowles was wrong to spurn ‘real deal’ Sargeant at Mercedes

Williams was right to believe Logan Sargeant is “the real deal” according to its F1 team principal James Vowles – who overlooked Sargeant for a junior driver role at Mercedes