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Michelin reveals what caused Marc Marquez’s dramatic Thai GP tyre puncture

Aggressive kerbs and high track temperature have been cited as key factors behind Marquez’s Buriram retirement

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Driving for Michael Jordan, Tyler Reddick wins the Daytona 500 in wreck-filled finish

Hocevar was leading at the white flag, Elliott was leading out of Turn 4, but both got wrecked before they could reach the finish line

Motorsport

Lewis Hamilton fumes over Mexico GP penalty: “Pretty nuts”

Lewis Hamilton called his 10-second Mexico GP penalty for cutting Turn 4 “pretty nuts' as he questioned the stewards after it dropped him to P8

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Azerbaijan GP qualifying broke the F1 red flag record, here’s how

Difficult conditions and driver errors created a chaotic qualifying session in Baku, which led to a new record for the most red flags in Formula 1 qualifying

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Six shunts: How Azerbaijan GP qualifying broke a red flag F1 record

Difficult conditions and driver error created a chaotic qualifying session in Baku

Autosport

Verstappen escapes penalty for bold F1 Hungarian GP move on Hamilton

The investigation into Max Verstappen's pass on Lewis Hamilton at the Hungarian Grand Prix has resulted in no further action, as the stewards deemed that the Dutchman had not forced the Ferrari driver off the road at Turn 4.

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Max Verstappen escapes penalty for bold Hungarian GP move on Lewis Hamilton

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Who slept worst last night: Max Verstappen

Late on Sunday evening after the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, once the sturm und drang had dissipated, I typed this prompt into ChatGPT for a bit of fun: "Suppose you wanted to artificially create the perfect Formula 1 driver in a lab – what would the result be?" "Interesting question,” was…

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The Double DNF: Kyle Larson's day ends in a Coke 600 pile-up

In the third stage of the Coca-Cola 600, a three-wide situation ended in disaster exiting Turn 4. Ryan Blaney was on the outside, polesitter Chase Briscoe in the middle, and Daniel Suarez on the bottom.

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Three NASCAR Cup champions crash in Talladega pit entry stack-up

On Lap 43 of 60 in the first stage at Talladega, green-flag pit stops were well underway. Exiting Turn 4, a group of Fords planned to pit together — and that's when disaster struck.

Motorsport

F1 Brazilian GP: Piastri hands Norris Sprint victory, Verstappen fourth with penalty

Lando Norris was waved through by team-mate Oscar Piastri to win Formula 1’s 2024 Brazil sprint race, with the second McLaren saved from a Max Verstappen attack by a late virtual safety car.

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F1 Brazilian GP: Norris wins sprint after McLaren team orders - Verstappen fourth with penalty

Lando Norris was waved by team-mate Oscar Piastri to win Formula 1’s 2024 Brazil sprint race, with the second McLaren saved from a Max Verstappen attack by a late virtual safety car.

Autosport

How Mexico penalties finally set the right standard for punishing Verstappen's tactics

Here we go again. There’s still a sprint and a grand prix left in Formula 1’s penultimate triple-header of the year for things to get ugly at least a third time in this run between 2024 title contenders Max Verstappen and Lando Norris and up next after Brazil is Sin City…

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Horner doubts Norris would have made corner in Mexico Turn 4 Verstappen clash

Christian Horner doubts that Lando Norris would have made it through Turn 4 without going off track in his battle with Max Verstappen in the first of two Mexican Grand Prix incidents that awarded the Dutchman a 10-second penalty.

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Moving under braking in F1 explained: FIA rules and how they’re enforced

More stringent regulations surrounding moving under braking were introduced to Formula 1 in 2016 following drivers’ concerns around Max Verstappen’s defensive moves. Many drivers had complained to F1’s race director Charlie Whiting that Verstappen’s actions were extremely dangerous as he battled several rivals on track. Whiting had previously reassured the…

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IndyCar provides update to dashed white line and penalties for Indy 500

After much anticipation and debate, IndyCar shared how the dashed white line at the exit of Turn 4 to the pit entry attenuator will be officiated for this year’s edition of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”.

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Marcus Ericsson suffers hard crash in Indy 500 practice

The 2022 Indianapolis 500 champion and last year’s runner-up, Ericsson was the last driver in a line of four cars when he appeared to graze the curb in Turn 4 that led to him doing a 180-degree spin and pounding the outside wall.

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NASCAR Cup Darlington: Keselowski snaps 110-race winless streak

Chris Buescher, Keselowski's team-mate at RFK Racing, was working feverishly to hold off Reddick in the final laps when Reddick got into him as he attempted a slide job off Turn 4 and the two collided.

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Darlington NASCAR Cup: Keselowski snaps 110-race winless streak

Chris Buescher, Keselowski's teammate at RFK Racing, was working feverishly to hold off Reddick in the final laps of Sunday’s race when Reddick got into him as he attempted a slide job off Turn 4 and the two collided.

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F1 drivers with the most grand prix starts before victory

Lando Norris finally became an F1 race winner after taking a long-awaited victory at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix. The win came during Norris’ sixth year in the series after being one of F1’s highest-rated drivers for several seasons and coming close to victory numerous times. So when Norris finally…

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NASCAR Cup Kansas: Larson beats Buescher in closest finish in history

For a few moments there were a pair of winners, one on the scoring monitor another on the video camera, after Larson and Buescher raced side by side off Turn 4 on the final lap of overtime and stayed that way as they took the chequered flag.

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Kansas NASCAR Cup: Larson beats Buescher in closest finish in history

Chris Buescher and Kyle Larson raced side by side off Turn 4 on the final lap of overtime and stayed that way as they took the checkered flag.

Autosport

Bahrain drains filled with concrete for F1 race after testing disruptions

As first reported by Autosport, the plan to seal the drains was proposed by F1 stakeholders on the final day of the three-day test last week.Testing was heavily disrupted when a drain cover on the approach to Bahrain’s Turn 11 was forced loose.In a Bahrain race preview statement, the FIA…

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Daytona 500 Classic: Harvick beats Martin by 0.02s in frantic 2007 finish

Kevin Harvick didn’t have the quickest car at Daytona and struggled against an overheating problem that dropped him back into the murkier zones of the whirling dervish pack, but what he did have was the right move up his sleeve at the crucial moment.

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