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Laurent Mekies has hailed Isack Hadjar’s 2026 F1 Belgian GP performance as his “best race with us” after the Red Bull driver charged from P21 to sixth at Spa-Francorchamps. Red Bull, alongside McLaren and Aston Martin, elected to take a number of power unit component changes at Spa-Francorchamps, accepting grid penalties in the hope that…
Ernesto Rivera executed a patient tyre-management strategy to claim an impressive victory in the 2026 F3 Feature Race at Spa-Francorchamps. The Campos Racing driver started fourth and initially dropped to fifth. However, Rivera protected his tyres during the opening laps before calmly overtaking each of the leading contenders as their performance began to decline. Rivera…
Following the 2026 F1 Belgian GP, Scuderia Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur analysed Lewis Hamilton’s penalty and the performance of the team as Charles Leclerc finished 2nd. Starting P4 and P5 following Lando Norris’ grid penalty, the team had a mixed first lap. The Monegasque flew up to 2nd by the end of the Kemmel straight,…
IndyCar’s 12th race of the 2026 season around the Nashville Superspeedway is done. View the full race results here. Kyle Kirkwood fires away from the pole after going unanswered during qualifying. Oval specialist Josef Newgarden slots into second, hungry for another Nashville race win in his own backyard. Scott McLaughlin, championship leader Alex Palou, and…
Round 12 of the 2026 IndyCar season has been completed at the Nashville Superspeedway, view the full race report here. Championship contender Kyle Kirkwood started on pole position, with Josef Newgarden, Scott McLaughlin, points leader Alex Palou and Scott Dixon completing a quality top 5 on the grid. Christian Lundgaard and David Malukas would be…
Fionn McLaughlin produced an impressive recovery drive to finish P13 in the 2026 F3 Feature Race at Spa-Francorchamps. The Hitech TGR driver started from P29 following a difficult first visit to the Belgian circuit. However, he combined careful tyre management with several decisive overtakes to climb 16 positions through the field. McLaughlin eventually finished only…
Nikola Tsolov extended his advantage at the top of the 2026 F2 Drivers’ Championship after finishing third in the Feature Race at the Belgian GP. Rafael Câmara converted pole position into his second Feature Race victory of the season. Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak claimed his maiden F2 podium in second, while track-limits penalties dropped Alexander Dunne and…
Ugo Ugochukwu retained the lead of the 2026 FIA Formula 3 Drivers’ Championship following the Feature Race at the Belgian GP. However, his advantage over Freddie Slater fell from 18 points to just one. The Campos Racing driver finished 20th and failed to score for the second time during the Spa-Francorchamps weekend. Meanwhile, Slater recovered…
McLaren F1 driver Oscar Piastri opened up about how his damaged MCL40 impacted his race stints, Charles Leclerc’s aggressive defence, the inexplicable loss of straight-line speed, if there are short-term solutions for the deployment discrepancies, and whether it’s concerning that even Mercedes HPP have been unable to remedy the issue so far following his fifth-place…
Toto Wolff has discussed the issues George Russell was up against throughout the 2026 F1 Belgian GP weekend as the Brit lost valuable points in the Drivers’ Championship to his Mercedes teammate and the Ferraris. Throughout the weekend, a deployment issue in the final sector was costing him around 0.250s. While this would not have…
