DAMS Lucas Oil’s Gerrard Xie enters his sophomore F3 campaign in 2026 with renewed determination, having taken valuable lessons from his rookie season. The Chinese driver endured a difficult 2025 campaign with Hitech, finishing 29th in the Drivers’ Standings with just a single point to his name. Ahead of the season opener in Melbourne, Xie…
After a challenging rookie campaign in FIA Formula 2, Gabriele Minì begins the 2026 F2 season with a clear objective: redemption. The Italian driver has embraced a new chapter with MP Motorsport, using the change of environment as an opportunity to reset, refocus, and rebuild momentum. Early signs suggest that the move has already paid…
Despite a mixed Formula E Madrid E-Prix weekend, Andretti FE Team held on to seventh in the Team Standings, with Jake Dennis’s P6 finish as the team employed different race strategies. The weekend started strongly for Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich as he led his teammate in FP1 before topping FP2 with the fastest time of 1:38.796….
McLaren arrives at the F1 2026 Japanese GP with an incomplete read on its new package, after a disrupted start to the season. The opening round at the Australian GP provided a baseline with reigning world champion Lando Norris finishing fifth. The following weekend at the Chinese GP did not. Both cars failed to start…
Deagen Fairclough delivered a standout performance on the opening day of 2026 GB3 Championship pre-season testing at Silverstone, setting an unofficial lap record that underlined both his pace and the speed of the new machinery. Driving for Hitech, the British racer topped the timesheets with a remarkable lap during Tuesday’s running on the Grand Prix…
2024 F3 and 2025 F2 champion Leonardo Fornaroli has completed his first laps in an F1 car with McLaren at the Circuit de Catalunya on Monday and Tuesday. He drove the MCL60, the team’s 2023 challenger. This opportunity came via the TPC programme. Every team can run a reserve driver in a car for private…
While several special liveries were spotted on the track throughout the Barcelona shakedown week and pre-season testing in Bahrain, eleven F1 teams in 2026 will now introduce one-off designs during the 22-race season as well. F1 cars are built to leave an impression not only in the literal but also in the figurative sense. It’s…
MP Motorsport has confirmed the signing of Zhenrui Chi—known as Newman—for the 2026 FIA Formula Regional European Championship (FREC) season. At just 16 years old, the Wenzhou-born driver becomes the second confirmed name in MP’s planned three-car entry. Furthermore, he will join Alexander Abkhazava as part of a youthful and ambitious line-up. Progress across multiple…
The 2026 FIA Formula Regional European Championship (FREC) officially gets underway with pre-season testing at Hockenheimring on Tuesday 24 March and Wednesday. As the first cars take to the track, the German circuit marks the beginning of a new campaign and, more significantly, the dawn of a new era for the category. Strengthened foundations under…
Craft-Bamboo Racing has confirmed it will scale back to a single-car effort for the 2026 GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS (GTWC Asia) season. The decision follows a major incident involving Ralf Aron during last month’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour. As a result, the Hong Kong-flagged squad will initially focus on its No. 77…
