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As a woman working in motorsport, I know how hard women have fought to be seen as competitors rather than decoration. That is why Sydney Sweeney’s latest sports betting advert is not provocative, clever or empowering. It is a disgrace.

Formula 1 has a new problem: the Madring.

Formula 1 has never been more popular, so why does the paddock increasingly feel as though it belongs to everyone except the real fans? Formula 1 has spent the last decade opening its doors to a new, younger and more diverse generation of fans. In itself, this is a success that should be celebrated. But as influencers, celebrities and commercial guests occupy more of the sport’s most coveted spaces, there is a danger that F1 is starting to forget the difference between attrac

The GT4 Italy Series opened today's racing at Imola with a fast and action-packed contest that featured early overtakes, multiple Safety Car periods and a dramatic reversal of fortune for the weekend’s most dominant car. Zanin (#5) started from pole, with Fant in second (#11), with Frizza (#3) completing the top three. Bastos (#68), meanwhile, faced a much tougher task from 17th on the grid. The opening laps immediately delivered action, with several drivers making moves down

Italian Formula 4 Race 1 at Imola produced a closely fought contest at the front, with Robinson (#9) converting his pole position into a victory. Robinson led the field away from the front row alongside Craigie, with Bearman (#87) starting third. Westcott (#19) and Rodriguez (#20) completed the top five. Several drivers struggled to make clean starts, but the leading trio remained unchanged through the opening lap. The race settled into a tight rhythm, with plenty of wheel-to

Formula Regional European Championship Race 1 at Imola delivered a tense and incident-filled opening contest, with Olivieri converting pole position into victory in a race repeatedly interrupted by Safety Car periods. Olivieri led the field away from the front row alongside Evan Wheldon, with Matias Munoz and Valerio Giacardi starting from the second row. The race was immediately neutralised when cars #60 and #71 (Stolcermanis and Al Dhaheri) came together at Turn 8 on the op

The second ACI Racing Weekend visit to Imola in 2026 is underway at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, with the Italian Gran Turismo Endurance Championship among the headline categories on the schedule. Saturday morning’s CIGTE FP3 provided plenty of action, with teams continuing to fine-tune their cars ahead of the competitive sessions later in the day. Double TT Racing continued to impress, with the #62 consistently featuring near the sharp end and repeatedly

Qualifying at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari has delivered a busy afternoon of changing fortunes, red flags and last-minute lap times as the ACI Racing Weekend cotninues to Imola. The seventh ACI Racing Weekend of the 2026 season has brought together the GT4 Italy Series, Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance, FIA Formula Regional European Championship and Italian F4 Championship. The Imola round is particularly significant for FREC, which is entering t

Formula 1’s return to Monza this weekend has prompted an almost universal scramble for efficiency, with 10 of the 11 teams bringing technical upgrades for the Italian Grand Prix. At the Temple of Speed, where power-unit efficiency is crucial and the long straights punish drag, the development battle at this circuit could be just as important as outright pace. The home team, Ferrari, arrives under the brightest spotlight; introducing its latest power-unit specification, alongs

Free Practice Friday Friday morning at Imola has produced three very different pictures across Italian F4, Formula Regional and GT4 Italy, but there was one common theme: nobody was getting much for free. Rocco Coronel put AKM Motorsport at the top of Italian F4 FP1 after a late improvement, Emanuele Olivieri edged Formula Regional's closely packed field, while Gino Scuderia's Aston Martin set the benchmark in GT4 Italy. Behind the headlines, however, the sessions were less s

Kimi Antonelli arrives at Monza with a 59-point championship lead, but Mercedes has deliberately put its title leader on the back foot. A fresh power unit upgrade will likely result in a hefty grid penalty, meaning the Italian will start his home Grand Prix from the rear and leave his rivals with a rare opportunity to close the gap. Formula 1 will be returning to Monza this weekend for a race that could have far greater consequences for the championship than the traditional s

Lando Norris has already reached the summit of Formula 1. Now he is attempting something arguably more ambitious: helping decide who gets the chance to climb it next. The reigning world champion has launched LN4 Fusion, a new junior single-seater operation that will enter Italian F4, Formula Regional and FIA Formula 3 in 2027. The team has acquired selected assets from AIX Racing, including its F3 entry, and has begun the application process for a future move into Formula 2.

Thirty minutes before the final Dutch Grand Prix was due to begin, Zandvoort stopped pretending it was going to provide Formula 1 with a clean ending. Rain arrived over the circuit and transformed the race from a conventional Sunday afternoon into something considerably harder to read. The first half of the lap was drying, while the second remained wet, with the banking holding moisture and grip varying from corner to corner. Slick tyres were eventually fitted to a grid that

Lando Norris will start the Dutch Grand Prix from pole position after a qualifying session in which the McLaren driver ultimately found the decisive lap, but the final result disguises just how little separated the leading cars at Zandvoort. The top four were covered by roughly a tenth of a second, with George Russell putting together one of Mercedes' strongest qualifying performances of the weekend to take second, Kimi Antonelli briefly threatening to steal pole for himself,

Mercedes Sets the Pace as Ferrari Exposes McLaren’s Weakness George Russell has won the first — and final — Dutch Grand Prix Sprint with a controlled performance that gave Mercedes the strongest overall picture of the weekend so far. Charles Leclerc finished second, Lando Norris third and Kimi Antonelli fourth, but the finishing order only tells part of the story. The more important takeaway from 24 laps at Zandvoort is that Mercedes appears to have the strongest all-round pa

Which Teams Will Thrive Under The 2026 Regulations? Formula 1 returns from its summer shutdown this weekend, but the Dutch Grand Prix is not simply the opening round of the second half of the season… Zandvoort will be hosting its final Formula 1 race for the foreseeable future, and the farewell comes at a fascinating moment for the sport. The 2026 regulations have created an entirely new generation of cars, Antonelli has established himself as the benchmark, McLaren have fina

After years of substitute appearances, a premature Red Bull promotion and a brutal two-race demotion, Liam Lawson is finally producing the kind of sustained F1 campaign that should settle the argument over whether he belongs on the grid. The question now is whether Red Bull is paying enough attention — and whether it has room to keep him. There comes a point in a Formula 1 driver’s career when potential has to give way to evidence. For Liam Lawson, that point has arrived. Aft

The Dramatic Finale Formula E could hardly have scripted a more dramatic farewell to the Gen3 era. The London finale had everything the championship could have wanted: a title fight decided in the closing laps, team tactics, controversy, a championship-winning Jaguar, a disappointed Mahindra, and a young British driver producing one of the only genuinely uplifting moments of the weekend. Yet for all the drama, Pascal Wehrlein’s second Formula E world championship leaves a dis

There is something deeply uncomfortable about the way motorsport talks about women. We are always talking about the "future"… The next generation, the next breakthrough, the next young driver who might become the first woman in modern Formula 1, the next initiative that will make the sport more accessible, the next academy, scholarship, test programme or diversity campaign that will finally change the numbers. And yet, somehow, the "future" never quite arrives. This week mark

And Why The Debate Around Him Extends Beyond Motorsport Formula One sells itself as the ultimate meritocracy; marketed as the pinnacle of motorsport with twenty-two of the fastest drivers in the world competing in machinery worth millions, engineered to perfection, where seats can be won or lost by a thousandth of a second. Every seat is supposedly earned. Each opportunity must be justified. Even a small mistake can end a career. This narrative is one of the reasons that Form