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Christian Horner is already being linked to F1’s n

Christian Horner is already being linked to F1’s next big manufacturer flirtation, with reports he’s held exploratory talks with Chinese giant BYD about what an entry could look like as 2026’s regulation reset nears. Meetings in Cannes with BYD VP Stella Li, plus Horner’s presence around Monaco during Formula E, have only fuelled the sense this is more than paddock small talk — even if it’s still far from a done deal.

On track, Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours cameo ended painfully: his Verstappen Racing car was classified 38th after a driveshaft failure while leading, but the weekend added to his reputation, with teammates dubbing him “Maxipedia” for his depth of motorsport knowledge. Timo Glock also pointed to Verstappen’s pull, saying Germany should be thanking him for a record, sell-out crowd — a sharp reminder of the country’s continued absence from the F1 calendar. In the US, Danica Patrick returned to TV duties with FOX ahead of the Indy 500, while Alexander Rossi faces an uncertain race after surgery on his left hand and right ankle following a heavy practice crash.

#F1 #ChristianHorner #BYD #MaxVerstappen #Nurburgring24 #Indy500

Oscar Piastri has offered a blunt reminder as F1’s

Oscar Piastri has offered a blunt reminder as F1’s 2026 rules take shape: drivers should be listened to, but not put in charge of the show. His view is that heavy driver influence on racing regulations risks smoothing out the awkward, unpredictable edges that create the spectacle, because a driver’s instinct is always to remove variables and make the car more consistent.

Piastri drew a clear line around where cockpit input matters most: safety and the real-world risk envelope at 300km/h. Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg backed the idea in principle, framing the driver role as feedback once direction is set, helping spot unintended consequences and refine details rather than designing the blueprint. The message is simple: consider the drivers, don’t build F1 in their image.

#F1 #OscarPiastri #SergioPerez #NicoHulkenberg #F12026 #MotorsportNews

Ferrari signed Lewis Hamilton to lock in star powe

Ferrari signed Lewis Hamilton to lock in star power at the front, but it may have opened a different kind of risk: losing the next driver it’s spent years building. Guenther Steiner warns that if Maranello can’t offer Oliver Bearman a clear and timely route to a Ferrari seat, the 21-year-old’s rising stock could make him a target for teams willing to move faster.

Bearman’s raw moments are still there, but so is the upward curve: early points, a P5 in China, and a pace level that’s increasingly stood out against teammate Esteban Ocon. With Bearman in the final year of his reported Haas deal and Hamilton holding an option that only he can trigger for 2027, Ferrari may need to decide on its junior prospect before it knows how long its superstar stays. In F1, “eventually” can be too late.

#F1 #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #OliverBearman #DriverMarket #HaasF1Team

Lance Stroll says retirement isn’t on his mind as

Lance Stroll says retirement isn’t on his mind as he heads through his 10th F1 season and toward his home race. Whatever people read into his demeanour, he’s adamant he’s staying at Aston Martin by choice, because the project finally feels real: Adrian Newey is in, and the new factory and wind tunnel are now part of daily life, not future promises.

His most revealing admission was about regret. Stroll doesn’t want to be watching from the sofa in a few years if “two green cars” are winning up front without him. He also hinted at something drivers rarely spell out: the cars are getting better and more fun to drive. And while he’s been enjoying some GT3 laps on the side, it’s a hobby for now—F1 remains the focus.

#F1 #AstonMartinF1 #LanceStroll #AdrianNewey #Formula1 #MotorsportNews

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut starte

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut started like a statement: sharing the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Jules Gounon, Lucas Auer and Daniel Juncadella, he pulled a double overtake early to grab the lead, then went wheel-to-wheel with Maro Engel in the night and held firm at the sharp end.

The Nürburgring answered back the way it always does. A driveshaft issue with four hours to go dragged the car into the pits, erased the winning chance, and left the crew classified 38th despite leading late. Kevin Estre summed up the weekend’s brutal logic after his own Manthey Porsche went out in an oil-triggered crash at Brünnchen: at the ‘Ring, you can do everything right and still get picked off.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #MaxVerstappen #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #Motorsport

McLaren’s winning ways now have a new soundtrack.

McLaren’s winning ways now have a new soundtrack. Ahead of the Canadian GP, the reigning constructors’ champions confirmed a multi-year partnership with media and entertainment company Global, covering both the F1 team and McLaren’s new hypercar programme set to join the World Endurance Championship in 2027.

Global comes in as official race partner and official audio race partner, with branding set to appear on team headsets at Monaco, Silverstone and other key European rounds. It’s a deal built around daily reach as much as race-day exposure, as McLaren looks to own more of the conversation beyond Sundays. With Lando Norris the reigning world champion, Oscar Piastri in the mix, and the MCL-HY already testing ahead of 2027 with Mikkel Jensen and Laurens Vanthoor confirmed, McLaren is making sure its momentum carries across platforms and categories.

#McLaren #F1 #CanadianGP #Motorsport #WEC #Hypercar

A decade after Max Verstappen’s 2016 mid-season pr

A decade after Max Verstappen’s 2016 mid-season promotion, Helmut Marko says the move wasn’t the neat, unanimous masterstroke it’s often painted as. In a new interview, Marko claims Christian Horner “did not agree” with promoting Verstappen after just four races, as Red Bull braced for criticism and internal fallout — including Carlos Sainz’s disappointment at missing out.

Marko frames it as Red Bull at its most ruthless: Daniil Kvyat’s dip in form triggered a rapid switch, with Jos Verstappen called in as the plan gathered momentum. The reputational risk was huge, but the bet landed instantly — Verstappen won on debut in Spain, then held off Kimi Räikkönen with what Marko calls a “smart and mature” drive. For Marko and Dietrich Mateschitz, it wasn’t triumph so much as relief — and a reminder that Red Bull’s biggest wins often start as uncomfortable decisions.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #ChristianHorner #HelmutMarko #MotorsportNews

Timo Glock’s Nürburgring 24 Hours ended in shock a

Timo Glock’s Nürburgring 24 Hours ended in shock after a Code 60 breach brought an immediate disqualification and the on-the-spot revocation of his Nordschleife permit. Sharing the Dörr Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3, the former F1 driver was clocked at 112km/h in a 60km/h zone at Metzgesfeld. Stewards issued an 82-second stop-and-go and two DMSB penalty points, which combined with two points from the Qualifiers pushed him over the limit and triggered the licence withdrawal.

The #69 McLaren continued with Timo Scheider, Ben Dörr and Marvin Kirchhöfer, finishing 16th, but the story was defined by what was lost mid-race. Glock owned the mistake, saying he accelerated “100 metres too early” and accepting the punishment on what he called “the most dangerous racetrack in the world,” turning a tribute-liveried, Keep Fighting-backed entry into a hard reminder of the discipline the Nordschleife demands.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #TimoGlock #GT3 #EnduranceRacing

Danica Patrick is back on a major motorsport broad

Danica Patrick is back on a major motorsport broadcast this month, stepping away from Sky’s F1 coverage ahead of 2026 and resurfacing with FOX Sports on Indy 500 programming. She joined as a guest analyst during qualifying at Indianapolis and is set to remain on-air through race week, re-centering on the part of her career that still resonates most here: Indy, where she finished third in 2009 and took her lone IndyCar win in 2008.

The move has landed with the familiar split reaction, but FOX’s broader IndyCar build-out is all about recognisable voices as it settles into the post-NBC era, alongside names like Will Buxton and James Hinchcliffe. On track, the storylines are strong: four-time champ Alex Palou starts on pole after a 232.248mph qualifying average, with Sunday’s Indy 500 running into F1’s Canadian GP in Montreal for a full-throttle doubleheader day.

#Indy500 #IndyCar #DanicaPatrick #FOXSports #Formula1 #CanadianGP

Alexander Rossi’s Indianapolis 500 week flipped in

Alexander Rossi’s Indianapolis 500 week flipped in an instant on Monday. The Ed Carpenter Racing driver suffered left-hand and right-ankle injuries in a heavy Turn 2 practice crash that sent his No.20 Chevrolet into the wall and onto its side before Pato O’Ward struck him in the chain reaction, with Romain Grosjean also caught up. IndyCar says O’Ward and Grosjean were checked and released.

ECR reports Rossi has undergone successful outpatient procedures for what it called minor injuries, but his status for Carb Day and Sunday’s 500 remains under evaluation. It’s a painful twist after a front-row qualifying run, just 0.258s off pole, with the team now preparing a backup car as Rossi’s recovery is monitored day by day.

#IndyCar #Indy500 #AlexanderRossi #EdCarpenterRacing #PatoOWard #IMS

Max Verstappen used a free F1 weekend to jump into

Max Verstappen used a free F1 weekend to jump into the Nürburgring 24 Hours in a Red Bull-backed Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Winward Racing, under his Verstappen Racing banner. The “Max effect” was immediate: 352,000 tickets sold across the weekend, up from 280,000 last year, with the Ring’s usual reality that the forests and campsites hold even more people than the scanners ever count.

That turnout has reignited an awkward conversation in Germany. A GT3 endurance race just drew crowds many grands prix would envy, yet F1 still can’t make the numbers work at Hockenheim or the Nürburgring GP circuit without political backing for the hosting fee. Timo Glock called Verstappen’s presence fuel on a fire, and teammate Jules Gounon said it’s helped legitimise GT racing for fans who’d overlooked it. It doesn’t fix the funding gap, but it does make it harder to pretend Germany “isn’t interested” in top-level racing.

#Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #MaxVerstappen #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #F1

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut was tr

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut was tracking toward a statement result: the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 had front-running pace, clean rhythm and real track position as the race headed into its final hours.

Then the Nürburgring did what it does. A right-rear driveshaft failure sent the car into the garage with four hours to go, turning a winning chance into a long limp to the finish, classified 38th. In the aftermath, David Pittard floated a familiar endurance-racing theory: the damage may have started much earlier, with Verstappen’s right-side contact with Maro Engel during a fight for the lead. It’s not a diagnosis, but the timeline fits the sport’s harsh truth that tiny touches can quietly fatigue parts until the race finishes the job.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing #MercedesAMGGT3

Christian Horner’s next move in F1 is starting to

Max Verstappen went quiet on the F1 radar and turn

Max Verstappen went quiet on the F1 radar and turned up at the Nürburgring 24 Hours in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 under his Verstappen Racing banner, instantly looking like he belonged. Team-mates Jules Gounon, Lucas Auer and Dani Juncadella dubbed him “Maxipedia” for his encyclopaedic motorsport knowledge, and backed it up with what they saw in the car: immediate pace, sharp racecraft in heavy GT3 traffic, and the kind of assertive moves that put the #3 Mercedes into the lead.

For a long stretch, it became an in-house fight with the sister #80, with Verstappen even trading blows in the night with DTM leader Maro Engel. Then endurance racing delivered the cruel twist: with around three hours to go, an ABS issue on the outlap spiralled into driveshaft failure and damage, ending the win bid. The car returned late to finish, but the fairy tale was gone — the impression he left wasn’t.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #MaxVerstappen #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #MercedesAMGGT3

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours ended in fru

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours ended in frustration as his #3 Mercedes fell to 38th after a technical problem struck while the car was leading. But the bigger takeaway is what came next: Verstappen has already signalled he’ll “try” to return for 2027, schedule permitting, making it clear this wasn’t a one-off.

The race also delivered a headline duel with Maro Engel in a high-speed scrap that got physical and spilled onto the grass, adding another layer to their growing Nordschleife rivalry. Elsewhere, Christian Horner is now free to explore an F1 return after his non-compete is believed to have expired on May 8, Heinz-Harald Frentzen shared a hospital-bed birthday update after back surgery, and Abbi Pulling has called for an investigation after a chaotic Safety Car moment in SMP F4 at Moscow Raceway.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Verstappen #GT3 #F1 #MotorsportNews

With the 2026 season stuck in a stop-start rhythm

With the 2026 season stuck in a stop-start rhythm — including an unplanned five-week gap after Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were scrubbed — some drivers are having to create their own sharpness between grands prix. Oscar Piastri, Alex Albon and Gabriel Bortoleto went back to basics with a day of karting at Brignoles in France, away from the usual noise, chasing feel and race craft rather than headlines or lap times.

The circuit shared footage of the session, with Albon even turning up in full Williams kit, while Piastri called it a return to his “natural habitat”. It’s not nostalgia; it’s a reset button: strip away the engineering layers and you’re left with braking, positioning and instinct — the things that don’t improve by sitting out. As F1 gears up for Canada, the simple, shared track time might be the most practical preparation of all.

#F1 #Karting #OscarPiastri #AlexAlbon #GabrielBortoleto #CanadianGP

Heinz-Harald Frentzen marked his 59th birthday fro

The FIA insists its new Additional Development and

The FIA insists its new Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities (ADUO) for F1’s 2026 power-unit era is not a backdoor BoP tool. Nikolas Tombazis says it won’t hand anyone extra fuel flow, ballast changes or an instant jump to the front — it’s a cost-cap relief mechanism that still requires manufacturers to build the best engine to win.

ADUO is triggered if a manufacturer’s internal combustion engine is measured 2% or more off the benchmark, unlocking tiered spending outside the PU cost cap (from $3m up to $11m per period, with extra one-year-only flexibility for 2026 at 10%+). With Honda currently flagged as trailing on FIA measurements — and others in the conversation — the first checkpoint has now moved to after Canada, setting up an early-season flashpoint over how the deficit is judged and who qualifies.

#F1 #FIA #F12026 #PowerUnit #Motorsport #Formula1

McLaren came to Miami needing a reset and left wit

McLaren came to Miami needing a reset and left with something more valuable: evidence its upgrade programme is finally landing often enough to turn pace into points. Lando Norris P2 and Oscar Piastri P3 delivered the team’s first double podium of 2026, and Andrea Stella’s takeaway was clear — the front is now so compressed that weekends are decided by execution, optimisation and adapting to conditions, not by one dominant car.

Stella believes Mercedes still has a slight underlying edge, but sprint qualifying underlined the new reality: several drivers looked like viable pole contenders depending on who nailed the lap. McLaren’s own updates did what they were meant to do, even against a bigger-looking Ferrari package, and more parts are coming for Canada. Norris is keeping it measured — Montreal can reshuffle the order — but in a four-way knife fight, a car that’s easier to optimise might be the difference between pole and fifth.

#F1 #McLaren #LandoNorris #OscarPiastri #MiamiGP #CanadianGP

The Verstappen–Engel flashpoint at the Nürburgring

The Verstappen–Engel flashpoint at the Nürburgring 24 Hours looked ugly in the moment, but it was more Nordschleife reality than rivalry: a late-night duel between Winward Racing’s two Mercedes-AMG GT3s, squeezed by lapped traffic on the run into Tiergarten. Verstappen’s #3 finally got the run, Engel fought back, and with the road narrowing and slower cars in the worst possible places, Engel ended up on the grass with brief contact but no damage. Afterwards, Engel called it a simple misunderstanding and said they laughed it off, brushing aside any attempt to revive last year’s online back-and-forth.

The sting came later. Verstappen’s car had the pace to win, only for a late drift shaft problem to end the challenge. Engel and the #80 crew (Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller, Maxime Martin) converted the night into victory, 46 seconds clear of the #84 Lamborghini, with Engel praising Verstappen’s speed and feeling for a result that got away on mechanics, not merit.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #GT3 #MaroEngel #MaxVerstappen

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