Category: The Race

It’s Ducati test rider Michele Pirro who’ll race VR46’s second bike at the Barcelona MotoGP season finale this weekend. That’s a pragmatic choice – but the alternatives include a rider fans will have been clamouring to see again, and a former Valentino Rossi protege

An all-female feeder series using Gen3 cars? A W Series brand revival? Formula E’s plan to get women on its grid goes much further than last week’s test

Would Alpine have got close to a double podium in normal conditions at any point in 2024? Surely not. But there’s a body of evidence building that an F1 team that started this campaign in embarrassingly bad form has at least plotted a path to recovery

Did Sauber/Audi string Valtteri Bottas along before dropping him? Is the decision unfair given how he’s driving? We debate Bottas’s departure from the F1 grid

Christian Lundgaard has escaped a frustrating seat at Rahal for the upward trending McLaren. There’s plenty of positives but also the prospect of facing IndyCar’s team-mate destroyer, too. He discusses it all with The Race

Abbi Pulling’s dominant F1 Academy form puts her on course for a 2025 GB3 season. But might a Formula E role feature in her plans too?

Drivers would rather beg for a red flag than run Formula 1’s current wet tyres. Pirelli is adamant they’re not that bad but it’s also trying something new for 2025. Will it be enough?

Formula E became the first major international championship to hold a bespoke test solely for top female drivers at Jarama on Friday

Audi looks likely to agree a part-sale of its Formula 1 team before it even gets on the grid. Scott Mitchell-Malm explains the logic and implications