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7+ min ago (453+ words) Fresh off claiming his first world championship, Lando Norris confirmed that he will drive with the No. 1 on his McLaren in 2026. The traditional honor is reserved for the reigning world champion, a distinction Norris claimed after outlasting four-time reigning champion Max Verstappen over the final stretch of the season. Verstappen won Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but Norris claimed the driver's title by just two points with his third-place finish behind teammate Oscar Piastri. Norris, 26, typically races with the No. 4 on the nose of his car. But the Briton gladly will accept the honor of donning the No. 1 next season. "It's tradition, it's there for a reason," Norris told Sky Sports News. "It's there because you can go and try grab it and you can work hard to try and get it. Having the defending champion race with the No....

16+ min ago (645+ words) NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner Richard Childress could be called to the witness stand as early as Monday in the federal antitrust suit lodged against the top motorsports series in the United States. Childress' testimony should shed more light on the animosity between teams and series executives during the contentious two-plus years of negotiations on a new revenue sharing agreement. Childress was the subject of derogatory text messages in which NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps called the six-time championship-winning owner a redneck who "needs to be taken out back and flogged." The texts came out in the discovery phase of this messy saga in which Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan refused to accept NASCAR's final offer on a new charter agreement and decided to sue the Florida-based France family, which founded NASCAR in 1948 and privately owns the stock car…...

16+ min ago (636+ words) The landmark federal antitrust trial against NASCAR opened Monday. 23XI Racing, which three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin co-owns with Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, claim the series is a monopolistic bully that leaves its teams no option but to comply with rules and financing they don't agree with. Childress was the subject of derogatory text messages in which NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps called the six-time championship-winning owner a redneck who "needs to be taken out back and flogged." The texts came out in the discovery phase of this messy saga in which Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan refused to accept NASCAR's final offer on a new charter agreement and decided to sue the Florida-based France family, which founded NASCAR in 1948 and privately owns the stock car racing series. A charter is similar to the franchise model in other sports,…...

29+ min ago (706+ words) Dec 8, 2025 | 2:16 PM EST For much of this week, the build-up to the Snowball Derby felt like pure magic. Five Flags Speedway, the crown jewel of short-track racing, is packed with Super Late Models, Cup guys, regional killers, and kids trying to make a name. But this year, the weather had different plans. Ryan Preece, fresh off a full NASCAR Cup season, had his car ready, his helmet packed, and a real shot at finally checking the Derby off his bucket list. Fans were pumped to see a current Cup driver mix it up with the late-model sharks. The entry list looked unbeatable. But the weather app, not so much. Rain kept threatening, sessions got moved, practice got cut short, and suddenly the whole week started feeling like a coin flip. Everyone kept checking the radar, hoping the storms would hold…...

34+ min ago (476+ words) After a gripping season that ended in narrow failure to claim the Drivers' Championship for Australia's Oscar Piastri thoughts in the paddock are already turning towards the 2026 Formula One campaign, and some notable changes. There will be a new circuit, new team and new driver, but more significant will be the technical changes with teams spending the next three months before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne adapting to them. Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marked the last time Formula 1 uses the Drag Reduction System (DRS) overtaking aid, introduced in 2011. Next year, drivers will have to manage the car's systems more closely than ever with a more visible role for aerodynamic and electrical technology. The biggest regulation changes in years will mean shorter, narrower and lighter, cars with movable "active aerodynamics" " X-mode for straight-line speed, Z-mode for cornering " and…...

45+ min ago (614+ words) Winning with a packed field of late models on a tiny fifth-mile temporary oval is no easy task. Winning such an event three times is even more amazing. That, however, is precisely what 29-year-old Bobby Pierce did this past weekend at the 9th Annual Kubota Gateway Dirt Nationals presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts. Pierce, from Oakwood, Illinois, not only won the Gateway Dirt Nationals inside The Dome at America's Center for a record third time, he also pocketed an event-record $70,000 for his effort. Combined with his preliminary feature win on Thursday, Pierce earned a total of $80,000 for the weekend. "You just dream of things like this, ever since this event came around," Bobby Pierce told FloRacing. "It's been a spectacle from the beginning. I've watched it grow into what it is now. They've got a packed house. I don't see it…...

58+ min ago (424+ words) Updated - December 08, 2025 07:31 pm IST In the adrenaline-filled world of motorsports and especially Formula One, the idea of what a champion driver must be can be very one-dimensional. It is always centred around not just being fast, but on being ruthless on track, ready to get their elbows out and adopt an almost no-fear approach bordering on recklessness. There have been 35 world champions in the sport's 76-year history, and on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, McLaren's Lando Norris became the latest entrant into that elite club. But if there is one thing that can be said about the British racer, it is that he does not fit into the mould of an archetypal F1 champion. The diminutive Norris is soft-spoken and candid, wears his heart on his sleeve, and is comfortable sharing his vulnerabilities. It has often led people to underestimate him and…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (748+ words) Momento de decirle adi's al DRS y abrirle las puertas al impulso extra de bater'a para facilitar los adelantamientos. El Gran Premio de Abu Dhabi del domingo marc' la "ltima vez que la F'rmula 1 utiliz' el DRS (el sistema de ayuda de adelantamiento de reducci'n de arrastre, introducido en 2011. El pr'ximo a'o, los pilotos tendr'n que gestionar los sistemas del monoplaza m's de cerca que nunca, con un papel m's visible para la tecnolog'a aerodin'mica y el'ctrica. Despu's de una re'ida temporada por el t'tulo que termin' con el primer campeonato de Lando Norris, esto es lo que se espera en 2026: Los mayores cambios en el reglamento en a'os hacen que los coches sean m's cortos, estrechos y ligeros, con "aerodin'mica activa" m'vil "modo X para velocidad en l'nea recta, modo Z para curvas" y una mayor dependencia de la…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (647+ words) Dec 8, 2025 | 1:26 PM EST For much of this season, the McLaren garage looked like the happiest place in Formula 1. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were winning races, trading podiums, and pushing each other toward the front. The team kept saying there were no number-one drivers, no team orders, just two guys racing flat out on merit. It sounded perfect. Then the championship ended, Norris took the title by two points, and many people started asking whether it was really that fair after all. Whispers turned into shouts that Zak Brown and McLaren's "equal treatment" might have leaned a little heavier toward Lando when it mattered most. And one very famous voice from Hollywood decided he'd heard enough. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the actor from The Walking Dead and a huge racing fan, grabbed his phone and let Zak Brown have it on…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago (1893+ words) 'I've lived my dream' - Norris on winning F1 title With his first Formula 1 world championship, Lando Norris joins an illustrious sporting club. Only 35 drivers in the 75-year history of the sport have won the F1 title, and 11 of them - by far the largest amount from a single country - are, like Norris, from the UK. All of them are different, wrote larger or smaller chapters in the history of the sport. From Lewis Hamilton, the most successful driver of all time, with seven titles and 105 wins, to the one-time winners such as Mike Hawthorn, John Surtees, James Hunt and Damon Hill - who, like Jenson Button, was in Abu Dhabi to watch Norris secure his crown. On Sunday night in Yas Marina, the game everyone who watches and enjoys sport likes to play had already started. Where does this achievement stand in the annals?...