Autosport

2 days ago | autosport.com | Gary Watkins

In football you play to the whistle; in motor racing you race to the rulebook. That’s what Ferrari did with its sneaky pitlane swap at the Spa World Endurance Championship round on Saturday. Allowing one of its cars to overtake the other in the pitlane isn’t prohibited in the regulations. Whether you think its actions were anywhere between unsporting and downright dangerous, the fact is Ferrari didn’t break any rules.

2 days ago | autosport.com | Richard Asher

Le Mans has a long history of chaotic, mixed-weather MotoGP races. In the old days, red flags would have been central to the story. More recently, such as when Jack Miller won in 2021, flag-to-flag rules have made frantic mid-race bike changes possible. The 2025 French GP, however, had both. Weave in multiple strategies and a slew of double long lap penalties being served semi-simultaneously early in the race, and you concoct one of the most confusing spectator experiences in MotoGP history.

2 days ago | autosport.com | Stuart Codling

75 years ago this week, when Giuseppe Farina roared across the finishing line to win the first world championship grand prix at Silverstone, he did so in an Alfa Romeo 158 weighing – depending on fluids and which sources you use – between 650 and 700kg. When F1 adopted a minimum weight for the first time in 1961 the figure was set at 450kg. Under the most recent ruleset, teams have been struggling – note the amount of unpainted carbon fibre on display – to hit the current minimum of 800kg.

3 days ago | autosport.com | Gary Watkins

Ferrari took another World Endurance Championship victory at Spa. Just. It came out on top on a day in which it raced wheel to wheel and then some with Alpine and BMW. Either manufacturer could have pipped James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi to the top spot, but the car that perhaps should have beaten them was the second-placed factory 499P Le Mans Hypercar shared by Nicklas Nielsen, Miguel Molina and Antonio Fuoco.

3 days ago | autosport.com | Marcus Simmons

British Touring Car Championship rookie Charles Rainford became the West Surrey Racing BMW team’s third winner of the day with victory in the finale at Brands Hatch. From third on the grid, Rainford worked his way past the front-row-sitting team-mate Jake Hill and reversed-grid poleman Dan Rowbottom within just over a lap of the start, and held on throughout.