Palou's Portland Masterclass, McLaren's Blockbuster, and a Championship That Stopped Being a Race
Alex Palou won Portland by 4.1167 seconds for his sixth victory of 2026 and a 110-point championship lead with five races left. The full catch-up: Lundgaard's last-to-first miracle at Road America, Arrow McLaren's first 1-2 at Mid-Ohio, Palou conquering the ovals at Nashville, McLaren's blockbuster 2027 signing of Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist, and the five-race sprint to the title.
Not Good Enough
Kimi Antonelli commands the Belgian Grand Prix as Mercedes teammate George Russell suffers a lap-one heartbreak. Read our full recap of the race, the controversial stewards' decisions, and our predictions for the Hungaroring.
The Long Way Back
Charles Leclerc ends a 624-day drought with a hard-fought win at Silverstone, delivering Ferrari's 250th victory in Formula 1 and drawing level with Rubens Barrichello on the Scuderia's all-time winners' list.
Home Advantage at the 2026 British Grand Prix
George Russell needed that. Three months after winning in Melbourne and watching his title bid unravel, he answered with pole and a lights-to-flag win in Austria. Now Formula 1 heads to Silverstone for a Sprint-weekend British Grand Prix, and two home heroes arrive on a roll. Here's the form, the fallout, and the podium call.
Back to the Bullring
Five races, five times untouchable, and then Barcelona bit. An electrical shutdown four laps from the flag handed Lewis Hamilton his maiden Ferrari win and trimmed Kimi Antonelli's championship lead to forty-one. The teenager answered the only way he knows how, topping both Friday sessions at the Red Bull Ring. Now the weekend turns mean: a sixty-seven-second lap in fifty-three-degree heat, McLaren's brakes already on fire, Verstappen's home race against a backdrop of Red Bull upheaval, and Ferrari's new engine tangled in an appeal. Here's everything going into Austria, and who ends up on the podium.
Six Hundred and Eighty-Six Days
Six hundred and eighty-six days. That's how long Lewis Hamilton waited between Grand Prix wins, and it finally ended in Barcelona with his first victory in Ferrari red, built on a baking three-stop he managed to perfection while the rest of the grid cooked its tires. Antonelli's five-race streak died four laps from home, the podium went all-British for the first time since 1968, and the rhyme with Schumacher's 1996 debut win on the same tarmac wrote itself. Here's why the doubt is dead... in Lewis's own words.
Newgarden's Sixth, Palou's Seventeenth, and Four Miles of Wisconsin
Josef Newgarden claimed his sixth Gateway victory while championship leader Alex Palou fell from pole to seventeenth after a fuel strategy gamble backfired. With Road America up next, Palou looks to rebound on a track that suits him perfectly.
Five and Flawless
Kimi Antonelli makes it five wins in a row with a flawless Monaco drive, while Verstappen's race ends on lap one and a contested engine ruling lights up the paddock.
Monte Carlo Doesn't Negotiate
Antonelli's four-from-five and Hamilton's first Ferrari podium set up Monaco, where qualifying is the race and the championship leader has never figured it out.
0.0233, a Pole Streak, and a Bullring Under the Lights
Felix Rosenqvist won the 110th Indianapolis 500 by 0.0233 seconds, the closest finish in race history, snatching it from David Malukas in the final corner. A week later, Alex Palou turned the streets of Detroit into a coronation and stretched his championship lead to 62 points. Now IndyCar's brutal three-weekend gauntlet closes under the lights at Gateway, the egg-shaped St. Louis bullring where Josef Newgarden has won five times and where the one soft spot in Palou's season, the ovals, finally gets tested. Here's everything that happened, and everything worth watching Sunday night.
Reckoning Day in Quebec
Three races. Three poles. Three wins. Senna couldn't do that. Schumacher couldn't do that. A 19-year-old kid from Bologna just did. Now Formula 1 arrives at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, where the Wall of Champions has been ending world champions' weekends for thirty years and Antonelli has never faced championship-leader pressure. The kid's first real test is here. The numbers say he fails it.
Welcome to the Yard of Bricks
The 110th Indianapolis 500 hits Sunday with Alex Palou on pole at 232.248 mph and a back-to-back bid waiting on the other side of 200 laps. A walkthrough for the casual or first-time fan: the track, the field, the hybrid rules that just got rewritten, the Penske scandal aftermath, the traditions worth knowing, and one humble new-fan call on the podium.











