RNW Staff

Side-by-side races, where drivers had to navigate a technical chicane and jump before the finish led to some of the closest battles ever seen in extreme racing. Sixteen Heats whittled the field down to four teams that progressed to knockout Semi-Finals and Final. Team STARD (Amanda Sorensen/Patrick O’Donovan) narrowly won an exciting Final, but it […]

Showcasing cutting-edge hydrogen technology in a ruthless racing environment, the FIA Extreme H World Cup pairs one female and one male driver in each of the eight teams. A unique sporting format will see teams piloting rugged offroad Pioneer 25 machines across three disciplines – Time Trials, Head-to-Head and Multi-Car – culminating in the eight-car […]

With three days of competition and three different disciplines to contest – Time Trials, Head-to-Head and Multi-Car – teams were eager to get their challenge off to a positive start. The day’s final timesheet had a familiar feel about it after the two runs against the clock with Johan Kristoffersson and Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky setting the […]

The FIA has today, 6 October, confirmed the entry list for the inaugural FIA Extreme H World Cup. The FIA-sanctioned hydrogen-powered event, to be held in Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia, this weekend (9-11 October) welcomes a top-class lineup that will see 16 drivers compete across eight teams. JAMEEL MOTORSPORT enters with Australian Molly Taylor and Sweden’s […]

Co-driven by fellow Pole Szymon Gospodarczyk, Michelin-equipped Marczyk, 29, beat Croatia Rally winner Jon Armstrong to the ERC’s top prize after Andrea Mabellini – the only other title contender ahead of the Zagreb-based event – crashed out on Saturday’s fourth stage. Marczyk becomes Poland’s first ERC champion since Kajetan Kajetanowicz claimed the third of his […]

DRIVERS 1 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes)2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing)3 – Lando NORRIS (McLaren) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Jenson Button)  Q: Congratulations, Zak Brown, Andrea Stella, and the whole McLaren team. You’ve just won the 2025 Constructors’ Championship.Zak BROWN: Pretty awesome. Unbelievable team here, unbelievable team back at the factory. All the men and women have done such an awesome job. The […]

Mercedes’ George Rusell won the Singapore Grand Prix from pole position, beating Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen to the flag by five seconds as third place for Lando Norris and fourth for team-mate Oscar Piastri was enough to hand McLaren the Constructors’ Championship title for the second year in a row.  Russell took the lead […]

Victory in Singapore George Russell took victory in Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix with Kimi Antonelli coming home a strong P5. Starting from pole position, George controlled the race from start-to-finish on a Medium-Hard one-stop strategy, to take his second victory of the season and fifth of his career. The team was represented on the podium […]

Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen went quickest in a tight final practice session for the 2025 FIA Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix in which the top five drivers were covered by less than a tenth of a second.  Verstappen’s time of 1:30.148 was just 0.017s ahead of championship leading McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, with the […]

George Russell grabbed a sensational Singapore Grand Prix pole position from under the noses of Red Bull’s Max Vesrappen and pre-weekend McLaren favourites Oscar Paistro and Lando Nortris with both his Q3 two laps being good enough to claim top spot in qualifying. Verstappen backed out of his final flyer and settled for P2 ahead […]

In a tightly contested final, 20-year-old Bertāns, who finished a close second to James Deane in 2021 when the FIA IDC last visited Latvia, produced a superb chase and lead run against 17-year-old Baumanis to secure his first-ever IDC crown at the wheel of his BMW based on a HGK Eurofighter chassis. “It’s a good […]

DRIVERS 1 –  George RUSSELL (Mercedes)2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 3 –  Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren)  PARC FERMÉ INTERVIEWS(Conducted by David Coulthard) Q: First of all, George, you put everything on the line there. You were hard into the wall coming out of the second last corner. Brilliant pole position.George RUSSELL: Yeah, thanks so much. Amazing to be on pole […]

But with Andrea Mabellini, second in the standings ahead of the Zagreb event, crashing out during a drama-filled Saturday, the championship fight has swung towards points leader Miko Marczyk. Fresh from his maiden ERC win on JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion last month, Armstrong and co-driver Shane Byrne continued their impressive form to win five of […]

Pole position and strong P4 on Saturday in Singapore George Russell claimed pole position for Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix with Kimi Antonelli lining up P4. FP3 focused on evaluating overnight changes and both drivers felt comfortable in the car, ending the final hour of practice P3 and P4. Both George and Kimi progressed to Q3, […]

TEAM REPRESENTATIVES James VOWLES (Williams), Steve NIELSEN (Alpine), Andy COWELL (Aston Martin) Q: Andy, can we start with you? A strong start to the weekend with Fernando in P1 in first practice. Without wanting to get carried away, can you just tell us why the car appears to be working better here than it has done at the last […]

Oscar Piastri went quickest in stop-start second practice session for the 2025 FIA Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, with the Australian outpacing Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar and Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen by a little over a tenth of a second as red flags twice halted running at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.  In the […]

The inaugural FIA Extreme H World Cup takes place in Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia, next weekend (9-11 October) with pioneering equality and a unique sporting format underpinning the foundations for the world’s first ever FIA-sanctioned Hydrogen powered racing event. Eight teams will scale the terrains of the Saudi Arabia desert with each outfit entering one female […]

The first day of competitive FIA IDC action since 2021 – also held at Bikernieki and organised by the Latvian Automobile Federation – determined the top 32 qualifiers for Saturday’s individual element of the event, with big names such as Daniel Brandner and Lwi Edwards failing to make the cut. Judged on three main elements […]

Jon Armstrong, Andrea Mabellini and Miko Marczyk can all be crowned this season’s ERC champion – and join an illustrious list of former winners – while seven other prestigious titles are up for grabs on the hugely challenging Tarmac event. After seven action-packed rounds, Michelin-equipped Polish driver Miko Marczyk holds the championship initiative ahead of […]

Chaotic first day of running in Singapore The timing screens proved largely unrepresentative on Friday in Singapore, with offset tyre strategies, run plans, and a helping of red flags disrupting the order. In FP1 both Kimi and George ran the Hard and Medium tyres, with the majority of the grid opting to utilise a set […]