Veerendra is a motorsport journalist with 4+ years of experience covering everything from Formula 1 to NASCAR and IndyCar. As a lifelong racing fan, he is an expert in exploring everything from race analysis to driver profiles and technical innovations in motorsport. When not at his desk, he likes exploring about the mysteries of the Universe or finds himself spending time with his two feline friends.
Lance Stroll is racing this weekend. Not in Formula 1, not under the pressure of a championship battle, but at Circuit Paul Ricard in the south of France. He will be strapped into an Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 EVO for the opening round of the 2026 GT World Challenge Europe season. For a driver […]
Formula 2 will race in North America for the first time in its history. Miami and Montreal will host Rounds 2 and 3 of the 2026 season, on May 1-3 and May 22-24, respectively, before the series returns to Europe for Monaco in June. The announcement ends what could have been a damaging three-month gap […]
The Formula 1 paddock rarely does subtlety, and this week was no exception. On Thursday, Red Bull and McLaren confirmed that Gianpiero Lambiase, Max Verstappen’s long-serving race engineer, will join McLaren from 2028. The news landed with a massive shock, and rightly so, considering the long-standing relationship between Verstappen and Lambiase. But there was a […]
The FIA gathered engineers, team representatives and power unit manufacturers in London on April 9 to begin a structured review of the 2026 Formula 1 technical and sporting regulations. Energy management sits at the centre of the debate. The Miami Grand Prix is the deadline. The meeting was always planned. But what nobody planned for […]
There is a moment in every athlete’s life when the teacher becomes less necessary. For Oscar Piastri, that moment arrived quietly, without drama, somewhere between his first Formula 1 race and the start of his fourth season. Mark Webber, the nine-time grand prix winner who has managed Piastri since 2019, is no longer a regular […]
Kyle Larson once drew a firm line in the sand. Now, he is rubbing part of it away. The NASCAR Cup Series champion, speaking on the SPEED with Harvick and Buxton YouTube channel, offered a far warmer view of Max Verstappen than he did less than a year ago. Where he once said he was […]
Doriane Pin grew up watching Formula 1 on the sofa with her father. Lewis Hamilton was winning titles at the time. That image stayed with her. Now 22, the French driver has won the 2025 F1 Academy championship and holds a development driver role at Mercedes. Speaking on the F1 Beyond The Grid podcast, she […]
Max Verstappen is set to lose the man he calls his friend. Gianpiero Lambiase, the race engineer who has stood beside the four-time world champion through every title victory, every bitter defeat and every fraught radio exchange, is reportedly heading to McLaren when his Red Bull contract expires at the end of 2027. Dutch newspaper […]
Max Verstappen is coming to the Nürburgring. And the world of endurance racing has noticed. The 54th edition of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, scheduled for May 14-17 in Germany, has drawn a full grid of 150 cars, its maximum capacity. The four-time Formula 1 world champion’s confirmed debut at the event has driven applications far […]
Max Verstappen did something at the Nurburgring Nordschleife on March 21 that even the most experienced GT3 drivers in the paddock had never thought of doing. Nobody outside his team knows exactly what it was. And for now, his teammate is keeping it that way. Dani Juncadella, the 34-year-old Spanish GT3 veteran who shared the […]
Max Verstappen has ruled out competitive rallying after his Formula 1 career ends, citing the sport’s unforgiving natural environment as a risk he is not prepared to accept. The four-time world champion made the admission on the Up To Speed podcast. He draws a clear line between the engineered safety of a circuit and the […]
Ole Schack, one of Formula 1’s longest-serving pit crew members, has resigned from Red Bull Racing. The Danish mechanic spent more than two decades with the team. His departure deepens a loss of staff that has stripped away much of the support structure around Max Verstappen. Schack joined the team during its Jaguar years and […]
