Evans and co-driver Scott Martin finished the season on 243 points, five clear of Solberg and six clear of Sami Pajari, after a three-way Toyota title fight that went all the way to the last stage of the year. Chris and I recorded this episode the day after the finish, while we were both still trying to process it. This guide covers what we said, alongside the full Rally1 results and the final championship standings.

Ash Sutton won the 2026 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship drivers' title at Silverstone on 27 September 2026, with four races still to run. He needed a single point in Race 2, started from 12th on the grid and won the race anyway. It was his ninth win of the season, the 56th of his career and his fifth championship, which makes him the first five time champion in the history of the BTCC.

George Russell won the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix by 0.196 seconds, holding off Max Verstappen at the end of a Baku race that was quiet for half its length and then very much not. Round 15 of the Formula 1 season, run on Saturday 26 September 2026, was settled by a late yellow flag, a boost problem on the winning Mercedes and a restart crash that took out three cars. This episode covers all of it, along with the penalty argument that followed and what the result says about th

The news came at a press conference in Sardinia on Thursday 1 October. Ford Europe president Jim Baumbick and Ford Racing global director Mark Rushbrook were joined by WRC people on stage. The plan has three steps. Next year, Ford starts supporting M-Sport again while they race a Ford Fiesta under the new rules. In 2028 it steps up to full factory backing. In 2029 the new car arrives, and Ford says it will come from one of five multi-energy "rally-bred" road cars due in 2028

16 stages around Talcahuano in the Biobío region produced a rally win for Oliver Solberg, a 10th manufacturers' title for Toyota, and a puncture for championship leader Elfyn Evans that turned a two horse title race into three.

Kimi Antonelli won the first ever Spanish Grand Prix at the new Madring circuit after Lando Norris was denied by a Virtual Safety Car that landed at the worst possible moment, and this episode works through exactly whose fault that really was, along with Ferrari's costly gamble with Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton's early exit and a first look ahead to Baku.

Croft has a habit of throwing up the round nobody quite predicts, and the championship's return to the circuit for rounds 22 to 24 kept that reputation fully intact, not least because Tom Ingram arrived as the reigning lap record holder in both qualifying and the race itself.

Zac and Drew returned after a short break to cover one of the most eventful weekends of the 2026 Formula 1 season. The Italian Grand Prix at Monza produced a red flag inside the first three laps, a Ferrari driver crashing out of his own home race, and a Mercedes rookie completing one of the most remarkable recovery drives in recent memory. This episode works through all of it, along with the driver market news, the ongoing saga at Red Bull, and a first look at Formula 1's bra

Two rallies ago Pajari was a reliable points scorer rather than a title threat. Estonia changed that, Finland confirmed it, and Paraguay made it official. He and co-driver Marko Salminen beat Hayden Paddon and John Kennard by 25.8 seconds to become the first crew in WRC history to win their first three events back to back, and Pajari was quick to credit the car rather than his own pace for it, pointing out that his Toyota was the only one in the top group that avoided a tyre

The Voly Grampian Forest Rally has always been one of the standout forest rallies in Scotland, but the 2026 event carried considerably more significance than usual.

Sami Pajari won the 2026 Secto Rally Finland on home soil, backing up his maiden World Rally Championship victory in Estonia two weeks earlier with a second straight win in front of his own fans.

The British Touring Car Championship spent its first weekend back from the summer break doing what Thruxton always seems to do, turning a simple return to racing into one of the most talked about rounds of the year.

The 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix felt like one of those weekends that could shape the rest of the Formula 1 season. McLaren finally turned their pace into a race win as Lando Norris secured his first victory of the year, but the conversation didn't stop with the chequered flag.

Spa-Francorchamps always finds a way to deliver something worth talking about, and this year was no different. Kimi Antonelli took the win in Belgium and stretched his championship lead, Charles Leclerc brought Ferrari home second, Max Verstappen completed the podium, and Lewis Hamilton finished fourth after a race full of early contact, pressure, and more than one moment that had the paddock talking.

Charles Leclerc finally ended his winless run at Silverstone, but the story of the weekend was the FIA's safety car "software error" that killed the last-lap shootout everyone was expecting. Drew is still (mostly) recovered from losing his cool about it live on air. Also in this episode: Kimi Antonelli's brake duct disaster and the track-limits penalty that made no sense, a genuinely bizarre one-lap penalty for Carlos Sainz, the Ferrari-vs-Mercedes upgrade arms race, Red B

George Russell took his second win of the 2026 Formula 1 season at a scorching Red Bull Ring, but ask Drew and Zac whether it was the statement performance of the year and you'll get two very different answers. In this episode of The F1 Show, the lads take on a weekend that delivered a controversial pole lap, a genuine old-school Hamilton versus Verstappen scrap, a Ferrari afternoon to forget, and the driver-market rumour that simply will not go away. Oh, and Cadillac literal

Rallycross is one of motorsport’s best-kept secrets. Wheel-to-wheel racing on mixed tarmac and gravel surfaces, cars with 600 horsepower launching 0 to 100km/h faster than a Formula 1 car, all packed into a three-minute sprint. And it has had one of the most turbulent decades of any series on the calendar.

This week on The Motorsport Files, Zac and Drew dive into one of the biggest stories of the 2026 Formula 1 season as Hamilton secures his first Grand Prix victory for Ferrari at Barcelona-Catalunya.

In this episode, Drew Bentham and Zac break down one of the most talked-about weekends of the season, focusing on Andrea Kimi Antonelli's remarkable run of victories and what it could mean for the future of Formula One.

In this episode, Drew and Zac run through the key moments on track, from the early exchanges to the incidents that shaped the final result. There is a fair bit of time spent on the retirements and penalties that changed the weekend for several drivers, with the pair not shying away from describing one particular retirement as nothing short of a complete catastrophe for the team involved. And of course we give props to the amazing achievement of Kimi Antonelli