Liberty bosses refuse to rule out billion-dollar F1 sale
Liberty Media won’t rule out selling Formula 1, with company chairman John Malone admitting that it would sell the championship should a buyer offer up the right price. “It’s a public company,” he said. “If somebody gets carried away and they want to buy it and they’re willing to pay more for it than the […]
Inside McLaren’s F1 title fight
Lando Norris made an extremely relaxed impression as he faced the media on Thursday in the Monza paddock, which would have been curious if it hadn’t been for his similarly remarkable restraint after last week’s hammer blow in Zandvoort. With his gap to Oscar Piastri suddenly swelling to 34 points after an engine oil line […]
Piastri to sit out F1 Italian GP FP1 as Dunne gets latest outing
Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri will sit out Free Practice 1 at the Italian Grand Prix, where he will be replaced by McLaren junior Alex Dunne. Current F1 sporting regulations demand that teams run rookies – drivers who have not competed in more than two grands prix – on race weekends on four occasions […]
Who’s fast and who’s furious after intense Dutch GP
Formula 1 is back in racing mode after the summer break and this week we are in between two fast and intense races; the Dutch GP at Zandvoort and the Italian GP at Monza, the race with the highest average speed lap on the calendar and the home of Ferrari. Alongside James Allen we’ve brought […]
Red Bull’s battle with Hadjar shouldn’t have happened, says Verstappen
Max Verstappen has declared that Red Bull’s Dutch Grand Prix battle with a Racing Bulls Formula 1 car “shouldn’t be happening”. Verstappen and Racing Bulls driver Isack Hadjar ran third and fourth behind the McLarens during most of the Zandvoort race; both of them ended up on the podium, courtesy of Lando Norris’ late-race retirement. “Of […]
Red Bull «amazed» by Verstappen’s driving at F1 Dutch GP
Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has revealed his Formula 1 squad still gets left “amazed” by the capabilities of its world champion driver Max Verstappen after the Dutch Grand Prix. Verstappen has raced for Red Bull since 2016 and during that time, he has clinched the last four world titles and broken countless records. Although […]
How Hamilton Ferrari move saved Wolff from having “difficult conversations”
Lewis Hamilton shocked the Formula 1 paddock with his move from Mercedes to Ferrari for the 2025 season. But while the change in teams hasn’t heralded the change in fortunes he may have hoped for, it did mean that Mercedes boss Toto Wolff avoided making a call he “dreaded”. Hamilton won the sprint race […]
Why Hamilton’s F1 Dutch GP infraction caused a penalty for Monza
There’s nothing unusual in drivers messing up the pre-race routine and getting punished for that. Lewis Hamilton himself picked up two penalties in Sochi, 2020 for misinterpreting then-race director Michael Masi’s instructions on practice starts, performing them in a place which the stewards deemed inappropriate – and therefore had to serve two five-second penalties during […]
Alonso’s furious Aston Martin rant: «You forgot about me»
Zandvoort had promised much for Fernando Alonso. Fourth in first practice, second in the next, and still tenth in FP3 – always among the closest pursuers of the dominant McLarens at the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix. It looked very much like his best result of the season so far – fifth in Budapest – was […]