FIA sets date for Williams right of review hearing after F1 Dutch GP penalty
The Williams and Racing Bulls Formula 1 teams have been summoned for a virtual hearing with the FIA stewards to discuss Carlos Sainz’s penalty from the Dutch Grand Prix. Sainz clashed with Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson at Turn 1 during the Zandvoort contest, an incident which earned the Williams racer a 10-second penalty. Sainz […]
How Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are racing to enter MotoGP
With Guenther Steiner arriving in MotoGP for 2026, Motorsport.com understands Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are now vying to buy a team in a championship. Last Friday during the Catalan Grand Prix the acquisition of Tech3 by the Ikon Capital consortium was made official, in a deal that will see Steiner, the former Haas F1 team principal, […]
How Verstappen and Hamilton are racing to enter MotoGP
With Guenther Steiner arriving in MotoGP for 2026, Autosport understands Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are now vying to buy a team in a championship. Last Friday, during the Catalan Grand Prix, the acquisition of Tech3 by the Ikon Capital consortium was made official, in a deal that will see Steiner, the former Haas F1 team principal, […]
Verstappen to make long-awaited Nordschleife race debut this weekend
Just a week after his victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Max Verstappen will be back behind the wheel – even though there’s no Formula 1 race. Instead, the Red Bull star will fulfil a long-held dream in the Eifel Mountains: competing in an official round of the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS). The […]
The new Red Bull philosophy behind Verstappen’s surprise F1 Italian GP win
The Italian Grand Prix resulted in a dominant victory for Max Verstappen, at the track where Red Bull struggled massively last year and where Verstappen described the car as “a monster.” Twelve months on reality looked very different, helped by a specific low-downforce rear wing, a fresh Honda power unit and above all a slightly […]
How McLaren’s drivers answered the difficult questions after controversial F1 Italian GP swap
Language is like a river: it creates its own path. ‘Dilemma’ is one of those words, like ‘decimate’, which is losing its original meaning through misuse – which is a shame in this instance, since a dilemma is exactly what McLaren faced when ‘finger trouble’ reversed the position of its drivers late in the Italian […]
McLaren set «very difficult» precedent with F1 Italian GP swap
Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren’s call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past during the Italian Grand Prix after a slow stop for Norris was a «very difficult precedent to undo». As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed […]
Why are so few F1 Italian GP wins secured from pole?
Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, winners of the past five grands prix at Monza, have something in common besides the obvious fact of being Formula 1 drivers who have won the Italian GP. None of them started from pole position. Indeed, races won from pole are in the minority at Monza, which […]
The special radio message hinting at the key to Verstappen’s Italian GP pole
To the surprise of many, Max Verstappen grabbed his fifth pole-position of the Formula 1 season at the same track he had described the Red Bull car as “a monster” just 12 months ago. So how have Verstappen and the Milton Keynes-based team been able to tame that monster and complete the fastest lap in […]