Where Mercedes has been losing out in F1 2025
If you look at Formula 1’s 2025 drivers’ standings, you’d be forgiven for thinking Mercedes’ George Russell has a shot at the title. The 27-year-old Briton has been a paragon of consistency thus far, completing every single qualifying session and race – even the sprint ones – in the top five, with four grand prix […]
The team’s 10 most important moments in F1
Sauber will, across its various guises, celebrate its 600th Formula 1 grand prix at the Imola weekend – if we count the races between 2019 and 2023 when it competed as Alfa Romeo. And we should, given it was still ostensibly operated by Sauber Motorsport AG… In that time, the Hinwil outfit has enjoyed precipitous highs […]
These 10 outlawed tech innovations rocked F1
Formula 1 races are won on the track, but the groundwork to creating a winning machine kicks off months before lights go out on a grand prix weekend. In the buildup to every new season, designers and engineers pore over the rules in search of loopholes – ones they can exploit in the name of […]
The one improvement that’s helped Piastri fight for 2025 F1 title
Oscar Piastri has demonstrated improved tyre management sensibilities across the 2025 Formula 1 season so far, which McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says is testament to the Australian’s work with the squad’s engineers. One of the criticisms levelled at Piastri in his first two F1 seasons, with regards to his gap to Lando Norris, was that […]
How long each race will remain on the Formula 1 calendar
Below is an overview of all current Formula 1 grand prix deal and the duration of the contracts as of May 2025. Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix — Imola: 2025 The Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola is on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2025. The Italian circuit returned to the schedule during the COVID-19 […]
How Sainz’s Miami F1 team radio anger emulated that of Hamilton
It’s somehow appropriate that Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton should have banged wheels at the penultimate corner on the last lap of the Miami Grand Prix, because they were occupying a similar space elsewhere too. Such was the length and volume, though, of Hamilton’s tirade against his team over the radio that Sainz’s similar angst […]
What McLaren must learn from 2024 to secure both F1 championships in 2025
Red Bull was a formidable Formula 1 team in 2024, but a late surge from McLaren threatened to topple the squad and snatch both titles from under its nose. But just as a real challenge from McLaren was materialising, cracks started to form, and it could only take the constructors’ crown last season. Now, with […]
Carlos Sainz Sr considering run for FIA president
Carlos Sainz Sr is considering running against Mohammed Ben Sulayem to be the next FIA president. Sources close to the former World Rally champion and Dakar winner said that several key figures from within the motorsport world have approached him about running against Ben Sulayem, the current FIA president. Motorsport.com understands that Sainz, the father […]
How big is Red Bull’s challenge in F1 2025?
The pattern after the first six Formula 1 weekends of 2025 is clear: Max Verstappen can compete with McLaren over a single lap and compensate for some weaknesses himself, but on most Sundays he and Red Bull simply don’t have the tools to fight the papaya cars over a full race distance. The explanation for […]