How Tsunoda has already put Lawson and Red Bull under pressure
It’s very early days. F1’s 2025 season has only just started. But making an impression in a Formula 1 paddock is somewhat similar to a date: the initial impact really matters. You screw the first few lines during a dinner at a restaurant, and it’s almost impossible to recover. You get knocked out in the […]
McLaren car «may well» be slower if adapted to Norris’s driving style
Lando Norris seemed to roll a grenade under the door during a press conference ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix when he said he had effectively given up persuading his McLaren team to design a car which suits his preferred attacking style. Since the MCL39 was the benchmark car at the season opener – Norris […]
Alpine, Haas make wing tweaks after China F1 flex test changes
Alpine and Haas have revealed they have needed to make changes to their Formula 1 cars’ rear wings in light of the latest technical directive that has tightened flex tests. It is understood that four teams were affected by the changing parameters of the rear wing flex tests for the Chinese Grand Prix as the […]
Johnny Herbert on the man who made him, Eddie Jordan
Every time I saw Eddie, he’d say, ‘I made you!’, which goes all the way back to Formula 3. I knew of his own racing – he wasn’t a bad driver – and at the end of 1986 I saw him at the Grovewood Awards. He said, ‘Has anyone signed you yet?’ and I said […]
Inside the aero problems that will keep Haas near the back of the F1 field
The usual caveats applied when it came to Haas’ pre-season testing pace — or so it seemed at the time. After it spent last year’s Formula 1 test in Bahrain doing nothing except running at full fuel loads to quell its greedy streak with tyres, Haas rocked up in the opening race with a good […]
F1 teams suffer freight delays for Chinese GP
Several Formula 1 teams have had their freight delayed from Australia to China meaning preparations have been held up for the Chinese Grand Prix. The FIA has stated that tyre supplier Pirelli did not have its freight at the Shanghai International Circuit on time, although the tyre manufacturer has received equipment in the pitlane on […]
From Hadjar’s tears to Domenicali’s deals
Lando Norris tamed the chaos in Melbourne to win the opening round of the F1 season. In doing so, he put down a marker for his team-mate Oscar Piastri, his rival Max Verstappen, and anyone else who wants a say in this year’s world championship. Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari debut didn’t quite go to plan, while […]
McLaren experiments with rear wings, Sauber improves with aero updates
As expected, very few genuinely new parts arrived at the Australian Grand Prix as the 10 Formula 1 teams sought to put more mileage on the packages they ran with in Bahrain testing. That’s not to say anyone didn’t dabble in a bit of early update fun; Sauber introduced a new set of wings for […]
How the Australian GP proved a good relationship between race engineer and F1 driver is crucial
The new Ferrari combination of Lewis Hamilton and Riccardo Adami made the airwaves and headlines during and after Formula 1’s 2025 Australian Grand Prix. But they were far from the only new driver/race engineer combo making a high-profile bow in Melbourne. There was Richard Wood and Liam Lawson at Red Bull, Aston Martin’s Andrew Vizard […]