McLaren vows to stick to principles as Norris and Piastri come out swinging
Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a confident impression as they presented the 2025 McLaren Formula 1 car to the world on Thursday at a wet Silverstone. Norris is adamant he has learned a huge amount from his first title battle, admittedly a long shot, last year and going up against now four-time world […]
Can 2025 be Piastri’s year to win the F1 title?
Somewhere near the end of Oscar Piastri’s press conference last week when McLaren launched its Formula 1 car for 2025, the Australian answered a question that nobody was asking. The actual question was about his relationship with team-mate Lando Norris and how McLaren would handle the competitiveness between the two. Towards the end of his […]
The next phase in Alpine’s F1 recovery
If you had told any Formula 1 fan at the start of 2024 that by the end of the season Alpine would have a double podium and finish sixth in the constructors’ championship, you would probably have been met by some very confused looks. But from the Brazilian Grand Prix, things started to look up […]
What McLaren’s “aggressive” approach says about its confidence to nail both 2025 and 2026
Every year, Formula 1’s teams have to make the decision when to end focus on the current season and pour all of its engineering resources into designing the next car. It’s an important thing to time correctly, and F1 is littered with examples of teams who either kept developing too late and started the next […]
Our writers’ left-field F1 2025 predictions
It’s customary to make the usual predictions ahead of a brand new Formula 1 season: who’s going to win the title, which team is going to be the constructors’ champion, yada and indeed, yada. In recent years, even a crystal ball from Temu would likely lead any clairvoyants on a budget to predict Max Verstappen […]
How Williams’ new F1 car build system works
It was a moment that caused jaws to drop aplenty in the 2024 Formula 1 season: Williams team boss James Vowles revealing he’d discovered his then still-fairly-new squad was using a single, gigantic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to itemise its entire car build package. The list ran to multiple thousands of cell entries – an approximate […]
Williams may be focused on 2026, but FW47 shows hints of team’s regeneration under Vowles
Thankfully, the mooted Valentines’ Day special livery that enrobed the Williams FW47 was none too garish, once the car was revealed during its Silverstone shakedown on Friday. The dark blue screenfade effect was actually quite cool, almost like a gateway into a badly damaged ’90s CRT screen — with the lingering screen burn of a […]
McLaren flexes its muscles to kick off F1 launch season
It was a rare thing these days. A team hosting an in-person car launch, rather than pressing ‘send’ on an email containing some made-up quotes from its drivers and rendered images of its F1 car. It was even rarer that it was the reigning world champion squad that would be first to throw the covers […]
Norris vows to “get my elbows out” with Verstappen in F1 2025 title challenge
Lando Norris has said starting a new Formula 1 campaign on equal footing with Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen will change how aggressively he can race the Dutchman. Norris mounted an unlikely title bid last year after McLaren started the season significantly worse than Red Bull, but a comprehensive Miami upgrade turned around the […]