Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #13 Isack Hadjar
When Isack Hadjar was given the nod to move up from F2 to F1 with Racing Bulls there was a slightly sniffy air around Red Bull’s management, as if he were not Mr Right but Mr You’ll Do, since there was a space to be filled. Hadjar seemed to confirm that with a silly accident […]
Lambiase in talks to exit Red Bull for Williams or Aston Martin
Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase could be set to leave Red Bull, bringing an end to a partnership that yielded four consecutive Formula 1 world drivers’ titles. It was initially reported that the end of the 2025 championship would mark the conclusion of Lambiase’s work alongside Verstappen, with the 45-year-old British engineer understood to […]
Who was the best rookie of F1 2025? Our writers have their say
The 2025 Formula 1 season welcomed an unusually high number of rookies onto the grid which provided a focus point throughout the campaign. While some of the rookies starred, others floundered and some didn’t even make it to the end of the season. Here’s who our writers have picked as the standout rookie of the […]
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #18 Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Rookie struggles were expected from the Italian teen, although his explosive start with fourth in Melbourne began an impressive series of early results – headlined by his Miami sprint pole. When Mercedes switched to a different rear suspension package, he struggled and his form across the European rounds began to wane, interrupted only by his […]
Ford shares update on Red Bull’s new F1 engine for 2026
After a stint with Honda that delivered four drivers’ titles and two constructors’ championships, Red Bull will compete with its in-house power unit in 2026, in partnership with Ford. Although Ford Performance director Mark Rushbrook acknowledges that the project – as Toto Wolff put it in Zandvoort – “has Mount Everest to climb”, he believes […]
What was the biggest heartbreak of F1 2025?
Every year, Formula 1 is packed with surprises and great storylines as 20 of the world’s best drivers battle for supremacy and the chance to lift the F1 World Drivers’ Championship Trophy. But it wasn’t all good news over 2025, and the season had its fair share of heartbreak as well. From Lewis Hamilton’s collision […]
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #38 Carlos Sainz
Very much a season of two halves for the ex-Ferrari driver. As a four-time grand prix winner, he was always going to have to manage his expectations on arrival at a team that hasn’t tasted victory since 2012. But expectations cut both ways; to an extent he was to act as a yardstick for team-mate […]
What was the best storyline of F1 2025?
Every year Formula 1 always delivers plenty of drama and 2025 was no different with a title fight that went down to the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Lando Norris ultimately prevailed in a three-way fight against McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull’s four-time world champion Max Verstappen. But it wasn’t just about what […]
Hamilton «praying» for F1 2026 success after ground-effect woes
Lewis Hamilton is simply “praying” for better fortune in the next Formula 1 rules cycle after enduring a torrid time since the start of ground-effect cars in 2022. Just two of the seven-time world champion’s 105 grand prix victories have come in the current era, having particularly struggled in qualifying because these cars don’t necessarily […]