McLaren not biased to Norris, will let us fight for F1 title
Oscar Piastri says he doesn’t believe McLaren is favouring his team-mate Lando Norris in their 2025 Formula 1 title fight, nor does he want to receive priority as the championship leader. Piastri is heading into the final six-race stretch with a 22-point lead on Norris, with reigning champion Max Verstappen now 63 points behind after consistently gaining […]
What’s left to play for in F1 2025?
The checklist for the current 2025 Formula 1 season already has one big tick — McLaren wrapped up the constructors’ championship at the Singapore Grand Prix, tying it up in a pretty bow with its 3-4 at the Marina Bay circuit. From a financial standpoint, that’s the big one sorted. The drivers’ title comes with […]
Russell’s “under-rated” talent meant Antonelli promotion was no risk
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff insists there was one reason why it was never a risk in replacing seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton with Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli. That reason, he said, is George Russell. Both Russell and Antonelli were announced as continuing as Mercedes teammates for 2026 ahead of this weekend’s United States Grand Prix, ending a summer of speculation as to whether […]
Racing Bulls shows off tortoise livery for F1 US GP
The Racing Bulls F1 squad will contest this weekend’s United States Grand Prix with a one-off tortoise livery. At the Anglo-Italian team, Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson will run a VCARB 02 car dressed in a pearlescent black and brown tortoise shell pattern with gold detailing, complementing its usual white livery. The livery is a nod […]
Why radios haven’t fully replaced F1 pitboards
Formula 1 is often regarded as the pinnacle of motorsport, with high-tech equipment like wind tunnels used to refine designs, complex processes such as computational fluid dynamics used to create intricate wings, and sensors across the cars capturing terabytes of data over a race weekend. Why, then, do teams still rely on rudimentary pitboards to […]
The story behind the Pirelli F1 pole position award
Once the dust settles from a chaotic Formula 1 qualifying session, the driver on pole gets bragging rights over the rest of the field and a small tyre that’s presented by Pirelli. But what is the tiny tyre, why is it handed out and what happens to it once the driver on pole has posed […]
Who should partner Gasly at Alpine for F1 2026?
The 2026 Formula 1 grid is starting to take shape with only four teams left to officially confirm their driver line-up for next season. Mercedes is one, but the Silver Arrows is expected to keep its pairing of George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, while Alpine, Red Bull and Racing Bulls are the other three. […]
The tough times that led to Ocon’s F1 career
Any Formula 1 driver can rightfully say they didn’t quite have the same childhood as regular kids, but that’s even truer as far as Esteban Ocon is concerned. Ocon’s parents ran his early karting career on a tight budget; they even had to sell their house and automobile repair shop and live in a caravan […]
Williams junior Browning set for practice outing at F1 Mexico GP
Williams driving academy member Luke Browning will get his latest Formula 1 outing when he replaces Carlos Sainz in Friday FP1 for the Mexico Grand Prix. Browning stepped into Williams’ 2025 car during FP1 in Bahrain and will now get his second outing in the FW47 in Mexico City, which is expected to be a […]