How Lawson bounced back after demotion and why Red Bull isn’t his only F1 dream now
The 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix marked Liam Lawson’s best results in his nascent Formula 1 career. A fine Q3 lap on a damp Baku track propelled the Racing Bulls racer to third on the grid; he dropped behind both Mercedes in the race but pounced on Yuki Tsunoda for fifth as soon as the Red […]
Norris keen to follow Verstappen into endurance racing after F1
Lando Norris has confirmed he would “love to” emulate Max Verstappen in contesting other racing series once he is done with Formula 1. A fortnight ago Verstappen raced a Porsche GT4 at the Nordschleife in the Nurburgring Endurance Series to obtain a licence which allows him to race GT3s at the ‘Green Hell’. On Saturday […]
Tsuboi set for second F1 test with Haas at Silverstone
Reigning Super Formula champion Sho Tsuboi is set for his second Formula 1 test outing at the wheel of a Haas VF-23 next month at Silverstone. Toyota-contracted Tsuboi had his first taste of grand prix machinery when he took part in a specially-organised TPC test at Fuji Speedway in Japan in early August. The 30-year-old […]
Grosjean on Haas F1 test: «They made me cry!»
Five years on from his Formula 1 career-ending Bahrain Grand Prix accident, Romain Grosjean made an emotional return to F1 in a Mugello test. A Haas driver from 2016 to 2020 before he moved on to IndyCar, Grosjean got the chance to drive the team’s VF-23 car from the 2023 campaign alongside F1 TV pundit […]
Leclerc dismisses reverse grids, backs V8 push
Charles Leclerc feels Formula 1 has found its right number of sprint races but is against adding reverse-grid elements, while he has thrown his support behind the V8 push. F1 introduced sprint races in 2021 to increase the spectacle on offer over a grand prix weekend and provide a more compelling product to TV viewers […]
Why Pirelli is already doing what Verstappen told it to do with the C6 F1 tyre
When Pirelli announced the arrival of a new member of its tyre-compound family pre-season, Singapore and Las Vegas was on the list of possible venues where the ultra-soft C6 tyre could be used. This plan had been dropped even before Max Verstappen made a remarkable outburst after qualifying for the Azerbaijan GP. «You’re really better […]
All you need to know about TPC in F1
Romain Grosjean will make his Formula 1 return when he conducts a Testing of Previous Cars programme with former team Haas at Mugello. The test is lined up for Friday at the Italian circuit and it will be the 39-year-old’s first time driving F1 machinery since the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix. It is well documented […]
Verstappen to make GT3 race debut at Nordschleife in NLS this weekend
It has now been officially confirmed that Max Verstappen will make his GT3 race debut at the Nordschleife this weekend in the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS). The four-time Formula 1 world champion will share an Emil Frey Ferrari 296 with Chris Lulham for the four-hour race on Saturday. This comes just two weeks after Verstappen […]
Immortalising the man who made Ferrari great again
This week James Allen welcomes Manish Pandey, the film maker and master storyteller who shot to prominence with the award-winning 2010 documentary Senna, which he made with Asif Kapadia and James Gay Rees of Drive to Survive fame. Since then Manish has followed up, gaining exclusive access to F1’s ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone, to tell his […]