Aston Martin’s tough 2025 F1 season isn’t why Newey was named team principal – Alonso
On 26 November, Aston Martin announced that Adrian Newey would be its Formula 1 team principal for the 2026 season. Legendary F1 engineer Newey joined Aston on 1 March as managing technical director and will take over from current team boss Andy Cowell, who is stepping aside to become chief strategy officer after replacing Mike […]
Ben Sulayem re-elected as FIA president
Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected as president of the FIA. Ben Sulayem controversially ran unopposed in this year’s presidential election, which took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, ahead of the 2025 prize-giving ceremony. The Emirati will serve a second four-year term, having first been elected in 2021 with 61.62% of the vote to then deputy […]
FIA considered mid-cycle rule change, but lacked support from F1 teams
With the 2025 Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi, the regulatory cycle of the ground-effect cars has come to an end. The regulations introduced in 2022 had three aims: improving racing by allowing drivers to follow each other more closely, closing up the field, and creating a sustainable championship – also financially. As Nikolas […]
You have to remind yourself that he’s just 19
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff couldn’t have coped with Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s pressure as a 19-year-old, explaining he was “a bit of an idiot” at that age. Antonelli became F1’s third-youngest driver in history this season at 18 years old thanks to his single-seater prowess – four titles in Formula 4 and Formula […]
What’s next for Ben Sulayem after controversial FIA tenure so far?
After standing unopposed, Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected for another term as FIA president — ahead of the motorsport governing body’s prize-giving night in Uzbekistan on Friday. The 64-year-old Emirati will thus remain as the FIA’s leader for another four years, having succeeded Jean Todt at the end of 2021. Although three other candidates had […]
Leclerc says «it’s now or never» for Ferrari’s F1 chance as 2026 change looms
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc says it is «now or never’ for the Italian team to fight for championships under the all-new regulation changes for 2026. Ferrari slipped from second to fourth this year after it missed the mark at the start of the 2025 campaign, and then decided to focus all of its […]
Verstappen “is already the best” F1 driver but still getting better – Marko
Outgoing Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko said his “most intimate” relationship with a Formula 1 driver has been with Max Verstappen, whom he believes to be improving even further. Marko is ending a 25-year stint as Red Bull’s lead talent scout, having headed its young driver programme since 2001. Over that period, he helped promote […]
F1 and FIA agree new five-year Concorde Governance Agreement
Formula 1 management, governing body the FIA and all 11 teams have signed the latest 2026 Concorde Governance Agreement, which sets out how the series is run for the next five seasons. The governance agreement forms the second part of the F1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signed ahead of March’s Australian […]
Two key changes in F1’s Concorde Governance Agreement explained
The governance agreement forms the second part of the Formula 1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signed ahead of March’s Australian Grand Prix and will cover the period between 2026 to 2030. Governing body the FIA and FOM jointly announced the agreement in the margins of this week’s FIA General Assemblies […]