How Newey hopes to help Aston Martin party like it’s 1998
Speaking on stage at the launch of Aston Martin’s hotly anticipated 2026 Formula 1 challenger, Adrian Newey confirmed an essential truism of the creative process: you can take the engineer out of the office, but you can’t take the ideas out of their head. Newey, architect of 12 constructors’ championship winners, admitted that he spent […]
The «huge changes» Aston Martin had to overcome to make the Barcelona F1 shakedown
Like Indiana Jones snatching his misplaced fedora from under a rapidly descending stone doorway, Aston Martin’s timing was dramatically close to the edge this week. The team arrived for the Barcelona shakedown week late on the third of the five days and only achieved a handful of laps when its AMR26 emerged from the garage […]
Colapinto claims Stroll is «always taking people out» after F1 Brazil GP clash with Bortoleto
Franco Colapinto offered his support to Brazil Grand Prix fan favourite Gabriel Bortoleto following his first lap exit — and criticised Lance Stroll’s defence against Bortoleto into Turn 10. Bortoleto, who had endured a dismal return home after crashing out in the sprint race, had attempted to mount an early recovery from the back of […]
Aston Martin reveals first images of 2025 F1 car
Aston Martin has revealed the first images of its 2025 Formula 1 car – the AMR25. The car features much changed sidepods compared to its predecessor the AMR24, while unlike Ferrari Aston Martin has stuck with a pushrod front suspension and the British squad has also applied this arrangement at the rear of its machines. […]
Aston Martin reveals launch plan for 2025 F1 challenger
Aston Martin will unveil its AMR25 car on 23 February in an online launch, a day before it gets its first on-track run at Bahrain. This will follow the team’s livery reveal at F1’s 75th anniversary launch event at London’s O2 Arena on 18 February, and imagery will be released across Aston Martin’s media profiles. […]
Ranking the F1 drivers under most team-mate pressure in 2025
The new Formula 1 season is now just around the corner, with the 2025 campaign expected to be a continuation of last season’s unpredictable battle right across the grid. With McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes all seemingly on course to bring battle to the still just about frontrunning Red Bull squad, it could even rival 2021 […]
The uncomfortable decision facing Lawrence Stroll
You can build the most impressive factory and fill it with all the latest equipment and computer software. Construct the most sophisticated in-house wind tunnel, boosting the potential of your team’s development rate. You can hire the most successful F1 designer of all time, paying him £30 million a year to design your cars. But […]
No point in talking to unapologetic Stroll over F1 China clash
Stroll ran into Ricciardo under the safety car in Shanghai, which ended Ricciardo’s chance of scoring his first points of the 2024 season with RB. Ricciardo was incensed by the incident, especially after it became clear that Stroll ducked responsibility for the incident and blamed drivers ahead, saying it made his «blood boil». The Australian […]
Stroll penalty «very harsh» after F1 China «chain reaction»
Stroll hit Ricciardo under the safety car as the field bunched up in the penultimate corner for a lap 27 restart. The stewards wholly blamed Stroll for not taking more care to avoid the contact and handed him a 10-second penalty and two penalty points, which Stroll felt was «a joke». His team boss Krack […]