Williams F1 2026 car finally hits the track with Silverstone shakedown
The 2026 Williams Formula 1 car finally hit the track for the first time with a shakedown at Silverstone just a week after the British squad skipped the Barcelona shakedown. F1 hosted its first collective test of the 2026 season last week with five days of private running at the Catalan circuit, ahead of the […]
How Williams’ new F1 car build system works
It was a moment that caused jaws to drop aplenty in the 2024 Formula 1 season: Williams team boss James Vowles revealing he’d discovered his then still-fairly-new squad was using a single, gigantic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to itemise its entire car build package. The list ran to multiple thousands of cell entries – an approximate […]
Williams may be focused on 2026, but FW47 shows hints of team’s regeneration under Vowles
Thankfully, the mooted Valentines’ Day special livery that enrobed the Williams FW47 was none too garish, once the car was revealed during its Silverstone shakedown on Friday. The dark blue screenfade effect was actually quite cool, almost like a gateway into a badly damaged ’90s CRT screen — with the lingering screen burn of a […]
Zhou joins Ferrari as reserve driver after losing Sauber seat
Zhou Guanyu will join Ferrari as one of its reserve drivers for the 2025 Formula 1 season, taking the role alongside current incumbent Antonio Giovinazzi. Zhou recently ended a three-year stint as a race driver in F1 with Sauber (previously Alfa Romeo), having become the first Chinese race driver in the F1 history. He scored […]
Who are the 2025 F1 rookies? Antonelli, Bearman and more
The start of the 2024 Formula 1 season saw the grid entirely unchanged from the end of one season to the start of the next. But after a rookie drought, the most recent silly season produced five drivers who take their debut full-time F1 seats in 2025. Andrea Kimi Antonelli replaces the Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton […]