Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has issued a direct warning to George Russell and Kimi Antonelli as their early-season championship rivalry intensifies. Speaking during a virtual press conference last week, Wolff made clear that no driver’s personal ambition would ever take priority over the team. Three races into the 2026 Formula 1 season, Antonelli leads […]
Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited has struck a formal agreement with Formula 1 to run India’s first official F1-sanctioned sim racing championship. Registrations open on 30 April 2026 through the MFRL App, available on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. The national final is scheduled for Mumbai in November 2026. The competition will run […]
Oscar Piastri has welcomed Formula 1’s latest regulatory adjustments ahead of the Miami Grand Prix. However, he says further changes will likely be needed as the sport continues to iron out problems thrown up by its new technical rules. The McLaren driver made his comments on the High Performance podcast recorded at the McLaren Technology […]
The three-time grand prix winner made the remark on the Stay On Track podcast. Herbert and his co-host Damon Hill were asked what single piece of advice they would offer to Lewis Hamilton. “Probably the one thing I would probably say, if I was close to him, was be honest,” Herbert said. “Because there is […]
Sebastian Vettel ran the 2026 London Marathon in 2 hours, 59 minutes and 8 seconds on Sunday, becoming one of the more unlikely sub-three-hour finishers in the race’s history. The four-time Formula 1 world champion was 38 years old and running the 26.2-mile distance for the first time. He ran alongside F1 journalist Tom Clarkson […]
Franco Colapinto drove a Formula 1 car through the streets of Buenos Aires on Sunday, and 600,000 people showed up to watch. The Alpine driver was the centrepiece of the Mercado Libre presents: Franco Colapinto Road Show Buenos Aires 2026, held in Palermo, the neighbourhood where he grew up. When it was over, the 22-year-old […]
Fernando Alonso says he is not ready to leave Formula 1, signalling that he wants to continue racing beyond the end of his current Aston Martin contract in 2026. The 43-time podium finisher made the comments at the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, telling Sky Sports: “At the moment, I don’t feel it’s that time […]
BYD, the world’s largest electric vehicle maker, has confirmed it held direct talks with Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali about joining the sport. The Chinese automaker’s vice president, Stella Li, made the disclosure at the 2026 Beijing Motor Show this week. The admission moves BYD’s F1 ambitions from reported speculation to confirmed, active discussion. Li […]
Isack Hadjar says he briefly questioned his decision to join Red Bull before pushing those doubts aside. The 21-year-old French-Algerian, now in his first season as Max Verstappen’s team-mate, admits the pattern of struggling drivers at the team gave him pause. But he says his belief in his own ability was enough to silence those […]
Helmut Marko has confirmed that Max Verstappen’s failure to win a fifth consecutive Formula 1 world championship was the defining reason behind his departure from Red Bull. The 82-year-old Austrian, speaking in an interview with Die Zeit, called the two-point defeat to Lando Norris at the end of the 2025 season “a huge disappointment”. He […]
Red Bull ran a heavily updated RB22 at Silverstone on Wednesday, April 22, with the headline addition being the team’s own version of Ferrari’s rotating “Macarena” rear wing. Max Verstappen drove the car during the filming day, which gave the Milton Keynes-based team its first chance to gather data on the new package ahead of […]
Former Formula 1 race winner Juan Pablo Montoya has called on Red Bull to ban Max Verstappen from racing outside of F1. His comments came after the death of Finnish privateer Juha Miettinen at the Nürburgring on 18 April 2026. Miettinen, 66, was killed during the NLS4 race when his car spun on an oil […]