There is a moment in every athlete’s life when the teacher becomes less necessary. For Oscar Piastri, that moment arrived quietly, without drama, somewhere between his first Formula 1 race and the start of his fourth season. Mark Webber, the nine-time grand prix winner who has managed Piastri since 2019, is no longer a regular […]
Kyle Larson once drew a firm line in the sand. Now, he is rubbing part of it away. The NASCAR Cup Series champion, speaking on the SPEED with Harvick and Buxton YouTube channel, offered a far warmer view of Max Verstappen than he did less than a year ago. Where he once said he was […]
Doriane Pin grew up watching Formula 1 on the sofa with her father. Lewis Hamilton was winning titles at the time. That image stayed with her. Now 22, the French driver has won the 2025 F1 Academy championship and holds a development driver role at Mercedes. Speaking on the F1 Beyond The Grid podcast, she […]
Max Verstappen is set to lose the man he calls his friend. Gianpiero Lambiase, the race engineer who has stood beside the four-time world champion through every title victory, every bitter defeat and every fraught radio exchange, is reportedly heading to McLaren when his Red Bull contract expires at the end of 2027. Dutch newspaper […]
Max Verstappen is coming to the Nürburgring. And the world of endurance racing has noticed. The 54th edition of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, scheduled for May 14-17 in Germany, has drawn a full grid of 150 cars, its maximum capacity. The four-time Formula 1 world champion’s confirmed debut at the event has driven applications far […]
Max Verstappen did something at the Nurburgring Nordschleife on March 21 that even the most experienced GT3 drivers in the paddock had never thought of doing. Nobody outside his team knows exactly what it was. And for now, his teammate is keeping it that way. Dani Juncadella, the 34-year-old Spanish GT3 veteran who shared the […]
Max Verstappen has ruled out competitive rallying after his Formula 1 career ends, citing the sport’s unforgiving natural environment as a risk he is not prepared to accept. The four-time world champion made the admission on the Up To Speed podcast. He draws a clear line between the engineered safety of a circuit and the […]
Ole Schack, one of Formula 1’s longest-serving pit crew members, has resigned from Red Bull Racing. The Danish mechanic spent more than two decades with the team. His departure deepens a loss of staff that has stripped away much of the support structure around Max Verstappen. Schack joined the team during its Jaguar years and […]
Three races into Formula 1’s new era, and drivers are already afraid to race each other. Williams driver Alex Albon has clearly said what others are only whispering. The 2026 technical regulations have made the act of defending a racing position genuinely dangerous. The concern has now reached official drivers’ briefings at the FIA and […]
In a proverbial sense, Lewis Hamilton is back. After a difficult debut season at Ferrari, the seven-time world champion has looked sharp, competitive and, crucially, unbothered by any instruction from the pit wall. Former Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher thinks he knows why. Schumacher, a six-time grand prix winner and television commentator for Sky Sport […]
Max Verstappen did not mean to do Formula E any favours. But when the four-time world champion compared F1’s new 2026 cars to Formula E machinery during pre-season testing in Bahrain, the all-electric series quietly picked up something it could not have bought: lots of overnight attention. The Red Bull four-time champion’s frustration was real. […]
Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson could race in his home country this April. The Racing Bulls driver has been linked with a wildcard entry in the Repco Supercars Championship in New Zealand, with series organisers reportedly pushing hard to make it happen. But finding him a car has proved to be the sticking point, and […]