From the outside, it looked like something had gone badly wrong. Alex Albon was diving into the pits again and again in the final laps of the Japanese Grand Prix, swapping tyres, adjusting wings, completing a single lap before returning to the pit lane. The crowd at Suzuka had no explanation. Neither did most watching […]
As the chequered flag flew in Melbourne, Nikola Tsolov became part of history. The 19-year-old Bulgarian crossed the line at Albert Park to claim his first Formula 2 victory, becoming the first driver from his country to win in the series. He also shot straight to the top of the 2026 F2 Drivers’ Championship. But […]
Max Verstappen says he wants to race in Japan’s Super GT series, but a gap in the championship’s structure is making that difficult. The four-time Formula 1 world champion spoke about his ambitions ahead of the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, days after driving a Nissan GT500 car at a wet Fuji Speedway test. […]
Ferrari will run its SF-26 at Monza on April 22, using a 200km filming day to test a cluster of updates originally spread across two races that no longer exist on the calendar. The Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix were cancelled due to the geopolitical situation in the Middle East, and that five-week gap […]
George Russell is nine points behind his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli in the 2026 Formula 1 drivers’ championship. Three races in, the 19-year-old Italian has won two of them. By any conventional reading, the momentum belongs to Antonelli. Russell, however, does not accept the conventional reading. Speaking after the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on […]
There is a particular moment in every young driver’s career when rivals stop offering advice and start watching their back. For Andrea Kimi Antonelli, that moment appears to have arrived. The 19-year-old Mercedes driver has revealed that both Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have pulled back the open, mentoring approach they offered him throughout his […]
The BWT Alpine F1 Team published an open letter on Thursday, April 2, following the Japanese Grand Prix. The team addressed a wave of online abuse, death threats and sabotage claims that have followed its drivers across consecutive race weekends. The statement, directed at the broader Formula 1 community, is one of the more candid […]
Red Bull Racing is paying a steep competitive price in 2026 after choosing to chase Max Verstappen’s fifth world championship deep into the 2025 season. Team principal Laurent Mekies has openly acknowledged the cost. Three races into the new era, the Milton Keynes outfit sits sixth in the constructors’ standings, 119 points behind Mercedes. The […]
F1 rulemakers are heading into one of the most significant meetings of the modern era. On April 9, team technical chiefs, engine manufacturers, and senior figures from the FIA and F1 will all come together under one roof. They will address the new set of 2026 regulations that have unsettled drivers, divided the paddock, and, […]
Lando Norris has said that his car overtook Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari SF-26 at the Japanese Grand Prix without him wanting it to. The comment raised serious questions about driver control under Formula 1’s 2026 regulations. The reigning world champion made the admission after Sunday’s race at Suzuka, where the two drivers exchanged positions several times. […]
Daniel Ricciardo has never struggled to say what he means. But what he said on Ford CEO Jim Farley’s podcast recently might have come as a surprise to many. Months after his Formula 1 career ended, the eight-time grand prix winner said that Red Bull and Racing Bulls made the kindest decision possible by dropping […]
Three races into the 2026 F1 season, Alexander Wurz has hinted at a problem. The Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) President says the drivers are not being heard. And he has the chat logs to prove it. Wurz, a former F1 driver who founded the GPDA’s now-famous WhatsApp group a decade ago, says the group […]