Williams boss James Vowles believes the performance gains the outfit has recently found on its 2025 Formula 1 car are a sign of bigger things to come as the team becomes more efficient.Its upgrades at the Belgian Grand Prix were more than welcome. The Grove-based squad made a flying startContinue Reading
Competing for a Formula 1 championship “feels similar” to fighting for those in the junior categories, says Oscar Piastri, who notes that his intra-team battle with McLaren stablemate Lando Norris is the key differentiating factor.Piastri won the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup, 2020 Formula 3, and 2021 Formula 2 titles consecutively beforeContinue Reading
Sometimes in Formula 1 the flow of dynamic young drivers splutters or even takes a year off. 2025 wasn’t going to be one of those seasons; in recent years only 2019, where the likes of Lando Norris, George Russell and Alex Albon arrived hot from F2, provided such a richContinue Reading
Current Formula 2 championship leader Leonardo Fornaroli is something of a rarity in modern motorsport: he is currently in the lead of a top-level junior championship in his first year, but remains conspicuously unaffiliated to a Formula 1 academy.This is a quirk that Invicta team principal James Robinson believes isContinue Reading
Teams are currently preparing for Formula 1’s technical overhaul on both the chassis and engine side for 2026, although the prospect of new regulations is not welcomed equally by all.Several drivers have spoken out after their first runs in the simulator. Max Verstappen was the first one two years ago,Continue Reading
From the outside, Andrea Stella’s tenure as a McLaren team boss has looked pretty straightforward.After taking over from Andreas Seidl ahead of the 2023 season, the Italian oversaw a technical restructuring that turned the team into a regular podium finisher over the second half of a Red Bull-dominated campaign, andContinue Reading
Nobody ever wants the wooden spoon in the Formula 1 world championship, for valid reasons – a crucial loss of prize money, and the mere incentive to do well – but if you’re ever going to come last then Alpine certainly is doing it right.The Enstone-based outfit has already scoredContinue Reading
“At the start, I didn’t like motorsport.” As soon as our chat with Leonardo Fornaroli begins, he candidly opens up.The Piacenza native, born in December 2004 within 200km of both Monza and Imola, did grow up around racing. His father, Valentino Fornaroli, raced competitively from 2008 to 2015 – mostlyContinue Reading
When Williams team principal James Vowles and his wife Rachel took to their annual New Year’s tradition of setting themselves a challenge, the idea was to learn a new skill over the new year. Taking piano lessons, learning a new language; you get the idea.But in 2020 Vowles set himselfContinue Reading
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella thinks some of the philosophies that made his 2025 F1 car so successful can be carried over to 2026’s all-new regulations.In 2026 F1 is moving away from a heavy reliance on ground effect, reverting to cars with a flat underfloor and reduced downforce levels, whileContinue Reading