With Guenther Steiner arriving in MotoGP for 2026, Motorsport.com understands Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are now vying to buy a team in a championship.Last Friday during the Catalan Grand Prix the acquisition of Tech3 by the Ikon Capital consortium was made official, in a deal that will see Steiner, the formerContinue Reading
Just a week after his victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Max Verstappen will be back behind the wheel – even though there’s no Formula 1 race. Instead, the Red Bull star will fulfil a long-held dream in the Eifel Mountains: competing in an official round of theContinue Reading
For the past few months the rumour mill has been industriously grinding out stories signalling a variety of ‘next moves’ for Max Verstappen, ranging from leaving Red Bull for Mercedes to quitting Formula 1 entirely.Some were more far-fetched than others but Verstappen was palpably disengaged and disgruntled at grand prixContinue Reading
For all the seven world championships he has won, Lewis Hamilton, if not quite a model of humble modesty, has retained a certain heart-on-sleeve quality when he reflects on races past. Not for him the stentorian braggadocio you would expect from one who had chalked up that level of achievementContinue Reading
The Italian Grand Prix resulted in a dominant victory for Max Verstappen, at the track where Red Bull struggled massively last year and where Verstappen described the car as “a monster.” Twelve months on reality looked very different, helped by a specific low-downforce rear wing, a fresh Honda power unitContinue Reading
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says Formula 1’s engine manufacturers are aligned in principle on a future move to V8 power units, but felt it didn’t make financial sense to fast-track them before 2031.FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is a driving force behind the introduction of simpler, cheaper and lighterContinue Reading
Language is like a river: it creates its own path. ‘Dilemma’ is one of those words, like ‘decimate’, which is losing its original meaning through misuse – which is a shame in this instance, since a dilemma is exactly what McLaren faced when ‘finger trouble’ reversed the position of itsContinue Reading
Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren’s call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past during the Italian Grand Prix after a slow stop for Norris was a “very difficult precedent to undo”.As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winnerContinue Reading
Oliver Bearman is on the edge of a Formula 1 race ban after his penalty for clashing with Carlos Sainz during the Italian Grand Prix.The Haas driver moved on to 10 penalty points for the rolling 12-month period, meaning if he picks up two more before his next points areContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton reckoned he could have finished fifth rather than sixth in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, which in itself was a respectable return given the contentious five-place grid penalty he carried over from Zandvoort.Hamilton started 10th and had to make his way past the Red Bull of Yuki TsunodaContinue Reading