The Dutch Grand Prix was never a happy hunting ground for Bruce McLaren, who registered seven DNFs at Zandvoort and two non-points finishes in the nine championship races he started there. But on the 88th anniversary of McLaren’s birth, cars carrying his name enjoyed a formidable margin of superiority toContinue Reading
Mercedes Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli reckons his incident in opening practice for the Dutch Grand Prix was the root cause of his poor qualifying result.The 19-year-old only qualified 11th at Zandvoort, after understeering off at Turn 9 in FP1 which beached his Mercedes in the gravel and broughtContinue Reading
Alex Albon cut a very frustrated figure after qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix after struggling to manage tyre temperature on his Williams Formula 1 car.Albon suffered a Q2 elimination as he qualified 15th for Sunday’s grand prix at Zandvoort, while team-mate Carlos Sainz progressed to Q3 with ninth.The Thai-BritonContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc has offered a damning assessment of his qualifying performance at the Dutch Grand Prix, with the Ferrari Formula 1 driver down in sixth. Leclerc has been off the pace all weekend with the Monegasque not yet finishing a session above sixth, continuing Ferrari’s difficult 2025 season thus far withContinue Reading
Racing Bulls F1 rookie Isack Hadjar says his fourth-fastest time in Dutch Grand Prix qualifying was the best lap of his F1 career, although he also hinted at some luck.Both Hadjar and team-mate Liam Lawson looked competitive as they advanced into the final Q3 shoot-out, but while Lawson’s bid toContinue Reading
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri has defeated team-mate Lando Norris for a fifth pole of 2025 at Formula 1’s Dutch Grand Prix.Although Norris had been the fastest of the two McLaren drivers over the balance of the weekend, Piastri narrowly edged ahead of his title rival on the first run of Q3.QualifyingContinue Reading
On a weekend where one Formula 1 team has said it hasn’t even let its drivers ‘test’ its 2026 car in the simulator yet, the new ruleset has begun to take on the aspect of a large-scale thought experiment.So extensive are the changes – narrower, lighter cars with active aerodynamicsContinue Reading
Toto Wolff has conceded it feels odd not to have his bitter long-time Formula 1 rival Christian Horner to spar against after the latter’s Red Bull exit.Horner was removed from his position as Red Bull boss after July’s British Grand Prix, ending a successful two-decade reign that made him oneContinue Reading
McLaren’s Lando Norris has edged Oscar Piastri to top third and final practice at Formula 1’s 2025 Dutch Grand Prix.Norris will go into qualifying after taking a clean sweep of practice sessions in the Netherlands as he aims to repeat last year’s pole-to-flag victory to further close the gap toContinue Reading
Flavio Briatore has declared “everybody’s happy” at the Alpine Formula 1 outfit and a change of CEO at parent company Renault will not affect the project.The Renault Group confirmed Francois Provost as its new CEO in July following the departure of Luca de Meo, who started the role in 2020.ButContinue Reading