Max Verstappen says the mandatory two-pitstop rules turned Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix into “almost Mario Kart”, and reckons the experiment hasn’t worked.In an attempt to avoid the usual procession, after a 2024 race in which the top 10 drivers finished in the same order they started, F1 decided toContinue Reading
The FIA explained why Mercedes driver George Russell was handed a harsher than usual penalty for overtaking Alex Albon off-track at Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix.In the fight for the final points, Russell was frustrated by Williams driver Alex Albon, who had been driving slowly to create a gap for team-mateContinue Reading
McLaren’s Lando Norris has won the F1’s 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, holding off Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri after a tactically cagey race.In a race was turned into an odd game of chess by a one-off mandate to use three sets of tyres, and therefore make two pitstops, Norris avoidedContinue Reading
McLaren team boss Andrea Stella believes Lando Norris has made an important step gelling with his car after taking pole for Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix.On the technical street circuit Norris beat Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to pole by one tenth, with team-mate Oscar Piastri 0.175s behind. It was the Briton’sContinue Reading
Pirelli motorsport chief Mario Isola is concerned a long safety car period during the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix could lead to issues in the pitlane, suggesting it will take a “genius” rather than a strategist to work out how best to attack the race, now that using at leastContinue Reading
Adrian Newey has leapt to the defence of under-fire Aston Martin racer Lance Stroll, claiming the Canadian has a “bad rap” outside of the team.Stroll has had some high-profile blunders since making his Formula 1 debut in 2017 and has been caught out this weekend at the Monaco Grand PrixContinue Reading
“This has nothing to do with racing,” concluded Max Verstappen after last year’s Monaco Grand Prix. It fits a pattern: Saturdays are spectacular in the Principality, but Sundays tend to offer limited to almost no action. This is obviously due to overtaking with today’s large F1 cars being virtually impossibleContinue Reading
Deep breath on the way out of the Rascasse; you won’t have another for the next 70 seconds.The spectacle of qualifying at Monaco is underrated. Pure, primal, tooth-clenching commitment meets surgical precision for a flurry of kerb-hopping, wall-scraping daredevilry that juxtaposes against the serenity of the yachts, tousled by theContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton has addressed his incident with Max Verstappen during Formula 1 qualifying at Monaco Grand Prix, which led to a three-place grid drop for Sunday’s race.The Ferrari driver explained that he was mistakenly told by his team that Verstappen was slowing down, which prompted him to move back to theContinue Reading
Lando Norris put his Monaco Grand Prix pole result down to “driving smarter” rather than quicker, believing this was the first time since Formula 1’s 2025 season opener in Australia that he put together a satisfactory Q3 run.McLaren chose to give Norris and team-mate Oscar Piastri two runs on their finalContinue Reading