Yuki Tsunoda has brought a “positive energy” to Red Bull, as team principal Christian Horner has praised the job that the Japanese Formula 1 driver has done at the team so far.Tsunoda was given a test at Silverstone in Red Bull’s RB19, although faced what he described as “classic BritishContinue Reading
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes a proposal to change the energy deployment of Formula 1’s 2026 powertrains is “worth consideration”, warning of excessive lift and coast at certain races next year.Horner’s comments follow the F1 Commission meeting, where the teams met with the FIA and FOM last weekContinue Reading
Red Bull has commenced its incremental upgrade push to try and close the gap with the leading McLaren cars, starting with a revised floor design for the Miami sprint weekend, which Verstappen will trial.Teams are generally reluctant to bring substantial floor changes to a sprint weekend, with just one practiceContinue Reading
Austin may have hosted Formula 1 since 2012, but the real test for if the championship could finally break into American culture came a decade later when the decision was taken to race in Miami.The Circuit of the Americas stages the de facto United States Grand Prix and is oftenContinue Reading
McLaren’s championship leader Oscar Piastri has set the fastest time in practice for the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, which was red-flagged for the stricken Haas of Oliver Bearman.The sprint weekend’s sole practice session got off to a false start for last year’s maiden winner Lando Norris, who reported someContinue Reading
Haas driver Oliver Bearman has led calls for FIA to fine-tune its regulations around the new cooling vests drivers have at their disposal for hot Formula 1 races.In the wake of an extremely hot 2023 Qatar Grand Prix in which several drivers struggled with varying heat exhaustion symptoms, the FIAContinue Reading
Formula 1 has announced it has signed a new 10-year contract extension with the organisers of the Miami Grand Prix, keeping the race on the calendar until at least 2041.The new deal was announced on Friday ahead of this weekend’s running by F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and Tom Garfinkel, managingContinue Reading
Red Bull has continued its efforts to claw back performance versus McLaren with a revised Formula 1 floor design for this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.Although the RB21 has shown glimmers of competitiveness over the opening five rounds, the car’s weaknesses have largely manifested in its handling characteristics and greater tyreContinue Reading
When Carlos Sainz announced his move to Williams for 2025, Autosport described the pairing of him with Alex Albon as Formula 1’s most intriguing match up. And so it has proved, albeit not in a way that has always cast Sainz in a flattering light.His first two race weekends forContinue Reading
The closest Charles Leclerc has been to the winner of a grand prix at the chequered flag this season has been 8.104 seconds.Even that margin, for his third-place finish last time out in Saudi Arabia, is something of an outlier in the opening five rounds of 2025 – fourth placeContinue Reading