McLaren’s Lando Norris made it a Friday clean sweep by topping Formula 1’s second practice session at the Dutch Grand Prix, while Lance Stroll suffered a heavy crash in the Aston Martin.Norris bested Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso and team-mate Oscar Piastri on Zandvoort’s 4.226km seaside circuit in a session derailedContinue Reading
Alpine chief Flavio Briatore admits he may have put too much pressure on the Formula 1 team’s second driver Franco Colapinto, as the Argentinian has yet to get off the mark for the squad.Colapinto was brought in from Williams as Alpine’s reserve driver and swapped places with fellow rookie DoohanContinue Reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has conceded that the team has put Andrea Kimi Antonelli “under maximum pressure” in his debut Formula 1 season – but says the 19-year-old remains a long-term hire.Antonelli has enjoyed the highs of a maiden podium and a sprint race pole in 2025, but has enduredContinue Reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has joked it would be like a ‘mafia reunion’ should Christian Horner, Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore combine for an ownership stake in the Alpine Formula 1 outfit.Horner was sacked as Red Bull team principal in July and his next step is not yet known, butContinue Reading
Formula 1 will undergo a major overhaul next year with new engine and chassis regulations. It’s a leap into the unknown for all teams and manufacturers, although some teams including Red Bull have suggested that Mercedes appears “very confident” about its engine project.That belief was based on paddock chatter –Continue Reading
McLaren driver Lando Norris edged team-mate Oscar Piastri to lead Friday’s first free practice at Formula 1’s Dutch Grand Prix.Following several heatwaves that scorched Europe’s summer, the second leg of the season got underway in cool conditions in the NetherlandsThere was little time to waste at the start of theContinue Reading
20 years ago, Fernando Alonso was engaged in a thrilling championship run-in with Kimi Raikkonen, and a young tyre engineer with a bright future was about to join Alonso’s Renault team.Ayao Komatsu had got his F1 break working for BAR-Honda’s test team in a high-spending era where leading manufacturer-backed organisationsContinue Reading
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have given their blessing for split strategies to continue at the team as they battle for the 2025 Formula 1 title, but both feel Hungary was something of an outlier.Norris was running third during the Hungarian Grand Prix and took the plunge to switchContinue Reading
Performance gains have become harder to find as F1’s second ground-effect aerodynamics era matures, but for some the process has been more challenging for others. Aston Martin has noticeably struggled to unlock more relative pace from its cars ever since making a strong start to the 2023 season. This has notContinue Reading
Suggestions from Toto Wolff that 2026 F1 cars could get near top speeds of 400km/h have caused a stir, but both the real picture and what the Mercedes chief actually meant are more nuanced than that.As is well documented, F1 is facing a radical regulations shake-up in 2026, driven byContinue Reading