More than a question of points scored and position in the standings, the goal of Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s first season in Formula 1 was to convince Mercedes management that it had made the right choice by turning to the teenager as its long-term replacement for seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.ItContinue Reading
Algarve International Circuit will return to the Formula 1 calendar for the 2027 and 2028 seasons.Located near Portimao in southern Portugal, the track will take Zandvoort’s spot as the Dutch circuit exits after just a six-year stint.Algarve previously hosted F1 on two occasions, in the COVID-affected 2020 and 2021 campaigns.Continue Reading
On 26 November, Aston Martin announced that Adrian Newey would be its Formula 1 team principal for the 2026 season.Legendary F1 engineer Newey joined Aston on 1 March as managing technical director and will take over from current team boss Andy Cowell, who is stepping aside to become chief strategyContinue Reading
Although the 2025 Formula 1 title fight went down to the final race in Abu Dhabi, the tension in the paddock was completely different than in 2021. Four years ago, the atmosphere between Red Bull and Mercedes was hostile at times, even though Max Verstappen laughed it off at theContinue Reading
Audi has revealed key details ahead of its maiden Formula 1 season in 2026.The German brand is taking over the Sauber team which it acquired in 2024 after buying a minority stake the previous year and, in 2022, announcing its involvement as a power unit supplier from 2026 onwards. ThisContinue Reading
Ex-Formula 1 race director Michael Masi has joined the NZ Championship ahead of the start of the 2026 season, MotorSport New Zealand has announced.Masi will oversee a range of national series in New Zealand as the event director, with a focus on “ensuring the safe, fair, and professional delivery ofContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton’s relationship with Ferrari is much less strained than it appears, according to the team’s head of track engineering Matteo Togninalli, although the Formula 1 squad nonetheless feels it “under evaluated” the adaptation period needed for both sides.In the early part of 2025, Hamilton had to clear up theContinue Reading
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff couldn’t have coped with Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s pressure as a 19-year-old, explaining he was “a bit of an idiot” at that age.Antonelli became F1’s third-youngest driver in history this season at 18 years old thanks to his single-seater prowess – four titles inContinue Reading
With the 2025 Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi, the regulatory cycle of the ground-effect cars has come to an end. The regulations introduced in 2022 had three aims: improving racing by allowing drivers to follow each other more closely, closing up the field, and creating a sustainable championshipContinue Reading
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc says it is “now or never’ for the Italian team to fight for championships under the all-new regulation changes for 2026.Ferrari slipped from second to fourth this year after it missed the mark at the start of the 2025 campaign, and then decided toContinue Reading