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
Outgoing Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko said his “most intimate” relationship with a Formula 1 driver has been with Max Verstappen, whom he believes to be improving even further.Marko is ending a 25-year stint as Red Bull’s lead talent scout, having headed its young driver programme since 2001. Over thatContinue Reading
The governance agreement forms the second part of the Formula 1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signed ahead of March’s Australian Grand Prix and will cover the period between 2026 to 2030.Governing body the FIA and FOM jointly announced the agreement in the margins of thisContinue Reading
Formula 1 management, governing body the FIA and all 11 teams have signed the latest 2026 Concorde Governance Agreement, which sets out how the series is run for the next five seasons.The governance agreement forms the second part of the F1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signedContinue Reading
After standing unopposed, Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected for another term as FIA president – ahead of the motorsport governing body’s prize-giving night in Uzbekistan on Friday.The 64-year-old Emirati will thus remain as the FIA’s leader for another four years, having succeeded Jean Todt at the end of 2021. AlthoughContinue Reading