“Very confident.” That’s the way Williams racer Alex Albon described his fourth Formula 1 season with the team at the halfway point. The ex-Red Bull driver has already amassed more points in 2025 than his last three years with the Grove-based team combined and this, he says, is changing theContinue Reading
Aston Martin F1 CEO and team principal Andy Cowell admits he sometimes wonders how his team could have performed in 2025 if it hadn’t kept star signing Adrian Newey’s focus firmly on 2026.After leaving Red Bull, Newey joined Aston at the start of March in his role of Managing TechnicalContinue Reading
Sergio Perez’s Formula 1 return with newcomer Cadillac in 2026 on a multi-year deal is expected to be announced, Autosport has learned. Following several months of negotiations, Autosport understands Perez and Cadillac have finalised their talks, with an announcement coming later this week.One key point of discussion was the length ofContinue Reading
Formula 1 returns from its traditional summer break this weekend at Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix with drivers and teams recharged and ready for the final 10 rounds of 2025.McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are clear in the fight for the drivers’ title and will be hardContinue Reading
Last October, Haas and Toyota announced a partnership in which they would “Share Knowledge and Resources for Mutual Benefit”. A generous portion of corporate word salad, but lacking in substantive detail. It soon became clear that one of the new partnership’s priorities was to develop a new driver-in-loop simulator, a criticalContinue Reading
The sweeping overhaul of Formula 1’s regulations for 2026 presents a challenge for all teams and engine manufacturers, but that also applies to the drivers.Charles Leclerc has said the new cars feel “very different” based on his first simulator runs, while Alex Albon added that F1 becomes far more complex.Continue Reading
While McLaren’s baseline form over the early part of the 2025 Formula 1 season had been strong, any weaknesses that emerged in the year’s nascent stages appear to have been ironed out with development.The team has secured 1-2 finishes in each of the last four races, putting it 299 pointsContinue Reading
“We haven’t always been listened to. And this is why some of the issues still remain after five years in this team.”This is how Esteban Ocon assessed his time within the Alpine squad right before Formula 1’s 2024 summer break, which came before he had even departed the Enstone-based outfit.AtContinue Reading
George Russell is leading his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli in Formula 1’s points standings, qualifying results, and he is the only Mercedes driver to take a race win so far this season. However, the British driver says these stats don’t paint the full picture of Antonelli’s start in F1.The ItalianContinue Reading
As reported by Autosport in June, Valtteri Bottas is primed to agree terms with Cadillac to complete his return to a Formula 1 race seat. This leaves one much-coveted seat as the grid expands to 22 cars, and anyone without a contract next year has been linked to it.Of them,Continue Reading