Williams driver Carlos Sainz says the FIA’s clampdown on swearing is “too much” and thinks it would be bad for Formula 1 if drivers were no longer allowed to show emotion inside the car.Last month, F1’s governing body issued an update to its Sporting Code, featuring a series of stewards’Continue Reading
Speaking to Autosport on Friday evening, Maaden CEO Bob Wilt asks for an honest answer to his own question – had this writer heard of the company before it linked up with Aston Martin last year?The answer, as he predicted, was ‘no’. But it also explained just why Maaden wasContinue Reading
On the eve of its livery launch event at London’s O2 Arena, Formula 1 has announced that British comedian and actor Jack Whitehall will host the show.The F175 celebration will see all 10 teams unveil their livery for the 2025 season, with each squad given seven minutes on stage toContinue Reading
Somewhere near the end of Oscar Piastri’s press conference last week when McLaren launched its Formula 1 car for 2025, the Australian answered a question that nobody was asking.The actual question was about his relationship with team-mate Lando Norris and how McLaren would handle the competitiveness between the two.Towards theContinue Reading
Every year, Formula 1’s teams have to make the decision when to end focus on the current season and pour all of its engineering resources into designing the next car. It’s an important thing to time correctly, and F1 is littered with examples of teams who either kept developing tooContinue Reading
It’s customary to make the usual predictions ahead of a brand new Formula 1 season: who’s going to win the title, which team is going to be the constructors’ champion, yada and indeed, yada. In recent years, even a crystal ball from Temu would likely lead any clairvoyants on aContinue Reading
It was a moment that caused jaws to drop aplenty in the 2024 Formula 1 season: Williams team boss James Vowles revealing he’d discovered his then still-fairly-new squad was using a single, gigantic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to itemise its entire car build package.The list ran to multiple thousands of cellContinue Reading
Thankfully, the mooted Valentines’ Day special livery that enrobed the Williams FW47 was none too garish, once the car was revealed during its Silverstone shakedown on Friday. The dark blue screenfade effect was actually quite cool, almost like a gateway into a badly damaged ’90s CRT screen – with theContinue Reading
If you had told any Formula 1 fan at the start of 2024 that by the end of the season Alpine would have a double podium and finish sixth in the constructors’ championship, you would probably have been met by some very confused looks.But from the Brazilian Grand Prix, thingsContinue Reading
Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a confident impression as they presented the 2025 McLaren Formula 1 car to the world on Thursday at a wet Silverstone.Norris is adamant he has learned a huge amount from his first title battle, admittedly a long shot, last year and going upContinue Reading