Fernando Alonso has claimed new Formula 2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto is the best rookie on Formula 1’s 2025 grid.Andrea Kimi Antonelli will make a highly-anticipated debut with Mercedes, Oliver Bearman and Jack Doohan will follow up on their 2024 cameos with full-time drives at Haas and Alpine respectively, while BortoletoContinue Reading
Hours after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz was struggling to hold back the tears. A monitor was wheeled out into the paddock to display a farewell video Ferrari had produced as a send-off after the Spaniard’s four years at Maranello.All team members were wearing a special cap thatContinue Reading
Max Verstappen will not face consequences for his heated radio message at Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi season finale in which he called the FIA race stewards “stupid idiots” for handing him a penalty.On Sunday Verstappen received a 10-second penalty for colliding with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in the first corner andContinue Reading
Yuki Tsunoda described the Red Bull car as “very different” to what he is used to, after an encouraging maiden test for the squad on Tuesday at Yas Marina Circuit.The Japanese was finally given a proper test in one of Red Bull’s cars during the post-season Abu Dhabi tyre test.WhileContinue Reading
Pirelli remains unsure about exactly where its new softest C6 compound will now race, after it proved to only be good for “part of a lap” in Abu Dhabi’s tyre test on Tuesday.F1’s official tyre supplier is introducing an extra soft compound into its range for specific street circuits inContinue Reading
Max Verstappen has conceded he sympathises with Sergio Perez’s struggles this year and insisted his Red Bull team-mate is “not an idiot” in the face of “harsh” criticism.Perez’s position with the Milton Keynes-based outfit has been hanging by a thread for the majority of the season despite signing a newContinue Reading
Ferrari has announced a “multi-year agreement” with Andretti Formula Racing to supply the Cadillac Formula 1 entry with power units upon its entry to the championship in 2026.The team, led by TWG Global – which recently took over the running of Andretti Global – and General Motors, was provisionally acceptedContinue Reading
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has ended the last day of running in 2024 on top at Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi post-season test.While testing 2025 tyre compounds for Pirelli, Leclerc set the fastest time over Tuesday’s nine-hour test at the Yas Marina circuit which hosted the season finale two days earlier.InContinue Reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur believes the way the Scuderia reacted to being “in the s***” earlier in the year provides promise for its 2025 Formula 1 campaign.The Italian marque finished runner-up to McLaren in the constructors’ standings despite a late-season charge, having fallen behind the eventual champions and RedContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton will spend this week saying goodbye to Mercedes sponsors and Formula 1 team members ahead of his move to Ferrari next season.After 12 years together, some 246 races bringing 84 wins, 78 pole positions, 153 podium finishes, eight world constructors’ championships and six world drivers’ championships, it isContinue Reading