“If you want to be competitive, you need to be on the edge. If you are on the edge, it is going to hurt at some stage. It’s meant to happen.” That’s how Oracle Red Bull Racing’s CEO and team principal Laurent Mekies described the discipline of learning through difficultContinue Reading
Owing to Formula 1 regulations mandating two rookie outings per car this season on race weekends, nine youngsters will partake in Free Practice 1 at the Mexico Grand Prix.Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is now a well-known circuit where teams have gathered lots of data and where the track usually is quiteContinue Reading
This week we have a special edition featuring interviews with Toto Wolff and Eddy Cue from the Autosport Business Exchange event we hosted recently in New York.It was a gathering of leaders from across motorsport, exploring the intersection of sports, entertainment and culture with the theme of the ‘Rise ofContinue Reading
Max Verstappen’s recent charge has thrown the 2025 Formula 1 world championship fight wide open.The defending world champion’s United States Grand Prix domination, winning both the sprint and main race, has cut the deficit to Oscar Piastri to 40 points.Meanwhile, Lando Norris has also been eating into the gap toContinue Reading
According to Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin’s own analysis of its performance places the team eighth in terms of pure pace, and its flashes of speed during Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix weekend in Austin were flattered by outside circumstances.Alonso was fourth in first practice, sixth in sprint qualifying, thenContinue Reading
Alpine Formula 1 driver Franco Colapinto has said “instructions by the team must always be followed no matter what” after disobeying a team order in the United States Grand Prix.Despite pitting earlier than nearly anyone in the Austin race on lap 13, Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto put pressure on Colapinto duringContinue Reading
McLaren team boss Andrea Stella is upbeat about Oscar Piastri’s and Lando Norris’ chances of fending off Max Verstappen and Red Bull over the remaining Formula 1 races.Piastri and Norris were beaten by Verstappen in the upgraded Red Bull in each of the last four races, including in Singapore whereContinue Reading
McLaren will not bring any further upgrades to its 2025 car to help Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris hold off Max Verstappen in the Formula 1 drivers’ championship and the squad also feels Norris’ United States Grand Prix race pace offered some reassurance. Verstappen won his third grand prix in fourContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton had a rather uneventful race at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix until the final lap, when an unidentified problem cost him four seconds and put him under threat from Oscar Piastri.After getting a good start that allowed him to move ahead of George Russell while keepingContinue Reading
Zak Brown personally apologised to Nico Hulkenberg after blaming him for the retirements of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris from the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix sprint, according to Sauber boss Jonathan Wheatley. The McLaren drivers crashed out on lap one of Saturday’s race after championship leader Piastri attempted aContinue Reading