McLaren’s decision to swap positions between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri during Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix was a matter of “fairness” and “consistency of principles”, per team principal Andrea Stella.The Woking-based squad found itself facing scrutiny during the race when, after Lando Norris suffered a slow pitstop and droppedContinue Reading
The 2025 Formula 1 championship fight is very unlike many that have come before.It is being fought by McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, but even as the season approaches its end, the pair are still playing ‘happy family’ rather than the intra-team bust-ups of years gone by likeContinue Reading
Max Verstappen produced a vintage display of dominance at the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix with a commanding win over Lando Norris, who was at the centre of a McLaren team orders kerfuffle following a slow pitstop.Norris, who had given up his place in the McLaren pitstop queue to team-mateContinue Reading
Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, winners of the past five grands prix at Monza, have something in common besides the obvious fact of being Formula 1 drivers who have won the Italian GP.None of them started from pole position.Indeed, races won from pole are in the minorityContinue Reading
Twelve months ago, the world of Formula 1 still looked very different in many ways. Max Verstappen led the championship with a sizeable margin, trying to drag an inferior car across the line for his fourth world title. Oscar Piastri had only one Grand Prix victory to his name, whileContinue Reading
When Monza was resurfaced ahead of last year’s Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, it prompted a degree of conservatism; the McLarens, for instance, opted for a two-stop strategy and stuck to it. It did not know that Ferrari was about to rock its world by pursuing a one-stopper.Pirelli believes that aContinue Reading
Fifty years ago on this day, Niki Lauda won his first Formula 1 world title with third place in Monza. The tifosi celebrated their hero, with Clay Regazzoni giving them a home victory as the cherry on the cake.In 1975, Lauda and Ferrari set new standards in F1. The AustrianContinue Reading
To the surprise of many, Max Verstappen grabbed his fifth pole-position of the Formula 1 season at the same track he had described the Red Bull car as “a monster” just 12 months ago.So how have Verstappen and the Milton Keynes-based team been able to tame that monster and completeContinue Reading
“If you can help Lando, if you can tow Lando up to Turn 4, but just make sure we don’t impede – gap three,” Piastri’s race engineer Tom Stallard requested at the end of Q2.Oscar Piastri had just finished his final lap to book a place in Q3, while LandoContinue Reading
For a minute or so on Saturday afternoon at Monza, Lando Norris was not only provisional polesitter for the Italian Grand Prix, but also a record-breaker: his 1m18.869s lap meant an average speed of 264.423km/h, faster than Lewis Hamilton’s 264.362km/h, set during qualifying for the 2020 race here.Then Max VerstappenContinue Reading