17 September 2025 16:27
Max Verstappen took a shock, dominant win at the Italian Grand Prix last time out, beating both McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri who are fighting for the 2025 Formula 1 title.
But will Red Bull’s world champion carry that form into this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, or will the championship-leading McLaren outfit return to the top in Baku?
There are storylines throughout ...
17 September 2025 13:33
Aston Martin Formula 1 CEO Andy Cowell says Ferrari hire Enrico Cardile is already making his mark on the team's ambitious 2026 project.
Former Ferrari technical director Cardile finally started his role as Chief Technical Officer for Aston Martin at the start of August following a 12-month gardening period, which was subject of lengthy legal proceedings back in Italy.
Cardile's arrival is ...
17 September 2025 08:00
Max Verstappen’s efforts on the Nurburgring Nordschleife have rightly attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks – and it’s good for Formula 1 and motorsport as a whole, as well as the Dutchman himself.
Now that he has the required DMSB Permit A, Verstappen can contest a Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie race in a full-house GT3 car. And, more importantly, he can do likewise in the ...
16 September 2025 14:18
The 2025 Formula 1 world drivers’ title looks set up to be a battle that will go down to the wire, but the feeling around the Oscar Piastri vs Lando Norris face-off hasn’t had the edge to match it.
McLaren has tried to make the competition as fair as possible between its two drivers and both Piastri and Norris have obliged and replicated that philosophy – even when opportunities to take ...
16 September 2025 12:07
The 2026 Formula 1 season start times have been unveiled with the Canadian Grand Prix race start pushed back to avoid a direct clash with the Indianapolis 500.
In conjunction with F1 revealing its six sprint race venues for next season, the start times for every session in 2026 have been released.
The only change is a later start time for the Canadian GP, which in previous years has started ...
16 September 2025 11:11
Silverstone and Zandvoort are among the new sprint weekends for the 2026 season as Formula 1 has revealed the six venues hosting a Saturday race.
The British Grand Prix hosted the first-ever sprint race when the original format was introduced in 2021, with the shorter Saturday race returning to Silverstone in 2026 alongside three fellow newcomers.
The Dutch Grand Prix will also play host to ...
15 September 2025 17:34
Max Verstappen is now officially licenced to race GT3 cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, paving the way for the Dutchman to tick off one of his bucket list items.
Verstappen raced a Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 CS at last weekend's four-hour ADAC ACAS Cup, in a car that was detuned as the four-time world champion hadn't yet earned a Permit A that is required to race with high-powered GT3 or GT4 ...
15 September 2025 13:57
By the time the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been and gone, commenters in Formula 1 will have found something else to poke fun at, or become incensed by, as the Monza affair fades into obscurity.
McLaren's enforced swap between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri became the subject of memes, ire, and light mockery as the team restored the order between its drivers to what it was before its pitstops, as ...
15 September 2025 11:40
Red Bull Formula 1 advisor Helmut Marko believes the squad's turnaround at the Italian Grand Prix has unlocked the potential to succeed at its other weaker circuits on the 2025 calendar.
Max Verstappen comfortably defeated the usually dominant McLarens in Monza one year on from one of Red Bull's worst race weekend performances at the same venue, offering hope that the team has finally found a ...
14 September 2025 16:25
10. Brad Benavides
Year: 2023Highest championship ranking: 22nd in 2023Races: 18Poles: 0Wins: 0Podiums: 0Points: 0Best race result: 10th
Polesitter Brad Benavides, AIX Racing
Photo by: Formula Motorsport Ltd
In 2023, Brad Benavides showed that graduating to F2 when you’re already struggling at the lower levels may not be a great idea.
Benavides was 21 when he moved to ...
14 September 2025 10:51
When Max Verstappen said back in Hungary that he did not expect Red Bull to win another grand prix for the remainder of the 2025 season, reality turned out differently. The Dutchman won in Monza, and did so in dominant fashion. Verstappen built a lead of almost 20 seconds, although Lando Norris jokingly said during the post-race press conference: “It was 19, no? I just don't want any ...
13 September 2025 20:09
For Max Verstappen, this weekend was all about earning a DMSB Permit A, the licence drivers need to compete on the Nürburgring Nordschleife in top-level cars, including the GT3 class. The reigning Formula 1 World Champion reported to the track on Friday to sit through a theory exam, which enabled him to take part in the seventh round of the Nürburgring Langstrecken Series (NLS) on ...
13 September 2025 17:35
Max Verstappen has fallen short of meeting the requirements for a Category A DMSB Permit Nordschleife (DPN) after a mixed NLS debut - but should still receive the licence via a committee decision.
The Formula 1 world champion completed the mandatory 14 race laps aboard the #980 Cayman (Verstappen/Chris Lulham) in Cup 3, yet his second car, #89 Cayman in SP7, suffered damage during ...
13 September 2025 13:42
Helmut Marko has heaped praise on the impact Laurent Mekies has had since becoming the Red Bull Formula 1 team boss.
The Frenchman joined from sister squad Racing Bulls in July after his predecessor Christian Horner was sacked following 20 years in the role.
It came after a performance decline for Red Bull, which since cruising to the 2023 title has slipped to fourth in the pecking order ...
13 September 2025 11:11
We're on board with Lando Norris as he speeds out of Zandvoort's penultimate corner. Norris looks on course for a crucial pole, until suddenly the airbox of a second McLaren flashes through the screen. Team-mate Oscar Piastri has had a slightly better exit and drifts away from us through the banking final corner onto the main straight, claiming pole by what seem to be inches. The difference ...
12 September 2025 19:45
With competition ramping up for Formula 1's increasingly popular sprint format, the series is understood to be keen to move beyond six sprint slots per season as early as 2027.
F1 introduced sprint races ahead of the 2021 season as a way to increase the spectacle on offer over a grand prix weekend and provide a more compelling product to TV viewers and spectators at the track. The series ...
12 September 2025 18:51
COTA chief Bobby Epstein says Cadillac joining Formula 1 in 2026 will be "great for us and for the sport", and thinks the American squad will be more competitive in year one than people think.
Cadillac, run by TWG Motorsports group, is gearing up for its F1 debut in 2026 as an 11th expansion team, starting from scratch with brand-new headquarters in Silverstone and the United States.
The ...
12 September 2025 17:06
Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Fred Vasseur says he expects Lewis Hamilton to get to the podium in 2025 after seeing encouraging signs in recent races.
Hamilton took a surprise pole-to-flag sprint race win in China, but otherwise his maiden Ferrari season has not yet delivered the success the seven-time world champion had in mind, taking longer than anticipated to adjust to a vastly ...
12 September 2025 16:27
“Things are going very well today, but precisely for that reason we must not rest on our laurels. We need to think about the next step,” F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said ahead of the Italian Grand Prix, underlining the need for the championship to keep exploring the right format.
Alongside the idea of experimenting with the number of sprint events on the calendar, Domenicali also confirmed ...
12 September 2025 13:28
Since Christian Horner was replaced at Red Bull by Laurent Mekies, the current batch of Formula 1 team principals and leaders have generally been a mild-mannered sort. Indeed, in Zandvoort, Mercedes CEO Toto Wolff made the claim that Formula 1 is missing "an asshole" to play to the crowd.
While inflated by Netflix's Drive to Survive, Wolff maintained a rivalry with Horner and would often resort ...
12 September 2025 11:49
Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Laurent Mekies says the squad needs more "clean samples" to judge Yuki Tsunoda's performances after another race derailed by being caught up in the midfield battle.
Tsunoda was left with floor damage in the Italian Grand Prix after contact with former team-mate Liam Lawson, leaving the Japanese driver without points while team-mate Max Verstappen won the race from ...
12 September 2025 10:18
Were this 25 years ago, reaching the 16-race mark would coincide with the end of the Formula 1 season - but in our current 24-race calendar, there's still another third of the season's runtime to go.
A 31-point margin separates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris as it stands with eight races left, having swelled from the nine-point gap at the summer break following Norris' oil leak in Zandvoort ...
11 September 2025 18:55
Max Verstappen's immediate Formula 1 future is locked in at Red Bull, but it is expected that the four-time champion will use the 2026 season to assess the team's position before making a decision on his next steps.
This is the opinion of former Red Bull driver David Coulthard, who suggested Verstappen wouldn't "jump on the next horse because your own didn't win" unless the team proves to be in ...
11 September 2025 17:59
The 65th ADAC ACAS Cup, round seven of the NLS series season, is about to attract a rare level of attention as reigning Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen is set to take part. Here's everything you need to know about the Nurburgring's endurance series and the Dutchman's entry.
What's the NLS?
NLS is short for Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie, and as the name suggests it is a long-distance ...
11 September 2025 13:43
Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto credits much of his growth in Formula 1 to Nico Hulkenberg, and believes his elder team-mate did not get "fair" opportunities to showcase his talent behind the wheel.
Over 15 years after his F1 debut with Williams in 2010, Hulkenberg finally scored his first podium in a scintillating wet/dry British Grand Prix - Bortoleto was one of the first on the scene to ...
11 September 2025 13:18
McLaren has a hefty 617 points in Formula 1's 2025 constructors' championship with eight rounds to go. If it maintains that current rate, it can expect to sit on approximately 925 points by the end of the year - which would surpass Red Bull's record of 860 points in 2023.
There are eight grands prix and three sprint races remaining this season, leaving a maximum of 389 points on the table ...
11 September 2025 10:20
Ex-Haas team boss Guenther Steiner says his desire for a fresh challenge motivated him to take over the Tech3 MotoGP squad rather than pursue a return to Formula 1.
Earlier this month, it was announced that a consortium led by Steiner had acquired KTM’s satellite team from its previous owner Herve Poncharal.
The deal will see the Italian step up to the role of CEO in 2026, with his ...
11 September 2025 09:52
There is a quote, popularly misattributed to Albert Einstein, that the definition of insanity is to repeat an unsuccessful course of action in the expectation of a different outcome.
So you might wonder why Pierre Gasly, a grand prix winner who remains demonstrably competitive, would tie himself into a three-year contract extension with a team which has gone through innumerable management ...
10 September 2025 18:58
For the many fans who flocked to the grandstands, ready to support the Prancing Horse, the real surprise of the Monza weekend was unfortunately not Ferrari, but Red Bull. For Ferrari, it was a bitter blow; the Italian Grand Prix represented one of its best opportunities to beat the dominant McLaren.
This was not the case. Monza, where aerodynamic efficiency often rules the day, underlined ...
10 September 2025 18:02
Max Verstappen has argued that Formula 1 should revert to the cars it used from the late 2000s to early 2010s for when the championship ushers in a new regulation era next season.
The 2026 campaign will introduce widespread changes to the chassis and power unit regulations, including smaller cars, active aerodynamics and a 50/50 combustion-electrical split of the engines.
This comes ...
10 September 2025 14:39
Toto Wolff has revealed how a conversation with Formula 1 legend Alain Prost inspired how the Mercedes boss has dealt with drivers through the years.
The four-time world champion had an iconic rivalry with Ayrton Senna, who fought Prost for the F1 title in 1988 and 1989 when the pair were team-mates at the dominant McLaren outfit.
They both won a title each during that period while having ...
10 September 2025 13:02
As Michael Andretti's initial's bid to join Formula 1 was met with resistance last year, United States Grand Prix promoter Bobby Epstein was asked if Andretti joining the series would make an impact on Austin ticket sales: "I think it would make a difference to COTA if we had an American champion," came the reply.
This was at a time when Logan Sargeant was struggling at Williams, and the ...
10 September 2025 10:04
On Saturday afternoon the tifosi rose to their feet for one of their own, as he motored a scarlet Ferrari around Monza.
But it wasn't Charles Leclerc or Lewis Hamilton the Italian fans were cheering on. It was F1 and sportscar legend Jacky Ickx, taking the wheel of the Ferrari 312B he took to second in the 1970 world championship, the very car he claimed pole with at Monza.
Organised by F1 ...
09 September 2025 18:43
The Williams and Racing Bulls Formula 1 teams have been summoned for a virtual hearing with the FIA stewards to discuss Carlos Sainz's penalty from the Dutch Grand Prix.
Sainz clashed with Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson at Turn 1 during the Zandvoort contest, an incident which earned the Williams racer a 10-second penalty.
Sainz was incensed by taking the blame for the collision and ...
09 September 2025 18:02
Following Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, both advisor Helmut Marko his driver were quick to praise new team principal Mekies.
Marko stressed that Red Bull no longer blindly followed the simulator, calling it part of a “new philosophy”. Verstappen added that Mekies asked the right questions throughout the race weekend, a crucial aspect in communication ...
09 September 2025 13:15
Renault CEO Francois Provost says the Alpine F1 team owner is "staying in Formula 1 for a long time" after making his first visit to the F1 paddock at the Italian Grand Prix.
Provost assumed his role of Renault CEO at the end of July, replacing outgoing Luca de Meo. The move further put Renault's future in F1 under the spotlight, after De Meo had decided to end the French OEM's in-house F1 ...
09 September 2025 10:08
Andrea Kimi Antonelli has recently found himself under fire. First Jacques Villeneuve questioned his suitability for Formula 1, then Nico Rosberg voiced a similar sentiment, albeit in less dramatic terms. Two world champions critical of Antonelli – and now Toto Wolff has joined the chorus.
The Mercedes team principal told ServusTV that the 19-year-old had made "too many mistakes" in his home ...
09 September 2025 09:00
With Guenther Steiner arriving in MotoGP for 2026, Motorsport.com understands Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are now vying to buy a team in a championship.
Last Friday during the Catalan Grand Prix the acquisition of Tech3 by the Ikon Capital consortium was made official, in a deal that will see Steiner, the former Haas F1 team principal, arrive as new CEO.
Having agreed to the terms of ...
08 September 2025 18:58
Just a week after his victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Max Verstappen will be back behind the wheel – even though there's no Formula 1 race. Instead, the Red Bull star will fulfil a long-held dream in the Eifel Mountains: competing in an official round of the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS).
The influential Helmut Marko remarked in Italy that Verstappen was so focused on F1 he ...
08 September 2025 17:05
For the past few months the rumour mill has been industriously grinding out stories signalling a variety of ‘next moves’ for Max Verstappen, ranging from leaving Red Bull for Mercedes to quitting Formula 1 entirely.Some were more far-fetched than others but Verstappen was palpably disengaged and disgruntled at grand prix weekends. Arguably the process began last year, when the RB20 slid from ...
08 September 2025 15:52
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff’s experience of running a team that dominated the sport for almost a decade, while also managing the internal battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, makes him an interesting observer to hear from following the Italian Grand Prix.
It is no surprise that on Sunday evening, mixed in with questions about Mercedes’ overall performance in ...
08 September 2025 12:44
Lance Stroll is not a man of many words, that much is known. But his appearance in the media pen after Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix on Sunday evening was strikingly uninteresting, even by his standards.
Having just crossed the finish line 18th and last, one lap down on race winner Max Verstappen, Stroll faced a first question suggesting his strategy of running nearly 50 laps on a single set ...
08 September 2025 10:41
The Italian Grand Prix resulted in a dominant victory for Max Verstappen, at the track where Red Bull struggled massively last year and where Verstappen described the car as “a monster”. Twelve months on reality looked very different, helped by a specific low-downforce rear wing, a fresh Honda power unit and above all a slightly different approach to the race weekend.
“The car worked ...
08 September 2025 09:31
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says Formula 1's engine manufacturers are aligned in principle on a future move to V8 power units, but felt it didn't make financial sense to fast-track them before 2031.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is a driving force behind the introduction of simpler, cheaper and lighter engines for F1's future power unit formula, and was keen to make the change as early ...
08 September 2025 08:14
Things are starting to look tight for Yuki Tsunoda. Much as we all like the affable Japanese Formula 1 driver, the numbers don’t lie: since stepping up from Red Bull’s B team to the main one, he has managed just nine points, while Max Verstappen has collected 194 in the same period, including three Grand Prix victories. Not even all the Campari in Milan can wash that down.
You can’t help ...
08 September 2025 07:14
With a year’s distance it does look like a total no-brainer, so it’s even difficult to imagine Mattia Binotto could’ve overlooked Gabriel Bortoleto in favour of anyone else through his binoculars. Yet, it really wasn’t.
It was around Monza in 2024 when rumours started to circulate around the paddock about Bortoleto being on Audi’s radar — even before his impressive "from last to ...
07 September 2025 21:32
Winner: Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
Photo by: Mark Thompson - Getty Images
In Budapest, right before the summer break, Max Verstappen said his Red Bull team wouldn't win any more races this year after the drubbing it received in the Hungarian GP.
That win certainly wasn't going to come at high-speed Monza, the scene of its worst performance of last ...
07 September 2025 19:50
Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren's call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past after a slow stop for Norris in the Italian Grand Prix was a "very difficult precedent to undo".
As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to ...
07 September 2025 19:29
Oliver Bearman is on the edge of a Formula 1 race ban after his penalty for clashing with Carlos Sainz during the Italian Grand Prix.
The Haas driver moved on to 10 penalty points for the rolling 12-month period, meaning if he picks up two more before his next points are erased he will be handed an automatic one-race ban in F1.
Bearman was given two penalty points alongside his 10-second ...
07 September 2025 18:59
Lewis Hamilton reckoned he could have finished fifth rather than sixth in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, which in itself was a respectable return given the contentious five-place grid penalty he carried over from Zandvoort.
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