03 December 2025 10:57
Lewis Hamilton says media criticism has taken a toll on the members of Ferrari’s Formula 1 team, amid a tough season in Maranello.
Although the team was cautious when publicly setting goals for 2025, expectations were high after it missed out on the 2024 constructors’ title by just 14 points against McLaren.
Ferrari has ended up not winning a single race in 2025 – which is unlikely to ...
02 December 2025 17:43
The Alpine Formula 1 team will hold a season launch event in Barcelona on 23 January, shortly before pre-season testing gets under way at the Catalan track from 26-30 January.
The squad made the announcement in a social media post which does not disclose much information as to what will actually happen, and whether its actual 2026 challenger might be revealed; Motorsport understands only a ...
02 December 2025 17:30
The grid for the 2026 Formula 1 season is now complete after Red Bull announced changes across both of the teams it owns in the championship.
Isack Hadjar will replace Yuki Tsunoda at Red Bull after a disappointing season for the Japanese racer, while F2's Arvid Lindblad will occupy the Frenchman's spot at Racing Bulls.
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02 December 2025 16:51
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies keenly praised Yuki Tsunoda’s skills as a Formula 1 driver as his demotion to a test and reserve role was announced for 2026.
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02 December 2025 16:46
Red Bull has announced a new driver line-up for the second Formula 1 season running, as Isack Hadjar will replace Yuki Tsunoda for the 2026 campaign.
It comes after an impressive rookie season for Hadjar at Racing Bulls, as he is 10th in the championship with a round remaining having stood on the podium at Zandvoort.
For Tsunoda, meanwhile, he has endured a torrid time since joining Red Bull ...
02 December 2025 16:05
Isack Hadjar will officially become Max Verstappen's new Red Bull team-mate in the 2026 Formula 1 season replacing Yuki Tsunoda, while Arvid Lindblad joins Liam Lawson at Racing Bulls.
Hadjar will be promoted from Racing Bulls after a strong rookie campaign, which yielded a breakthrough podium for the then-20-year-old Frenchman at the Dutch Grand Prix. The 2024 F2 runner-up also took a brace of ...
02 December 2025 15:03
The 2025 Formula 1 season will end with this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in which three drivers remain in contention for the world title.
Lando Norris leads the way on 408 points, 12 ahead of Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen and 16 in front of McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.
Although Norris heads into it as the favourite, past instances have shown that truly anything can happen at ...
02 December 2025 11:32
Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has defended the Scuderia’s decision to focus its resources on Formula 1’s new regulations for 2026, despite its slump in performance.
All teams have had tough decisions to make ahead of F1’s new technical era, with their resources limited by the budget cap and aerodynamic testing restrictions.
Vasseur said on Friday that Ferrari switched all of ...
02 December 2025 10:10
Let’s start with the clearest point: anyone who takes part in a harassment campaign is directly responsible for it. Whether it’s an anonymous, barely followed social media account or a public figure with thousands of readers, nobody is entitled to pour out crude, idiotic hatred at someone else. There is certainly no justification for such behaviour.
With that premise established, we can ...
02 December 2025 08:59
Formula 2 champion Leonardo Fornaroli has been signed to McLaren's driver development programme, and will occupy a role as the Formula 1 team's test and development driver.
Fornaroli secured back-to-back F3 and F2 titles, following in the footsteps of Gabriel Bortoleto - another former McLaren development prospect - by winning the F3 title with Trident in 2024, before taking the F2 title with ...
02 December 2025 01:05
Lewis Hamilton admitted he "had no idea" that Max Verstappen had won the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix during an eventful interview following the race.
The seven-time Formula 1 champion endured a tough weekend at the Losail circuit where he was consistently complaining about his Ferrari machinery before finishing outside the points in Sunday's grand prix. But when he was asked about the title fight ...
02 December 2025 00:22
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has celebrated Doriane Pin's F1 Academy championship victory by putting up a billboard-style display at the team's headquarters in Brackley.
The team shared a video of Pin seeing the display for the first time. "SURPRISE! Celebrating Doriane Pin’s F1 Academy title in style at Lauda Drive," it wrote.
Pin arrived at Brackley to a warm welcome from the team ...
02 December 2025 00:19
Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson claimed the 25-lap limit at the Qatar Grand Prix led to a "pretty pointless" race after a safety car on lap 7 left all but two drivers on the same strategy, and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton argued that it was one of the "worst" grands prix strategically.
The safety car was deployed at the Losail International Circuit on lap 7 due to a collision between ...
01 December 2025 23:43
Williams team principal James Vowles described the team's fifth place in the 2025 constructors' championship as a "dream come true".
Carlos Sainz secured his second podium of the season with a third-place finish at the Qatar Grand Prix, bringing home 15 points for the team, securing fifth in the constructors' championship ahead of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Reflecting on the ...
01 December 2025 18:17
Aston Martin’s 2026 Formula 1 car will be unveiled on 9 February, the team has announced in a succinct social media post.
Aston Martin simply published “AMR26 arrives”, confirming its upcoming challenger’s name in keeping with its nomenclature, followed by the date of the launch.
The Silverstone-based outfit is the first to announce the date for its 2026 F1 car reveal – Red Bull ...
01 December 2025 17:44
Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur said the Scuderia failed to adapt to the mandated tyre pressures at the Qatar Grand Prix, leading to its worst Formula 1 performance of the year.
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton qualified ninth and 18th for the sprint, 10th and 18th for the grand prix, and scored a meagre four points over the weekend – their worst haul this season apart from their ...
01 December 2025 16:55
Valtteri Bottas has poked fun at Red Bull for an error during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend over the team radio.
Yuki Tsunoda's Red Bull race engineer informed the Japanese driver, "Bottas opening behind. Bottas opening behind," to which the 25-year-old quipped, "I didn't know Bottas was driving, mate?" The cameras cut to the Finnish driver in the Mercedes garage looking straight down the camera ...
01 December 2025 16:02
Several Formula 1 team principals says they were "very surprised" to see McLaren make the costly decision not to pit under a lap 7 safety car at the Qatar Grand Prix, which cost Oscar Piastri a certain victory and Lando Norris a podium.
Piastri and Norris were running first and third in the superior McLaren, split at the start by Max Verstappen, when the safety car came out on lap 7 for a ...
01 December 2025 14:54
Charles Leclerc revealed that the most exciting part of his race during the Qatar Grand Prix was calculating the championship points in the title battle between Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen.
The Ferrari driver suffered a difficult weekend, along with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Leclerc finished eighth with Hamilton behind in 12th. As he struggled to find confidence and pace ...
01 December 2025 14:04
Martin Brundle argued that McLaren's 'papaya rules' were not to blame for the Woking outfit's Qatar Grand Prix error, but the team just "read it wrong".
McLaren was the only team not to capitalise on the early safety car on the seventh lap of the Qatar Grand Prix. The team claimed at the time that pitting would have limited its strategy for the remainder of the race due to the 25-lap tyre ...
01 December 2025 14:00
Red Bull's talks with Honda over an engine deal to retain its V6 turbo-hybrid powertrains for testing of previous cars running could present a lifeline for Yuki Tsunoda to retain Formula 1 involvement, as he looks set to lose a race drive for 2026.
The team will announce its 2026 driver line-up on Tuesday, but Motorsport.com understands that Isack Hadjar will become Max Verstappen's new ...
01 December 2025 13:32
Fernando Alonso claimed there was "a spirit inside the car" which led to a 360-degree spin during the Qatar Grand Prix.
The Aston Martin driver suffered a spin at Turn 10 after losing control of his "hypersensitive" AMR25, which cost him two positions. After starting from eighth on the grid, he managed to get into the top six before the spin and ultimately finished the race in ...
01 December 2025 13:07
Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has argued that McLaren is so "afraid of making decisions" that it is hampering Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri's drivers' championship fight.
McLaren was the only team not to pit under the early safety car at the Qatar Grand Prix. While the Woking outfit argued at the time that it gave them more flexibility in strategy for the remainder of the race, it ...
01 December 2025 12:46
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko apologised for suggesting Andrea Kimi Antonelli deliberately let McLaren's Lando Norris through in the Qatar Grand Prix, with the Mercedes Formula 1 driver subjected to a torrent of online abuse.
Antonelli slid off the track on the penultimate lap of the Losail race, allowing Norris to snatch fourth place away from the Italian, and with it take two important ...
01 December 2025 10:34
McLaren boss Andrea Stella admitted that the team ‘misjudged’ its strategy in the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix and said an internal review will be carried out to dissect its decision not to pit either driver under the safety car.
McLaren was the team to beat around Losail, with Oscar Piastri take sprint pole and victory, and starting Sunday’s grand prix on pole ahead of team-mate and title ...
01 December 2025 08:15
Winning the 2025 Formula 1 title “doesn’t really matter” to Max Verstappen, ahead of a three-way title decider in Abu Dhabi.
The Red Bull driver took his seventh grand prix victory of the season in Qatar thanks to an impeccable drive and a decisive strategy call. That success meant he reduced his deficit to the championship lead from 104 points three months ago to 12 points ahead of the ...
01 December 2025 07:45
You must have seen that clip from Las Vegas. Interviewed by Sky Sports ahead of the weekend, Carlos Sainz was asked about his view on John Elkann’s remark that his – Ferrari’s – drivers should “talk less” and focus on what they’re hired to do: drive the red cars as fast as they can.
“As a former Ferrari driver,” Ted Kravitz asked Sainz, “do Ferrari drivers need to be more ...
01 December 2025 07:45
“What is McLaren doing?” – That exact line, followed by a “WTF”, is what I wrote yesterday in our internal editorial chat when I saw both McLaren Formula 1 drivers calmly cruising past the pit entry behind the safety car.
Hindsight is always 20/20, of course, but I was surely not the only F1 follower who didn’t understand why McLaren had just opened the door for Max Verstappen to ...
30 November 2025 23:52
Formula 1 fans have been left fuming after a disastrous weekend for McLaren at the Qatar Grand Prix has left the three-way championship fight to be decided at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
The Woking outfit started with a front row lockout at the Losail International Circuit but ended with second and fourth-place finishes after choosing the wrong strategy during an early safety car.
Oscar ...
30 November 2025 22:21
Winner: Max Verstappen
McLaren CEO Zak Brown has likened Max Verstappen to a horror movie villain. You're never quite done with him even when you think you're safe, only for the four-time world champion to return from the dead.
Verstappen is surely wondering himself how he's still in the title fight - thank McLaren, mostly - but even after going 104 points behind the 28-year-old has kept his ...
30 November 2025 21:50
Red Bull principal strategy engineer Hannah Schmitz has explained she overcame scepticism from her colleagues to pit Max Verstappen despite both McLarens staying out in Formula 1’s Qatar Grand Prix.
The race was neutralised by the safety car on lap seven after Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly clashed; this happened to be the first lap when drivers could pit on to a two-stop strategy while ...
30 November 2025 21:38
Red Bull will reveal its 2026 season driver line-up across its two teams on Tuesday, team principal and CEO Laurent Mekies has confirmed.
Red Bull initially planned to make its final decision on its driver line-ups by the end of November, but it since backtracked on it as it had second thoughts on its final Racing Bulls seat.
Isack Hadjar is expected to be promoted to the main Red Bull team ...
30 November 2025 21:29
Charles Leclerc felt he had no confidence in the car during what ended up being a fairly miserable Qatar Grand Prix for the Ferrari driver.
After starting from 10th, the Monegasque driver finished in eighth, taking home just four points. While he managed to improve his starting position, Leclerc was frustrated after the race.
"I had no confidence in the car, I had no pace in the car, I had ...
30 November 2025 21:21
After stealing another win from the McLaren team at the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix, Max Verstappen responded to Zak Brown's description of him as a 'horror movie' villain, joking that the team can call him "Chucky" as the 2025 title fight heads to Abu Dhabi.
Speaking in the press conference after his win in Qatar, the reigning champion was asked about the comments made by the McLaren Racing CEO ...
30 November 2025 21:17
Oscar Piastri claimed that his lost Qatar Grand Prix win was more painful than McLaren's double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
After starting from pole position, the Australian driver just had to make it through the first few corners before making the most of a track with limited overtaking opportunities to bring home the victory.
But while the rest of the grid capitalised ...
30 November 2025 20:40
Andrea Kimi Antonelli has explained the mistake that cost him fourth place in Formula 1’s Qatar Grand Prix – to title contender Lando Norris’ benefit.
Antonelli was chasing Carlos Sainz for the final podium spot when he lost control of his Mercedes on the penultimate lap of the race. Norris snatched fourth place away, crucially scoring two more points, which earned the Mercedes rookie ...
30 November 2025 20:30
Toto Wolff says Helmut Marko's suggestion that Andrea Kimi Antonelli waved Lando Norris past at the end of the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix is "brainless" and "utter nonsense".
Fighting over third with Sainz ahead and Norris behind him, Antonelli slipped up on the penultimate lap by sliding the rear tyres and drifting off the track at Turn 10, allowing Norris to snatch away fourth and with it ...
30 November 2025 20:27
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has admitted the team "clearly made a huge mistake" with its strategy at the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix, admitting that better results for both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris were thrown away by the decision not to pit under the early safety car.
Piastri started from pole with his team-mate alongside him on the front row. While Red Bull's Max Verstappen was able to ...
30 November 2025 20:23
Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports Germany analyst Ralf Schumacher was baffled by McLaren's strategy call during the Qatar Grand Prix.
After starting from pole position, Oscar Piastri crossed the line to finish in second and Lando Norris finished fourth after starting in second. A crucial moment for the Woking outfit came on lap 7 when the rest of the grid opted to pit under safety car ...
30 November 2025 20:20
McLaren’s call not to pit Oscar Piastri or Lando Norris during the safety car period gave Max Verstappen the chance to charge to Qatar Grand Prix victory and set up a Formula 1 title decider.
Verstappen has cut the deficit to Norris to 12 points heading into the season finale in Abu Dhabi, with Piastri now third and 16 points behind his McLaren team-mate.
The Qatar GP outcome appeared to ...
30 November 2025 20:11
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko thinks it was "obvious" Andrea Kimi Antonelli let Lando Norris through on purpose at the end of Formula 1's Qatar Grand Prix.
Norris looked set to finish fifth behind Antonelli after a botched strategy call left him out of podium contention, with overtaking on Doha's Losail circuit very challenging without a significant speed advantage.
But on the penultimate ...
30 November 2025 19:45
For the first time since 2010, a Formula 1 title decider will involve more than two drivers, with Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri still in contention, following the Dutchman's victory at the Qatar Grand Prix.
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30 November 2025 19:40
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has confirmed that the Woking outfit will continue with its approach of giving Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri equal treatment in the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
The Qatar Grand Prix ended with Piastri finishing in second behind Max Verstappen after starting from pole position, and Lando Norris missed out on a podium with a fourth-place finish after ...
30 November 2025 19:34
Lando Norris says he will take what happened during his disastrous Qatar Grand Prix "on the chin" after a costly choice not to pit under the safety car ruined his race.
The McLaren driver slipped back in the title fight after a safety car was called at the Losail circuit following a clash between Pierre Gasly and Nico Hulkenberg. While Max Verstappen - and every other driver - pitted for fresh ...
30 November 2025 19:29
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says his squad "didn't expect" everyone else to pit under an early safety car as it lost a likely Qatar Grand Prix win to Max Verstappen and Red Bull, and handed the Dutchman a lifeline for a fifth Formula 1 world title.
McLaren's polesitter Oscar Piastri was leading the race from Verstappen and Lando Norris when a collision between Nico Hulkenberg and ...
30 November 2025 18:51
Max Verstappen delivered a crucial victory at the Qatar Grand Prix as he closed to within 12 points of Lando Norris in the 2025 Formula 1 title race, as McLaren threw away a potential win thanks to a poor strategy call on a seventh-lap safety car.
Polesitter Oscar Piastri had looked settled in the lead of the race and, owing to the difficulty of overtaking around the Losail circuit, the ...
30 November 2025 18:35
Norris failed to use his match point
The championship battle goes on.
Lando Norris arrived in Qatar with an opportunity to clinch the title there and then – and would have been able to do so by simply outscoring Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri by two points.
Yet that task proved too difficult. Norris struggled to match his team-mate, and at times it looked as if he was being overly ...
30 November 2025 17:35
Nico Hulkenberg has crashed out of the Qatar Grand Prix after a collision with Alpine's Pierre Gasly on the seventh lap.
As the German driver attempted to pass Gasly around the outside at Turn 2, the pair made contact, sending Hulkenberg spinning through the gravel before he came to a stop.
Hulkenberg had started the race from 11th position on the grid and was running in 10th at the ...
30 November 2025 15:16
Formula 1 drivers had already warned on Friday that following other cars would be particularly difficult around the Losail International Circuit, and that fear became reality on Saturday.
The 19-lap race featured very few overtaking moves, with even drivers in the midfield – including Oliver Bearman – calling the sprint “uneventful.” It was backed up by Isack Hadjar, who even ...
30 November 2025 13:19
McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella says Oscar Piastri's return to form in Qatar fits within his high-grip theory about the Australian.
Piastri struggled for pace compared to team-mate Lando Norris at low-grip circuits in Austin and Mexico, and also saw Norris beat him in Brazil and Las Vegas. But the Australian was back to his very best this weekend in Qatar, taking a ...
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