15 October 2026 12:09
Four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen is set to make his debut in the GT World Challenge Europe during this weekend's season finale in Portimao.
Following his strong performances on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, where only a technical problem prevented an overall victory in the Nurburgring 24 Hours on debut, the Red Bull driver returns to the cockpit of the Mercedes-AMG GT3.
The ...
15 October 2026 12:05
George Russell’s 2026 Singapore Grand Prix was already a certified nightmare on paper. We already knew he had to swallow a massive 60-place engine penalty, fought a brake pedal that decided to go squishy, and spent two hours baking in the cockpit while a ruptured drink bottle leaked mystery fluid all over him.
But thanks to some fresh intel from the German paddock insiders, it turns out his ...
15 October 2026 11:38
Red Bull has unveiled all-white race suits for the upcoming Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, hinting that a matching one-off livery could also be introduced for the race at the Circuit of the Americas.
Four-time champion Max Verstappen and his team-mate Isack Hadjar showed off the new race suits in a video shared on the team's social media platforms. The white design features bold ...
15 October 2026 11:35
If there's one thing we know about modern Formula 1 drivers, it's that they hate losing. It doesn't matter if it's the Monaco Grand Prix, a round of F1 on their sim rigs, or a dirt buggy race against a MotoGP rider - they are going to absolutely send it.
That competitive streak was on full display when Quad Lock decided to reunite McLaren's Oscar Piastri and MotoGP sensation Pedro Acosta for ...
15 October 2026 10:29
At this point in the 2026 season, George Russell is practically on a first-name basis with the FIA stewards. After eating a staggering 60-place grid drop at the Singapore Grand Prix to replace an entire pharmacy of power unit components, you would think the British driver would want to stay as far away from the back of the grid as humanly possible.
Think again.
Mercedes is preparing to bolt ...
15 October 2026 10:08
Christian Horner has accepted that his long-standing rivalry with Formula 1 counterpart Toto Wolff became ‘more like theatre’ - but still assured it was “authentic”.
Every F1 title between 2010 and 2023 was won by either Wolff’s Mercedes team or Horner’s Red Bull squad, which naturally caused them to be at loggerheads with each other.
This was often captured on Netflix hit Drive ...
14 October 2026 20:46
Red Bull's 2025 seat could have gone to Fernando Alonso or Charles Leclerc, and, according to Christian Horner, he wanted both equally.
Horner's upcoming book Drive discusses how the former team chief found himself up against a wall when he tried to find a new driver to sit alongside Max Verstappen. Horner, who ran Red Bull for two decades before his exit in July 2025, says that wall was Helmut ...
14 October 2026 20:00
Former Red Bull CEO and team principal Christian Horner has revealed why he banned employees of the squad's powertrains division from using the name of bitter Formula 1 rivals Mercedes.
The Milton Keynes-based outfit had enjoyed a flourishing partnership with Honda following a turbulent end to its time working with Renault power, re-emerging as a title contender in the late 2010s and early ...
14 October 2026 18:35
Laurent Mekies has extended his contract as team principal of the Red Bull Formula 1 outfit with a new deal that takes him through until the end of 2031.
That will see the Frenchman spend at least six seasons leading the Austrian outfit after joining in July 2025 to end Christian Horner’s 20-year tenure as Red Bull team boss.
Mekies joined from sister squad Racing Bulls, who the ...
14 October 2026 17:36
Most racing memoirs begin with a story of a childhood moment or an experience that opened up a life to the world of motorsport. But Christian Horner's Drive skips the foreplay and goes straight to the good bit: the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The now-legendary race confirmed Max Verstappen's first Formula 1 world title, albeit while being a little divisive.
The former Red Bull chief explained ...
14 October 2026 16:22
Lewis Hamilton's sixth place finish at the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix was disappointing for the Ferrari team. After the driver chose not to pit when he was called in, he struggled with tyres towards the end of the race and lost a potential podium finish alongside his team-mate Charles Leclerc. Martin Brundle has now given his verdict on what he called a "bizarre" strategy.
Writing for Sky ...
14 October 2026 15:45
Christian Horner has hinted that “it was perceived that I had too much influence over the team” which led to his departure as Red Bull Formula 1 team principal last year.
The former Red Bull boss oversaw the team’s transformation into the energy drinks-branded outfit and into two eras of F1 domination: firstly with Sebastian Vettel and four consecutive F1 world drivers’ and world ...
14 October 2026 15:41
Two of motorsport's biggest drivers are about to share a grid this weekend, and they're both very wary of meeting each other during the race. Max Verstappen makes his GT World Challenge Europe debut at the Portimao season finale this weekend, but one of the 60-odd cars he will be racing will be driven by MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi. The nine-time motorcycle world champion has discussed with Sky ...
14 October 2026 12:52
Behind the polished pitwall pitboards, podium champagne, and relentless political maneuvering, Formula 1 extracts a grueling, often invisible toll on the individuals steering its multi-million-dollar operations. For two decades, Christian Horner presented an unflappable exterior as Red Bull Racing's figurehead, projecting absolute composure across intense title showdowns and bitter paddock ...
14 October 2026 11:19
Pierre Gasly has delved into the behavioural issues he encountered with Alpine’s Formula 1 car in the Singapore Grand Prix, where he surprisingly failed to score points.
Gasly beat his midfield rivals to take the seventh spot on the Marina Bay grid, courtesy of Isack Hadjar’s technical woes and George Russell’s grid penalty; the Frenchman actually was significantly slower than Racing ...
14 October 2026 10:06
Free Practice 1
Position: 8thGap to leader: +1.449sGap to Verstappen: +0.717s
Isack Hadjar felt uncomfortable from the get-go in the sole practice session of the sprint Singapore weekend. Shortly after FP1 began, the Frenchman complained that his Red Bull bottomed too much, especially in braking zones, and that his throttle pedal was slippery.
Performance was lacking, as shown by his ...
14 October 2026 02:42
Ask most engineers to grade their own work at four or five out of 10 and you'd brace for bad news. Pierre Wache, Red Bull Racing's technical director, offered that score for the team's first homemade Formula 1 power unit, and it feels like a threat to the rest of the grid. Put simply, Red Bull thinks its in-house engine is somewhere between 40 and 50% of the way to where it can be, and it ...
14 October 2026 01:51
Zara has put Ayrton Senna on the rail, and it chose his weekday clothes over his racing suit. The men's collection, titled Ayrton Senna - Senna Brands, went on sale only days ago in Zara stores and online, with its own Senna section on the retailer's website.
It's available in the UK, Brazil, the US, Portugal and Spain. Senna Brands, the family-run company that manages the three-time ...
14 October 2026 01:19
Lando Norris's investment portfolio has just got a little more interesting. The reigning Formula 1 champion has taken a stake in Seat Unique, a UK-based ticketing and VIP experience provider.
According to Sky News, the McLaren driver joined in a £20million financing round that was completed this year. The amount he personally invested and the equity he received are currently unknown.
Seat ...
14 October 2026 00:40
Formula 1's watch game at Marina Bay in 2026 stretched from a $400 Swatch to a Richard Mille that, by rough estimate, costs about $430,000 and can't be bought at just any shop. That's a gap of roughly three orders of magnitude, and it all fit inside one paddock weekend. If you want to know which drivers, team bosses and guests wore the most exclusive timepieces at the Singapore Grand Prix, then ...
13 October 2026 23:50
If there's one thing Formula 1 engineers love more than coffee, it's finding a tiny gray area in the rulebook and driving a championship-contending race car straight through it. But as Milton Keynes just learned, the fun doesn't last forever.
According to a scoop from Rosario Giuliana at AutoRacer.it, the FIA has officially moved to shut down a clever aerodynamic trick Red Bull Racing ...
13 October 2026 23:41
For two decades, Red Bull Racing defined itself as Formula 1’s anti-establishment disruptor. Founded by the late Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz and run with an iron fist on the pitwall by Christian Horner, the Milton Keynes squad prided itself on doing what traditional manufacturers deemed impossible: culminating in the audacious creation of Red Bull Powertrains in 2021.
However ...
13 October 2026 20:19
Tuesday's launch of the new African Grand Prix at Kigali's BK Arena in Rwanda was attended by Rwandan president Paul Kagame and both F1 boss Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
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But following the official presentation, several key questions were still outstanding ...
13 October 2026 18:23
Max Verstappen is set to make his long-awaited debut in GT World Challenge Europe [GTWCE] this weekend. With two of the regular drivers for his Verstappen Racing team, Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon, competing in the rescheduled World Endurance Championship (WEC) round in Barcelona, which replaces the cancelled Qatar race, the Formula 1 superstar will take the wheel himself.
Verstappen ...
13 October 2026 16:41
Valtteri Bottas was again hindered by Cadillac’s well-documented brake issues in Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix, although the veteran has described the problem as “almost solved”.
Brake overheating has been an issue throughout the season on the MAC-26, causing four retirements on top of the occasional loss of performance due to the required management.
F1’s new team brought ...
13 October 2026 15:11
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has conceded it cannot improve its Formula 1 car handling characteristics ‘without fundamental changes’ that will not be possible until 2027.
While every F1 driver has needed to adapt to the new generation of cars and engines in order to extract the maximum performance, often applying unnatural or unusual techniques never used in their entire ...
13 October 2026 15:06
The Formula 1 paddock is a massive magnet for high-profile celebrities, but few A-list appearances have generated as much hilarious viral drama as Kim Kardashian's ongoing saga with Mercedes' Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
While attending the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix to support Scuderia Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, the reality TV billionaire ran into the young championship leader on the Singapore ...
13 October 2026 14:51
Every time a team principal looks mildly stressed on television, Formula 1 fans immediately open Photoshop and start pasting Christian Horner into their team kit.
Over the last few months, the Maranello rumour mill has gone into overdrive. Between Ferrari's messy strategy calls and Horner casually calling the Scuderia a "dream job" in an earlier interview, half the paddock seemed convinced he ...
13 October 2026 13:32
Managing the immense pressure of a Formula 1 championship battle requires finding ways to disconnect between race weekends. For Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, unwinding ahead of the United States Grand Prix apparently involves taking one of the rarest, most expensive, and most aggressive road cars ever built for a casual drive through Casino Square.
Just days after a gruelling ...
13 October 2026 13:29
Classic Formula 1 cars are racing around the Port of Nice, and the footage doing the rounds on Instagram is the clearest look yet at how Bradley Cooper's Ocean's prequel plans to put motorsport on screen once again. As you can see, the working harbour has been transformed into an early-1960s European road course. If you wanted proof that this film is treating its racing seriously, this is ...
13 October 2026 11:54
More than a year after his abrupt and highly controversial exit from the Red Bull Racing pitwall in July 2025, former team principal Christian Horner is finally shedding light on the exact circumstances surrounding his dismissal.
In an interview with The Guardian, the 52-year-old executive stripped away the paddock rumours and placed the blame for his exit squarely on a massive corporate power ...
13 October 2026 11:20
The government of Rwanda and Formula 1 have announced a 10-year deal for a new African Grand Prix in the capital Kigali, which will first be held in 2030 at the earliest.
F1 will head to a yet-to-be-built natural road course 40km south of Kigali, next to the Rwandan capital's under-construction Bugesera international airport. The first edition of the race, which is officially billed as 'Formula ...
13 October 2026 10:07
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has refused to label Red Bull as the current best team in Formula 1 despite Max Verstappen winning the last two grands prix from pole.
The four-time world champion took his first victory of 2026 with a dominant performance in Malaysia, before winning both the Singapore sprint and grand prix just one week later.
It comes after Red Bull brought a large upgrade to Baku ...
13 October 2026 03:35
Climbing from 19th to ninth on a street circuit sounds like a decent Sunday's work, and for George Russell it was. It also fell short of what Mercedes had pencilled in, and Toto Wolff has now laid out why.
Wolff's argument is that Marina Bay punishes anyone who gets close to the car ahead.
"I think it's so difficult here to overtake. The moment you catch the car in front, you have such a ...
13 October 2026 02:35
McLaren is hoping its upgrade plan can do two things at once: close the gap to the front of the grid while also forming an understanding of which aerodynamic concept it should be targeting for next year's Formula 1 season. Team principal Andrea Stella has laid out his thinking on the team's upgrade plan following the Singapore race.
Reigning champion Lando Norris said that he believed the ...
13 October 2026 00:35
Kimi Antonelli left the Marina Bay Circuit with another podium finish and a 102-point lead over team-mate George Russell. He is indeed in control of the drivers' championship with another great race under his belt. But he left the track and almost put his Mercedes into a barrier because the brake pedal started misbehaving.
The third-place finish behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Ferrari's ...
12 October 2026 23:32
Lewis Hamilton spent his time following the difficult Singapore Grand Prix pointing his finger not at his team, but at himself. The Ferrari driver finished sixth at the Marina Bay Circuit after he chose to disobey his team's strategy and not pit when he was called to. While he didn't attend post-race interviews due to him feeling unwell, he has now sent a message to fans via his ...
12 October 2026 21:05
Oscar Piastri believes his Singapore Grand Prix puncture actually helped him overtake Lewis Hamilton for fifth place in Sunday’s Formula 1 race.
Piastri lay a lonely sixth – 20 seconds down on third-placed Hamilton and seven seconds adrift of team-mate Lando Norris – when the virtual safety car was called into action on lap 39 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, as Lance Stroll pulled aside ...
12 October 2026 18:29
After a successful weekend in Singapore, Max Verstappen is now spending a rare week outside of Formula 1 behind the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG GT3. Apparently, the F1 schedule isn't punishing enough for the Dutchman, who will be racing Portimao, Portugal, in the season-concluding 2026 GT World Challenge round. This is how and where you can watch it.
The Red Bull driver will be coming off not just ...
12 October 2026 17:53
When Charles Leclerc had a better start than Max Verstappen and claimed the inside line for Turn 1, many in the media centre thought the Monegasque should have held his ground to take the lead.
However, Verstappen was on the outside, on the normal racing line that offered slightly more grip, and the Dutchman was prepared to take every risk. Verstappen had already told Motorsport.com a day ...
12 October 2026 15:02
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff has joked Kimi Antonelli needs “a pillow under his butt” to better see the white lines on track, following the Singapore Grand Prix.
In the Marina Bay race, Antonelli breached track limits on four occasions; the theoretical punishment for a fourth strike is a five-second penalty, but he escaped it given one of those was down to a loss of control ...
12 October 2026 14:42
Following the chequered flag at the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix, Formula 1 fans and paddock observers were left deeply divided when official timing graphics confirmed that championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli had accumulated four separate track limit violations during the 62-lap race.
Under the FIA’s established penalty guidelines, reaching four strikes in a Grand Prix is supposed to ...
12 October 2026 14:01
With two victories in the last three Grands Prix and a deficit of just 0.196 seconds in Baku, Verstappen and Red Bull are firmly back at the front in Formula 1. The resurgence has understandably come too late to play a meaningful role in the title fight, although Verstappen now has a top-three finish in the drivers' championship in his sights.
Verstappen trails Lewis Hamilton by just eight ...
12 October 2026 13:08
The Mercedes F1 Team walked away from the demanding 2026 Singapore Grand Prix with more than just a trophy and a solid haul of Constructors' points. After spending the entire weekend running a split-specification garage to evaluate their heavily debated aerodynamic updates, the team officially possesses the critical data needed to attack the final stretch of the season.
With Andrea Kimi ...
12 October 2026 12:31
McLaren Formula 1 boss Andrea Stella has praised Lando Norris for the way he responded to his clash with team-mate Oscar Piastri in the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race.
The McLaren pair were squabbling over fourth on Saturday until Norris made an opportunistic lunge down the inside of Turn 5 during the final lap, causing both to collide at the apex.
It forced Piastri into a retirement with ...
12 October 2026 12:15
The 2026 Singapore Grand Prix provided a stark reality check for McLaren. While Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri ultimately secured a double-points finish in Sunday's main event, the weekend was heavily overshadowed by a disastrous inter-team collision during Saturday's Sprint race and a glaring pace deficit to their championship rivals.
Following the chequered flag, McLaren team principal Andrea ...
12 October 2026 12:06
The 2026 Singapore Grand Prix was an exhausting war of attrition for the entire paddock, but McLaren's Oscar Piastri walked away from the Marina Bay Street Circuit with a hard-fought fifth-place finish. Navigating extreme heat and severe tyre degradation, the Australian driver salvaged a crucial chunk of Constructors' points for the Woking squad.
The tale of 'puncture and the pass'
Piastri's ...
12 October 2026 11:30
Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen have explained what happened at the start of Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix, where the Ferrari driver had the best launch but failed to outdo his rival.
Despite starting from the dirty side of the track – which admittedly wasn’t as dirty as usual given it had rained the day before – Leclerc had his front axle nearly alongside Verstappen’s within ...
12 October 2026 10:17
Formula 1’s Asian triple-header has gone particularly well for Max Verstappen. The Red Bull driver finished 0.196 seconds behind Russell in Baku before going on to claim convincing victories in Malaysia and Singapore.
On both sides of the equation – at Red Bull and Mercedes – this is linked to major upgrades introduced during the recent triple-header. Red Bull brought its final major ...
12 October 2026 08:26
Here's the problem: there is one topic you simply cannot avoid when talking about the Singapore weekend. On Saturday's sprint, Lando Norris committed one of the ultimate cardinal sins in motorsport: he crashed into his team-mate.
To make matters worse, it was on the final lap of the race. In a sprint. While battling for fourth and fifth place — and a grand total of one point.
There really ...
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