21 November 2025 14:29
FIA single seater director Nikolas Tombazis expects the new Formula 1 regulations for 2026 to deliver "more exciting racing" as a net result of the various changes the governing body is making to the cars.
For 2026, F1 is moving to lighter, narrower cars with a bigger electric component to their hybrid engines, as well as the use of sustainable fuels and active aerodynamics.
The latter ...
21 November 2025 13:03
Red Bull says it has "no worries" about the controversial engine change made to Max Verstappen's RB21 ahead of the Brazil Grand Prix, despite McLaren raising questions over how such a change fits into Formula 1's cost cap rules.
But although the team insists it is "absolutely within the regulations", the debate has highlighted a grey area that exists within the current set-up.
When ...
21 November 2025 11:07
Formula 1 is set for its final triple-header of the 2025 season with this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix where the drivers’ title is still in the balance.
Lando Norris leads his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by 24 points, while reigning world champion Max Verstappen is third and 49 off top with Vegas the first time the Red Bull driver could be put out of contention.
For that to happen ...
21 November 2025 09:37
In a time where the Ferrari chairman made headlines for his remark on the Scuderia’s Formula 1 drivers following a poor Brazil Grand Prix, everything looks much more positive after Thursday practice in Las Vegas.
Charles Leclerc topped the opening session before finishing third in FP2 while Lewis Hamilton could only muster 10th and 11th, but was caught out by various disruptions. It marks a ...
21 November 2025 08:44
Max Verstappen jokingly made clear that he would run Formula 1’s racing guidelines through the paper shredder if it were up to him.
Following Oscar Piastri’s time penalty in Brazil, debate over F1’s racing guidelines has resurfaced. Carlos Sainz called the penalty handed to the McLaren driver “unacceptable” and added that the guidelines will be discussed in Qatar.
These ...
21 November 2025 07:34
Liberty Media CEO Derek Chang says Apple is likely to be "very active" when asked if Apple would ever fight for global Formula 1 rights. This comes as the tech giant readies itself to take over broadcasting for the United States from the beginning of 2026.
Speaking to CNBC, Chang commented on Apple's role in F1 and its broadcasting, linking it to the massive success the brand saw with the ...
21 November 2025 07:30
Haas Formula 1 rookie driver Oliver Bearman described the Las Vegas Grand Prix circuit as "sketchy" and "the least enjoyable street track I've driven" after the first two practice sessions.
The Briton was shocked by the lack of grip on the track after he finished FP1 in 16th and FP2 in 17th.
"We knew, big track evo on a circuit like this, honestly those first few laps I did in FP1, of ...
21 November 2025 06:14
The second practice session for the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix was brought to a close with around 20 minutes remaining after track officials raised concerns about a possible loose manhole cover on the circuit.
The session was red-flagged as George Russell was finishing a flying lap on the soft compound tyre, moments after McLaren's Lando Norris set the fastest lap of the session with a ...
21 November 2025 06:13
Lando Norris headlined Formula 1's second practice session for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which was interrupted twice in the final 20 minutes by red flags for a suspected loose manhole cover at Turn 17.
In a session preceded by light rain, it took five minutes before the drivers elected to brave a presumably slippery circuit - and it took much of the opening half to build up towards Charles ...
21 November 2025 04:12
Mercedes CEO and team principal Toto Wolff addressed his stake sale to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, which has valued the Brackley outfit at £4.6billion.
The valuation has placed the Mercedes Formula 1 team in the top five most valuable sports teams.
“I think it shows a good development because the teams have become sustainable and profitable," Wolff told Sky Sports F1 in Las ...
21 November 2025 03:41
The FIA's head of aerodynamics Jason Somerville has handed in his notice, with Motorsport.com understanding the aero chief is set to join Alpine during the 2026 season.
Somerville, who as head of aero played an important part in defining F1's new 2026 regulations, handed in his notice last week and will commence a six-month gardening leave period before joining his new employer.
Amid reports ...
21 November 2025 03:12
Yuki Tsunoda has lifted the lid on his love for anime after he was asked about his watching habits ahead of the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Japanese Formula 1 driver was visibly happy to be asked a question on a topic outside of racing.
"Thank you! Finally, the nice fresh question," he said. "I like One Piece and One-Punch Man, recently watching Black Clover and Demon Slayer.”
Tsunoda ...
21 November 2025 02:44
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc has led opening practice for Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix, besting Alex Albon and the two Red Bulls.
Leclerc's soft-tyre run pf 1m34.802s in the final 15 minutes of the one-hour session was enough to hold off Williams Alex Albon, with Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda making a rare appearance in front of team-mate Max Verstappen, while the McLaren pair occupied sixth and ...
21 November 2025 01:59
Lewis Hamilton has played down the comments made by Ferrari chairman John Elkann, who appeared to criticise the drivers after a disappointing Brazilian Grand Prix weekend from the Scuderia team.
Elkann made headlines after the outfit's double retirement in Sao Paulo.
“Brazil was a huge disappointment,” he said publicly. “If we look at the Formula 1 championship, we can say that on ...
21 November 2025 01:28
Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda is to auction off the race helmet he will be wearing for the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend, with all proceeds going to the Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation.
The helmet is painted in a theme that makes it look at home under the lights of the famous Vegas Strip, but it will eventually make its way to the lucky winner of the F1 Authentics ...
20 November 2025 22:11
CrowdStrike's George Kurtz has acquired 15% of Toto Wolff's holding company, representing 5% of shares in the Mercedes F1 team.
Kurtz, the CEO and founder of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, came on board as a Mercedes sponsor in 2019 and has now become an owner, as well as joining the team as Technology Advisor.
Kurtz has personally acquired 15% of the holding company controlled by Mercedes ...
20 November 2025 15:47
Felipe Massa has secured a first victory as he seeks damages for the results of the 2008 Formula 1 world championship over Renault’s race-fixing at the Singapore Grand Prix.
Massa has been making a case that Nelson Piquet Jr’s intentional crash, which gifted victory to team-mate Fernando Alonso by causing an early safety car, changed the course of the title race as Ferrari’s title ...
20 November 2025 15:01
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu says the two-pitstop rule implemented by Pirelli for this year’s Qatar Grand Prix will “destroy” the upcoming Formula 1 race.
Cars will be allowed to cover a maximum of 25 laps per stint during the 57-lap race, making it an effective two-stop while maintaining a degree of strategic variance, due to concerns over tyre wear.
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20 November 2025 13:03
Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso is keenly looking forward to the end of the ground-effect era with the series introducing a new set of regulations in 2026.
F1 cars are set for changes to both the power unit and chassis, as they will be lighter and smaller with more emphasis on electrical energy featuring a near 50-50 split with the internal combustion engine.
This will ...
20 November 2025 12:30
Isack Hadjar has explained what happened on the last lap of Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix, when he clashed with Racing Bulls team-mate Liam Lawson over seventh position.
Lawson was one of only two drivers who made a one-stop strategy work at Interlagos, but that meant he came under intense pressure from a nine-car group behind him in the last 10 laps of the race.
On the last lap, Hadjar ...
20 November 2025 11:43
Several Formula 1 drivers have voiced their concerns over the prospect of wet practice at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, with rain predicted to hit the track for Thursday practice.
Las Vegas, along the wider Clark County, has been dealing with torrential rainfall in recent days, with the National Weather Service launching a flood alert on Tuesday night.
The intense Tuesday downpour flooded some ...
20 November 2025 10:33
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen admits he needs “a lot of luck” to turn around the 2025 Formula 1 title fight in his favour, while also suggesting that the change in momentum in McLaren’s intra-team championship fight is “very bizarre”.
The Dutchman has more than halved his deficit to the top of the F1 standings since Zandvoort, but believes the “real picture” is not enough to ...
20 November 2025 08:52
Red Bull Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda has admitted he is "nervous" about his future in the series as a final announcement of the team's 2026 driver line-up is still not forthcoming.
Red Bull is widely expected to promote standout Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar to the main team next year as Max Verstappen's new partner, with 18-year-old Arvid Lindblad set to be promoted to Racing Bulls. That ...
20 November 2025 07:45
The results of the Brazil Grand Prix might have been inked into the record books but that hasn't prevented the events of that weekend remaining a hotly debated topic in Formula 1.
For the majority of F1's drivers, the most contentious element was Oscar Piastri's 10-second penalty for his part in triggering a collision which eliminated Ferrari's Charles Leclerc from the race. Leclerc's ...
20 November 2025 07:31
Max Verstappen is weighing up a Formula 1 race number change if he doesn’t win the world title and is unable to keep #1, with an eye on former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo’s #3 race number.
Since 2014, drivers have needed to choose a number they must keep for their entire F1 career, with the only exception being a driver may exchange it for #1 after winning the world championship. Verstappen ...
20 November 2025 06:26
It all seemed doom-and-gloom on the 31 August. An oil leak had just put Lando Norris out of the Dutch Grand Prix meaning the McLaren Formula 1 driver was now 34 points behind Oscar Piastri, who won at Zandvoort, in the championship.
The outcome of the 2025 title therefore seemed inevitable. Piastri was the driver in form, he’d just scored his seventh win of the year after five podiums on the ...
20 November 2025 06:10
Charles Leclerc praised the honesty of Ferrari chairman John Elkann, who had launched a stinging barb aimed at the Formula 1 team's drivers last week, and insisted that his comments were intended to be a positive message of encouragement.
In the wake of Ferrari's double-retirement in Sao Paulo, Elkann spoke to Sky Sports Italy and stated that "we have drivers who need to focus on driving and ...
20 November 2025 05:22
Fernando Alonso enjoyed an immensely successful first act in his Formula 1 career, although it is widely considered that his talent commanded more than the two titles that he accrued in 2005 and 2006. That said, perhaps the chase of a third title has offered his career a smidgen more longevity...
In the opening six-to-seven years of his career, Alonso was often brilliant, decisive, and yet ...
20 November 2025 04:34
The LEGO Group and F1 Academy have inked a multi-year deal which will see the construction toy giant release an F1 Academy car set and field a car on the 2026 grid of the all-female series.
On the eve of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, F1 Academy director Susie Wolff and LEGO marketing director Julia Goldin presented the partnership, with 20-year-old Dutch racer Esmee Kosterman donning the LEGO car's ...
20 November 2025 04:21
Mercedes driver George Russell has cast doubt on McLaren's performance at the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix, as he predicted the Woking outfit will struggle at the race t.at includes the famous Vegas Strip.
Russell, who won the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix, noted the progress that Red Bull has made in recent weeks, acknowledging the Milton Keynes outfit as a potential threat for this ...
20 November 2025 03:49
Lance Stroll blasted Alpine's Franco Colapinto after the Argentine criticised the Canadian driver after the Brazilian Grand Prix. Stroll argued that Colapinto should focus on securing a point this season rather than on what he was doing.
Colapinto had called Stroll out for his defence against Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto in Brazil before the latter suffered a crash. "Stroll is just always taking ...
20 November 2025 02:58
Sauber Formula 1 driver Gabriel Bortoleto has responded to Max Verstappen's recent confession that he had told Red Bull to keep an eye on the Brazilian driver ahead of his F1 debut.
During an appearance on the Pelas Pistas podcast alongside Bortoleto, Verstappen explained: "I already said to the team before you even got to Formula 1, ‘keep an eye on Gabi.' But now we’re all here, and ...
20 November 2025 02:58
Ollie Bearman has said there's no single magic bullet behind his late-season surge with Haas. But the mix of a better car, a new structure over the race weekends, and a more mature mindset has yielded results that have turned a promising year into something more substantial.
The 20-year-old arrived in Las Vegas on the back of a solid few races. He managed a fourth-place finish in Mexico City ...
20 November 2025 02:56
Formula 1 is set for further talks over its controversial racing guidelines at next week's Qatar Grand Prix after Oscar Piastri's Brazil penalty left drivers confused.
At Interlagos Piastri was handed a 10-second penalty for his part in a three-way Turn 1 collision with Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Charles Leclerc, which left the latter eliminated from the race.
The stewards argued the McLaren ...
19 November 2025 23:40
Oscar Piastri, much like his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, has revealed a special edition helmet for the Las Vegas Grand Prix as he pays tribute to his success in motorsport at a much younger age.
The Australian driver has left his usual fluorescent design helmet at home, instead opting for a bright pink and teal design, matching the paintwork of his 1:10 electric touring RC car, which he ...
19 November 2025 23:13
Lewis Hamilton has shared a new one-of-one Ferrari trading card, produced by Topps. The seven-time Formula 1 champion posted the piece to Instagram alongside the US-based card manufacturer.
The card boasts a large Ferrari crest on a red fabric background with a photo of the driver on the top left of the design. His signature runs across the top in blue ink, accompanied by his familiar ...
19 November 2025 23:00
Lewis Hamilton has unveiled a special helmet for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, featuring a full silver sparkle design, pivoting from his usual bright yellow design with red accents.
Hamilton shared the design on social media ahead of the race weekend in the City of Lights.
In addition to the new helmet, the seven-time champion and his team-mate Charles Leclerc will be sporting new race suits ...
19 November 2025 22:35
McLaren's Lando Norris has revealed a special helmet ahead of the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix, celebrating the work of contemporary artist Werner Bronkhorst alongside the driver's 150th Formula 1 start.
The design revolves around the 'Art in Motion' pop-up art-based experience that's heading to the Las Vegas Strip and is the result of a project between the championship leader and Bronkhorst ...
19 November 2025 21:42
Fans still have the opportunity to pick up last-minute tickets for the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend.
The race down the iconic Las Vegas Strip will kick off the final triple-header of the season. Lando Norris heads into the race weekend leading the drivers' championship by 24 points over his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.
Max Verstappen, who clinched his fourth consecutive title ...
19 November 2025 19:00
Oliver Bearman remains the driver at the highest risk of incurring a Formula 1 race ban in 2025.
F1 drivers collect penalty points as they commit offences on track, with 12 points landing them a suspension for the following grand prix.
Kevin Magnussen is the only driver who ever fell foul of the penalty points system, having had to sit out the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Bearman’s ...
19 November 2025 18:30
Is Mercedes the favourite again?
Mercedes dominated the 2024 running of the Las Vegas GP, with George Russell leading pretty much the whole race from pole position while team-mate Lewis Hamilton recovered from 10th to give the team a one-two.
However, team boss Toto Wolff believes one cannot convincingly expect the W16 to replicate this form given how different it is to its predecessor. “I ...
19 November 2025 17:49
Max Verstappen has revealed that when he’s thinking about his next house, one of the things on his mind is finding the space for a much larger racing simulator set-up.
Talking on the Securing the Win podcast, the four-time champion admitted that he’s toying with the idea of designing his next home around an upgraded sim rig, inspired by the professional rig he uses at Oracle Red Bull ...
19 November 2025 17:30
Audi Formula 1 chiefs say the brand’s experience in various categories will help it master F1’s new power units from 2026.
Audi is taking over the Switzerland-based Sauber team as F1 moves into a new era; 2026-spec power units will feature 350kW (469hp) electric power, up from 120kW currently, for a near-50:50 split with the internal combustion engine. Cars will also recover twice as much ...
19 November 2025 15:30
Lavish podium celebrations are a mainstay of Formula 1, with the top-three finishers shaking hands with various dignitaries, spraying Champagne and picking up their trophies at the end of every grand prix. But the design and development of the trophies they lift above their heads begins months before lights go out at the start of an F1 race.
Trophies have been a staple of F1 since the very ...
19 November 2025 12:35
EA Sports has announced it will not release a new Formula 1 game for the 2026 season.
Instead, the company will provide a “paid expansion to F1 25”, featuring 2026 cars, teams and regulations – but no mention was made of circuits.
Asked by Motorsport whether the content will include Madrid’s Madring street track that will debut next year, an EA Sports spokesperson stated: “We ...
19 November 2025 11:54
Three rounds remain in the 2025 Formula 1 world championship, which will decide who becomes the drivers’ world champion, plus a few other key honours.
This weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix kicks off a triple-header finale, followed by the Qatar GP (plus a sprint race) and then the season closer in Abu Dhabi. With so much to play for, and no doubt some surprises still in store, here’s what ...
18 November 2025 19:02
The Racing Bulls Formula 1 team has presented a one-off 'holographic' livery for this weekend's Las Vegas Grand Prix in collaboration with title partner Cash App.
The holographic livery adds iridescent colours to the usually white nose, sidepod and engine cover of the VCARB 02 driven by Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson. The design is the team’s fourth and final one-off livery of the 2025 ...
18 November 2025 16:00
Audi boss Mattia Binotto believes the Formula 1 team able to calibrate its simulation tools and develop its car quickest will enjoy the biggest success in the first year of the 2026 regulations overhaul.
F1 is preparing for a new era from next year, with both the power unit and chassis rules changing drastically this winter.
On the engine side there will be more emphasis on electrical ...
18 November 2025 13:00
The Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend will kick off a three-race run that goes all the way to the end of the 2025 season on 7 December in Abu Dhabi. Over this period, the Formula 1 drivers’ championship will be decided, as well as many positions in the constructors’ standings, which equates to a lot of prize money for the teams.
However, while almost every F1 squad still has things to ...
18 November 2025 11:10
The easiest way to leave a casino with a small fortune is to enter the premises with a large one. Perhaps that's why Mercedes is actively discouraging predictions of a repeat of last year's 1-2 in the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, when George Russell and Lewis Hamilton not only controlled the race, but left the championship protagonists some way down the road.
It simply wouldn't be a safe ...
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