25 April 2025 10:53
The Mexico City Grand Prix is set for a renewal to its Formula 1 race contract with a deal understood to be announced in the coming days, according to Mexico City's head of government Clara Brugada.
Brugada, who was elected to the post last year, announced in a press conference on 24 April that "next week, we will be signing the agreement with F1" when questioned about the future of the race at ...
25 April 2025 10:36
Succession planning trips up many business leaders. Captains of industry, along with politicians and monarchs, naturally see themselves as irreplaceable – and, indeed, regard potential successors as threats to their eternal dominion.
For many years in Formula 1, anyone identified by the media or insiders as “the next Bernie Ecclestone” immediately needed to keep their head down.
Dr ...
25 April 2025 09:30
Formula 1 is the pinnacle of racing, or so the FIA, the teams, drivers, and fans all around the world love to say. The series has the technology, the gravitas, the charisma, and the speed that enthralls you at every stop on the calendar. And it’s present in the highlight reels from along the racetrack that just ooze this sense of speed.
Too bad MotoGP’s motorcycles are going faster than ...
24 April 2025 22:19
The FIA, Formula 1 and its teams have discussed mechanisms in the 2026 engine regulations to allow trailing manufacturers to catch up, while investigating solutions to avoid a repeat of the Japanese Grand Prix grass fire incidents.
The 2026 engine rules were a key point on the agenda of the latest meeting of the F1 Commission on Thursday in Geneva, amid concerns over the new regulations blowing ...
24 April 2025 17:34
Andrea Kimi Antonelli - 6th, 38 points
If 2025 was supposed to be a learning year for Antonelli before firing on full cylinders when F1's new regulations come online, then the 18-year-old has definitely been drinking from a firehose of information over the past five races, trading more messy weekends with races where he has shown his innate class.
The race on Bahrain's abrasive circuit ...
24 April 2025 16:49
Williams racer Alex Albon is having a great start to the 2025 Formula 1 season, picking up points at four out of five grands prix. Now, the Thai driver says his team is making the most of its current form, as it knows that an advantage doesn’t usually last forever.
The British squad is currently in the midst of its best start to an F1 season in almost a decade. Williams is sitting ...
24 April 2025 13:15
Formula 1 has raced at more than 70 different tracks around the world, and stalwarts like Silverstone and Monza have hosted grands prix in almost every season of the series. Not every track has been quite so successful, however, and F1 decided never to return to some circuits for all manner of reasons.
In total, 10 tracks have hosted just a single grand prix over F1’s 75-year history ...
24 April 2025 11:44
Poker players have a word for Lando Norris’s response to adversity: “leaky”. In a game of bluff and counter-bluff, allowing emotions to manifest outwardly is certainly a disadvantage and a weakness.
Is it also the case in a Formula 1 driver? There are those who would argue so, saying this is a brutal dog-eat-dog world of split-second decisions determined by self-interest, where the ...
24 April 2025 10:22
Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has suggested he'd like to see more contention over the technical regulations in the championship, labelling a handful of examples from his own time at Ferrari as moments of "spice".
In his previous role at the Maranello company, which encompassed roles in the commercial department before he became sporting director and, after Jean Todt's departure, team ...
23 April 2025 23:09
If you’re in the market for a piece of Formula 1 history, the race suit worn by Max Verstappen during the 2023 Miami Grand Prix is up for auction. The signed suit, which is likely infused with the unique stench of two-year-old sweat and champagne, will be sold by F1 Authentics to benefit Red Bull’s partner charity, Wings for Life.
The non-profit research foundation, which was established ...
23 April 2025 19:24
It’s a small, seemingly insignificant piece of paper – but in Formula 1, even the tiniest details carry weight. Literally. As soon as an F1 driver climbs out of their car after a race – with all of their gear still on – they head straight for the scales.
Post-race TV coverage often shows FIA officials instructing all 20 drivers to stand on a set of scales to ensure they still meet ...
23 April 2025 18:08
The first triple header of the season is done, some tired faces have headed back from the Gulf for a short Easter break before attacking the standalone Miami GP next week, then another triple header: Imola, Monaco and Spain.
We get into why Max Verstappen is heaping praise on Oscar Piastri, despite their Turn 1 incident, Piastri’s many father figures, Williams’ best start for a decade. And ...
23 April 2025 17:53
Ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, one of the recurring themes of the weekend was graining. Graining happens when the tyres are stressed before reaching their optimal operating window, or when ambient temperatures are too low to allow the tyres to work correctly.
Except at Mercedes, the exact opposite was happening: no graining, but rather, blistering. It was an anomaly, rarely discussed ...
23 April 2025 17:19
F1 Academy’s Netflix series F1: The Academy is set to launch globally on 28 May 2025, produced by Hello Sunshine, actor Reese Witherspoon’s production company.
The docuseries follows F1 Academy’s all-female grid through the 2024 season, allowing viewers to go behind the scenes in the paddock and glimpse the personal lives of the talented female driver base.
F1 Academy managing ...
23 April 2025 17:01
Miami will transform into a playground for motorsport fans when Formula 1 returns to the 305 in early May. The Magic City's dining scene is incredibly diverse, but with so many options, it's hard to know where to book a table. Luckily, the drivers have done some of the work for you. Between team dinners, celebratory toasts, and protein-packed breakfasts, the drivers have made their favorite spots ...
23 April 2025 15:32
American automotive giant General Motors has been approved as a Formula 1 engine supplier for the 2029 season. The company will field the Cadillac F1 team from 2026, with the outfit running American-made power units from 2029 onwards.
Formula 1’s governing body the FIA officially approved GM Performance Power Units LLC as a power unit supplier earlier today, less than two months after the ...
23 April 2025 14:09
Sixteen Australians have started world championship grands prix since 1950. Six have taken podiums, five have won races and two became world champions, with Oscar Piastri’s strong position at McLaren raising the possibility of a third.
There have been several Australian talents who made it to F1 but didn’t get decent machinery. David Brabham and Larry Perkins suffered torrid times and ...
23 April 2025 11:10
British Rally Championship winner and M-Sport founder Malcolm Wilson has been nominated by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem as his preferred candidate to succeed Robert Reid as the governing body’s deputy president for sport.
Members will vote on this at the extraordinary general assemblies and conference in Macau in June.
Reid resigned from the role earlier this month, citing a ...
23 April 2025 09:00
After the first-lap safety car at Formula 1's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, three cars chose to take a strategic gamble and make their tyre switches there and then: Esteban Ocon, Gabriel Bortoleto, and Jack Doohan.
The three all started on the medium tyre, but made the swap to ensure they could theoretically go without making a further stop – so long as they could keep hold of the hard tyre ...
23 April 2025 07:00
Listen to Max Verstappen's exuberant reaction to taking a shock pole and victory in Suzuka, or pole again in Jeddah, and you still hear a man who likes in competing in Formula 1.
Listen to his recent media interviews and you hear a man who seems to dislike being a Formula 1 driver.
Verstappen has never been a man made for the limelight, but a racer who just cares about competing in the ...
22 April 2025 21:40
Neat Burger, the restaurant chained backed by Lewis Hamilton and Leonardo DiCaprio, has closed its doors after just six years in business. The vegan eatery, which served “100 percent plant-based meals,” has been forced to shut after recording major losses, according to The Sun.
The business lost £7.9million (over $10million USD) back in 2022, up £3.2million from the previous year. At the ...
22 April 2025 16:39
The upcoming Miami Grand Prix will be the first Formula 1 race not to be part of a double- or triple-header since last year’s Canadian Grand Prix on 9 June 2024.
That is a consequence of the expansion of the calendar, which averaged 16 races per season in the 1980s and 1990s but gradually increased to the current 24 over the past two decades or so.
Up until 2003, grands prix were ...
22 April 2025 16:22
Red Bull has formally ruled out launching a right-of-review petition against Max Verstappen's decisive five-second time penalty in Formula 1's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Polesitter Verstappen was penalised for leaving the track and gaining an advantage at the start of the race, going off after a duel with McLaren's Oscar Piastri. Verstappen and Red Bull decided not to hand the position back to ...
22 April 2025 12:11
As soon as Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz became available for the 2025 season, Williams team principal James Vowles wanted him at Williams. It wasn't about the prestige of attracting a four-time race winner, but about acquiring a driver who offered a wealth of strategic and technical expertise.
This year's race in Saudi Arabia encapsulated that. When his team-mate Alex Albon had Isack Hadjar ...
22 April 2025 10:08
The main topic after Formula 1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was Max Verstappen’s penalty for overtaking Oscar Piastri off the track – with the Dutchman arguing he was pushed off the track and should have been given racing room by the polesitter, so Motorsport.com found Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko in the paddock to discuss the latest developments involving the energy drinks giant’s ...
22 April 2025 08:30
Oscar Piastri received a surprise endorsement from Max Verstappen following the Australian’s win in Saudi Arabia. And world champion Verstappen knows he is in a fight to retain the title he has held for the past four seasons after Piastri won his third race of the season.
Piastri, 24, now leads the championship by 10 points from his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, who had started the season ...
21 April 2025 23:33
A Portuguese football team honored the 40th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s maiden Formula 1 victory with a special, one-off jersey in his signature colors. The late Brazilian legend celebrated his first Grand Prix win at the rainy 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, and to commemorate the occasion, GD Estoril Praia donned a unique uniform during their match Saturday night.
Fittingly, the club colors ...
21 April 2025 18:10
Williams boss James Vowles has outlined how spreading income and expenditure across different currencies has protected the team from the global financial uncertainty created by the recent tariff announcements from Donald Trump.
The United States president doled out higher tariffs on 57 countries on 2 April – ranging from 11% to 50% - before pausing them for all nations except China for at ...
21 April 2025 17:20
Welcome back to the F1 Hangover. This is a mini edition of the series, which takes you inside the off-track happenings during a race weekend. I wasn’t on the ground in Saudi Arabia, but I’ll be returning to form in Miami early next month, so mark your calendars.
In the meantime, let’s look back on the week in Jeddah. It’s no secret that the Saudis are paying big bucks to attract ...
21 April 2025 16:43
The decision to hand Max Verstappen a five-second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage – by cutting Turn 2 to keep the lead against Oscar Piastri – resurfaced the debate over racing rules in Formula 1.
But whichever side of the fence you sit on, it was apparent that it was the latest incident to place the spotlight on F1’s racing guidelines and what drivers can and ...
21 April 2025 12:43
Isack Hadjar says his Racing Bulls Formula 1 team-mate Liam Lawson has had a smooth adaptation back to the Faenza-based squad following his Red Bull demotion - which the New Zealander agrees on.
Lawson outqualified Hadjar for the first time at last weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, outpacing the rookie by 0.010s in Q1 and 0.227s in Q2.
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21 April 2025 09:57
The Formula 1 Commission is set to discuss further tweaks to the energy deployment of the 2026 power units, which has not gone down well at Mercedes.
Based on unease from certain parties over the side effects of F1's 50/50 split between internal combustion power and the electric element, the F1 Commission will discuss further tweaks to the engine regulations on Thursday.
Fears are that with ...
21 April 2025 07:00
Oscar Piastri opened up a 10-point lead at the top of the drivers’ championship with his third victory of the Formula 1 season, but perhaps McLaren’s advantage is deceptive.
More to the point, could it be that Red Bull is not as far off the pace as it has been presented?
Much has been made of McLaren’s impressive resurgence, and the Woking team has built upon its excellent 2024 season ...
21 April 2025 05:00
Winner: Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri, McLaren
Photo by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Easy as you like? Well, no. Not only was the Jeddah race a brutal 50-lap sprint, but the lower-than-expected tyre wear also seemed to prevent McLaren from flexing its muscle. It meant Piastri had to work harder for his third win of the campaign than in China and Bahrain, especially after ...
20 April 2025 23:56
Toto Wolff was left furious believing the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was the “worst performance of the year so far” for Mercedes.
The Silver Arrows finished fifth (George Russell) and sixth (Andrea Kimi Antonelli) in Jeddah, as it significantly lagged behind rivals McLaren, Red Bull and Ferrari.
Wolff was confused as to why Mercedes lacked pace, especially when it has had a strong start to ...
20 April 2025 23:24
Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly have both refused to accept the blame for causing a race-ending crash for each driver in Jeddah.
Tsunoda’s Red Bull made contact with the Alpine of Gasly at Turn 4 on the opening lap of the race.
It was one of a series of exciting manoeuvres on lap one, with race winner Oscar Piastri tangling with Max Verstappen at the front, earning the Dutchman a five-second ...
20 April 2025 23:01
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has said the team is unlikely to protest the penalty decision that cost Max Verstappen his victory at the 2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The reigning, four-time world champion started on pole, but finished runner-up to McLaren’s Oscar Piastri after receiving a five-second penalty for a lap one incident.
Piastri attacked down the inside of Turn 1 and ...
20 April 2025 22:44
Max Verstappen refused to talk about the first-lap incident that cost him a shot at winning the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, claiming he could end up in hot water with the FIA and that “people can’t handle the truth”.
The Red Bull driver had started on pole position in Jeddah but was challenged off the line by eventual race winner Oscar Piastri and cut Turn 2, leading to the stewards handing ...
20 April 2025 22:29
Lewis Hamilton was in no mood for questioning after a disappointing Saudi Arabian GP where he finished seventh.
After the highs of winning the sprint race in China last month, the seven-time world champion came into the race in Jeddah saying he needed “a brain transplant” in order to understand his new Ferrari F1 car.
Despite the win in Shanghai, Hamilton has largely struggled with his ...
20 April 2025 22:10
The 2025 Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was ultimately decided by events at the first corner.
Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen arrived side by side, with Piastri asserting himself on the inside line, leaving Verstappen with two options: back off or take to the run-off area on the outside.
Verstappen chose the latter and rejoined the track in the lead, incurring a five-second time penalty ...
20 April 2025 22:01
Lando Norris admits he is making hard work of his F1 title challenge.
After starting the season as the favourite to win the championship, and his victory in the Australian GP, Norris has slipped behind his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in the pecking order.
Piastri has now taken two back-to-back wins in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to move to the top of the table and got 10 points clear of ...
20 April 2025 21:46
Helmut Marko disagreed with the stewards’ decision to hand Max Verstappen a five-second penalty for passing Oscar Piastri off-track in the first lap of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
“I think the race was lost at the start. And really, where was Max supposed to go?” he told Sky Germany.
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20 April 2025 20:59
Piastri will be hard to beat this year
There's a certain logic in the fact that Oscar Piastri took the championship lead so unspectacularly, after a measured and controlled drive, delivering everything he needed.
Yes, Verstappen took pole, but Piastri did enough to force him to defend in Turn 1 - and ultimately earn his rival a penalty. After that, all he needed to do was stay close enough ...
20 April 2025 20:39
Oscar Piastri took victory at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to move into the lead of the Formula 1 drivers’ championship.
The McLaren man sealed his third win of the season, going back to back after taking the chequered flag in Bahrain last week as he benefitted from an early penalty against polesitter Max Verstappen.
Having qualified first, reigning champion Verstappen was not as quick off ...
20 April 2025 20:27
As the lights went out at Formula 1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri hooked up faster from second on the grid than polesitter Max Verstappen, and the McLaren and Red Bull headed into Turn 1 side by side.
Piastri had the inside line even though his car wasn’t significantly ahead, but Verstappen released the brakes and unloaded the steering to let his car run over the kerb and ...
20 April 2025 19:19
Formula 1's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has seen a safety car intervention after just one lap due to a collision between Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda, while polesitter Max Verstappen was penalised.
Starting in eighth and ninth respectively, Tsunoda and Gasly tangled at Turn 4 as Gasly attempted to pass the Red Bull driver around the outside.
Tsunoda's front-right corner made contact with ...
20 April 2025 15:37
Jeddah's fast and furious street race is shaping up to be an enthralling contest, thanks to several cars which are starting out of position.
At the front there is Red Bull's pole sitter Max Verstappen, who will be desperately fighting off the faster McLaren of Oscar Piastri. Then there is Lando Norris - starting 10th after his Q3 crash - who is behind the likes of Williams' Carlos Sainz ...
20 April 2025 13:28
The Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix presents an intriguing race for Williams, with one driver planning to err on the side of caution and the other looking to rein in his own perceived over-confidence.
Carlos Sainz will start a season-best sixth on the grid at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit on Sunday, while team-mate Alexander Albon will set off down in 11th having just missed out on joining the ...
20 April 2025 11:46
Max Verstappen says he is "not very confident" of beating McLaren's Oscar Piastri in Jeddah on Sunday. The reigning world champion's Red Bull claimed pole by a mere 0.010s after the McLarens had looked faster all weekend, with Piastri joining him on the front row. The other McLaren of Lando Norris is starting from 10th after the Briton crashed on his first Q3 lap.
Compared to last weekend's ...
20 April 2025 11:33
There’s a noticeable shift in the F1 Academy paddock in Jeddah this weekend: Formula 1 drivers and team leaders are finally showing up - publicly and proudly - for the series.
While the all-female F1 Academy has run alongside F1 for the past two seasons, it has largely operated on the fringes, with limited crossover with the wider F1 world. Until recently, meaningful support from drivers and ...
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