29 October 2026 14:00
General Motors president Mark Reuss has praised Cadillac Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez ahead of his 300th race in the series, insisting it is "an honour" to have the Mexican on side.
Perez will become just the seventh driver in F1 history to reach the milestone - joining Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher - and will ...
29 October 2026 13:18
Sebastian Vettel has opened up about his early years in Formula 1 in the new ARD documentary Being Sebastian Vettel – and how German manufacturer BMW initially supported him before ultimately letting him go.
The four-time F1 world champion said: "In the end, the whole BMW story didn't really work out as originally planned. […] I actually already had one foot in the door because my ...
29 October 2026 10:53
At just 20 years old, Andrea Kimi Antonelli is currently busy making records on his second season of his Formula 1 career. But apparently, casually dominating the 2026 World Championship in a Mercedes isn't quite enough to keep the Italian phenom occupied.
In a recent sit-down with Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, Antonelli revealed that he is already plotting his next massive move outside the ...
29 October 2026 08:05
When a high-profile Formula 1 executive is shown the door, the rumour mill immediately shifts to where they will land next. But in the case of Christian Horner, his departure from Red Bull Racing in 2025 came with a golden parachute so immense that it completely rewrote his career trajectory.
Rather than scrambling to secure a new role on the pitwall, the 52-year-old is navigating his post-F1 ...
29 October 2026 06:05
Red Bull Racing has a long, highly complicated history with Australian drivers. Mark Webber helped build the team's winning foundation during Sebastian Vettel's championship years, while Daniel Ricciardo took the baton and led the garage at the dawn of the turbo-hybrid era.
In a recent 60 Minutes Australia interview, Christian Horner offered a look back at how both men operated within his ...
29 October 2026 04:05
Before Netflix brought its cameras into the Formula 1 paddock, team principals were largely viewed as calculating, stoic directors operating quietly from the pitwall. By the time Christian Horner left, the role had evolved into something entirely different. He was no longer just a racing executive; he was one of the most recognisable and fiercely debated antagonists in global ...
29 October 2026 01:41
Former Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has revealed he would consider a one-off appearance at the Le Mans 24 Hours and named his former Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen as his first choice to share a car with.
The Australian driver has not raced since his F1 exit after the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix, but during an appearance on the F1 Beyond the Grid, the eight-time grand prix winner said he ...
29 October 2026 01:26
Daniel Ricciardo has admitted he wishes he had stayed at the Red Bull Formula 1 team rather than leaving at the end of the 2018 season.
The Australian won seven grands prix with Red Bull, but shocked everyone when he left the team and joined Renault for 2019, leaving Max Verstappen as the team’s undisputed lead driver. The Dutchman went on to win four consecutive world titles from 2021, while ...
29 October 2026 01:16
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) will use artificial intelligence from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help draw up the rules for Formula 1's next era of cars, after signing a new global partnership with the tech giant.
Under the deal, AWS becomes the governing body's official AI and cloud computing partner, with its technology to be used across motorsport, including ...
29 October 2026 00:51
The allegations surrounding Christian Horner's final months at Red Bull Racing still draw questions from fans despite him being cleared of any wrongdoing. Now, 15 months after his exit from the team, Horner has finally broken his silence on that time.
Sitting down with 60 Minutes Australia, the former team principal addressed the allegations with uncompromising defiance.
The ...
28 October 2026 19:30
Ever since Red Bull unceremoniously dropped Christian Horner on 9 July 2025, the Formula 1 paddock has been buzzing with endless speculation about what actually triggered the guillotine.
Was it the early-2024 allegations? Was it the fact that Red Bull only managed to win two grand prix races in the first half of 2025? Or was it Max Verstappen’s camp finally forcing a hard ultimatum?
Now ...
28 October 2026 17:51
Formula 1 is back again this weekend with the highly popular Mexico Grand Prix, which comes just seven days after Kimi Antonelli romped to victory in Austin.
That was the Mercedes driver’s ninth win of the 2026 season after dominating from pole in a race largely defined by strategy with Antonelli nailing a one-stopper.
He was joined on the podium by two-stopping duo Charles Leclerc and Max ...
28 October 2026 17:17
Max Verstappen will step aside during first practice at the Mexico City Grand Prix as Red Bull continues to complete its quota of rookie runs in FP1 sessions.
Teams are required to give rookies - designated as drivers to have raced in two or fewer races - at least four opportunities to run during practice sessions across the season, with that quota split between two watching briefs per ...
28 October 2026 16:03
Formula 1 has published its first sport-wide Social Impact Report, with over half a million young people across the world having beneffited from F1 programmes last year.
In initiatives designed to educate, inspire and open pathways into the sport in 2025, youngsters from across 71 countries were able to take a step closer to F1.
F1 has also renewed its now-established Engineering Scholarship ...
28 October 2026 16:02
Sergio Perez has committed to the Cadillac F1 project until at least 2029 as the Mexican signed fresh terms with the US-owned outfit.
Perez joined F1's expansion team for its 2026 debut after his Red Bull exit left him on the sidelines last year.
Despite going through the ups and downs of an inconsistent debut season for the American team, the 36-year-old has found his best form this season ...
28 October 2026 13:57
Oliver Bearman believes Haas cannot extract much more performance from its 2026 Formula 1 car, following the United States Grand Prix.
Bearman displayed encouraging Friday pace at the Circuit of The Americas, with 11th and 10th in the opening two free practice sessions, before slipping down the order – to the extent that he qualified just 16th.
The Briton explained this was down to finding ...
28 October 2026 12:33
Valtteri Bottas described the Cadillac Formula 1 team as struggling to understand its issues, after he retired from Sunday’s United States Grand Prix.
Bottas suffered his ninth retirement of the season at the Circuit of The Americas, a surprisingly high number for a driver whose pre-2026 DNF rate was 11%.
Of those nine, eight were linked to technical problems, and that was the case again ...
28 October 2026 10:39
One of the most remarkable moments on Sunday in Austin did not take place on the track itself, but rather in the Formula 1 paddock after the US Grand Prix. During the usual post-race media sessions, both Aston Martin and Red Bull’s representatives were asked about a subject that had very little to do with the race at the Circuit of the Americas – quite the opposite, in fact.
Both Aston ...
28 October 2026 09:54
Audi has announced Thomas Fuhr will become CEO of Audi Formula Racing GmbH, the Neuburg-based division developing its F1 power units.
Fuhr will sit at the head of the Neuburg plant as an addition to the current team, which Audi says will allow chief technical director Stefan Dreyer to "focus fully on leading the technical development of Audi’s Formula 1 power unit".
Meanwhile, COO ...
28 October 2026 09:00
The FIA has announced a wide-ranging partnership with Amazon Web Services as it aims to upgrade its digital capabilities.
AWS will join as its Official AI and Cloud Computing Partner, as the governing body will use AWS's suite of AI tools to improve its capability to produce future technical regulations.
The FIA also runs its aerodynamic simulations on AWS’s High Performance Computing ...
28 October 2026 03:50
Despite finishing on the podium, Max Verstappen was disappointed after the United States Grand Prix. Talking after the race, the Dutchman said his Red Bull team was "just a little average" as he faced the wrong tyre choice, power unit problems as well as radio issues.
The Dutchman finished third at the Circuit of the Americas, 17.5 seconds behind Kimi Antonelli, after winning the previous two ...
28 October 2026 02:40
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff revealed a jibe at Pastor Maldonado that helped him get his place on the team, as the Austrian businessman gave a comparison between the star Mercedes drivers and the then-Williams driver.
Wolff was a shareholder and executive at Williams in 2012, when Maldonado took a surprising victory in the Spanish Grand Prix. At the time, Mercedes had won just once since returning ...
28 October 2026 01:51
Mercedes Formula 1 team chief Toto Wolff has rejected former Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko's claim that George Russell will never get another shot at the F1 title.
Russell currently sits 123 points behind his team-mate and current championship leader Kimi Antonelli in the drivers' standings.
While speaking to Sky Sports Deutschland ahead of the United States Grand Prix at the ...
28 October 2026 01:26
Former Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko has become an investor in an Austrian artificial intelligence start-up that lets people leave personal messages to be delivered to loved ones after they die.
The 83-year-old, who stepped down from his role at the Milton Keynes outfit at the end of last season after more than two decades with the company, was unveiled as a backer of Lebensstimmen ...
28 October 2026 01:24
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has confirmed that the team is not in "serious conversations" when it comes to supplying another Formula 1 team with power units. This includes Aston Martin.
The Silverstone-based team has struggled with its power unit performance all season as its works partnership with Honda has been strained. Now, there are reports of Aston Martin potentially looking ...
27 October 2026 23:05
The telemetry inside the Mercedes garage after Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas pointed towards the Brackley squad waiting to pack up for a miserable, point-less weekend. The car was off the pace, the drivers were complaining about the balance, and the recent aerodynamic upgrades looked like a massive misstep.
Fast forward to Sunday afternoon, and 19-year-old Andrea Kimi Antonelli ...
27 October 2026 18:58
If you looked at the two sides of the Mercedes garage after Sunday's United States Grand Prix, you would assume they were running completely different machinery. On one side, sensation Andrea Kimi Antonelli was celebrating a miraculous, dominant race victory. On the other, George Russell was pulling his hair out after a miserable afternoon severely compromised by a bizarre first-lap time penalty ...
27 October 2026 18:29
Valtteri Bottas insists Cadillac is happy with him and his contract is “all OK” for 2027, amid recent rumours about his Formula 1 future.
Bottas’ recent lack of both qualifying and race pace has led to speculation on the driver market. Esteban Ocon, who lost his seat to Formula 2 championship leader Rafael Camara at Haas, was brought up in the media as a potential contender for the ...
27 October 2026 16:50
Gabriele Mini is set to make his Formula 1 race weekend debut, driving Franco Colapinto’s Alpine in Free Practice 1 at the Mexico Grand Prix.
The erstwhile Formula 2 championship leader, now lying fourth in the standings with a very slim title chance assuming the final two rounds proceed as planned, has been an Alpine protege since the start of the 2023 season following his runner-up campaign ...
27 October 2026 16:01
Lewis Hamilton has explained the reasons why the podium narrowly eluded him in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.
The Ferrari driver started from fifth on the grid and jumped Isack Hadjar for fourth at lights out, despite being the only driver on used (soft) tyres for the opening stint.
But Hamilton lost 0.277s per lap to team-mate Charles Leclerc during that stint, as well as 0.422s ...
27 October 2026 15:27
In modern Formula 1, raw race pace means absolutely nothing if you completely bottle your qualifying laps on Saturday afternoon. Without track position, you are simply burning up your tyres in dirty air while the race leaders cruise off into the distance.
That is the reality McLaren faced at the United States Grand Prix.
Despite bringing a highly effective upgrade package to the Circuit of ...
27 October 2026 14:51
Oliver Bearman says he was “pretty shocked” to land a 10-second penalty for his collision with Pierre Gasly in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.
Bearman gained two spots on the opening lap of the Austin race and made a move on 10th-placed Gasly on the next tour, down the inside in Turn 13.
Realising the gap was disappearing, Bearman put two wheels on the yellow inside kerb, but his ...
27 October 2026 13:22
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has dismissed suggestions from former Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko that there's no coming back for George Russell from being beaten to the world title by Kimi Antonelli.
Antonelli is set to be crowned in the upcoming Mexico City Grand Prix barring exceptional circumstances delaying his coronation by one week.
As Mercedes hit the front with the all-new 2026 ...
27 October 2026 10:34
Although Max Verstappen once again secured a podium finish, something that seemed to be the maximum achievable for much of this Formula 1 season, there was certainly little satisfaction in the Red Bull hospitality on Sunday evening. Several team members acknowledged in the paddock that Kimi Antonelli's race pace was impossible to match, although both Red Bull drivers were frustrated that the team ...
26 October 2026 23:06
Broadcaster Naomi Schiff has warned that Red Bull's narrow set-up window could be compromising Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar's 2026 Formula 1 campaigns.
At the United States Grand Prix, both drivers' races were derailed in the opening stages. Hadjar suffered a launch issue that prompted him to demand a clutch redesign, while Verstappen lacked electrical deployment out of Turn 1, which ...
26 October 2026 22:37
The United States Grand Prix was a wildly successful weekend for Ferrari, if you strictly go off the timing sheets. The newly upgraded car possessed blazing-fast race pace, tyre degradation was fully under control, and Charles Leclerc dragged his machine to a brilliant second-place finish behind Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli.
But inside the Scuderia garage, there is a lingering feeling of "what ...
26 October 2026 22:16
When your star driver gets out of the car after grabbing a podium and immediately tells the global broadcast that the pitstops, tyres, and engine braking were all complete garbage, it is up to the team principal to jump on the nearest microphone and put out the fire.
Following Verstappen's radio meltdown at the United States Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing CEO and team principal Laurent Mekies ...
26 October 2026 19:48
Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has dismissed the narrative that drivers can blame poor performance on the championship's new 2026 regulations, insisting the all-time greats successfully adapt to any machinery.
F1 introduced a major regulation change in 2026. While several drivers have struggled to extract consistent pace from the new generation of cars, Coulthard argued that a driver's ...
26 October 2026 18:16
George Russell's long-term future at Mercedes has been questioned following the United States Grand Prix.
Russell entered the 2026 Formula 1 season as one of the favourites for the title. But after winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese sprint race, the Briton watched as his team-mate Kimi Antonelli became the youngest driver to lead the championship.
After winning ...
26 October 2026 18:15
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has explained the reasoning behind asking Oscar Piastri to wave Lando Norris past in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.
Piastri and Norris locked out the fourth row of the grid at the Circuit of The Americas, having failed to challenge the Mercedes, Red Bulls and Ferraris in Q3.
However, over the first seven laps of the race, Piastri lost one second ...
26 October 2026 14:29
Kimi Antonelli pulled off a sensational victory from 19th at the Italian Grand Prix, but Formula 1’s champion-elect reckons his dominant performance from pole in Austin was even better.
The Mercedes driver was forced into a back row start at Monza in September due to a change of power unit, yet the rapid Italian still scythed through the field to take victory.
That gave Antonelli his ...
26 October 2026 13:39
Mercedes has poked fun at Kimi Antonelli's awkward reversing mishap in Austin, sharing in-car footage of the moment on its TikTok account with the caption, "Championship leader BTW."
The short clip shows the 20-year-old at the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé. As he backed up the electric vehicle, he misjudged the space and made contact with the wooden fencing behind him.
The video ...
26 October 2026 12:35
Franco Colapinto has responded to Jeremy Clarkson’s comment that he would give the Alpine Formula 1 driver a grid penalty for being Argentinian.
Clarkson was a guest of Alpine’s at the United States Grand Prix and gave an interview to Sky Sports F1 on Saturday, in which he joked: “Franco’s got a grid penalty for being Argentinian. Probably. Well, I’d give him one for that. But anyway ...
26 October 2026 12:25
Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya was "surprised" by George Russell's penalty at the United States Grand Prix, claiming the Mercedes driver did not gain an advantage from the incident.
Russell was handed a five-second penalty for leaving the track at Turn 12 and rejoining ahead of McLaren's Oscar Piastri on the opening lap at the Circuit of the Americas. He went on to finish eighth ...
26 October 2026 11:40
Amid all the admiration for Kimi Antonelli, whose world championship celebrations in Austin on Sunday evening had to be put on ice until Mexico, one rather significant development in the 2026 Formula 1 season almost slipped under the radar: the first major verdict has been delivered.
George Russell and Lewis Hamilton may still be in the title race, at least mathematically. But one driver has ...
26 October 2026 09:35
Jolyon Palmer wasn't trying to be creative when he asked Liam Lawson about his future during F1 TV's live post-race coverage. It was simply a question anyone would ask – perhaps even Lawson himself. The sort of question you ask without really expecting an answer, more out of wonderment as to why the answer isn't already an obvious yes.
"Another race, another win, in the race that you were in ...
26 October 2026 07:55
Max Verstappen secured his tenth podium finish of the 2026 Formula 1 season in Austin, his sixth in succession since his crash at Zandvoort. It is an impressive statistic, although it did little to satisfy him at the Circuit of the Americas.
On Saturday, the pace appeared to be there to take pole position – at least judging by Verstappen's impressive Q2 lap – but he inexplicably lost grip ...
26 October 2026 07:10
Fernando Alonso let rip at Williams' Alex Albon after contact between their cars on the opening lap of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix. It cost the Aston Martin driver four places in Austin and left him with floor damage, which compromised the AMR26 for the rest of the race.
The two-time world champion lost one position at the start from 12th on the grid as Esteban Ocon surged from 15th ...
26 October 2026 02:48
Austin's Formula 1 race was no instant classic, which was somewhat unfortunate because a lot of the ingredients were there. Four teams were relatively closely matched, and all three tyre compounds were in play to prompt a battle between different strategies.
But there was little the Circuit of the Americas could throw at winner Kimi Antonelli to unsettle the 20-year-old as he is now all but ...
26 October 2026 01:54
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has admitted that the issue the team has faced at the start of races won't be fixed until next season. This comes after Isack Hadjar called for the clutch to be redesigned following a difficult start to his United States Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver dropped from third to fifth as the lights turned off at the start of the Austin race, with Hadjar blaming ...
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