George Russell began the 2026 Formula 1 season as one of the obvious title favorites. A few difficult months later, he is no longer looking comfortably ahead of the Mercedes field. He is looking over his shoulder. That is because Kimi Antonelli, his Mercedes teammate,...
Max Verstappen has delivered the sort of reaction that makes a Formula 1 marketing department quietly reach for a stress ball. Asked about Monaco receiving a sprint race on the 2027 calendar, the reigning champion’s response was blunt: “No emotion attached to it.”...
Thirty-eight laps doesn’t sound like much when the stopwatch is usually the star of the show. For Lando Norris, however, those 38 laps in McLaren’s new MCL-HY at Portugal’s Algarve circuit offered something rather more valuable than a line on a test sheet: a first...
Formula 1 has always attracted strong opinions, but Pierre Gasly has drawn a firm line between passionate debate and personal abuse after his late-race clash with Alpine teammate Franco Colapinto at the Spanish Grand Prix. Gasly said the reaction on social media was...
The curious part of Formula 1’s threatened Middle East finale is not that contingency plans exist. It is that the Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix are apparently still being presented as business as usual while much of the paddock has spent months treating their...
Formula 1’s season-ending trips to Qatar and Abu Dhabi have begun to look less like firm calendar commitments and more like two very expensive question marks. Yet despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East—and the widespread assumption that both races will...
