“I’m so s**t sometimes” is not a comment you expect to hear from a top Formula 1 driver. Yet that was just one example of the very public self-criticism Lando Norris subjected himself to during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend. ...
One rejected applicant to join Formula 1’s grid believes the bar was so high that Haas wouldn’t have made the cut if it was attempting to enter now. Just like Rodin and Hitech last month, LKY SUNZ had its bid ...
James Allison has a deserved reputation for eloquence among Formula 1’s media. Not only is he one of F1’s sharpest technical minds, he has a fantastic knack for explaining technical intricacies in a way that’s accessible to the masses – ...
The recent announcement that Pirelli will continue as Formula 1’s tyre supplier until 2027, with an option on 2028, was met by groans in some quarters. Certainly, when The Race posted about it in our YouTube community, there was no ...
Last weekend in the Qatar sprint, Max Verstappen won his third successive Formula 1 title with six grands prix to spare amid a crushingly dominant 2023 campaign. But just how long will his grip on F1 last? Are his rivals ...
It might not be Andretti’s top priority right this moment – but who on earth is it going to choose to be its American driver if it secures a Formula 1 team against the odds? There was a time when ...
The FIA has begun an “analysis” of how Formula 1 can better cope with racing in extreme temperature and humidity – but what sort of changes can we expect? Its statement was made in the wake of a Qatar Grand ...
Long-time Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone pleaded guilty to fraud in a London court on Thursday, getting a 17-month prison sentence suspended for two years and agreeing to pay £652.6million to the UK tax authorities. The case followed an HMRC ...
Sergio Perez finds himself in the middle of a 2023 Formula 1 slump. There are no two ways about it: After four rounds (plus the Baku sprint race that he won) he had 79 points. After five he had 97. ...
When Alex Albon bagged an unexpected two points for seventh place in the Qatar Grand Prix sprint race, Alfa Romeo’s hopes of achieving its target of salvaging seventh in the 2023 Formula 1 constructors’ championship suffered a big blow. But ...
Formula 1 has selected the second host city for its official exhibition, with Austrian capital Vienna set to welcome it in 2024. The inaugural F1 Exhibition ran in Madrid, Spain this year, “becoming the country’s biggest temporary show” for the ...
Lance Stroll’s behaviour after qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix created the sort of frenzied backlash we’ve come to expect in the modern social media age. There were calls for him to be fired immediately for shoving his trainer, and ...
Not for the first time, Pirelli’s Formula 1 tyres were one of the big topics of conversation during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend. It seems F1’s sole tyre supplier can’t get any good press no matter what as whatever it ...
Pirelli has officially retained Formula 1’s control tyre supply deal, despite suggestions this summer its predecessor Bridgestone was keen to supplant it. The first decade and a half of Pirelli’s current F1 stint has been turbulent. It was initially tasked ...
At his best in IndyCar, Romain Grosjean has been a ‘phoenix from the flames’ inspiration epitomising the ‘American Dream’, while coming so close to multiple victories. At his worst, Grosjean’s been too busy moaning at his team and inflexible with ...
Mercedes hasn’t experienced a Formula 1 team’s worst-case scenario – your two drivers colliding – for quite some time until Lewis Hamilton and George Russell came to blows on the opening lap of the Qatar Grand Prix. Who was at ...
The FIA has pledged to take action to prevent a repeat of the Qatar Grand Prix horror show that featured a Formula 1 driver vomiting in his helmet, another claiming he was “passing out” through high-speed corners, others suffering acute ...
Lando Norris’s radio messages pushing back against team orders while chasing McLaren Formula 1 team-mate Oscar Piastri during the Qatar Grand Prix inevitably attracted attention given they had the air of mild insubordination. But team principal Andrea Stella has made ...
Now it had given the Andretti Formula 1 team its official blessing, would the FIA and its president Mohammed Ben Sulayem step back from the contentious new teams issue while F1 itself conducted its part of the process and came ...
Formula 1’s second visit to Qatar was no ordinary event – with tyre dramas, a new race winner, an intra-team clash, “brutal” climactic conditions to cope with plus the small matter of the 2023 champion being crowned. And while some ...
Max Verstappen won the Qatar Grand Prix as expected. But not as comfortably as he usually does. The Red Bull’s easier way with the tyres on race day didn’t count for much here. It just wasn’t that sort of Formula ...
The extreme conditions Formula 1 drivers faced in the Qatar Grand Prix went “beyond the limit of what was acceptable” in a “dangerous” race that featured drivers “passing out in the car”, vomiting in their helmets, pulling out of the ...
The extreme heat and physicality of Formula 1’s Qatar Grand Prix likely exasperated the post-race feelings of each driver on Sunday. But who deserves a place among the ‘winners’ list and who should be classified as a ‘loser’ given the ...
Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and George Russell came to blows at Turn 1 in the opening stages of the Qatar Grand Prix. Inevitably, questions of how these two drivers will respond to the incident – Hamilton has taken the blame ...
Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and George Russell came to blows at Turn 1 in the opening stages of the Qatar Grand Prix. Inevitably, questions of how these two drivers will respond to the incident – Hamilton has taken the blame ...
Lewis Hamilton has admitted the crash between himself and Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate George Russell at the start of the Qatar Grand Prix was “100% his fault”. Hamilton got a good launch from third owing to starting on the soft ...
Max Verstappen dominated Formula 1’s second-ever Qatar Grand Prix, which started with Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell colliding at Turn 1. Front-row duo Verstappen and Russell opted for medium tyres for the start, but with fresh softs Hamilton ...
“First win – earlier than mine…” said Lando Norris of Oscar Piastri right at the start of his post-Qatar sprint interview as he watched his McLaren team-mate celebrate a first Formula 1 race win. The potential significance of it being ...
Formula 1 drivers have criticised the communications surrounding the Qatar Grand Prix weekend tyre troubles, with some indicating they first heard about the problem through unofficial channels and, in some cases, even the media. Pirelli discovered late on Friday night ...
Some championships are won at the last moment amid extraordinary drama or controversy. Some may be clinched comfortably in the end but only after a tougher initial fight gradually fizzled out. Some mark the breaking of records, are a breakthrough ...
It was a pretty momentous Saturday; in which Max Verstappen clinched his third consecutive world title and Oscar Piastri won his first F1 race. The first was a more predictable outcome than the second but nonetheless, there is something inevitable ...
As Lance Stroll strode over to Formula 1’s media pen after the Qatar Grand Prix Sprint, it was inevitable he would face a barrage of questions about the outburst of frustration he showed very publicly after exiting Q1 in Friday’s ...
Lando Norris says he’s never been more frustrated with himself than when watching a chance at a first Formula 1 victory slip away in the Qatar Grand Prix sprint. Norris lost pole position for the sprint race when he went ...
As Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says, Formula 1’s tyre problems that mean Sunday’s Qatar Grand Prix might be run subject under an unprecedented rule demanding each driver make three pitstops “shouldn’t happen”. That’s certainly true, although it’s the consequence ...
McLaren Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri earned a shock pole position for the Qatar Grand Prix sprint race after team-mate Lando Norris made an error on his final lap. Norris and Piastri went head-to-head for pole in the dying moments ...
Formula 1 could mandate a minimum of three pitstops for Sunday’s Qatar Grand Prix after the discovery of a tyre wear issue following Friday practice at the Lusail venue. The championship’s sporting body, the FIA, has announced that “a separation ...
Sergio Perez having “so many issues” that he’s yet to fix at the Qatar Grand Prix has made Max Verstappen’s quest to clinch a third Formula 1 title this weekend even easier. Verstappen already only needed to score three points ...
The Qatar Grand Prix grid rivalled that of Austria earlier in the year for being the most disrupted by track limit penalties. Lost laps for Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz in Q2 and for Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Lewis Hamilton ...
Lance Stroll’s disappointing Q1 elimination in qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix extended a poor run of recent results going back four races. And while it’s not unusual for his reaction to such disappointments to lead to a set of ...
Max Verstappen will start the Qatar Grand Prix from pole position after topping qualifying, while Lando Norris lost a front row start due to a track limits deletion. Norris grappled with track limits throughout the qualifying hour and ultimately fell ...