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The FIA’s plan to tweak Formula 1’s technical regulations in 2025 prior to the major rules reset the following year to tackle the dirty air problem has echoes of a similar undertaking in 2019. That those measures had primarily a ...

F1’s seemingly stalled driver market is a problem for Red Bull

Lewis Hamilton firmly closing the door on Ferrari (if it was ever really open in the first place) means one of Formula 1’s most tantalising potential driver market storylines is now stone dead – for at least another two years. ...

Assessing Aston Martin’s ‘within 0.3s’ Stroll/Alonso analysis

Aston Martin’s leap to the sharp end of the Formula 1 field in 2023 has inevitably led to increased scrutiny on Lance Stroll’s performances. The team regularly offers a robust defence of him, doubly so since rumours started circulating that ...

The problem with F1 officials’ favourite penalty

One-fifth of the 2023 Formula 1 grid was handed five-second time penalties in the most recent grand prix at Monza last Sunday, such is their popularity as the stewards’ punishment of choice. But is that still the most suitable penalty ...

Is there anyone who could beat Verstappen in this Red Bull?

“I don’t think there’s anybody in the world right now that could beat Max Verstappen in this car, that’s for sure.” Red Bull team boss Christian Horner offers neither an equivocal or unbiased view of his soon-to-be three-time Formula 1 ...

Albon’s solo heroics leave Williams facing big 2024 decision

Formula 1’s best giantkiller has had a surprisingly good 2023 that defies the low expectations it had way back at pre-season testing, even though this year is not a priority and all eyes are on 2024 and beyond. That summary ...

‘Not going to any F1 races’ – Palou responds to Brown’s criticism

There wouldn’t have been many people who still expected to see IndyCar champion Alex Palou at Formula 1 grands prix in McLaren colours or driving its F1 car in Friday practice sessions once McLaren had furiously announced he had snubbed ...

Where Hamilton’s focus lies while ‘counting down days’ to 2024

Lewis Hamilton is “counting down the days” to the 2024 Formula 1 season but he has emphasised his need to do “better” in one particular area during the rest of the 2023 season. Mercedes’ draggy W14 was third-best last weekend ...

Mc Laren expecting Palou F1 no-show, O’Ward to get FP1 chance

Pato O’Ward will get a Formula 1 practice outing with McLaren later this season, while the team’s racing CEO Zak Brown expects Alex Palou not to turn up for reserve driver duties next week in Singapore. Palou and McLaren are ...

The F1-backed initiative with a host of paddock graduates

A record total of 68 teams will compete over the coming days in the world finals of a Formula 1-backed initiative that boasts alumni up and down the current F1 paddock. Established over two decades ago, F1 in Schools is ...

Haas’s brutal self-criticism reflects its current F1 plight

The most impressive part of an abject Italian Grand Prix for Haas last weekend was its unflinching and brutal self-criticism after its worst event of a tough Formula 1 season. There is no hiding from how difficult Haas finds most ...

FIA plans 2025 F1 changes to help overtaking – will it work?

The FIA plans to make rule tweaks in 2025 to improve the ability of Formula 1 cars to follow closely after complaints that this situation had worsened again. While the technical regulations would remain fundamentally the same given the major ...

Marko’s comments about Perez have to stop

This cannot keep happening to Sergio Perez. He deserves better than to have to grin and bear derogatory remarks from a senior figure in Red Bull’s Formula 1 organisation. The way Helmut Marko talks about him needs to stop. Marko’s ...

Everything you need to know about F1’s wing rules clampdown

The FIA’s imminent clampdown on flexi-wings at the Singapore Grand Prix was triggered by concerns Formula 1 teams have been using “localised compliance and/or relative motion between adjacent components” for aerodynamic advantage. This means that rather than being focused on ...

Hulkenberg-to-Audi is already too logical to ignore

Nico Hulkenberg’s admission of interest in a future role with Audi’s Formula 1 programme is no surprise – the prospect of a prestigious, well-compensated gig with a manufacturer programme at the top level is not one that any F1 driver ...

Why Perez is willingly considering alternatives to Red Bull

Sergio Perez’s indication that he is considering his Formula 1 future on his own terms hints that the reality of being Max Verstappen’s team-mate at Red Bull has taken its toll. Going through a real pummelling at the hands of ...

Why Mc Laren boss’s scathing clash response is so important

There was an easy escape route for McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella when asked about the Italian Grand Prix clash between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, but it says much about his leadership style that he chose not ...

Huge relief for F1 as all 10 teams cleared of cost cap breaches

There will be no repeat of last year’s Formula 1 cost cap saga as the FIA has revealed that all 10 teams complied with the cost cap during the 2022 season. In a brief statement the FIA confirmed that its ...

Mark Hughes: Where Perez goes after first hint of Red Bull exit

Sergio Perez has given the first indication that he’ll explore options outside of Red Bull before his current Formula 1 contract expires at the end of 2024. Perez’s future at Red Bull has repeatedly been called into question in a ...

What will change after Ferrari’s brilliant ‘no risk’ near-disaster

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur’s style when he faces the media after each Formula 1 grand prix will be very familiar to anyone who has ever watched a television interview or FIA press conference feed. He undercuts serious questions with ...

How Vasseur will respond to Ferrari’s brilliant near-disaster

Palou’s IndyCar title run shows what Mc Laren and F1 are missing

Regardless of what’s going on off-track, Alex Palou has won two IndyCar championships in four years competing in the series and his latest success, sealed at Portland on Sunday, is as dominant as any we may well see in our ...

The unseen clash that ended any hope of Sargeant’s first F1 point

Logan Sargeant’s hopes of a much-needed first Formula 1 point were firmly vanquished by a clash with Valtteri Bottas that was unseen by the Italian Grand Prix world feed. The incident While Carlos Sainz was desperately trying to fend off ...

Wolff explains why he finds Verstappen’s win record ‘irrelevant’

When Sky Sports F1 reporter Ted Kravitz suggested to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff that “you’ve got to take your hat off” to Max Verstappen’s record achievement of winning 10 consecutive Formula 1 grands prix, Wolff’s metaphorical hat actually stayed ...

Edd Straw’s 2023 Italian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

The history books will show the Italian Grand Prix as another 2023 Formula 1 race won routinely by Max Verstappen, one in which he set a new record for 10 consecutive grand prix wins. But that doesn’t tell the full ...

Mark Hughes: Sainz fought valiantly against inevitable defeat

Yes Max Verstappen and Red Bull broke the records for consecutive Formula 1 driver and team grand prix victories, just as always looked likely. But their route to that achievement in the 2023 Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday ...

Our verdict on Ferrari’s heroic but futile Monza victory bid

After only being the sixth-quickest team at the Dutch Grand Prix just a week ago, Ferrari had a much stronger home race in Italy – taking pole and leading at Monza. It still ended up firmly defeated by Red Bull ...

Winners and losers from F1’s 2023 Italian Grand Prix

Though the final results sheet shows another Max Verstappen victory in another Red Bull 1-2, the Italian Grand Prix was one of the hardest-fought races of the 2023 Formula 1 season as Ferrari did its best to make things interesting. ...

Monza nightmare will only add to Alpine’s F1 engine plea

Alpine’s rollercoaster Formula 1 season continued in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix with both cars eliminated in Q1 at Monza, a dramatic turnaround just six days after Pierre Gasly’s podium finish at Zandvoort. Gasly qualified 17th, just three thousandths ...

What’s at stake for Ferrari on Verstappen’s big day

“We’re just going to try and make their life as complicated as possible and try to take the win.” One-three on the grid, both Ferrari drivers have made their intentions for the Italian Grand Prix. They acknowledge Max Verstappen is ...

Mark Hughes: Ferrari’s rare triumph over Red Bull explained

Carlos Sainz, pole at Monza in a Ferrari, a dream day which he will surely long remember. In the process he’s put Red Bull on the back foot, Max Verstappen falling short by 0.013s and pincered by Ferraris, with Charles ...

Back to ‘basics’ – Why Russell’s outqualifying Hamilton again

George Russell reckons focusing on the “basics” has helped him return from Formula 1’s summer break in a better vein of qualifying form, having “lost my way a bit before”. The Mercedes driver will start Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix from ...

Why Italian GP stewards didn’t penalise either Ferrari driver

The official verdict by Formula 1’s FIA stewards has clarified why neither Ferrari driver was penalised for alleged rule breaches in the aftermath of the Italian Grand Prix qualifying, where Carlos Sainz took pole. Both Sainz and team-mate Leclerc were ...

Ferrari on top again in final Italian GP practice

Carlos Sainz continued his and Ferrari’s strong single-lap form during Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix weekend by topping final practice. Key moments: > Sainz outpaces Verstappen > Hamilton best of the rest > Albon ninth on hard tyre Sainz led ...

Tracing Ferrari’s 2023 F1 flaws – and the plan to fix them

Amid another difficult Formula 1 weekend for Ferrari at Zandvoort, where Red Bull, Mercedes, McLaren, Aston Martin and Alpine all possessed more underlying performance than the prancing horse, the team’s chassis technical chief Enrico Cardile revealed that next year’s Ferrari ...

Norris hates radio ‘crying’. Mc Laren calls it a champion trait

Lando Norris hates how in the worst of his radio messages “I always sound like I’m crying or moaning” – but his McLaren Formula 1 team has called it a trait of “champions”. Norris is often one of F1’s more ...

Mark Hughes: Ferrari looks formidable amid the Monza gambles

Unusually for the 2023 Formula 1 season, there was no rain to interrupt Friday running ahead of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, but it was interrupted nonetheless. Two red flags in practice two, the second of them in the ...

Hamilton’s Verstappen F1 team-mates critique stretches the truth

Lewis Hamilton has cast aspersions on the quality of Max Verstappen’s Formula 1 team-mates, saying that “all my team-mates have been stronger than the team-mates Max has had”. Tension between Hamilton and Verstappen is nothing new of course, given the ...

Alonso protege crowned F3 champion in another bizarre decider

Brazilian driver Gabriel Bortoleto, of Fernando Alonso’s A14 Management stable, secured the 2023 Formula 3 title in unusual circumstances at Monza. Bortoleto, who is as of yet unattached to any Formula 1 team’s junior programme, has been a revelation in ...

Ferrari goes furthest as F1 teams adapt their cars for Monza

The list of Formula 1 car upgrades for the Italian Grand Prix contains barely any actual upgrades – it’s all about circuit-specific tweaks to maximise pace on Monza’s straights. Mark Hughes runs through a list that features very different approaches ...

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