Formula 1 News

Mercedes will retain George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli as its drivers for the 2026 Formula 1 season, the team has announced.
A product of the brand’s young driver programme, Russell will compete in his eighth F1 season – his fifth as a Mercedes racer.
The 27-year-old Briton currently lies fourth in the drivers’ championship and, alongside seventh-placed Antonelli, has highly ...Keep reading

Mercedes will retain George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli as its drivers for the 2026 Formula 1 season, the team has announced.
A product of the brand’s young driver programme, Russell will compete in his eighth F1 season – his fifth as a Mercedes racer. The 27-year-old Briton currently lies fourth in the drivers’ championship and, alongside seventh-placed Antonelli, has highly ...Keep reading

Zak Brown has rubbished IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s claim that he did not have a say in Oscar Piastri joining McLaren for the 2023 Formula 1 season.
During proceedings in the UK High Court, Palou alleged that Brown told him that then-McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl singlehandedly signed 2021 F2 champion Piastri to replace Daniel Ricciardo three years ago.
The remark was seen by ...Keep reading

Formula 1 is often regarded as the pinnacle of motorsport, with high-tech equipment like wind tunnels used to refine designs, complex processes such as computational fluid dynamics used to create intricate wings, and sensors across the cars capturing terabytes of data over a race weekend. Why, then, do teams still rely on rudimentary pitboards to share vital information with their ...Keep reading

George Russell won from pole last time out at the Singapore Grand Prix, but it was McLaren who stole the headlines as it clinched the 2025 Formula 1 constructors’ championship.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finished third and fourth respectively to seal a consecutive title for McLaren, but it was always a foregone conclusion ever since it had the quickest car at the Melbourne ...Keep reading

Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell says he’s heard nothing from Fernando Alonso regarding a potential plan to retire from Formula 1 at the end of the 2026 season.
Alonso is a two-time F1 world champion and the most experienced F1 driver in history with 419 grand prix starts, but has been on a 218-round winless streak.
The 44-year-old has been thinking about his future and, against all ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 grid is starting to take shape with only four teams left to officially confirm their driver line-up for next season.
Mercedes is one, but the Silver Arrows is expected to keep its pairing of George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, while Alpine, Red Bull and Racing Bulls are the other three.
But then again, Isack Hadjar is favourite to replace the struggling Yuki Tsunoda ...Keep reading

Once the dust settles from a chaotic Formula 1 qualifying session, the driver on pole gets bragging rights over the rest of the field and a small tyre that's presented by Pirelli. But what is the tiny tyre, why is it handed out and what happens to it once the driver on pole has posed with it in parc ferme?
The tyre in question is Pirelli’s Pole Position award, which is a relative newcomer to ...Keep reading

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says the team will keep its focus on the next race as talk of building on the team's dynasty have once again rekindled after its 10th constructors' championship ahead of the 2026 regulation change. 
The American discussed the success of the team under Andrea Stella, adding that his ambitions are simple: the next race is always the most important. 
“Do we want ...Keep reading

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has confirmed that the team is not going to change its strategy in the drivers' championship after securing the constructors' title. 
After third and fourth-place finishes at the Singapore Grand Prix, the Woking outfit took the victory in the constructors' championship with six race weekends remaining in the season. This led some to question whether McLaren would ...Keep reading