Formula 1 News

Following his 2025 Formula 1 championship win, Lando Norris opened up about the sacrifices his family made that allowed him to rise through the ranks, culminating in his success with McLaren. 
After a season-long duel with team-mate Oscar Piastri and eventually sparring with Red Bull's Max Verstappen, Norris finally converted his nine years with McLaren into a title. But for his family, this ...Keep reading

Gabriel Bortoleto is adamant not to let the fame of Formula 1 get to his head, joking that he has told his friends to slap him if he ever changes.
The 21-year-old driver joined Sauber for his rookie season in 2025 after clinching the 2024 Formula 2 championship. He impressed in his first year in the series alongside his experienced team-mate, Nico Hulkenberg.
Bortoleto is keen not to let the ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 season welcomed an unusually high number of rookies onto the grid which provided a focus point throughout the campaign.
While some of the rookies starred, others floundered and some didn’t even make it to the end of the season. Here’s who our writers have picked as the standout rookie of the year.
Gabriel Bortoleto – Ed Hardy
To be fair to the rookie class of F1 ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 season welcomed an unusually high number of rookies onto the grid which provided a focus point throughout the campaign.
While some of the rookies starred, others floundered and some didn’t even make it to the end of the season. Here’s who our writers have picked as the standout rookie of the year.
Gabriel Bortoleto – Ed Hardy
To be fair to the rookie class of F1 ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri made an appearance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day, with the Formula 1 driver attending Australia's traditional Boxing Day Test as he enjoyed his downtime over the winter break. 
Piastri completed his best season so far after he helped McLaren secure its 2025 constructors' championship, finishing third in the drivers' standings behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen and ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso has been making the most of his impressive car collection during the winter break. After being spotted around the streets of Monaco in his extremely rare Mercedes CLK GTR, the Spanish driver has now been seen in his Aston Martin Valiant.
The ultra-rare, road-legal, track-focused sports car was built by the Q department of Aston Martin after being commissioned by Alonso. The ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has confirmed that the fan-made 'Sparkles' unicorn sticker will remain on his helmet design next year. This means the feel-good story that started earlier in the 2025 season won't come to an end this Christmas. 
Asked in a video posted by the Williams Formula 1 team on Instagram whether the sticker will be staying on the helmet next season, he had a clear response: “It has to ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase could be set to leave Red Bull, bringing an end to a partnership that yielded four consecutive Formula 1 world drivers’ titles.
It was initially reported that the end of the 2025 championship would mark the conclusion of Lambiase’s work alongside Verstappen, with the 45-year-old British engineer understood to have asked Red Bull management ...Keep reading

After a stint with Honda that delivered four drivers’ titles and two constructors’ championships, Red Bull will compete with its in-house power unit in 2026, in partnership with Ford.
Although Ford Performance director Mark Rushbrook acknowledges that the project – as Toto Wolff put it in Zandvoort – “has Mount Everest to climb”, he believes the preparations in Milton Keynes have ...Keep reading

Every year, Formula 1 is packed with surprises and great storylines as 20 of the world’s best drivers battle for supremacy and the chance to lift the F1 World Drivers' Championship Trophy. But it wasn’t all good news over 2025, and the season had its fair share of heartbreak as well.
From Lewis Hamilton’s collision with a groundhog in Canada to Lando Norris’ retirement in Zandvoort that ...Keep reading