Formula 1 News

George Russell is eager to contest a Formula 1 title battle against Max Verstappen in 2026 with the Mercedes driver heading into the campaign as the world championship favourite. 
F1 will introduce a new set of regulations this year meaning the car is completely new and with such wholesale changes, the pecking order is currently unknown.
But considering how Mercedes dominated the last ...Keep reading

Williams has unveiled the livery for its delayed 2026 Formula 1 car.
The FW48 will feature a mainly dark blue and black design like its predecessors, but will also feature light blue and white on its sidepods, accommodating the Barclays and Komatsu logos, with more white on the front and rear wings.
The team announced on Wednesday that the British bank would be its “official banking ...Keep reading

Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antonelli has likened upcoming Formula 1 racing to “speed chess” based on the world championship’s new technical regulations.
Entering a new era, F1 has discarded the DRS and introduced new tools such as active aerodynamics (mobile front and rear wings) and Overtake Mode (a power boost that will be used just like DRS was).
More interestingly, the new machinery ...Keep reading

Williams has announced a new partnership with Barclays ahead of the 2026 Formula 1 season, marking the British bank's first-ever F1 collaboration.
Barclays will become the official banking partner of the Grove outfit and its branding will appear on the FW48, which is set to be unveiled later today (3 February), as well as on the helmets of both Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz, team clothing and ...Keep reading

Adrian Newey has revealed Aston Martin didn’t start its 2026 wind tunnel programme until mid-April 2025, which accounts for the team’s current setback.
As Formula 1 held a five-day shakedown last week at Barcelona, where each team was allowed to run on three days, Aston completed just one full day of testing, on Friday, after covering a handful of laps on Thursday evening.
This required ...Keep reading

Adrian Newey has revealed Aston Martin didn’t start its 2026 wind tunnel programme until mid-April 2025, which accounts for the team’s current setback.
As Formula 1 held a five-day shakedown last week at Barcelona, where each team was allowed to run on three days, Aston completed just one full day of testing, on Friday, after covering a handful of laps on Thursday evening.
This required ...Keep reading

The 2026 Formula 1 regulations do not only represent a major shake-up for all designers and engineers behind the scenes - in fact, the work of recent months on the new generation of cars has only been part of the story. An equally important aspect is how drivers must deal with the new tools at their disposal on track.
Much attention has gone to active aerodynamics and overtake mode, but at ...Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 team principal Ayao Komatsu has revealed that he almost left the American outfit in 2023.
Serving as trackside engineering director at the time with Guenther Steiner as team principal, Komatsu explained that there was no transparency or alignment within the team.
"If I'm totally honest, I was ready to quit in Baku '23," Komatsu said during an appearance on the High Performance ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc has been filmed arriving in central Monaco in a classic Ferrari 275 GTB, a famed Maranello sports car worth upwards of £2.5million. 
As a Ferrari driver since the 2019 Formula 1 season, Leclerc has built a large collection of rare Italian supercars, with the driver being no stranger to a road trip with his fiancée, Alexandra Saint Mleux. Usually, however, the Monegasque would ...Keep reading

Haas has signed Jack Doohan as a reserve driver for the 2026 Formula 1 campaign.
Doohan will join Ryo Hirakawa in the role, with Toyota’s Hypercar driver having held the position since last April as the Japanese brand expanded its involvement in the American outfit.
A product of the Red Bull and Alpine academies, Doohan started seven grands prix with the Enstone-based squad but was ...Keep reading