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1979 – Alan Jones’ late-season surge
Race 9: 13th, 25-point deficitRace 12: 3rd, 10-point deficitFinal standings: 3rd, 11-point deficit

Alan Jones, Williams FW07 Ford
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The 1979 season, in which ground effect became widespread following Lotus’ success the previous year, was dominated by Ferrari – but Williams’ Alan Jones still became a ...Keep reading

Red Bull F1 chief Laurent Mekies has explained why Max Verstappen is just "as extraordinary out of the car" as in it, after getting to work with the four-time world champion over the past three months. 
Mekies moved from Racing Bulls to Red Bull Racing in July to replace Christian Horner, working with Verstappen for the first time after admiring the Dutchman from a distance over his stints ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri’s Formula 1 world championship lead looks rather less unassailable after a borderline disastrous United States Grand Prix weekend. The McLaren driver now not only faces stern opposition from team-mate Lando Norris, but the unstoppable force of Max Verstappen with momentum. 
Mexico City 
Bumps, thin air, and one long straight define this circuit. Despite that straight, and ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri’s Formula 1 world championship lead looks rather less unassailable after a borderline disastrous United States Grand Prix weekend. The McLaren driver now not only faces stern opposition from team-mate Lando Norris, but the unstoppable force of Max Verstappen with momentum. 
Mexico City 
Bumps, thin air, and one long straight define this circuit. Despite that straight, and ...Keep reading

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes there is a “psychological advantage” to being an underdog in the fight for the Formula 1 title.
His comments came as Max Verstappen once again slashed his points deficit in Austin, picking up wins in both the sprint and grand prix.
The 2025 F1 drivers’ championship looked certain to go McLaren’s way before the summer break, but momentum has shifted ...Keep reading

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes there is a “psychological advantage” to being an underdog in the fight for the Formula 1 title.
His comments came as Max Verstappen once again slashed his points deficit in Austin, picking up wins in both the sprint and grand prix.
The 2025 F1 drivers’ championship looked certain to go McLaren’s way before the summer break, but momentum has shifted ...Keep reading

For the third time this year, NASCAR and Formula 1 were more or less competing for the same eyeballs on Sunday and the television ratings for both arrived on Wednesday afternoon.
The Cup Series, after a stretch of poor viewership numbers on USA Network, returned to over-the-air NBC on Sunday and the Yellow Wood 500 drew 2.556 million viewers for a race that began at 2 p.m. ET.
The Formula 1 ...Keep reading

“If you want to be competitive, you need to be on the edge. If you are on the edge, it is going to hurt at some stage. It’s meant to happen.” That’s how Oracle Red Bull Racing’s CEO and team principal Laurent Mekies described the discipline of learning through difficult moments during episode one of the Securing the Win podcast. 
The Milton Keynes outfit knows this well after 20 ...Keep reading

“If you want to be competitive, you need to be on the edge. If you are on the edge, it is going to hurt at some stage. It’s meant to happen.” That’s how Oracle Red Bull Racing’s CEO and team principal Laurent Mekies described the discipline of learning through difficult moments during episode one of the Securing the Win podcast. 
The Milton Keynes outfit knows this well after 20 ...Keep reading

Owing to Formula 1 regulations mandating two rookie outings per car this season on race weekends, nine youngsters will partake in Free Practice 1 at the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is now a well-known circuit where teams have gathered lots of data and where the track usually is quite dusty in FP1; it is not a sprint weekend and upgrades are becoming scarcer and scarcer ...Keep reading