Formula 1 News

Several Formula 1 team principals says they were "very surprised" to see McLaren make the costly decision not to pit under a lap 7 safety car at the Qatar Grand Prix, which cost Oscar Piastri a certain victory and Lando Norris a podium.
Piastri and Norris were running first and third in the superior McLaren, split at the start by Max Verstappen, when the safety car came out on lap 7 for a ...Keep reading

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Charles Leclerc revealed that the most exciting part of his race during the Qatar Grand Prix was calculating the championship points in the title battle between Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen.
The Ferrari driver suffered a difficult weekend, along with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Leclerc finished eighth with Hamilton behind in 12th. As he struggled to find confidence and pace ...Keep reading

Martin Brundle argued that McLaren's 'papaya rules' were not to blame for the Woking outfit's Qatar Grand Prix error, but the team just "read it wrong".
McLaren was the only team not to capitalise on the early safety car on the seventh lap of the Qatar Grand Prix. The team claimed at the time that pitting would have limited its strategy for the remainder of the race due to the 25-lap tyre ...Keep reading

Red Bull's talks with Honda over an engine deal to retain its V6 turbo-hybrid powertrains for testing of previous cars running could present a lifeline for Yuki Tsunoda to retain Formula 1 involvement, as he looks set to lose a race drive for 2026.
The team will announce its 2026 driver line-up on Tuesday, but Autosport understands that Isack Hadjar will become Max Verstappen's new team-mate at ...Keep reading

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko apologised for suggesting Andrea Kimi Antonelli deliberately let McLaren's Lando Norris through in the Qatar Grand Prix, with the Mercedes Formula 1 driver subjected to a torrent of online abuse.
Antonelli slid off the track on the penultimate lap of the Losail race, allowing Norris to snatch fourth place away from the Italian, and with it take two important ...Keep reading

McLaren boss Andrea Stella admitted the team ‘misjudged’ its strategy in the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix and said an internal review will be carried out to dissect its decision not to pit either driver under the safety car.
McLaren was the team to beat around Losail, with Oscar Piastri take sprint pole and victory, and starting Sunday’s grand prix on pole ahead of team-mate and title ...Keep reading

Winning the 2025 Formula 1 title “doesn’t really matter” to Max Verstappen, ahead of a three-way title decider in Abu Dhabi.
The Red Bull driver took his seventh grand prix victory of the season in Qatar thanks to an impeccable drive and a decisive strategy call. That success meant he reduced his deficit to the championship lead from 104 points three months ago to 12 points ahead of the ...Keep reading

Hindsight unfailingly affords total clarity – and its optics look bad for McLaren after a Qatar Grand Prix about which the best thing which could be said of the outcome is that it was less catastrophic than the Las Vegas round which preceded it.
Team boss Andrea Stella has promised a thorough review of the decision-making process which led to McLaren not pitting either of its drivers when the ...Keep reading

Picture the scene: It’s the closing stages of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen is leading, George Russell is second, his Mercedes having proved to be very fast again in qualifying, Oscar Piastri is third with Lando Norris in fourth.
It is the end of a gruelling season dominated by McLaren, who clinched the constructors’ title six races ago and by endless talk of its ‘papaya ...Keep reading