Formula 1 News

Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso reckons the final two rounds of the 2025 season will act as a “celebration” to mark the end of an underwhelming year. 
The Aston Martin driver heads into this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix 13th in the championship, three spots above team-mate Lance Stroll, with the Silverstone squad eighth in the constructors’ standings. 
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Alex Albon has said his problem with Formula 1's plank wear saga isn't the rule itself, but instead the way it's enforced. In a perfect world, he'd prefer every car on the grid to be checked after races rather than a random sample. 
Debate over the skid block regulations has risen to the surface once again after McLaren's double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Both championship ...Keep reading

Jos Verstappen argued that McLaren's Lando Norris was only focused on his son, Max Verstappen, which led to the Briton's "aggressive" move at the start of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Norris, who started from pole position, lunged across the track at the first corner of the race around the streets of Sin City to block the four-time champion.
"That was too aggressive. It was a close call between ...Keep reading

Lando Norris says he now sees Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri as an "equal threat" after being disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix, while Piastri says the result is a "net negative" despite being closer to the top of the Formula 1 drivers' world championship standings.
Norris and Piastri were disqualified from second and fourth in Las Vegas results due to excessive plank wear, with both ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has insisted that McLaren can still take risks with the ride height of the MCL39 cars despite the Woking outfit's double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Both Norris and his team-mate Oscar Piastri were disqualified for excessive plank wear beyond the permitted limit in Las Vegas. After initially finishing in second and fourth, the team walked away with ...Keep reading

A new champion could be crowned - Owen Bellwood 
The Qatar Grand Prix is the penultimate race of the season and while the constructors’ championship has been wrapped up by a dominant McLaren, the drivers’ title is still all to play for.  
Lando Norris leads, but just 24 points back is team-mate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. While a 24-point deficit has been turned ...Keep reading

When asked by Autosport after the Las Vegas Grand Prix if he managed to take any satisfaction from a comeback race as he charged from last to the points, his reply was "zero".
The rest of his offerings were hard to discern in the noisy Vegas paddock, as the longer his maiden Ferrari season goes on and the more setbacks he faces, Hamilton's replies seem to be getting quieter and quieter. After ...Keep reading

Formula 1 hosts its penultimate round of the 2025 season this weekend with the Qatar Grand Prix, where Lando Norris could clinch a maiden world title.
The McLaren driver simply needs to outscore team-mate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen by at least two points to do so - but it may not be as easy as it seems.
That’s because last weekend the McLaren pair was ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen reckons Oscar Piastri should have told McLaren to “F off” had he been asked to support team-mate Lando Norris in his bid to become Formula 1 world champion.
The 2025 season has featured a year-long title battle between the McLaren pair, in which for most of it Piastri held the upper hand, until a late-season collapse has made Norris the favourite.
Norris leads the ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz suggested that the addition of two or three recent ex-Formula 1 drivers to the stewarding panel would dispel the need for the controversial driving guidelines, based on his approval of broadcasters' analysis of recent incidents.
The drivers and the FIA will table a discussion on Thursday evening over the state of F1's driving guidelines, with Sainz suggesting that the application ...Keep reading