Formula 1 News

McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have detailed what changes they made to prepare to fight for their first drivers' championship title.
The duo went into the 2025 Formula 1 season on the back of the team securing the 2024 constructors' championship, with hopes of fighting for the drivers' title. 
While Piastri explained that he approached the season the same as he had ...Keep reading

Williams has brought back its traditional W logo for the 2026 Formula 1 season and will change its name to Atlassian Williams F1 Team.
The stylised 'Forward W' logo harkens back to the early days of the squad under Frank Williams, when it started racing as Williams Grand Prix Engineering in 1977. The logo briefly made a comeback through its title-winning era between 1994 and 1999, before making ...Keep reading

Williams has brought back its traditional W logo for the 2026 Formula 1 season and will change its name to the Atlassian Williams F1 Team.
The stylised 'Forward W' logo harkens back to the early days of the squad under Frank Williams, when it started racing as Williams Grand Prix Engineering in 1977.
The logo briefly made a comeback through its title-winning era between 1994 and 1999, before ...Keep reading

After the United States Grand Prix in October, George Russell made a comment about the power of pole position in the 2025 Formula 1 season - or at the very least, the correlation between qualifying and race finishes this season. "Right now in F1, it's a race to Turn 1," he noted and, after getting boxed in at the start of the Austin contest, a recovery was scarcely on the cards.
While ...Keep reading

In the Singapore Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso expressed his displeasure over the radio after a slow pit stop dropped him from eighth to 15th. When engineer Andrew Vizard told him there were 34 laps to go, the two-time Formula 1 champion replied: "If you speak to me every lap, I will disconnect the radio." 
Alonso did not fully appreciate the attention his radio outburst received in Singapore ...Keep reading

The way Oscar Piastri lost the Formula 1 world championship lead means he may have grown complacent, Jacques Villeneuve has suggested.
Piastri led the standings for 15 consecutive rounds, with his advantage reaching 34 points over McLaren team-mate Lando Norris and 104 points over Max Verstappen after his Dutch Grand Prix win.
Since then, the Australian has suffered a spate of mediocre ...Keep reading

While the Mexican Grand Prix offered a rare mix of strategies, many of the recent races have followed a familiar pattern. George Russell described F1 as a race to Turn 1, with dirty air becoming more of a factor again and teams favouring the most conservative strategy – the one-stop. 
This year’s Pirelli tyres are more robust than in previous seasons, allowing drivers to push more, but ...Keep reading

“It's just very difficult, super low grip. I feel like I could drive a road car quicker than we drive at the minute…”
This is how unhappy Lando Norris was with his McLaren Formula 1 car after practice for the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The Nevadan race turned out to be one of the worst in McLaren’s title-winning season, with Norris and Piastri out of the top five positions on both ...Keep reading

Four hours, four minutes, 37 seconds. The Canadian Grand Prix of 2011 is famed for two things: one, being Formula 1's longest-ever race (a record that will likely never be beaten), and two, Jenson Button's unlikely victory after falling to the back of the field.
It's considered as one of Button's best races, one in which he battled against the elements (and more than a few tangles) to work his ...Keep reading

Felipe Massa’s legal counsel has asserted that Formula 1’s leadership was involved in a “deliberate concealment” of Nelson Piquet Jr’s 2008 Singapore Grand Prix crash, as part of Massa’s case disputing that year’s title.
Massa had filed a lawsuit against the FIA, Formula One Management (FOM), and Bernie Ecclestone seeking damages for the outcome of the 2008 championship, which is ...Keep reading