Toto Wolff has insisted that Mercedes will not repeat the error of exposing Andrea Kimi Antonelli to too many off-track distractions at Imola – which left him “toast” long before the Formula 1 race had even started.Bologna-born Antonelli endured his most difficult week since joining Mercedes in front of his Read more…
Charles Leclerc says Ferrari’s specific low-speed weakness is going to make it extremely difficult to repeat 2024’s home win at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.Last year Leclerc finally found redemption around his home streets, taking his first win from pole following several years of heartbreak and near-misses at the Principality. Read more…
A contrivance? On the face of it, enforcing a two-stop minimum for the Monaco Grand Prix seems like one – although at the same time, a plot-generating device one might think nothing of, had Formula 1 ratified the idea 50 years ago.The effect of ensuring every driver takes at least Read more…
Lewis Hamilton might be considering trading the paddock for the red carpet in the next chapter of his career, but admitted he was “nervous” about the rest of the Formula 1 grid watching the finished F1 film.“I’ve seen it like 20 times already – at least,” Hamilton told reporters on Thursday, Read more…
Pierre Gasly revealed his early ambitions to become a professional football player, after captaining one of the teams in the traditional Nationale Piloti charity match on the eve of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.A co-owner of French Championnat National club FC Versailles, the Alpine driver was given the honour Read more…
Alpine F1 driver Franco Colapinto says he is heading to his second race weekend of 2025 in Monaco looking for more confidence in his car over one lap at one of F1’s toughest circuits.Colapinto made his Alpine debut at last week’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, coming home in 16th Read more…
We are in the middle of another triple header, the second of the Formula 1 season so far. Imola provided a more exciting race than anyone expected and Monaco is next with a new rule making two pitstops mandatory.Max Verstappen and Red Bull came roaring back to dominant form at Read more…
Dozens of fans were chanting his name as their favourite Formula 1 driver climbed the pitwall after the race to greet them. But this was not a Ferrari driver celebrating, let’s say, a podium on home soil. Instead, it was Alpine’s Franco Colapinto, who had come home in 16th place Read more…
Racing in the confines of a street track is always special. The wheel-to-wheel action may not always be the best, but the spectacle of top drivers flirting with the barriers make it one of the sport’s greatest challenges.That’s particularly true now that most conventional circuits, particularly in Formula 1, have Read more…
Max Verstappen laid the foundation for his victory at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix with a brilliant overtake on Oscar Piastri during lap one at Imola.The Red Bull Formula 1 driver made a sweeping move around the outside of the Tamburello chicane to take a race lead he subsequently never lost.Verstappen Read more…