Red Bull was a formidable Formula 1 team in 2024, but a late surge from McLaren threatened to topple the squad and snatch both titles from under its nose. But just as a real challenge from McLaren was materialising, cracks started to form, and it could only take the constructors’ Read more…
It’s somehow appropriate that Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton should have banged wheels at the penultimate corner on the last lap of the Miami Grand Prix, because they were occupying a similar space elsewhere too.Such was the length and volume, though, of Hamilton’s tirade against his team over the radio Read more…
Drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz let their disdain for their respective teams show over team radio at the Miami Grand Prix, with the latter falling foul to a team orders mix-up that meant he lost out to his team-mate in the race.Sainz was assured that he wouldn’t be Read more…
The pattern after the first six Formula 1 weekends of 2025 is clear: Max Verstappen can compete with McLaren over a single lap and compensate for some weaknesses himself, but on most Sundays he and Red Bull simply don’t have the tools to fight the papaya cars over a full Read more…
Amid all the talk about 2026’s hybrid engines and how they will be deployed, getting to F1’s lower weight limit may well cause teams the biggest headache of all.The minimum car weight for F1’s new rules era has been set at 768kg, 32kg down on the current limit of 800kg. Read more…
In this emergency JAonF1 podcast we discuss why Carlos Sainz Sr is set to take on Mohammed Ben Sulayem for the FIA presidency and what happens next.Motorsport Network’s Global Editorial Director Rebecca Clancy, who broke the story on Autosport and Motorsport earlier today, joins James Allen in the studio to Read more…
Carlos Sainz Sr has said “now is the right time” to consider running for FIA president, as he dismissed any suggestion of a conflict of interest.Speaking exclusively to Autosport, the two-time World Rally champion said he was “currently in the process of figuring out how much support I will get Read more…
One thing about Alpine’s movements over the past 24 hours was wholly expected; the other was not. Promoting Franco Colapinto to the racing line-up at the expense of Jack Doohan was forecast not only in the past few days, but before a wheel was even turned this season; signing the loquacious Read more…
Flavio Briatore has denied suggestions that disagreements between him and team principal Oliver Oakes led to the latter’s Alpine F1 departure.Oakes was brought to the team in July last year to replace Bruno Famin and then went on to form a tandem with executive advisor Briatore. But six races into Read more…
Carlos Sainz Sr is considering running against Mohammed Ben Sulayem to be the next FIA president.Sources close to the former World Rally champion and Dakar winner said that several key figures from within the motorsport world have approached him about running against Ben Sulayem, the current FIA president.Autosport understands that Read more…