On 26 November, Aston Martin announced that Adrian Newey would be its Formula 1 team principal for the 2026 season.Legendary F1 engineer Newey joined Aston on 1 March as managing technical director and will take over from current team boss Andy Cowell, who is stepping aside to become chief strategy Read more
Although the 2025 Formula 1 title fight went down to the final race in Abu Dhabi, the tension in the paddock was completely different than in 2021. Four years ago, the atmosphere between Red Bull and Mercedes was hostile at times, even though Max Verstappen laughed it off at the Read more
Audi has revealed key details ahead of its maiden Formula 1 season in 2026.The German brand is taking over the Sauber team which it acquired in 2024 after buying a minority stake the previous year and, in 2022, announcing its involvement as a power unit supplier from 2026 onwards. This Read more
Ex-Formula 1 race director Michael Masi has joined the NZ Championship ahead of the start of the 2026 season, MotorSport New Zealand has announced.Masi will oversee a range of national series in New Zealand as the event director, with a focus on “ensuring the safe, fair, and professional delivery of Read more
Lewis Hamilton’s relationship with Ferrari is much less strained than it appears, according to the team’s head of track engineering Matteo Togninalli, although the Formula 1 squad nonetheless feels it “under evaluated” the adaptation period needed for both sides.In the early part of 2025, Hamilton had to clear up the Read more
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff couldn’t have coped with Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s pressure as a 19-year-old, explaining he was “a bit of an idiot” at that age.Antonelli became F1’s third-youngest driver in history this season at 18 years old thanks to his single-seater prowess – four titles in Read more
With the 2025 Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi, the regulatory cycle of the ground-effect cars has come to an end. The regulations introduced in 2022 had three aims: improving racing by allowing drivers to follow each other more closely, closing up the field, and creating a sustainable championship Read more
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc says it is “now or never’ for the Italian team to fight for championships under the all-new regulation changes for 2026.Ferrari slipped from second to fourth this year after it missed the mark at the start of the 2025 campaign, and then decided to Read more
Outgoing Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko said his “most intimate” relationship with a Formula 1 driver has been with Max Verstappen, whom he believes to be improving even further.Marko is ending a 25-year stint as Red Bull’s lead talent scout, having headed its young driver programme since 2001. Over that Read more
The governance agreement forms the second part of the Formula 1 Concorde Agreement, sitting alongside the commercial deal that was signed ahead of March’s Australian Grand Prix and will cover the period between 2026 to 2030.Governing body the FIA and FOM jointly announced the agreement in the margins of this Read more