The good news for Ferrari is its comprehensive Bahrain upgrade package appears to be working. The bad news is it’s still nowhere near enough to make a fist of challenging McLaren.Upgrades have been in limited supply thus far, with few teams registering any novelties coming into 2025’s fourth race weekend Read more…
Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso suffered from a bizarre moment during the second practice session in Bahrain when his steering wheel detached from his Aston Martin. Just two laps into the session, Alonso’s steering wheel display went blank and moments later, the wheel detached from the steering column. Over Read more…
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner fears McLaren is “a few tenths” too quick for any of its rivals in Bahrain, with a repeat of Max Verstappen’s outstanding Suzuka victory unlikely.Oscar Piastri topped McLaren team-mate Lando Norris in Friday’s second practice session, with the pair half a second clear of Read more…
Oscar Piastri led Lando Norris to top a McLaren 1-2 in Formula 1’s second practice session at the Bahrain Grand Prix.Piastri’s qualifying simulation halfway through the one-hour night-time session was enough to usurp his team-mate by a tenth and a half as the pair comfortably cleared third-placed George Russell.Following a Read more…
Although Max Verstappen chalked up a decisive victory over the McLarens at last week’s Japanese Grand Prix, he believes the higher-degradation properties of the Bahrain circuit will ensure Red Bull is in for a much tougher weekend. It has been well documented that McLaren’s MCL39 has an advantage over its rivals Read more…
George Russell has explained the bathroom-based pressures facing Formula 1 drivers ahead of a grand prix in the wake of Carlos Sainz being hit with a fine for missing the start of the national anthem at Suzuka.Sainz was hit with a €20,000 fine, with half suspended for 12 months, by Read more…
George Russell wasn’t surprised to learn the FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid had resigned from Formula 1’s governing body on Thursday over a “breakdown of governance standards”.The Mercedes driver, who is also a president of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, said that the FIA was “continuously going in an Read more…
Yuki Tsunoda says that he gravitated more towards Max Verstappen’s set-up in his first Formula 1 weekend with Red Bull in Japan, and reckoned it was “incredible” how the four-time world champion could work with it.After his debut with the RB21, Tsunoda noted that there were clear differences between the Read more…
The FIA has “serious ongoing structural challenges” and does not follow “professional processes” according to its former chief executive Natalie Robyn.It was announced on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix that FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid had resigned from the motor racing governing body Read more…
Formula 1 will be bracing for the potential impacts of US President Trump’s recently announced tariffs, according to industry expert Mark Gallagher.With global markets faltering and issues already arising from the new tariffs introduced last week, F1 is almost certainly going to feel the squeeze in certain areas.The Japanese Grand Read more…