There’s a famous saying – “In Formula 1, you are either giving pain or taking it.” And, after just two rounds of this year’s world championship, there are plenty of examples of that.In the latest edition of the James Allen on F1 Podcast, we’ll dig into what’s gone wrong for Liam Lawson and why, after just two races, he will seemingly no longer be Max Verstappen’s team-mate at Red …Keep reading
Red Bull’s impending swap between Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda feels particularly brutal coming just two grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 season – but history shows the company is not shy of shaking up its driver line-ups.Not counting its agreement with Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi in its maiden 2005 campaign, Red Bull has rotated its driver carousel for performance reasons on …Keep reading
Late last summer I had lunch one day with a publisher in London. It was hot, if you can remember that, and we discussed a possible synopsis for a book, the cool Chablis slipped down very readily.What were they like, these Formula 1 people? Well, I said, they’re a mix, as in any avenue of life. Some are smarter than others. There are those you enjoy, and those from whom you hide. You trust …Keep Read more…
The change is all but confirmed. As Autosport revealed on Sunday, Red Bull began considering a change to its driver line-up even before the Shanghai race – with Yuki Tsunoda emerging as the frontrunner to replace the struggling Liam Lawson. Discussions have since progressed following meetings in recent days, with the move now all but guaranteed – the official announcement is now expected by the …Keep reading
For Isack Hadjar, Australia doesn’t count.In our analysis of rookie debuts, thanks to the bumper crop of newcomers trickling into the field across the past six months, there’s been a lot to discuss. Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Gabriel Bortoleto got their appraisals last week but, given Hadjar registered a Did Not Start in the Australia opener, it was impossible to delve into the Racing Bulls …Keep reading
Yuki Tsunoda is in line for a call up to Red Bull’s F1 team for next week’s Japanese Grand Prix – just as Autosport exclusively reported last Sunday.Liam Lawson has come under pressure after making a difficult start to the season, crashing out of the Australian GP and was a lowly 15th place in China. The New Zealander has struggled to adjust to the RB21, which has prone to unpredictable …Keep reading
If Formula 1’s mixed-weather opener in Australia could mask Red Bull’s ails, thanks in no small part to Max Verstappen’s exquisite driving, then Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix really set the alarm bells ringing.Verstappen rallied to finish fourth with a strong second stint on the hard tyres, but the preceding stint on mediums – in which the Dutchman shipped nearly a second per lap to the …Keep reading
The 2025 Formula 1 supertimes make for interesting reading so far and, despite a relatively small sample size, Mercedes pips Red Bull to have the second-fastest car – 0.345% short of McLaren. Red Bull (or rather, Max Verstappen) is just another 0.008% behind.It’s been an encouraging start to 2025 for Mercedes, as the early indications are that its car is much less capricious than last …Keep reading
For RebelDot, the devil is in the detail – or, more specifically, in the data. All seven megabytes pour in from each Racing Bull every second, that is.It is becoming increasingly common for Formula 1 teams to have their own partners who deal with data, intelligent automation and insights, crunching numbers at such speed that they can cover in an hour what a human would struggle to process in …Keep reading
Ferrari had a day to forget at Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix with a double disqualification for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, but fake team order drama further added to team boss Fred Vasseur’s misery.Hamilton and Leclerc were running fourth and fifth respectively after their pitstops around lap 20 when fans were first alerted to team orders being in play, and the seven-time world …Keep reading