Red Bull Ford Powertrains has been deemed to have the leading V6 combustion engine in Formula 1, Autosport has been able to confirm, following Lewis Hamilton’s revelation that Ferrari is getting upgrade help.Following the Canadian Grand Prix F1’s governing body the FIA measured the performance of all V6 combustion engines to determine both the benchmark power unit as well as the deficit of …Keep reading
Pierre Gasly said he had been “robbed” of a podium in Monaco after finishing third on the road, and his team agrees.The Alpine team posted a statement which read: “After the result of today’s Monaco Grand Prix, BWT Alpine Formula One Team can confirm it has requested a Right of Review from the FIA following the penalties applied for pit lane speeding.”Read …Keep reading
Cadillac Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez has been given a 10-second penalty in the Monaco Grand Prix results, collapsing from a point-paying 10th position to last of the finishers.Perez finished 10th on the road in an eventful race in the principality, making the most of the incidents that occurred around him – despite an early drive-through penalty for lining up in Gabriel Bortoleto’sempty …Keep reading
At the beginning of the 2026 Formula 1 season George Russell was the clear favourite to win the drivers’ championship, but he has now slipped to third place in the standings after a torturous Monaco Grand Prix weekend.Russell only finished one timed session ahead of team-mate Kimi Antonelli, qualified five places behind him, and finished outside the points after being hit with a …Keep reading
The Monaco Grand Prix produced a series of penalties for speeding in the pitlane. The FIA documents released after the race reveal that in every case the infringement was less than one kilometre per hour. For Oscar Piastri, George Russell, Franco Colapinto and Pierre Gasly, the excess was just 0.1 km/h.After the eventful race in the principality, the FIA reviewed its own timing lines and …Keep reading
George Russell’s costly Canadian Grand Prix retirement, which knocked him 43 points back, showed he would have a Andrea Kimi Antonelli-sized problem to deal with this year. His fifth qualifying defeat to a high-flying Italian in Monaco further underlined that problem won’t go away any time soon.Russell had made a strong start to the 2026 Formula 1 season with a lights-to-flag victory in …Keep reading
Lando Norris’s2026 season is shaping up to be the most disappointing one for a defending champion since Sebastian Vettel’scatastrophic 2014.But while Vettel’s year was defined by struggles with an uncompetitive and unreliable Renault engine, McLaren’s2026 has been an accumulation of small but telling frustrations: a chassis that’s effective enough for Norris to have won the Miami …Keep reading
Charles Leclerc has given insight into the accident that ended his hopes for a Monaco Grand Prix pole position, after he crashed his Ferrari Formula 1 car in Q3.The Scuderia’s promising Friday pace, as it locked out the top two positions in both practice sessions, didn’t translate into the same Saturday performance in the principality.Although Leclerc topped Q1, he was only …Keep reading
Max Verstappen says the nature of Monaco Grand Prix qualifying had allowed him to “feel like myself again” at the wheel of a Formula 1 car, having taken a dim view of the 2026 regulations and their demands thus far.Of the current drivers, Verstappen has been one of the more vocal opponents of the current brand of F1 powertrain regulations thus far. The 53-47 split in power output between the …Keep reading
George Russell was left bewildered by his pace deficit to Formula 1 title rival and team-mate Kimi Antonelli who took pole for the Monaco Grand Prix.The 19-year-old set a 1m12.051s to beat runner-up Max Verstappen by just 0.043s to the top spot, while Russell struggled down in sixth, three tenths off the pace in another blow to his title hopes.Russell is 43 points behind leader Antonelli …Keep reading