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Thankfully, the mooted Valentines’ Day special livery that enrobed the Williams FW47 was none too garish, once the car was revealed during its Silverstone shakedown on Friday. The dark blue screenfade effect was actually quite cool, almost like a gateway into a badly damaged ’90s CRT screen – with the lingering screen burn of a time when Williams was at the zenith of Formula 1. It has no secrets …Keep reading

If you had told any Formula 1 fan at the start of 2024 that by the end of the season Alpine would have a double podium and finish sixth in the constructors’ championship, you would probably have been met by some very confused looks.But from the Brazilian Grand Prix, things started to look up for the Enstone team, after a chaotic rain-filled race saw Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly finish …Keep reading

Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a confident impression as they presented the 2025 McLaren Formula 1 car to the world on Thursday at a wet Silverstone.Norris is adamant he has learned a huge amount from his first title battle, admittedly a long shot, last year and going up against now four-time world champion Max Verstappen wheel-to-wheel, having stewed over a number of confrontations …Keep reading

Three men have been convicted of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher’s family for millions of pounds.A German court has jailed one individual for three years after he threatened to upload 900 photos, 600 videos, plus medical reports of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion to the dark web unless Schumacher’s family paid a ransom of €15million.A second man has been charged with …Keep reading

Lando Norris has said starting a new Formula 1 campaign on equal footing with Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen will change how aggressively he can race the Dutchman.Norris mounted an unlikely title bid last year after McLaren started the season significantly worse than Red Bull, but a comprehensive Miami upgrade turned around the papaya squad’s fortunes and transformed the MCL38 into …Keep reading

It was a rare thing these days. A team hosting an in-person car launch, rather than pressing ‘send’ on an email containing some made-up quotes from its drivers and rendered images of its F1 car.It was even rarer that it was the reigning world champion squad that would be first to throw the covers off its new challenger for the season ahead.Usually such honour is taken by one of the teams …Keep reading

Ahead of his second Formula 1 season with McLaren last year, Oscar Piastri could feel an awkward “weaknesses” he wanted to address. Now, as his team launches its 2025 challenger, he’s crystal clear he has what it takes to become world champion.After all, the 2024 campaign that ended with McLaren as constructors’ champion was just Piastri’s sophomore year. And it started with …Keep reading

Formula 1’s 2025 launch season kicked off in cryptic fashion with the constructors’ championship winners, no less.McLaren opened the yearly cloak-and-dagger proceedings with a quintet of images of its MCL39 from a distance while undergoing its Silverstone shakedown, dressed in a papaya and black dazzle camo livery that makes its defining details significantly difficult to …Keep reading

McLaren has revealed its MCL39 Formula 1 car at a Silverstone season launch event – becoming the first team to show off a 2025 design, albeit with temporary restrictions on its livery.As all 10 teams are committed to only fully revealing their 2025 liveries at the F1 75 Live event at London’s O2 arena on Tuesday, McLaren can at this stage only show off the MCL39 in a distinctive one-off …Keep reading

Representatives of the Democratic Republic of Congo have called on Formula 1 not to entertain the idea of sanctioning a Rwanda Grand Prix amid a long-running conflict in the region.Since 2022 the DRC has been embroiled in a bloody conflict with the M23 movement, a military rebel group backed by the Rwandan army, which has taken over swathes of territory in the North Kivu province that borders …Keep reading