The Aston Martin Formula 1 team has accepted a procedural breach of its 2024 cost cap filings amid a long delay over the FIA’s publication of its findings.Teams are required to hand over their documentation to show they have complied with F1’s cost cap by 31 March of the following year.Following close examination by the FIA’s Cost Cap Administration, the results are usually published in …Keep reading
After the United States Grand Prix in Austin Red Bull was fined €50,000, of which €25,000 was suspended pending good behaviour, when a crew member attempted to access the grid during the formation lap.The purpose of the visit was to remove a strip of tape left by McLaren to help Lando Norris position his car at the very front of his grid slot.It was known that a certain level of …Keep reading
Oscar Piastri says he’s not changing his approach despite Formula 1 title rival Max Verstappen’s recovery in the 2025 drivers’ championship.Piastri’s 104-point lead on third-placed Verstappen dwindled to 40 in just four grands prix, as the Red Bull racer took four victories (including one sprint win) and a second-position finish. Meanwhile, McLaren’s championship leader suffered a …Keep reading
Oscar Piastri has revealed that McLaren’s ‘repercussions’ for Lando Norris in the wake of Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix have been removed, as he took “a degree of responsibility” for their United States GP sprint clash.Norris made contact with Piastri on the first lap at Marina Bay into Turn 3. Upon review, McLaren felt this was avoidable and elected to encumber Norris with what was termed …Keep reading
The FIA confirmed that a group of ethical hackers briefly gained access to data in its driver licensing portal – including Max Verstappen’s passport – while the leak has been fixed in collaboration with the hackers themselves.The breach took place this summer, when a trio of ethical hackers — Gal Nagli, Sam Curry and Ian Carroll — got into the FIA’s Driver Categorisation portal …Keep reading
“If you want to be competitive, you need to be on the edge. If you are on the edge, it is going to hurt at some stage. It’s meant to happen.” That’s how Oracle Red Bull Racing’s CEO and team principal Laurent Mekies described the discipline of learning through difficult moments during episode one of the Securing the Win podcast. The Milton Keynes outfit knows this well after 20 …Keep reading
Owing to Formula 1 regulations mandating two rookie outings per car this season on race weekends, nine youngsters will partake in Free Practice 1 at the Mexico Grand Prix.Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is now a well-known circuit where teams have gathered lots of data and where the track usually is quite dusty in FP1; it is not a sprint weekend and upgrades are becoming scarcer and scarcer …Keep reading
This week we have a special edition featuring interviews with Toto Wolff and Eddy Cue from the Autosport Business Exchange event we hosted recently in New York.It was a gathering of leaders from across motorsport, exploring the intersection of sports, entertainment and culture with the theme of the ‘Rise of Racing in America’.Mercedes F1 team principal and CEO Wolff gives his take on how …Keep reading
Max Verstappen’s recent charge has thrown the 2025 Formula 1 world championship fight wide open.The defending world champion’s United States Grand Prix domination, winning both the sprint and main race, has cut the deficit to Oscar Piastri to 40 points.Meanwhile, Lando Norris has also been eating into the gap to the championship leader with just 14 points between the McLaren …Keep reading
According to Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin’s own analysis of its performance places the team eighth in terms of pure pace, and its flashes of speed during Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix weekend in Austin were flattered by outside circumstances.Alonso was fourth in first practice, sixth in sprint qualifying, then started and finished 10th in the grand prix itself, having been eliminated …Keep reading