Williams team principal James Vowles shared “it was painful” to miss the F1 Barcelona shakedown. However, the Grove-based team is ready for the first official test in Bahrain. On Friday, January 23, Vowles shared that Williams would miss the closed-door F1 Barcelona shakedown test due to development delays. However, the team boss shared on Wednesday…
Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu felt “really good” after Haas’s 154 laps during day 1 at the F1 Barcelona shakedown. Haas is back after day one of the Barcelona shakedown, completing more laps with their VF-26 than any other team. Team boss Ayao Komatsu is happy about Haas’s “huge amount of work” during the winter…
Riccardo Adami, Lewis Hamilton’s F1 race engineer, has been moved into a new role at Scuderia Ferrari after 11 years. Adami started at the Scuderia in 2015. He served as race engineer for Sebastian Vettel and Carlos Sainz, before working with Lewis Hamilton. Adami started his F1 career with Minardi in 2002. He became a…
Chinese driver, Zhou Guanyu, leaves Ferrari on the second day of 2026 after Reserve Driver stint during the 2025 F1 season. Before serving as Reserve Driver for the Scuderia, Zhou Guanyu raced full-time in F1 with Sauber from 2022 to 2024 and was in the Ferrari Driver Academy from 2014 to 2018. In a social…
Alpine driver Franco Colapinto continued to struggle with his Alpine’s “lack of pace” during the F1 Abu Dhabi GP. The Argentine driver finished P20 in Abu Dhabi, with his teammate, Pierre Gasly, finishing in P19. Additionally, the Enstone-based team finished last in the Constructors’ Championship. Not going anywhere Franco Colapinto did not hide his frustration…
Franco Colapinto is ranked 20th in Pit Debrief’s Driver Rankings for the 2025 F1 season. The Argentine driver hopped into Jack Doohan’s seat for the Imola GP and finishing out the season with Alpine. However, like Doohan, Colapinto ended the season point-less. With an underperforming Alpine A525, Colapinto did not have room to grow. Lack…
Racing Bulls driver, Isack Hadjar, made his sixteenth Q3 appearance, qualifying P9 for the F1 Abu Dhabi GP. Even through he performed better in Q2, the French driver still had “no regrets” over final Q3 results. The rookie’s strongest effort came in Q2, where he set a 1:22.997, 0.075s quicker than his push lap in…
Fellow F1 drivers have rallied behind Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli ahead of the Abu Dhabi GP, after he received a wave of online abuse following a mistake in the closing laps of the Qatar GP. In the last laps of the Qatar GP, Antonelli ran wide and lost a place to Lando Norris. Max Verstappen’s…
Mercedes improved their times from FP1 to FP2 on Friday at the F1 Las Vegas GP. However, they have one practice session left to get everything tightened up for the F1 Las Vegas GP qualifying. With 32 points dividing Red Bull and Mercedes in the Constructors’ Championship for P2, starting position is crucial. With Kimi…
Arrow McLaren Team Principal, Tony Kanaan, utilizing Ryan Hunter-Reay’s racing “experience” after signing Hunter-Reay for the 2026 Indy 500. Arrow McLaren announced that Ryan Hunter-Reay will hop into the team’s fourth car for the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500 on Thursday. Team Principal, Tony Kanaan, reminisced on the “chemistry” he had with Hunter-Reay as…
