Esteban Ocon opened his 2026 F1 United States GP with a good start. However, he then had to watch the race unravel through a familiar problem. The opening lap brought the gain, and the rest of the afternoon brought front locking, inconsistency and cars he could not hold behind. The start, the teammate call and…
Oscar Piastri left the 2026 F1 United States GP with a P7 finish and a rare positive from a bruising weekend in terms of pace. The race tested him from the very first lap. Traffic, tyre management and an inconsistent car all shaped his Grand Prix. Piastri made no attempt to hide how hard it…
Ex-F1 Red Bull Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner faced the question about Adrian Newey directly in an interview with High Performance. He recounted the day he learned Newey wanted to leave, the internal pressure that shaped his response and the enviornment that once made their partnership flourish. The day the news broke Horner first…
Franco Colapinto endured another frustrating Sunday at the 2026 F1 Singapore GP. His race unravelled when his car stopped at Turn 7, adding to a growing list of reliability setbacks. The Argentine driver had already shown pace by overtaking two cars early, yet mechanical trouble cut his charge short. He reflected on the driveline failure,…
McLaren F1 Team Principal Andrea Stella left the 2026 Singapore GP with a realistic outlook. The papaya team banked solid points on Sunday at Marina Bay. However, the Italian knew the result owed as much to circumstances as to pace. A late-race charge had lifted both cars into the top five, but a missed podium…
McLaren arrived at F1 Singapore GP’s Sprint Qualifying with one clear objective: extract maximum performance from a car that remains demanding around Marina Bay. Oscar Piastri was able to find the limit. Lando Norris was left with a lap he felt he could have done more in. The result was fourth and fifth on the…
“So ultimately, it was an incorrect judgement as to the crossover at which the dry tyres would be faster than the intermediate tyres,” Andrea Stella said as he reviewed the McLaren strategy after the 2026 F1 Malaysia round. Stella admitted that the McLaren F1 strategy misread how quickly Sepang would dry. As a result, both…
Four laps from the chequered flag, Nico Hülkenberg sat P10 and Audi held a point at the 2026 F1 Azerbaijan GP. Then, Carlos Sainz swept past on the long straight at the beginning of the 49th tour, and the German dropped to P11. That move seemed to sum up the Azerbaijan GP weekend of the…
Valtteri Bottas’ F1 Azerbaijan GP ended against the barrier at Turn 15 on the final lap. The Cadillac driver started 19th on Saturday and ran near the back of the field. Yellow flags then appeared just as George Russell held off Max Verstappen by 0.196 seconds. Bottas still finished 16th in the classification because he…
McLaren brought a new upgrade package to the F1 Azerbaijan GP on Friday. However, the numbers didn’t flatter it. Technical director Rob Marshall struck a measured tone after the team’s opening running. Meanwhile, reigning world champion Lando Norris described a car that felt good but simply lacked pace. Both cars also lost time to floor…
