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Carlos Sainz has endured a tricky start to his 2025 F1 season with Williams. He left Ferrari at the end of 2024, after the team chose to sign Lewis Hamilton on a multi-year deal. Since then, Sainz has only scored 13 points. That stands in sharp contrast to the 148 points he had earned by…
Helmut Marko has revealed that there is still hope at Red Bull Racing, hoping that incoming upgrades will close the gap to McLaren F1. Red Bull Racing has been facing numerous challenges recently. Max Verstappen is struggling to defend his World Championship, Yuki Tsunoda is unable to consistently score points, and the team finds itself…
Alpine’s former non-executive director Alain Prost has recently opened up about the key role he played in Oscar Piastri’s journey to becoming an F1 driver. The former world champion also revealed that he endorses the Australian as the battle for the 2025 Drivers’ Championship rages on between the McLaren teammates. Piastri, now in his third…
F2 title contender and McLaren junior Alex Dunne caught the eye of the F1 paddock with his superb run in FP1 at the Austrian GP, including team principal Andrea Stella. As part of the mandatory rookie running all teams must do, the Irish driver took Lando Norris’ car for opening practice. He was the first…
At the mid-season point of 2025 Liam Lawson has found himself tossed around—still on the grid, but marked by inconsistency and shrouded in uncertainty. After a 2024 season that saw a major underachievement from Sergio Perez relative to his champion teammate Max Verstappen, Liam Lawson was promoted from Racing Bulls to Red Bull. Such a…
After being passed over for the second Red Bull seat in favor of Liam Lawson, Yuki Tsunoda’s pace in 2025 seemed to highlight that the wrong decision had been made. Lawson failed to make it out of Q1 in the first two races of 2025, struggling to even get off the last row. Tsunoda, meanwhile,…
Yuki Tsunoda finished last at the British GP after facing wet weather conditions with low downforce and receiving a 10-second penalty. In conditions that even his four-time world champion teammate struggled in, the Japanese also had a miserable time coping with them on Sunday. Clash with Ollie Bearman Tsunoda received a 10-second time penalty at…
Lance Stroll lined up at the back of the grid for the F1 British GP but drove a wonderful race, storming from P18 to an amazing P7 finish. The tumultuous race had most drivers starting on intermediate tyres, however with the changing conditions, the tyre decisions a few laps in proved to be crucial. Lance…
Liam Lawson had a weekend to forget at the F1 British GP after retiring on the opening lap. Coming into Silverstone, the Racing Bulls driver was on a high, after scoring his highest finish the weekend before in Austria with a superb P6. However, the British weather did not come to play, and made track…
Franco Colapinto has opened up about his feeling in the Alpine A525, the strategy option he was planning to adopt, and the missed opportunities following the unfortunate DNS he encountered at the rain-swept F1 British GP. After finding the Alpine single-seater rather tricky to handle in the practice sessions, Colapinto’s race weekend only took a…
