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Leonardo Fornaroli’s 2024 FIA Formula 3 (F3) Championship-winning campaign was one of the most unique title runs seen in recent years. The Italian became the first driver to win the FIA F3 Championship without taking a single race victory, instead building his title challenge around consistency at every single round. Across the 2024 season, Fornaroli…
After a standout 2025 season in the FIA Formula 3 Championship, Rafael Câmara firmly established himself as one of the brightest young talents in the junior formula ladder. Now competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Invicta Racing and already delivering strong results, it is worth looking back at Câmara’s 2025 F3 title, and…
The Adelaide Street Circuit hosted 11 Formula 1 races in total from 1985-1995 with the most recent serving as the 1995 season finale in an event which would break the official race attendance record with 210,000, a record that stood until the 2000 F1 United States Grand Prix. Apart from 2006, 2010 and a COVID-affected…
The New Zealand Grand Prix stands as one of global motorsport’s rare independents. While most national Grands Prix folded into the Formula One World Championship, New Zealand chose a different path. As a result, alongside the Macau Grand Prix, it remains one of only two national Grands Prix still held outside Formula One. Since its…
As the Formula 1 teams start to gradually reveal pieces of their 2026 challengers, from liveries to aero packages, it’s timely to revisit one of the strangest pre-season testing occurrences in F1 history. Coming into the 2015 F1 season, Lewis Hamilton was a defending two-time world champion with Mercedes whilst his former McLaren teammate Alonso…
As we approach a season finale in which Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri can still win the 2025 Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship, it’s important to look back on the last time more than two drivers still had a chance at the world title coming into the final race; the 2010 F1 Abu…
Before the Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix was transformed into the F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix in 2021, the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, better known as Interlagos, witnessed many championship-clinching races. One of which came in the penultimate round of the 2009 F1 World Championship which saw Jenson Button claim his first and only World…
Before the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was given its name, the Baku City Circuit hosted its maiden F1 race in 2016 under the name the F1 European Grand Prix. The 2016 European GP marked the eighth round of the Formula 1 World Championship and remains the most recent race to carry the European GP…
The 1988 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza was Round 12 of the 1988 Formula 1 season. This race is well known for being the only race in the 1988 season that was not won by McLaren F1’s dominant MP4/4. Coming into Monza, the McLaren-Honda MP4/4, driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain…
With the Formula 1 Dutch GP not currently scheduled to return after 2026, it’s important to look back on the race which broke the circuit’s 36-year absence from the F1 calendar. The 2021 Dutch GP was the first F1 race to be held in the Netherlands since 1985. The race was held at the familiar…
