Following a haul of 18 points at the 2026 Austrian GP, Team Principal Andrea Stella shed more light on why McLaren are still lagging behind in comparison to Mercedes and whether they are surprised that power unit exploitation continues to be a factor eight rounds into the 2026 F1 season. Although Stella came forward to…
George Russell has opened up about Mercedes’s tyre choice for the start, the tricky track conditions, his intense battle with teammate Kimi Antonelli, his stance on further changes to the 2026 F1 regulations, and his prospects for winning the Drivers’ Championship following his retirement from the 2026 Canadian GP due to a power unit failure….
McLaren’s Lando Norris spoke about certain issues that still need to be resolved and aspects that the FIA has improved within the 2026 regulations. On Thursday before the Miami GP, last year’s world champion Norris discussed changes introduced in the 2026 season. The Brit was questioned about whether he thought F1 was doing a good…
Williams F1 driver Alex Albon opened up about the challenges of energy deployment and navigating through traffic in qualifying under the 2026 technical regulations following his first point-scoring finish of the season at the Miami GP. After coming home in P18 in the Sprint race, Albon managed to only set the sixteenth-fastest time in Grand…
F1 drivers Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, and Esteban Ocon have shared their insights on how well the recent changes to the technical regulations mitigated the energy management issues and improved the quality of racing during the 2026 Miami GP weekend. The introduction of the new power units and chassis has undoubtedly produced more on-track action…
Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has opened up about the impact of the revised energy management requirements on racing, the evolution of the pecking order, and how they turned their race weekend around to overcome McLaren following their fourth win of the 2026 F1 season at the Miami GP on Sunday. Bouncing back from a…
Heading into the race weekend in Miami, Mike Krack and Shintaro Orihara have opened up about Aston Martin and their power unit supplier Honda working together since the Japanese GP to resolve the many issues that the AMR26 faced in the first three rounds of the 2026 F1 season. The new works partnership has been…
FIA single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis has shed more light on the new start procedure test in Miami and the possibility of F1 teams abusing this safety mechanism to gain an unfair sporting advantage. Following a series of talks on the contentious 2026 regulations, the FIA, FOM, the OEMs, the power unit manufacturers, and the F1…
McLaren CEO Zak Brown has stood firm following suggestions that F1 is risking alienating the wave of new supporters it has gained over recent years. He argued that criticism of the FIA’s 2026 regulations is arriving far too early. Speaking during a media session at McLaren’s Woking Technology Centre last Wednesday, Brown emphasised that the…
While drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Pierre Gasly have started the new F1 season with a clean slate, there have been several others whose on-track outings in the early rounds of 2026 have been nothing short of disappointing. With the majority of the teams battling reliability concerns as they try to get to grips with…
