With the 2025 season coming to an end, F1 teams have begun announcing their 2026 launch dates. As drivers get ready to finish up the current season with an uncertain championship battle, the official calendar for 2026 was announced. Set to embark on another 24-round campaign next year, the season will also bring the new…
Gianpiero Lambiase will stay on as Max Verstappen’s race engineer at Red Bull Racing for the 2026 F1 season, continuing one of the sport’s most successful driver-engineer partnerships. In December, speculation emerged regarding Lambiase making a possible move to a rival British-based team—most notably Aston Martin—where he was reportedly a candidate for a senior strategic…
Head of Strategy at Red Bull Racing for many years, Will Courtenay has joined the McLaren F1 Team as Sporting Director. While it was announced in September 2024, the engineer only starts at the Woking-based team now. Starting at Jaguar before the car manufacturer left the sport at the end of 2004, the British engineer…
Now that F1 has bid farewell to the ground effect regulations, which came into effect in 2022, let’s delve into how the current grid has fared over the course of the last four seasons with Pit Debrief’s end-of-era rankings. While the usual suspects like Red Bull and McLaren jousted for the top position in our…
Holding the top spot in Pit Debrief’s F1 2025 driver rankings is Max Verstappen after an incredible season. While the first half of the season exposed Red Bull’s inherent issues with the RB21, the team and its driver prevailed, making a fantastic recovery. The Dutchman might have lost the title, yet his driving and perseverance…
The 2025 F1 season proved to be a tough one for semi-rookie Liam Lawson. Starting the year as a Red Bull Racing driver alongside Max Verstappen, he was quickly demoted back to Racing Bulls. Despite two abysmal performances this was unexpectedly quick, even for Red Bull standards. Back at the team where he had two…
Max Verstappen’s F1 race engineer and head of race engineering at the Red Bull Racing squad, Gianpiero Lambiase or ‘GP’, is in active talks with the Aston Martin F1 Team to join forces in a near future, according to the The Race. The report comes just weeks after what proved to be an emotional end…
In light of the F1 winter break, Red Bull GmbH CEO of Corporate Projects and New Investments, Oliver Mintzlaff, reviewed Verstappen’s prospects for 2026 in an interview with De Telegraaf. Throughout 2025, Red Bull Racing undergone several significant changes. All the way from performance issues from the previously winning team to staff dismissals and rumours…
Former Formula E driver Sam Bird praised Max Verstappen’s F1 season on the Chequered Flag Podcast. Verstappen overcame a 104-point deficit from the Dutch GP to finish two points behind Lando Norris in the World Drivers’ Championship. While ultimately unable to take his fifth championship, the Dutchman showed the world why he’s considered one of…
In an exclusive post-2025 F1 season interview with Viaplay Netherlands, Championship runner-up Max Verstappen talked about Red Bull’s controversial Lawson / Tsunoda swap, sharing data and set-ups as well as the importance of drivers having a good working relationship with their race engineer. After round two of the 2025 F1 season, Red Bull Racing decided…
