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Lawson's Red Bull seat already at risk after disastrous start
Liam Lawson's dire start to the 2025 Formula 1 season has already put his Red Bull future in jeopardy if there is not a quick turnaround.His showings so far - ending up 18th on the grid in Australia and 20th in both qualifying sessions held in China - are so far below expectations that Red Bull chiefs are already understood to be privately questioning whether he can deliver what the team needs.Law...
Chinese Grand Prix 2025 F1 starting grid
Oscar Piastri will start a Formula 1 race from first place for the first time in his career, after prevailing in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix.Piastri will be joined on front row by George Russell, who denied McLaren a 1-2 on the grid at the last momentReigning champion Max Verstappen will line up alongside current points leader Lando Norris on row two, ahead of an all-Ferrari row three.Th...
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Russell splits McLarens as Piastri takes first F1 pole
Oscar Piastri claimed his first-ever Formula 1 pole position at the Chinese Grand Prix as a late lap from George Russell denied McLaren a front-row lockout.Piastri ended a 47-weekend wait for a proper F1 pole, having previously only ever topped sprint qualifying.With "the hairpin of my life" Piastri took pole with a 1m30.641s on his second run in Q3, but before that even his first flying lap had b...
Winners and losers from F1's first sprint of 2025
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix sprint has already guaranteed itself something of an outsized place in Formula 1 history - by being the stage of an emphatic first Ferrari win for Lewis Hamilton, an occasion more significant than the points allocation attached to it.But while Hamilton's success was the headline item, there was a lot more going on up and down the grid - with no shortage of significant p...
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Dominant first Ferrari win for Hamilton in F1's Chinese GP sprint
Lewis Hamilton converted his first Ferrari pole position in Formula 1 into his first victory for the team, defeating the challenge of old rival Max Verstappen to win the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix sprint race.There was a point in the middle of this 19-lap sprint where Verstappen’s Red Bull had Hamilton’s Ferrari firmly in its sights and within DRS range, but in a race dominated by graining of the fro...
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Missing SD cards trigger Chinese GP fine for Williams
Williams has been fined 50,000 Euros – with 40,000 Euros of that suspended – for failing to provide an SD card with video files of its front and rear wings to the FIA at Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix.The squad had been called up to see the stewards in Shanghai after it did not supply video footage from onboard cameras as requested by the FIA to help monitor flexible bodywork.Following a stewards’...
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Ferrari backing? F1's V10 engine return gathers momentum
The idea of bringing back V10 engines to Formula 1 is beginning to win over supporters in the paddock, with sources suggesting that Ferrari is ready to back the idea.However, even with key figures throwing their weight behind a reintroduction there are still major hurdles to overcome, and opponents who need convincing it is right for F1's future, before it can become a reality.The situation has em...
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Hamilton's unexpected pole only adds to Ferrari's F1 pace mystery
As Lewis Hamilton celebrated his maiden Ferrari (sprint) pole at the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, his boss Fred Vasseur was left struggling to explain his team’s surprise Formula 1 turnaround.A week on from a disappointing Australian GP that had left the team scratching its head about where its pace had disappeared to on Saturday, it was similarly unsure about why things were so good he...
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Mark Hughes: Overconfident McLaren handed Hamilton pole
First let’s acknowledge Lewis Hamilton’s super job in taking the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race pole in his second Formula 1 race for Ferrari, comfortably outperforming his struggling team-mate Charles Leclerc.Let’s also acknowledge that Max Verstappen made a front row which should be out of bounds to a Red Bull.But McLaren is still the fastest despite qualifying only third (Oscar Piastri) and six...
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F1 China sprint starting grid as Hamilton starts from first Ferrari pole
Lewis Hamilton will start from pole position in Ferrari colours for the very first time after topping sprint qualifying. While it's not a proper grand prix 'pole', Hamilton will head the field at the start for the first time since his last pole with Mercedes at the 2023 Hungarian GP. He'll share the front row with his former title rival Max Verstappen with McLaren's Oscar Piastri in third, hungry ...
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What we've learned already at F1's Chinese GP
Lewis Hamilton's first pole for Ferrari kicked off a fascinating first sprint weekend of Formula 1 2025 at the Chinese Grand Prix.From that shock sprint qualifying upset to technical intrigue and a new lap record, here's what we've learned already from round two of the season.Hamilton's milestone in erratic FerrariFrom the very start of Friday, Hamilton looked a lot more comfortable in his Ferrari...
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Williams sent to stewards over bizarre wing footage breach
Williams has been referred to the Chinese Grand Prix stewards by Formula 1 technical delegate Jo Bauer for a highly unusual reason.Clamping down on flexible bodywork has been a key mission of the FIA lately and to do so it’s supplied teams with both forward and rearward facing onboard cameras to monitor wing flexibility.
The FIA requires the teams to send the video files of what the cameras cap...
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The trackside verdict that exposes Lawson's deficit
Liam Lawson charged into view on his first flying lap of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend. For an instant, he looked prodigiously fast thanks to his speed on turn-in for Turn 3 - to the eye faster than Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Max Verstappen.What followed proved the New Zealander faced a tough weekend, so it was no surprise to stand at the same spot a few hours later to watch him not only elimin...
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Hamilton 'a bit gobsmacked' by early Ferrari F1 pole
Lewis Hamilton was left “a bit gobsmacked” by earning pole position for Formula 1's Chinese Grand Prix sprint race in only his second weekend with Ferrari.Mistakes from McLaren opened the door but Hamilton demonstrated strong pace throughout Friday in Shanghai, topping SQ1 and then setting a new lap record in SQ3 to take pole position.It was the perfect follow-up to a challenging first weekend in ...
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Lewis Hamilton takes shock first Ferrari pole for China F1 sprint
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen landed the first big blow against the dominant McLaren team in Formula 1 in 2025 to head sprint qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix.The seven-time champion looked competitive in the intra-Ferrari fight on Friday at Shanghai, but his pole still came as a surprise given McLaren looked to have enjoyed a decisive margin through practice and the first two segments of ...
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Everything that happened in Chinese GP practice
Formula 1 championship leader Lando Norris and McLaren showed ominous pace again in the sole practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix sprint weekend.Top five1 Norris2 Leclerc3 Piastri4 Hamilton5 RussellFull results at bottom of pageThe session became a late scramble for a run on soft tyres after a red flag to retrieve Jack Doohan's Alpine, which had stopped in a run-off area.Those qualifying si...
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Alpine first to admit changes for wing rule, McLaren points at others
McLaren insists it was not the worst offender in triggering Formula 1's ‘mini-DRS' clampdown, as Alpine became the first team to admit on Friday that it has had to make changes to its rear wing.As revealed by The Race, the FIA's decision to introduce tougher rear wing flexibility checks for the Chinese Grand Prix was prompted by suspicions that four teams may have been pushing the limits of the ru...
Your Jordan memories - Bring Back V10s Debrief special
After the sad news of Eddie Jordan's passing, we asked The Race Members' Club for your memories and tributes to the much-loved Formula 1 team boss.Glenn Freeman went through them in a special Bring Back V10s Debrief-style video on Patreon - which we've made freely available to everyone here.Bring Back V10s will release a special bonus episode soon, celebrating Jordan's greatest moments in F1.
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An underestimated genius - Jordan remembered by one of his first proteges
Creative businessman, talent-spotter, raconteur, family man, the enfant terrible of Formula 1 team principals.Eddie Jordan was a lot of things to a lot of people. But to one of the drivers that knew him best and who grew up professionally with him, he was a formative and pivotal mentor.
"I always thought Eddie was quite refreshing for F1 when he came in," Johnny Herbert told The Race today after...
Seven things you need to know about F1 Academy's 2025 season
The third season of the all-female F1 Academy kicks off at this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, boasting its biggest-ever grid and a brand new weekend format. We’ve gathered together seven things you need to know ahead of the start of the 2025 season: The title favourite Picking out a championship favourite in a spec-series is always difficult but the smart money for the 2025 crown would be on Prema...
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