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Ferrari's significant upgrade for Bahrain GP revealed
Significant changes to Ferrari’s 2025 car headline a small list of upgrades declared by Formula 1 teams for the Bahrain Grand Prix.Mark Hughes on Ferrari's changesHere is what appears to be Ferrari’s reaction to its recent ride height-related struggles.Just as with Haas’s upgrade at Suzuka last week, there is a reshaped ‘canoe’ section to the central flat floor area so as to energise the tunnel ai...
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The major decisions from F1's crunch engine meeting
Formula 1 looks set to adopt a series of rules concessions for 2026 aimed at alleviating concerns about the new engine regulations, The Race has learned, with a V10 switch now off the table until at least 2029.During an engine rules summit meeting in Bahrain on Friday morning hosted by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, lengthy discussions took place with F1 manufacturers about a future roadmap a...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-set-for-2026-engine-concessions-v10-return-ruled-out/
Leclerc's ex-engineer on his new key role at Cadillac
He helped Charles Leclerc to his first five race victories and 23 poles in Formula 1 between 2019-2024 - and is also a race winning engineer in NASCAR - but now Leclerc’s former race engineer Xavier Marcos Padros has a new role.Spaniard Marcos has joined Cadillac as its technical director for its sportscar programme for 2025, covering the World Endurance Championship and IMSA.He’s gone from overse...
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Every rookie to drive in FP1 in F1 2025
Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a ‘rookie’ driver in each of its cars during a season.This practice usually intensifies as the year goes on, with teams reluctant to deny their main drivers an hour of running early in the season when still getting used to their new cars.But Sakhir having been used for pre-season testing just over a month ago and therefore pretty familiar to...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/every-rookie-to-drive-in-fp1-in-f1-2025/
How Honda thinks Red Bull rejection helped Tsunoda
The Red Bull Formula 1 team's rejection of Yuki Tsunoda at the end of 2024 helped him grow mentally, according to Honda's motorsport boss.Tsunoda finally made his long-awaited Red Bull Racing Formula 1 debut at the Japanese Grand Prix as Liam Lawson's replacement.It came just under four months after Red Bull picked Lawson instead of Tsunoda to succeed Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen's team-mate.
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Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/how-honda-thinks-red-bull-rejection-helped-tsunoda/
Podcast: Ferrari's uncompromising path to F1 immortality
Matt Bishop and Richard Williams return with part two of And Colossally...That's History!'s two-part mini series on the life and legacy of one of motorsport’s most important and enduring individuals: Enzo Ferrari.They finished the last episode at the point that Ferrari won its very first world championship Formula 1 race - the British Grand Prix in 1951. In this episode they’ll guide you through t...
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Why McLaren rivals fear it more than ever in Bahrain
We’ve seen plenty of flashes of dominant pace from McLaren in the early stages of the 2025 season, but could it deliver its most ominous warning shot yet at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix?McLaren is coming off the back of its first 2025 defeat at Suzuka, but a reverse of the factors that thwarted it there is what is making some of its rivals nervous for this weekend.
A combination of neither...
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Video: Watch our new retro F1 members' series for free
The second season of our F1 Revisited series for The Race Members' Club relives the entire 1993 world championship race by race - Formula 1's only full year of Ayrton Senna vs Alain Prost vs Michael Schumacher (and Damon Hill).Edd Straw's impassioned advocacy for 1993 meant it saw off 1999, 2003 and 2005 in our members' vote for which season we should tackle.You can watch the first episode in full...
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Norris will push for more strategy risks after Verstappen defeat
Lando Norris has highlighted being less afraid of taking risks as the key thing that needs to change in the wake of McLaren's defeat to Max Verstappen in the Japanese Grand Prix.Despite McLaren having a faster car than Red Bull at Suzuka last weekend, Norris and team-mate Oscar Piastri could not find a way past Verstappen - and their plight was further compounded by the team running a conventional...
The Ferrari upgrade Hamilton hopes will clear up bizarre 'deficit' claims
Lewis Hamilton believes the new floor Ferrari is bringing for its 2025 Formula 1 car at the Bahrain Grand Prix should eradicate the issue that he suggested has created a performance disparity with team-mate Charles Leclerc.Hamilton caused intrigue in Japan last weekend when he referred to a “deficit” on his car and said “on my side, something is underperforming”, having been behind his team-mate t...
FIA aware of McLaren flexi wing footage Jos Verstappen reposted
The FIA is aware of social media footage showing McLaren’s rear wing flexing at Formula 1's Japanese Grand Prix, but has not received any formal complaint from a team asking for it to be investigated.Jos Verstappen, the father of world champion Max, raised some eyebrows ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix when he retweeted some onboard video footage from Suzuka last weekend that showed the rear wing o...
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FIA disputes are going in 'unstable direction' - Russell
Grand Prix Drivers' Association director and Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell has warned that "things seem to be continuously going in an unstable direction" at motorsport's governing body following another fiery senior FIA resignation.FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem received another blow on Thursday with the news that his deputy president for sport Robert Reid had resigned.Reid, who st...
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'S*** happens' - Sainz risks further punishment for F1 fine complaint
Carlos Sainz could face further punishment from the FIA stewards at Formula 1's Bahrain Grand Prix because of his reaction to his fine for a pre-race incident at Suzuka.Sainz wasn't in place for the national anthem at the Japanese GP at the specified time of 1.44pm (16 minutes prior to the formation lap) and so was referred to the stewards, who handed him a €20,000 fine, half of which is suspended...
Ferrari debutant among six Bahrain F1 practice rookies
Six of the 10 Formula 1 teams will use this weekend's first practice session at the Bahrain Grand Prix to tick off a mandatory rookie practice outing, as Ferrari hands one of its juniors his F1 weekend debut. Swedish driver Dino Beganovic will drive Charles Leclerc's Ferrari in FP1, his first F1 practice appearance, having made a low-profile test debut with the team back in January. Beganovic will...
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The decisions that made Red Bull a one-car team
Red Bull's persistent difficulties in finding a consistent and competitive team-mate for Max Verstappen have not gone away with its 2025 Formula 1 line-up changes.Sergio Perez's replacement Liam Lawson occupied the RB21 for just two grands prix without scoring a single point, and Yuki Tsunoda only marginally improved on his performance in Japan - qualifying only 15th and failing to score too.
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FIA deputy motorsport president resigns in shock move
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem faces fresh questions about his leadership, after his deputy president for sport Robert Reid resigned on Thursday.Reid, the 2001 world rally championship co-driver who stood alongside Ben Sulayem in their successful 2021 election campaign, said he took the decision because of what he says was a "fundamental breakdown in governance standards within motorsport’s gl...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/robert-reid-fia-deputy-president-sport-resigns/
What Honda's stance means for F1's crucial V10 summit
Honda’s position on Formula 1’s incoming 2026 rules hints at crucial opposition to a proposal for F1 to change direction and adopt V10 or V8 engines instead.New-generation V6 hybrids, with more electrification, are due to be enforced next season until the end of 2030.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has invited manufacturers to a meeting on Friday at the Bahrain Grand Prix to discuss the pos...
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F1 podcast: What's really behind the Bahrain V10 engine summit?
The Bahrain Grand Prix weekend is set to be significant both on and off track, with a meeting of F1’s stakeholders about ideas for a possible change of engine formula - perhaps even to V10 engines - taking place on Friday. Jonathan Noble joins Edd Straw to explain exactly what the meeting is about and how far F1 really is from making such a dramatic change, and what options might be on the table f...
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Gary Anderson: Why F1 anti-dive ranking looks alarming for Ferrari
There’s been a lot of talk about Formula 1 cars' suspension geometries, especially anti-dive on the front suspension and pullrod versus pushrod. And it's a matter particularly relevant to the struggles we’ve seen Ferrari have early in the season - given there are clear signs they are at least partly down to the mechanical platform.
To gauge the issue, I have put together a set of comparison pic...
What's proving Alpine's most controversial F1 decision right
With no points from three rounds - the only Formula 1 team yet to score - you would be forgiven for thinking Alpine is deep in another malaise.If the start of the season has highlighted anything, though, it is that a well-established Renault engine weakness is proving particularly painful in a midfield that looks closer than ever.
And the controversial decision to resolve that weakness in drast...
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