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Gary Anderson: How I'd manage a Piastri vs Norris F1 title fight
This year's Formula 1 world championship fight looks increasingly more like it's going to be an all-McLaren battle between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after the last few grands prix.That's inevitably going to put stress on the team and require some careful management.Over the years, we have seen many team-mate match-ups that didn't really work out - Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren, Seba...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/gary-anderson-how-id-manage-a-piastri-vs-norris-f1-title-fight/
F1 reveals 2026 calendar - with Imola out and Madrid in
The Australian Grand Prix will be the opening round of the 2026 Formula 1 season - for which the inaugural Madrid race has a September date, and the Imola round has been dropped.Melbourne will host the first race with F1’s radically different car and engine rules on March 8, with the Chinese Grand Prix again forming a double-header to start the year.
Like this year, the Bahrain-Saudi Arabia rac...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/2026-formula-1-calendar-announced/
What time is F1's Canadian Grand Prix? Qualifying + race start times
After a quick European swing, Formula 1 heads back to North America for the 10th round of its 2025 season this weekend.Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve hosts the Canadian Grand Prix - and has a habit of generating incidents and surprises.Below are all the times to tune in for the weekend's action.Canadian GP (local time) scheduleFriday June 13FP1: 1.30pmFP2: 5pmSaturday June 14FP3: 12.30pmQual...
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Video + podcast: The chaos behind Aston Martin's decline
We explain why Aston Martin has taken another step backwards in the 2025 Formula 1 season and whether Adrian Newey’s arrival can change that in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.Jon Noble and Mark Hughes join Edd Straw to discuss the team’s troubles this year, and how Aston Martin slid to this point having claimed six podium finishes in the first eight races of 2023.
We discuss the car ...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-podcast-the-chaos-behind-aston-martins-decline/
The new leading contender for a 2026 Red Bull F1 seat
Red Bull was sceptical about Isack Hadjar when he was given his Formula 1 shot with Racing Bulls this year. Yet just nine races into his grand prix career, his performances have allayed many of those concerns and established him as the favourite for another promotion in 2026 if Yuki Tsunoda does not get on top of the Red Bull.That's not only the perception from the outside, but also the growing fe...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/the-new-leading-contender-for-a-2026-red-bull-f1-seat/
Why a controversial F1 driver change is failing so far
When Alpine's controversial early Formula 1 driver change happened barely a month ago, Alpine boss Flavio Briatore asked only three things of Franco Colapinto: "he needs to be fast, not crash, and score points".Alpine only gave its rookie Jack Doohan six grands prix before bringing Colapinto in the expectation he would be a clear upgrade. But in three races since replacing Doohan, Colapinto is 0 f...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/why-a-controversial-f1-driver-change-is-failing-so-far/
Ranking the best of Red Bull's wild F1 stunts
Red Bull’s domination of Formula 1 might wax and wane, but there is one area it continues to be market-leading: pulling off mind-boggling stunts with its F1 cars.From demonstrations in crazy locations all over the world to hitching colour-coded caravans onto the back of Aston Martins at Zandvoort, Red Bull is F1’s single biggest asset when it comes to taking the show to the people. And Red Bull’s ...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/ranking-the-best-of-red-bulls-wild-f1-stunts/
How F1's slowest car was upgraded to a Ferrari-beater
Sauber has been - on averaged 'supertimes' - the slowest car across the 2025 Formula 1 season so far.Yet in Spain, Nico Hulkenberg was able to pounce on Lewis Hamilton at the final restart and beat the Ferrari to a remarkable fifth place.Hulkenberg declared Sauber’s first top-five finish in a F1 race in three years "puts us more on the map in the midfield fight", reflecting the significant step ma...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/sauber-upgrade-2025-f1-season-tech-analysis/
Stroll on target to be fit for Canadian GP after all
Lance Stroll looks to be on course to return to Formula 1 action at the Canadian Grand Prix, but a final decision is unlikely to be made until next week as he recovers from a wrist operation.The Aston Martin driver was forced to withdraw from last weekend's Spanish GP as the result of hand and wrist pain that is a legacy of a cycling accident he had in early 2023.After he sought help in the medica...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/lance-stroll-aston-martin-canadian-gp-injury-recovery-f1-2025/
The F1 officiating issue Horner feels Verstappen incident exposed
Red Bull boss Christian Horner wants the FIA to stop leaving Formula 1 teams to second-guess stewards' likely decisions and instead offer better guidance for when drivers do or do not need to give positions back.That matter was thrust into the spotlight at the Spanish Grand Prix when Max Verstappen was involved in a controversial coming together with George Russell, crashing into his rival amid fr...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/the-f1-stewarding-issue-horner-feels-verstappen-incident-exposed/
FIA to rule on exemption for Red Bull's new F1 driver option
A Formula 1 superlicence exemption request from Red Bull for its protege Arvid Lindblad is to be discussed by the FIA next week, The Race can reveal.If Lindblad’s application is approved, then it will make the 17-year-old an immediate option if Red Bull finds itself in need of an F1 driver shuffle should Max Verstappen fall foul of a race ban.The superlicence call is due to be made at a meeting of...
Red Bull mule car debut shows us what to expect from 2026
Red Bull’s participation in this week’s Pirelli 2026 Formula 1 tyre test has given us another clear indication about how much downforce is going to be reduced next year.Yuki Tsunoda completed a first run with the squad’s 2026 mule car at Barcelona in Spain on Wednesday.The test car is its 2023 RB19 that has been adapted to simulate the kind of downforce that F1’s chiefs are predicting will become ...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/red-bull-mule-car-debut-shows-us-what-to-expect-from-2026/
The fix Alonso's demanding to stop having to 'invent' overtakes
Fernando Alonso wants Aston Martin to sort out its lack of straightline speed in Formula 1, so he can stop needing to “invent” bold places to overtake.The Spaniard secured his first points of the season at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix after a frenetic recovery drive following a trip through the gravel trap early on.But after grabbing attention with some bold overtaking action around the outsi...
Bottas offers himself to Red Bull - But there's a problem
Valtteri Bottas has effectively reiterated his availability to Red Bull's Formula 1 team for next season but is aware his chances seem to be impacted by at least one person there who is "not a big fan of mine".Bottas is spending 2025 back at Mercedes as a reserve driver after losing his Sauber seat, which he had hoped to keep into its Audi works team era that begins in 2026.Although Bottas turns 3...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/bottas-offers-himself-to-red-bull-but-theres-a-problem/
Three revelations from Mercedes' disastrous triple-header
Mercedes is coming off the back of a disastrous second triple-header of the 2025 Formula 1 season in which it relinquished second place in the constructors' championship to Ferrari and was even outscored by Racing Bulls.Having started the campaign as potentially McLaren's most consistent threat in the teams' battle, it scored just twice over the Imola/Monaco/Spain weekends thanks to a fourth and s...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/three-revelations-from-mercedes-disastrous-triple-header/
Full video: Edd Straw answers your F1 Spanish GP driver rankings questions
Ever read through one of Edd Straw's post-race F1 driver rankings and been left with a burning question to ask him?Those of you in The Race Members' Club on Patreon can do so - but for those of you who want a taste of what to expect, here's his Spanish Grand Prix driver rankings Q&A in full!There's still time to take advantage of our extended offer of 75% off your first month in The Race Members' ...
F1 abandons plan to make divisive skid block change mandatory
Formula 1 has abandoned plans to make steel skid blocks mandatory for selected races this year, in the wake of a test at Barcelona in Spain last week.The idea of forcing teams to switch materials away from the standard titanium was pushed for by the FIA as a means of preventing a repeat of the grass fire problems that marred this year’s Japanese GP.The FIA felt that the shards of metal thrown off ...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-abandons-plan-to-make-divisive-skid-block-change-mandatory/
Tsunoda finally gets his Red Bull test with bonus double run
Yuki Tsunoda's hopes of unlocking the answers he needs to turnaround his lack of form have received a timely boost this week with a double Formula 1 test for Red Bull.After a Spanish Grand Prix weekend where Tsunoda was left baffled as to why he ended up last on the grid, he has finally had the opportunity to get some valuable test running with his squad with a two-day run at Barcelona.And the tim...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/tsunoda-finally-gets-his-red-bull-test-with-bonus-double-run/
Why we should take notice of Verstappen's unusual clash admission
Max Verstappen does not really do apologies. He rarely backtracks, he never panders. So when he admits that something "shouldn't have happened" – as he did after his clash with George Russell in Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix – it is significant.Verstappen's frustration about the way the end of the Barcelona race played out took a while to subside, and he was in no mood to discuss it at length aft...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/why-verstappens-unusual-russell-clash-admission-was-significant/
Cadillac's first big F1 sponsor deal explained
Cadillac has secured the first sponsor for its new Formula 1 team with a deal that will bring clothing brand Tommy Hilfiger back to grand prix racing.As work continues at Cadillac's Silverstone base ahead of its debut F1 campaign in 2026, the team has started to pull together the commercial package that will help fund its operation.And in a hint that it will be making the most of its American iden...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/cadillac-first-big-f1-sponsor-deal-tommy-hilfiger/
'I'm going home' - Hamilton's worst race with Ferrari yet
Lewis Hamilton's first Formula 1 season at Ferrari has been a true rollercoaster of emotions, but it dipped into a new low at the Spanish Grand Prix, which left him desperate to just "go home".Despite outqualifying team-mate Charles Leclerc by two places in fifth - with the caveat that Leclerc sacrificed an optimum tyre choice for payback in the race - Hamilton suffered a difficult Sunday. He was ...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/im-going-home-hamiltons-worst-race-with-ferrari-yet/