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McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has confirmed that the Woking outfit will continue with its approach of giving Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri equal treatment in the season finale in Abu Dhabi. 
The Qatar Grand Prix ended with Piastri finishing in second behind Max Verstappen after starting from pole position, and Lando Norris missed out on a podium with a fourth-place finish after ...Keep reading

Lando Norris says he will take what happened during his disastrous Qatar Grand Prix "on the chin" after a costly choice not to pit under the safety car ruined his race.
The McLaren driver slipped back in the title fight after a safety car was called at the Losail circuit following a clash between Pierre Gasly and Nico Hulkenberg. While Max Verstappen - and every other driver - pitted for fresh ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says his squad "didn't expect" everyone else to pit under an early safety car as it lost a likely Qatar Grand Prix win to Max Verstappen and Red Bull, and handed the Dutchman a lifeline for a fifth Formula 1 world title.
McLaren's polesitter Oscar Piastri was leading the race from Verstappen and Lando Norris when a collision between Nico Hulkenberg and ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen delivered a crucial victory at the Qatar Grand Prix as he closed to within 12 points of Lando Norris in the 2025 Formula 1 title race, as McLaren threw away a potential win thanks to a poor strategy call on a seventh-lap safety car. 
Polesitter Oscar Piastri had looked settled in the lead of the race and, owing to the difficulty of overtaking around the Losail circuit, the ...Keep reading

Norris failed to use his match point
The championship battle goes on.
Lando Norris arrived in Qatar with an opportunity to clinch the title there and then – and would have been able to do so by simply outscoring Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri by two points.
Yet that task proved too difficult. Norris struggled to match his team-mate, and at times it looked as if he was being overly ...Keep reading

Nico Hulkenberg has crashed out of the Qatar Grand Prix after a collision with Alpine's Pierre Gasly on the seventh lap.
As the German driver attempted to pass Gasly around the outside at Turn 2, the pair made contact, sending Hulkenberg spinning through the gravel before he came to a stop.
 
Hulkenberg had started the race from 11th position on the grid and was running in 10th at the ...Keep reading

Leonardo Fornaroli has won the 2025 Formula 2 title before the championship even headed to Abu Dhabi, thanks to second place in the Qatar feature race.
Polesitter Fornaroli was passed by Victor Martins at the start as the Frenchman took a swift getaway, but shadowed the ART racer throughout the contest as a mid-race safety car intervention scuppered the chances of the drivers on the alternate ...Keep reading

Formula 1 drivers had already warned on Friday that following other cars would be particularly difficult around the Losail International Circuit, and that fear became reality on Saturday. 
The 19-lap race featured very few overtaking moves, with even drivers in the midfield – including Oliver Bearman – calling the sprint “uneventful.” It was backed up by Isack Hadjar, who even ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says rallying will always hold a special place in his heart after closing the chapter on a record-breaking World Rally Championship career in favour of a move to single-seater racing. 
A fairytale finish to his WRC career eluded the Toyota driver, who missed out on securing a third world title, finishing seventh at the Rally Saudi Arabia season finale after suffering ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella says Oscar Piastri's return to form in Qatar fits within his high-grip theory about the Australian. 
Piastri struggled for pace compared to team-mate Lando Norris at low-grip circuits in Austin and Mexico, and also saw Norris beat him in Brazil and Las Vegas. But the Australian was back to his very best this weekend in Qatar, taking a ...Keep reading

In Qatar, Lando Norris has his first-ever match point to clinch a Formula 1 world title. If the Briton scores four points more than Oscar Piastri and one point more than Max Verstappen on Sunday, the title fight will already be decided before the season finale. 
However, ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix, Verstappen stated that he would have wrapped up the championship much earlier had he been ...Keep reading

In Friday’s sprint qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix, Yuki Tsunoda ended Max Verstappen’s 37-strong unbeaten streak in Formula 1 qualifying against his successive team-mates.
Tsunoda looked rejuvenated, hailing a “clean” and “smooth” weekend thus far and rejoicing that he found “more confidence” in his Red Bull car, which had led to that season high in qualifying – fifth ...Keep reading

Rally Saudi Arabia marked Ott Tanak’s final outing with Hyundai after the 2019 world champion announced plans to take a sabbatical earlier this month to reset and spend more time with his family. 
Tanak had been in the victory hunt in Saudi Arabia before a series of punctures on Friday ended any hopes of a podium to sign off his time in the WRC.  
While the 38-year-old ...Keep reading

Matt Payne took a strong win in the final Supercars race of the season on the streets of Adelaide, but all eyes were on the battle for the championship, which was ultimately taken by Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert. 
Payne and his Grove Racing Ford Mustang dominated what was a dramatic race for seemingly everyone but him. He took the lead from the front row of the grid and ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda has teamed up with five-time Formula Drift champion James 'The Machine' Deane to take on a drifting masterclass in a Ford Mustang Dark Horse and the Irishman's 1100+ bhp Ford Mustang RTR.
"In recent days in Formula 1 it's actually doing opposite things. So, yeah, definitely, I'm looking forward to it," the Japanese driver explained when asked if he had done anything like this ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has offered Lando Norris a motorcycle trackday after the McLaren driver admitted he was "very jealous" of Hamilton's famous day with Valentino Rossi, when he rode the MotoGP legend's bike.
During a light-hearted interview in front of the crowds at the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix weekend, several drivers were asked if they would be interested in trying motorcycle racing at Losail, a ...Keep reading

The Aston Martin Formula 1 team has announced German driver Mathilda Paatz as the newest member of its Driver Academy. The Silverstone outfit will back the 17-year-old in the 2026 season of the F1 Academy.
Paatz will compete in the all-female racing series sporting the Aston Martin livery.
"I'm really proud to be representing Aston Martin Aramco in F1 Academy next year," Paatz said. "This ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri will start the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix from pole position after also taking the sprint victory earlier in the weekend.
The McLaren driver has trimmed Lando Norris’ world championship advantage to 22 points thanks to his sprint win coupled with his team-mate finishing third.
But Sunday’s grand prix will be the crunch moment, with Norris mathematically able to seal the ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz says the strong performance seen in qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix was the result of an experiment that has been in the making since the team struggled at the Hungarian Grand Prix earlier this season.
The Spaniard had a strong showing at the Losail circuit today, qualifying seventh, leading the midfield. After a points finish in the sprint race, he's continued what he ...Keep reading

Ferrari again endured one of its worst Formula 1 qualifying sessions in 2025 at the Qatar Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton down in 10th and 18th respectively.
This followed a tough sprint event, where the Ferrari drivers qualified almost exactly in the same positions before finishing 13th and 17th, with Leclerc visibly struggling not to lose control of his SF-25.
Hamilton ...Keep reading