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Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has further explained how the lap limit imposed at this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix will work and addressed concerns over it restricting strategy options.
The Italian manufacturer has mandated a 25-lap limit per stint at the Losail International Circuit after concerns prompted from analysis of last year’s event.
Pirelli noticed that “several tyres ...Keep reading

Formula 1 fans seem torn after Aston Martin announced that Adrian Newey will become the team principal from 2026, alongside his other duties as managing technical partner.
Newey will replace Andy Cowell in the role, with Cowell becoming the chief strategy officer. 
“Over the last nine months, I have seen great individual talent within our team,” Newey said. “I’m looking forward to ...Keep reading

McLaren boss Andrea Stella says the team will not change its approach of supporting both drivers equally in the title fight. The stance comes after a major setback in the championship, with both McLaren cars excluded from the Las Vegas Grand Prix results – a penalty that allowed Verstappen to close up again.
Ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix, the Dutchman is now just 24 points behind Lando Norris ...Keep reading

With new regulations on the way, drivers only have two more race weekends in the current generation of F1 cars. Max Verstappen – along with Fernando Alonso and George Russell – said in Las Vegas that they won't miss the current machines.
This is partly because the ground-effect cars are heavy, large, cumbersome, and unwilling to hustle through slow corners. But mainly it's a factor of ...Keep reading

It’s not often Elfyn Evans, Sébastien Ogier and Kalle Rovanperä are reduced to fighting over the fringes of the top 10, but that’s exactly what unfolded on Thursday in a tense World Rally Championship showdown in Saudi Arabia.
The three drivers in title contention were ranked in seventh through to ninth positions after eight stages. Why? It’s largely down to a road cleaning effect more ...Keep reading

Adrien Fourmaux survived a puncture to top the Rally Saudi Arabia standings, after tyre damage took Sami Pajari and Martins Sesks out of the lead, while the World Rally Championship title fight took a twist.
Fourmaux emerged from a brutal day on top with a 6.0s lead from Toyota’s Pajari, with M-Sport’s Martins Sesks in third 6.9s adrift after tyre problems prompted a shake-up of the ...Keep reading

Formula 1 hosts its penultimate round of the 2025 season this weekend with the Qatar Grand Prix, where Lando Norris could clinch a maiden world title.
The McLaren driver simply needs to outscore team-mate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen by at least two points to do so - but it may not be as easy as it sounds.
That’s because last weekend the McLaren pair was ...Keep reading

Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he has "no regrets" over joining Ferrari, despite his season hitting a new low in Las Vegas, and has walked back comments that he is "not looking forward" to 2026.
Hamilton qualified last in a wet Q1 session in Las Vegas, a first for him, and after climbing to a lowly 10th in the race he said he felt "terrible", adding that it's been "the ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda has revealed that his only regret since joining Red Bull was his crash during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix due to its long-term impact on his 2025 season.
The Japanese driver joined the Milton Keynes outfit ahead of the third round of the 2025 season. Since replacing rookie Liam Lawson alongside Max Verstappen, Tsunoda has scored 25 points while struggling to extract the same ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen reckons Oscar Piastri should have told McLaren to “F off” had he been asked to support team-mate Lando Norris in his bid to become Formula 1 world champion.
The 2025 season has featured a year-long title battle between the McLaren pair, in which for most of it Piastri held the upper hand, until a late-season collapse has made Norris the favourite.
Norris leads the ...Keep reading

George Russell has said he's glad to see the back of Formula 1's current generation of ground-effect cars, describing them as "brutal" to drive and revealing that even Mercedes' own health and safety didn't allow a designer to experience how extreme the porpoising really was in a simulator. 
Asked whether he was happy to say goodbye to this rules cycle ahead of the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver George Russell has argued that, as a "multibillion-dollar sport", Formula 1 should not be relying on volunteer stewards.
The stewarding of F1 races has become a talking point once again, bringing arguments for permanent and paid stewards to the surface. Carlos Sainz claimed that stewarding should be of a similar standard to the analysis from TV pundits and former F1 drivers ...Keep reading

Iron Dames has announced its exit from the World Endurance Championship at the end of the 2025 season, wrapping up a five-year spell in the series.
The Italian-Swiss organisation has fielded all-female driver line-ups in the WEC since 2021, campaigning a variety of machinery across the GT ranks. 
But ahead of the publication of the official 2026 entry list in early December, the team ...Keep reading

Aprilia believes the results it achieved during the 2025 MotoGP season were better than it expected after challenging Ducati head-on in the final part of the year.
Having been the only other manufacturer to beat Ducati to a race win the previous year, Aprilia closed the gap further to the Italian brand in 2025 as it introduced a heavily revised version of the RS-GP.
New signing Marco ...Keep reading

Mathieu Jaminet has opened up about his emotional decision to leave Porsche and move to rival Genesis for the 2026 World Endurance Championship.
Jaminet has been associated with Porsche for his entire professional racing career, having first joined the German manufacturer as a junior driver in 2016. He rose through the ranks to become a factory driver, initially competing in GTs before getting ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says a puncture at Rally Saudi Arabia doesn’t really change anything for his World Rally Championship title bid. 
The Toyota driver’s chances of securing a third world title were slim heading into the weekend’s season finale as he sits 24 points behind championship leader and team-mate Elfyn Evans, who in turn leads Sebastien Ogier by three ...Keep reading

Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri realised they were in trouble in Las Vegas as soon as McLaren got called to the stewards, they revealed in Qatar.
After finishing second and fourth respectively, Norris and Piastri were thrown out of the Las Vegas results after failing scrutineering, with both drivers pulled up for excessive plank wear.
As a result winner Max Verstappen gained a full 25 ...Keep reading

A full-scale show car version of Red Bull's 2024 drivers' championship-winning RB20 has been made available through F1 Authentics in an extremely limited run. 
Officially licensed by Oracle Red Bull Racing and produced by the memorabilia firm Memento Exclusives, these RB20 replicas are the first of their kind to be offered to the market. While they will be built to order, only 10 will be built ...Keep reading

Martins Sesks delivered an impressive drive to claim the lead at the inaugural Rally Saudi Arabia on Thursday morning while World Rally Championship title contender Kalle Rovanpera suffered a costly puncture. 
Returning M-Sport-Ford driver Sesks almost completed a clean sweep of stage wins, which was only denied by a small mistake in stage four. The Latvian, who benefited from a cleaner road ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen's father, Jos Verstappen, discussed McLaren's "huge blunder" during the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which has put the four-time champion firmly back in the drivers' title fight.
McLaren was hit with a double disqualification after Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finished the Las Vegas Grand Prix in second and fourth place, when the two cars were found to have suffered excessive plank ...Keep reading