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Ferrari has been handed a €10,000 fine for unsafely releasing Charles Leclerc into the path of McLaren's Lando Norris during Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix practice.
During Friday night's second practice Leclerc was sent out of the Ferrari garage into the path of Norris. The ensuing contact caused damage to Norris' front wing, with the Briton having to be pulled back into his garage to ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc reckons a misjudgement from his Ferrari team was behind the collision with Lando Norris late on in second practice at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.
Ferrari released Leclerc into the pathway of Norris down the pitlane, causing the Monegasque to drive into the McLaren, which subsequently lost its front wing as it then collided with the wall.
This came in the final 20 ...Keep reading

Three-time W Series champion Jamie Chadwick has branded the pitlane clash between McLaren's Lando Norris and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc as "super clumsy".
During the second practice session ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix, Leclerc collided with Norris in the pitlane, causing the McLaren driver to crash into the wall and damage his front wing. Luckily for the Briton, the incident didn't cause a ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 advisor Helmut Marko confirmed he will pick up discussions with former McLaren junior Alex Dunne about a role with the team.
Dunne and McLaren went their separate ways after the two parties couldn't come to an agreement over their future plans. Irish F2 frontrunner Dunne sees his pathway to F1 promotion at the papaya team blocked by the presence of Lando Norris and Oscar ...Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 advisor Helmut Marko hailed the team’s ‘best Friday in years’ at a Singapore Grand Prix where it has historically enjoyed very little success.
Red Bull has not taken a single pole position at the Marina Bay Street Circuit since the beginning of the turbo hybrid era in 2014, with Sergio Perez providing the squad’s sole victory in the city-state back in 2022.
Max ...Keep reading

Formula 1 title challenger Lando Norris was a dejected figure after Friday practice for this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix following a “bad day” at the office.
The McLaren driver failed to finish above fifth across the two sessions, with Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso topping FP1 and then Norris’ team-mate Oscar Piastri leading FP2. 
A collision towards the end of second practice ...Keep reading

The opening day of track running at the Indonesian Grand Prix threw up plenty of surprises, as the established form book of the 2025 MotoGP season was tossed aside.
The fastest time at the end of pPractice was set by Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi, and while that wasn’t surprising in itself, the advantage he had over the rest of the field raised some eyebrows.
Honda and Yamaha were tipped to ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri went fastest in a messy second free practice session ahead of the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, which was red flagged twice as George Russell and Liam Lawson hit the wall. 
Piastri rose to the top of the order amid a compressed set of soft-tyre runs, as more than 20 minutes of the session was lost to the red flag periods. The Australian's 1m30.714s stood as the fastest time ...Keep reading

Mercedes' George Russell claimed his crash during the second practice session ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix was "a bit of a weird one".
With 42 minutes to go in practice 2, Russell crashed into the wall at Turn 16, leading to the first red flag of the session. The crash caused a puncture and damage to the front wing. Russell was able to limp the car back to the pitlane, but the damage was ...Keep reading

Sky Sports F1 reporter Natalie Pinkham has revealed that former Formula 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone stepped in to stick up for her when a photographer tried to publish a photo up her skirt.
During an appearance on the Amanda Wakeley Style DNA podcast, Pinkham discussed how she found out the hard way that skirts were not a good idea in the windy pitlane. Unfortunately for the Briton, a photographer ...Keep reading

Maverick Vinales says he is considering sitting out further races after this weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix to recover from a shoulder injury, and may withdraw from the rest of the MotoGP season if necessary.
Vinales suffered the first major injury of his premier class career at the German Grand Prix in August, where he broke his shoulder in a highside on a wet track in qualifying.
After ...Keep reading

Williams Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz joined his father, four-time Dakar Rally winner and two-time World Rally champion Carlos Sainz Sr, for an off-road test with Ford Racing and the brand's Raptor T1+ in Zaragoza. This happened as Sainz Sr continued his prep work for the 2026 Dakar Rally.
In a video released by Ford Racing, the Spaniard joined his father in the car before he sat behind the ...Keep reading

Even if Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda finished 1-2 in every remaining grand prix and sprint round of the 2025 Formula 1 season, with Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris failing to finish, Red Bull still could not overhaul McLaren in the constructors’ championship. But Verstappen still has a chance, albeit slim, of seizing the drivers’ title.
To that end, Red Bull has continued to bring ...Keep reading

Williams faces work on Alex Albon's car after the driver suffered a brake fire during the early stages of FP1 of the Singapore Grand Prix weekend. 
The Grove team was forced to park the car in the pitlane as mechanics rushed to extinguish the flames and FIA officials monitored the situation. Albon, squinting from the smoke, eventually climbed out of the car, but the damage was done. The FW47 ...Keep reading

KTM’s Pedro Acosta doesn’t believe Indonesian Grand Prix practice results reflect the true pecking order, backing Ducati to rebound over the remainder of the MotoGP weekend.
Just a week after celebrating a 1-2 finish and the riders’ title at the Japanese Grand Prix, the factory Ducati team endured a rare lacklustre day in Mandalika.
Newly-crowned 2025 champion Marc Marquez crashed ...Keep reading

Williams team principal James Vowles has revealed an interest in taking on an endurance race with his team's Formula 1 drivers, Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon.
This comes after the Briton took part in a two-day GT3 test in Spain in a McLaren 720S GT3 Evo between the Italian and Azerbaijan grands prix. "Spent a fantastic two days at the Circuito de Navarra in Spain. Mostly dry and a great ...Keep reading

Factory Honda rider Luca Marini believes he can qualify on the front row at the Indonesian Grand Prix following another positive day for the fast-improving Japanese marque.
Marini topped Friday morning’s first practice at Mandalika, then featured prominently near the top of the timesheets throughout second practice before finishing the session in fourth.
With team-mate Joan Mir ...Keep reading

Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Marc Marquez admitted he simply wants to get through the Indonesian Grand Prix weekend after suffering two crashes in Friday practice and being forced into Q1 for the first time in 2025.
The Mandalika International Circuit has been one of the weakest tracks for the newly-crowned 2025 champion, who has never finished a grand prix in Indonesia after three ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso opened the Singapore Grand Prix weekend with the fastest time in Formula 1's first free practice session, as the Aston Martin driver finished the session 0.15s clear of Charles Leclerc. 
The two-time world champion set a 1m31.116s on soft tyres in the daylight session, eclipsing the Ferrari driver's benchmark on the C5s as Max Verstappen sat a further 0.126s behind. 
Low ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz has claimed his Williams race engineer, Gaetan Jego, is the "hardest worker I've ever worked with in Formula 1", as he shared insight into the duo's emotional team radio exchange following his third-place finish at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The Spanish driver, who joined Williams at the start of 2025 after being replaced at Ferrari by Lewis Hamilton, secured his first podium ...Keep reading