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The long 2025 Formula 1 season officially concluded today, having started with pre-season testing in Bahrain back on February 26, and ending with a final day of testing on the Yas Marina circuit after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. This …

Lando Norris has become the 35th different champion in 75 years of Formula 1 after taking the third place he needed to clinch the drivers’ title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with his McLaren team already having wrapped up the constructors’ …

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will be hoping that a remarkable statistic about the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix comes true again tomorrow: the driver who started from pole has won the race for the last 10 years.The Dutchman’s time on both his first and second …

McLaren’s Lando Norris has claimed the early advantage in free practice for the title decider, going quickest in both sessions on the soft tyre. The sessions were held at different times of day, with FP2 being more representative of qualifying and …

Abu Dhabi hosts the last Grand Prix of the season and it will also be the final appearance at a race weekend for the size of tyre that Formula 1 has used since 2022.As from next season, while maintaining the same 18 inch rim diameter, the tyres will …

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen sealed his seventh win of the season tonight, with tyre strategy at the centre of the action, to take a three-way title fight to the championship finale in Abu Dhabi next weekend.All three tyre compounds were seen on the …

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri will be hoping to continue that this historical trend that has existed since the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix in 2021: the driver to set fastest time in qualifying has led every lap and won the race.With his sixth pole position …

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri said it was “nice to be back” as he took his first pole in a sprint race since Spa, and his first pole in any race since Zandvoort. Piastri also set a new track record at Lusail and claimed the top spot earlier in FP1 – …

The Qatar Grand Prix is the penultimate race of the season and the last to be run to the Sprint format. It comes just one week on from Las Vegas, 13,000 kilometres as the crow flies from this week’s venue in Lusail. Both races and indeed the final …

Max Verstappen is the first driver to win more than once in Las Vegas, taking a commanding victory in the Nevadan night, to add to his 2023 win, thus keeping his Drivers’ World Championship title hopes alive going into the final two rounds of the …

Lando Norris will start tomorrow night’s Las Vegas Grand Prix from pole position, having been fastest in a thrilling qualifying session run entirely in the wet, his best Q3 time being a 1’47”934. For the McLaren driver it was his seventh pole …

Championship leader Lando Norris (McLaren) was fastest on the first day of track action for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, setting a time of 1.33.602 in the second session, held two hours earlier than last year. Second was Kimi Antonelli for Mercedes, …

Luck won’t have much to do with the outcome of the race, even if it takes place in the city often referred to as “the gambling capital of the world.” The Las Vegas Grand Prix is the last of three rounds of this year’s world championship to be held …

In Qatar, a limit will be introduced for the number of laps that each set of tyres can cover over the course of the whole race weekend. The decision, taken in agreement with the FIA and Formula 1 and discussed in regular meetings with the teams, is …

An ample variety of tyre strategies involving all three compounds helped to make the Brazilian Grand Prix one of the most stunning of the season, with racing right to the finish line.McLaren’s Lando Norris took his second consecutive race win after …

Following his sprint race win in the morning, McLaren’s Lando Norris took his second pole position of the Brazilian weekend after heading  all three qualifying sessions this afternoon.In the closing seconds of Q3 he was joined on the front row …

McLaren’s championship leader Lando Norris has sealed his first sprint race pole of the season, having also gone quickest in FP1. As a result, he is the fifth different polesitter in the five different sprint races held so far this year. Interlagos …

A fortnight on from the previous round, Formula 1 returns to the American continent for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The Brazilian weekend features the penultimate Sprint, prior to the final one of the season in Qatar.Brazil has strong links to the …

Having produced the perfect lap yesterday to clinch pole position, Lando Norris converted it into the win today in the Mexico City Grand Prix. It was the Englishman’s tenth career win, his sixth this season, the first since Hungary and his first in …

Lando Norris will start tomorrow’s Mexico City Grand Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez from pole position, thanks to a fastest Q3 lap in 1’15”586. It’s the McLaren driver’s fifth pole this year, his first in Mexico and his …

Formula 1’s America journey continues with a trip south for the Mexico City Grand Prix, one week on from the round in Austin. As usual, the atmosphere inside the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will be electrifying because of the exuberance of the fans …

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has become the first driver to win seven grands prix in the United States by claiming his fourth win at COTA: one day after claiming the sprint race win. As a result, he is now just 40 points off the championship lead with …

Red Bull’s sprint race winner Max Verstappen will start on pole tomorrow after topping qualifying for the United States Grand Prix.Qualifying got underway at 16:00 local time in track temperatures that reached 48 degrees centigrade, with gusting …

Max Verstappen, the winner of the last sprint in Belgium this year as well as the last two sprint races in Austin, is on pole for the sprint race at the Circuit of the Americas again tomorrow, with the Red Bull driver edging out championship leaders …

It’s time once again to unfurl the Stars and Stripes as Formula 1 heads to Austin, Texas this weekend. For the event at the Circuit of the Americas, on the calendar since 2012, the teams will have a trio of compounds that features an extra step …

The victory went to George Russell, while McLaren retained the Constructors’ title. That’s the headline from the Singapore Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver converted yesterday’s pole position into a win that never really looked under threat. It was …

George Russell secured pole position for the 16th running of the Singapore Grand Prix. It was the Mercedes driver’s seventh career pole, his second this year, following on from Montreal, where he went on to win the race. Russell’s best time was a …

Oscar Piastri was the quickest driver come the end of the first day of the Singapore Grand Prix. The championship leader set a best time of 1’30”714 in FP2. Three more drivers, from three different teams, also got under the 1’31” barrier, suggesting …

After racing on the shores of the Caspian Sea, Formula 1 again tackles a street circuit, this time in the City-State of Singapore, just 140 kilometres North of the equator, the imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres.The …

Max Verstappen was perfection personified in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Not only did the Red Bull driver win the race from pole position, he also led all 51 laps and set the race fastest lap, to secure his sixth Grand Slam. In this discipline, it …