The 2025 F1 Academy season marked Ella Lloyd’s first full campaign in the series, following an impressive Wild Card appearance in Singapore. Lloyd joined Rodin Motorsport with backing from McLaren and delivered a strong debut season. She finished the year fourth in the Championship Standings, with 109 points. Speaking in a media session attended by…
Rafael Câmara enters his 2026 F2 season with Invicta Racing after claiming the 2025 F3 Drivers’ Championship. The Brazilian joins the reigning F2 Teams’ Champions for what could prove a pivotal campaign in his career. Speaking ahead of Barcelona pre-season testing, Câmara outlined his ambitions and preparation. His approach focuses on controlling what he can…
Ferrari completed a massive 4,500 kilometres of running across pre-season testing thus far, with team principal Fred Vasseur noting that 2026 Bahrain F1 testing focuses firmly on data collection rather than lap times. After a challenging F1 2025 season that saw no victories for the team and a fourth-place finish in the Constructors’, the arrival…
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella called on the FIA to review and amend the F1 2026 regulations before the season opener in Australia amid safety concerns regarding race start procedures. Andrea Stella raised the issue following the recent three-day Bahrain pre-season test, where teams conducted their first meaningful running with the new-gen 2026 cars in…
In his 2025 F2 campaign with Rodin Motorsport, Alex Dunne stood out as one of the most impressive rookie drivers in recent seasons. Throughout the season, he combined genuine front-running pace with the inevitable learning moments that come with stepping up to such a competitive level to finish fifth in the Drivers’ Championship with 150…
Oscar Piastri and McLaren have successfully completed the first round of F1 2026 Bahrain testing. Piastri did the second most laps, putting in 215 laps over three sessions. Speaking to F1.com after 2026 Bahrain testing, he was satisfied with how things went. “The biggest positive from the test has just been how smoothly it’s gone…
The F2 driver, Joshua Dürksen from Paraguay, spoke exclusively to Pit Debrief about his late start in motorsport and the pride of carrying his nation’s flag on the international stage Joshua Dürksen’s path to Formula 2 reads like no other drivers in the paddock. With just three years of go-karting experience, most of it on…
F1 could be heading for a “recipe for disaster” if it doesn’t make any changes around the race start procedures in 2026 – that’s the view from McLaren driver Oscar Piastri after the first Bahrain testing session, as he believes the all-new power units for the season are too complicated to get up and running…
Kimi Antonelli endured a frustrating build-up to his second F1 campaign, as persistent reliability issues derailed much of his 2026 pre-season testing in Bahrain. The Italian spent long spells confined to the Mercedes garage across the opening two days of testing, managing just over 30 laps while rivals gathered crucial data. It left his programme…
In an interview with F1TV, Graeme Lowdon reflected positively on the first week of 2026 Bahrain testing for the Cadillac F1 team after an encouraging start to its track programme. The new F1 team completed over 1700 kilometres across testing. Lowdon emphasised the productive nature of the week following Barcelona shakedown runs. The team focused…
