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Red Bull Racing has confirmed that current Formula 2 driver and Red Bull Junior Programme talent Arvid Lindblad will step up to F1 with Racing Bulls for the 2026 season. He will be alongside Liam Lawson. The 18-year-old Brit has impressed in his rookie F2 campaign with Campos Racing, where he has already claimed 2…
Red Bull Racing have officially announced Isack Hadjar’s promotion from Racing Bulls to the senior team for the 2026 F1 season. He is set to partner the four-time world champion, Max Verstappen. This move has come at the expense of Yuki Tsunoda, who has failed to make a lasting impression since his promotion earlier in…
With the 2025 season coming to an end, F1 teams have begun announcing their 2026 launch dates. As drivers get ready to finish up the current season with an uncertain championship battle, the official calendar for 2026 was announced. Set to embark on another 24-round campaign next year, the season will also bring the new…
2025 marks a new year of opportunities for younger drivers or ones with plenty of experience in other categories as each team needs to give a rookie driver or drivers four opportunities in their cars during the season in F1 FP1 sessions. In previous years it had been just two, with many saving the second…
As we approach a season finale in which Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri can still win the 2025 Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship, it’s important to look back on the last time more than two drivers still had a chance at the world title coming into the final race; the 2010 F1 Abu…
The McLaren F1 Team have announced that 2025 FIA Formula 2 Champion Leonardo Fornaroli and multiple-time race winner Richard Verschoor have joined their Driver Development Programme. Championship success in back-to-back seasons Fornaroli arrives at McLaren following a remarkable weekend in Lusail, where he secured the F2 title with one round remaining. The Italian built his…
Ferrari endured one of its most difficult weekends of the season at the F1 Qatar GP, with team principal Fred Vasseur pointing to tyre pressures and early setup missteps as key reasons behind the team’s lack of competitiveness. Neither driver was able to extract consistent performance from the car across the weekend, with Charles Leclerc…
Fernando Alonso is rather pleased with his F1 Qatar GP, especially as he managed to secure a strong P7 finish. The result matches his final position earned the day before during the Sprint Race, thus allowing him to bring back home a great total of eight points. Such bounty of points is incredibly helpful to…
Max Verstappen turned a difficult weekend into a crucial victory under the lights at the F1 Qatar GP. Red Bull started on the back foot, several tenths slower than McLaren on Friday. The team worked through set-up changes, closed the gap, and gave Verstappen a car he could fight with. In the race, he delivered…
After Toto Wolff labelled Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko’s insinuation that Kimi Antonelli let Lando Norris through on purpose in the closing stages of the F1 Qatar GP as “utter nonsense”, the Milton Keynes outfit has issued an apology for the vitriol the Mercedes driver is receiving online. It appeared that Norris was going to…
