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Mercedes wanted Alpine. Christian Horner wanted Alpine. Renault has just said no to both of them
A months-long pursuit of a Formula 1 ownership stake has collapsed in the same week, for two of the most powerful figures in the paddock. The reason in both cases was the team that already owns the largest piece. Mercedes…
Lando Norris won the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. He arrives this year expecting someone else to be on pole
The defending winner. The McLaren milestone weekend. Every reason to back himself. Lando Norris has chosen a different verdict, and the people he is backing are wearing red. Lando Norris has publicly tipped Ferrari to take pole position at the…
Lewis Hamilton spent a year at Ferrari looking for what made him a champion. He has now publicly said he has found it
A new race engineer. Two podiums in five races. And one phrase that explains the entire renaissance in the most telling terms available to him. Bono lives again, in Italian. Lewis Hamilton has publicly described his new Ferrari race engineer…
Formula 1’s biggest 2026 innovation has been switched off for Monaco. Safety made the call
The new regulations were built around it. The marketing centered on it. For one weekend, on the circuit that made the sport famous, none of it will be available. The FIA has confirmed that active aerodynamics will not be used…
Three weeks ago Ferrari were sliding. They arrive at Monaco as favourites
A Miami weekend that left the SF-26 further behind than when it arrived. A Canadian podium that suggested everything had quietly shifted. Ferrari now head into the slowest race of the year as the team most expected to win it.…
Toto Wolff called George Russell and Kimi Antonelli into a meeting after Canada. The word that came out of it was “trust”
A wheel-to-wheel battle. A radio outburst. A grass excursion. By Sunday night in Montreal, Toto Wolff had a problem he could no longer pretend was not happening. By Tuesday, he was managing it formally. Mercedes have confirmed they held internal…
McLaren are about to race their 1000th Formula 1 Grand Prix. They are doing it where it all began
A team founded by a New Zealander in a workshop sixty years ago is about to enter rare company, in the place that made it. Only one other constructor in Formula 1 history has ever reached the number. McLaren will…
Red Bull’s calmest weekend in months ended with Max Verstappen on the podium. The tensions did not go anywhere
A Verstappen podium in Canada should have given Red Bull something to celebrate. Instead, the reporting around the team has intensified, and the clock running on their most important contract has not stopped. Fresh reports of internal tension at Red…
Gucci is entering Formula 1. The team it picked was not the obvious one
The most luxurious sport in the world just attracted the most luxurious title sponsor in its history. The team that landed it sits fifth in the standings, and that may be exactly the point. Gucci has been confirmed as Alpine’s…
Max Verstappen returned to a Formula 1 car after the Nürburgring and said the quiet part out loud
A four-time world champion stepped out of a GT3 race he loved and into a Formula 1 weekend he tolerated. He did not bother pretending otherwise. Max Verstappen has publicly described returning to a Formula 1 car as “not very…