Lambiase to continue as Verstappen's engineer amid rival interest
Gianpiero Lambiase will remain as Max Verstappen's race engineer this year in an unchanged head of racing role, despite rival Formula 1 teams trying to lure him away from the squad.The Italian's future in F1 has been the subject of speculation over recent weeks after it emerged that Aston Martin has been targeting a deal to get him on its future roster in a senior role - at team principal or CEO l...
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Gianpiero Lambiase will remain as Max Verstappen's race engineer this year in an unchanged head of racing role, despite rival Formula 1 teams trying to lure him away from the squad.The Italian's future in F1 has been the subject of speculation over recent weeks after it emerged that Aston Martin has been targeting a deal to get him on its future roster in a senior role - at team principal or CEO l...
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What next for Lambiase as other key Red Bull figure finally leaves
Gianpiero Lambiase will remain as Max Verstappen's race engineer this year in an unchanged head of racing role, despite rival F1 teams trying to lu...
The 2026 rules overhaul marks arguably the biggest reset in Formula 1 history, with both the chassis and engine regulations changing at the same time.And that means plenty of intrigue about what those challengers will look like in particular.Here's what F1 teams have confirmed about their launch plans so far:Red Bull + Racing Bulls: January 15 (livery only)Red Bull and sister outfit Racing Bulls w...
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Haas is now set to become the first team to reveal images of its 2026 Formula 1 car, after bringing forward its launch to avoid an over-congested day.The American-owned outfit had originally planned to go public in releasing digital renders of its VF-26 on January 23 – the same day that both Ferrari and Alpine are holding events.This was also going to be a day after Mercedes, which appeared to hav...
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Sergio Perez is preparing for his Formula 1 return with Cadillac while shedding the last of the baggage from a turbulent late-2024 exit from Red Bull, where he believes "everything was a problem" with him. Perez rejoins the F1 grid this year after a season on the sidelines following Red Bull's decision to drop him for 2025 - as it mistakenly believed Liam Lawson, and then Yuki Tsunoda would achiev...
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McLaren's Formula 1 championship double in 2025, and back-to-back constructors' titles, showed that as a customer team it had truly mastered the ground effect ruleset.As its engine supplier Mercedes endured four years of false dawns and fresh problems in its attempts to try to unlock the secrets of domination in that rules era, McLaren clearly - eventually, after a slow start - got to grips with w...
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The first collective on-track running of Formula 1's 2026 season is just around the corner, with three multi-day pre-season tests planned ahead of the Melbourne season-opener. With all-new chassis and engine regulations for 2026, the 11 F1 teams (don't forget Cadillac has joined the grid!) will have more testing time compared to the last few years, to help them get to grips with their new cars. Te...
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If Lewis Hamilton had been able to join Ferrari with, say, Adrian Newey (in the Rory Byrne role), Andrea Stella (in the Ross Brawn role) and Christian Horner (as Jean Todt), and as a four-headed force they had been able to demand just a budget and a totally hands-off approach from corporate management, then Hamilton may - just may - have had a chance of achieving what Michael Schumacher did at Fer...
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The 2022-25 ground effect regulations didn't do what they were expected to do. That's partly because the FIA did not, or was not able to, react quickly enough to fix what was wrong with the rules.Making the cars better at following was a difficult target so, in reality, there were always going to be issues with the original rules. I understand that and there was great intention behind them. A lot ...
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Mercedes is tipped by many to be back on top in Formula 1 for the start of the new regulations era in 2026. There are good reasons for this, given the team’s illustrious history, the quality of its personnel, top-notch facilities, spectacular success last time the engine regulations were overhauled in 2014, and it being at the centre of an early potential 2026 loophole. However, there are also dou...
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The FIA says it will step in and take action to ensure that overtaking in Formula 1 is neither too difficult nor too hard with the new 2026 rules.A total revamp of the regulations for the new season has thrown up a lot of uncertainty about just what the wheel-to-wheel racing is going to be like. While the FIA and F1 are hopeful that a combination of active aero and an engine overtake mode will spi...
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Presented by ShellShell’s partnership with Scuderia Ferrari HP in the Formula 1 World Championship stretches all the way back to the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix. The latest step in its remarkable journey of technology and innovation is the introduction of Advanced Sustainable race fuels in 2026.History of Race Fuels from 1950 to todaySo what exactly are Advanced Sustainable race fuels and how big a cha...
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No other country even comes close to matching the level of success the UK has enjoyed in the Formula 1 world championship, with Lando Norris becoming the 11th different driver from a cold, wet island in the North Sea to claim motorsport’s biggest prize.It was only a blown tyre that prevented a Brit from being crowned champ during every decade of the world championship era, and with yet another hig...
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Formula 1’s (joint-) longest season ever produced plenty of news, from shock sackings to driver market drama to a surprise title fight. Below you’ll find the 10 F1 stories you engaged with the most on The Race in 2025. 10 - Red Bull makes its 2026 F1 driver call 
The 2025 Formula 1 season comprised 594 race drives, if you include the sprints and account for occasions where cars did not start, with 20 drivers on the grid and a total of 30 races.We’ve picked out the best and the worst by each driver.This factors in their performance and execution relative to the machinery, as well as myriad other considerations, including mistakes or the lack thereof. And re...
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Alpine was a dismal, distant last in Formula 1 in 2025, with some small consolation in that it is the best worst team in F1 history.No team has ever finished last while scoring as many points as Alpine, even though it finished 48 points behind the next-lowest team, Sauber.And while its car was just about the slowest on average, the Alpine wasn't irredeemably bad, as its qualifying results show.Pie...
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Every now and then, a Formula 1 season produces a rookie crop that goes on to have a profound impact on grand prix racing. Based on the evidence so far, 2025 could be one of those. It’s far too early for bold declarations about it matching up to some of the great rookie fields in history, such as 2001 when Kimi Raikkonen, Juan Pablo Montoya and Fernando Alonso were among the newcomers, or 2007, wh...
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Formula 1’s ground effect regulations of 2022 to 2025 were the most thoroughly researched, systematically-written and well-conceived in the history of grand prix racing. But the cars it created ultimately became exactly what the rules set out to avoid, extremely difficult to race thanks to how difficult it became to follow.They produced enormous levels of downforce and were seriously fast, and wer...
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Just under a couple of years ago, I posited the question: how can anyone really be confident that Ferrari's marquee signing, Lewis Hamilton, will be a definite upgrade on Carlos Sainz when time rolls around to make the switch?The argument against this was laid out in the column was, in truth, a slightly detuned version of itself, just out of a worry of coming off as contrarianism-for-clicks amid t...
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