Aston Martin discloses it's breached F1 cost cap rules
Aston Martin has been one of the teams involved in Formula 1’s latest cost cap intrigue – with the squad accepting responsibility for a minor procedural breach.As first revealed by The Race, a delay in the FIA handing out compliance certificates to teams so far has pointed towards the governing body probing issues with submissions for last season.While it is understood that motor racing's governin...
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Aston Martin has been one of the teams involved in Formula 1’s latest cost cap intrigue – with the squad accepting responsibility for a minor procedural breach.As first revealed by The Race, a delay in the FIA handing out compliance certificates to teams so far has pointed towards the governing body probing issues with submissions for last season.While it is understood that motor racing's governin...
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Aston Martin discloses it's breached F1 cost cap rules
Aston Martin breached F1's cost cap last year
McLaren will no longer impose a minor sporting penalty on Lando Norris for the remainder of the season after reviewing the crash caused by Oscar Piastri in the sprint race at the United States Grand Prix.Last weekend McLaren imposed “consequences” as retribution for Norris being deemed at fault for the two drivers clashing at the start of the Singapore Grand Prix.This was believed to relate to Pia...
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An unusual delay in the FIA issuing Formula 1 teams with their cost cap compliance certificates has fuelled mounting speculation over potential rule breaches being probed. Ever since the F1 cost cap came into force for the 2021 season, the confirmation of the FIA’s reviews of teams' submissions that are submitted by a March 31 deadline has normally been completed shortly after the summer break.Whe...
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Yuki Tsunoda's performances are still "not good enough", Red Bull Formula 1 boss Laurent Mekies has admitted, as the team closes in on finalising its 2026 driver line-up.Tsunoda scored points in both the sprint - which he started 18th - and main races at the United States Grand Prix last weekend to match his best return of the season so far with eight points.But while another combative start also ...
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Jack Doohan's hopes of a Formula 1 comeback with Alpine before the end of 2025 have been thwarted as a potential route back in for the final three races has been closed off.Doohan was dropped by Alpine F1 boss Flavio Briatore after just six races in 2025 and replaced by Franco Colapinto, who Briatore brought into the Alpine fold from Williams over the winter.Colapinto being signed on a multi-year ...
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A staple of Ferrari's Formula 1 simulator team and one of its leading Hypercar drivers is finally making his F1 weekend debut at the Mexican Grand Prix.Antonio Fuoco will replace Lewis Hamilton for the opening practice session, driving on an F1 weekend for the very first time, having made his F1 test debut more than 10 years ago.Those familiar with Formula 2 may simply associate Fuoco with being t...
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Just as the arrival of the Netflix series Drive to Survive proved defining in opening up the Formula 1 fanbase, so too Apple's US deal could mark a turning point in how we all experience F1 in the future.The Apple deal, in its simplest terms, involves only the broadcast rights in the US (for now), but there are deeper motivations and opportunities at play.It marks a sea-shift change in moving away...
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Formula 1 pundit James Hinchcliffe believes Colton Herta's switch to F2 is the exact thing needed for an American driver to break down barriers that have prevented others reaching grand prix racing. While Herta has enjoyed race-winning success in IndyCar, he is seeking a future in F1 – and has already been signed up as a test driver for Cadillac as part of that process. To boost his chances of get...
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Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a ‘rookie’ driver twice in each of its cars during a season.Rookies are defined as any driver with no more than one grand prix start to their name. So Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) and Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) all ticked off the rookie requirements for their cars in Australia and China. As Ollie Bearman (Haas) alrea...
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From on-the-road updates between F1's United States and Mexico rounds, to revisiting modern-day MotoGP's most notorious incident, here's what you can expect in the various tiers of our Patreon offering this week!F1 Driver Rankings Q&AEdd Straw answers your questions about how he ranked the drivers at the United States Grand Prix, which included everybody’s performance in Saturday’s sprint race too...
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The points are on Oscar Piastri's side. The momentum is with Max Verstappen. McLaren has a faster car than its results suggest. So who is really in control of an increasingly captivating Formula 1 title fight?The basic numbers tell you that this is still very much Piastri's championship to lose. He is 40 points clear of Verstappen and can (just about) afford to be beaten by him in every single spr...
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Right after a dramatic United States Grand Prix weekend that had massive implications on the 2025 title race, Formula 1 heads for high altitude at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez for the Mexican GP.If you're planning to stay up to date with all the action from the Mexico City weekend, here are all the timings you need to be aware of - which are especially important if you're a UK viewer.Mexican G...
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IndyCar race winner and new Cadillac Formula 1 test driver Colton Herta's switch to Formula 2 has been finalised, with a deal with Hitech now in place for 2026.Herta has his eyes set on a future in F1 with the Cadillac team and was announced in his test driver role with the squad earlier this year.However, he knows that his hopes of earning a promotion to an F1 race seat eventually rest on him imm...
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I was very surprised by the revelation that a Red Bull Formula 1 team member attempted to remove a strip of tape on the pitwall as a marker to help McLaren's Lando Norris line up on the grid.Even more surprising, and a little unconvincing to me at least, was Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies claiming the pre-race breach was “probably a bit” of a misunderstanding. After all, these kinds of fun...
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The sprint format in Formula 1 rarely yields perfection from drivers - and sure enough there were a number of imperfect weekends at the United States Grand Prix, including some poorly-timed misjudgements.But there were two drivers who stood out head and shoulders above the rest at Austin. So who got the nod from Edd Straw? Here are his US GP rankings:Started: 1st Finished: 1stThere's no doubt the ...
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Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a ‘rookie’ driver twice in each of its cars during a season.Rookies are defined as any driver with no more than one grand prix start to their name. So Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) and Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) all ticked off the rookie requirements for their cars in Australia and China. As Ollie Bearman (Haas) alrea...
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We may be 19 rounds into the final year of this Formula 1 regulation cycle, but the 2025 season is still producing plenty of fresh talking points.Here’s what we learned from the Austin weekend.McLaren needs a big title resetMcLaren's gone from dominating F1 races to dominating the headlines recently, with the eve of the weekend taken up by speculation of what the "consequences" dished out to Lando...
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The intrigue around Red Bull getting caught trying to interfere with Lando Norris's grid tape marker at Austin has added a bit of curious soap opera to the Formula 1 title battle.What started out as a fine being handed out to Red Bull for one of its staff members ignoring the instructions of officials and returning to the grid has developed into a wider story.There is no suggestion either squad ha...
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McLaren insists it has no big concerns about its Formula 1 title hopes as it thinks Lando Norris had the pace to win the United States Grand Prix.Red Bull rival Max Verstappen is now 40 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri following a dominant victory at Austin on Sunday, as he came home 7.959 seconds clear of Norris (who is now 14 points behind Piastri).But while the result points to t...
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