What looked like a straightforward one-stop race became an incident-filled event punctuated by several safety cars. Oscar Piastri kept his cool and collected a momentous win, while disaster befell his McLaren companion and title rival Lando Norris. Meanwhile, several midfielders capitalised on the chaos to make it into the winners’ column… Winner: Oscar Piastri Oscar Piastri, McLaren Photo by: Andrew …
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Veteran racers Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez are set to lead the charge for Cadillac when they arrive in Formula 1 next year. The Finn and the Mexican have bags of F1 know-how and boast 527 Grands Prix, 16 victories, and 106 podiums between them. Not every new team opts for such an experienced pairing for their debut season though. …
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The Formula 1 circus is heading into a well-deserved summer break after a gruelling 14-race stretch. And if the puzzling Budapest weekend is anything to go by, some drivers and teams will need more time than others to decompress. Winner: Lando Norris Starting from the better side of the grid nearly netted Lando Norris second over Piastri at the start, …
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The best qualifying session of the 2025 Formula 1 season? Saturday at the Hungarian Grand Prix certainly has a claim for providing that, thanks in particular to a change of conditions for Q3 resetting the competitive picture. Who took full advantage, who fell out of the ‘window’, and who’d underachieved to enough of an extent prior to that that they …
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Formula 1’s fundamental problem of poor visibility in wet weather racing cannot be solved with the current ground effect cars. That is the reality that F1 has to accept after a Belgian Grand Prix weekend where the debate about racing in the rain returned and solutions to help the situation have been called for again. The delays in getting Sunday’s …
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Two different winners and a surprising number of talking points meant the Belgian Grand Prix was a lot more interesting than the races made it look. Here’s everything we learned at Spa. What a post-Horner Red Bull looks like Red Bull’s new team boss had a winning debut in the Spa sprint, although the grand prix itself was a less …
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Whether you believe in momentum or not, Lando Norris was on a bit of a roll after a deserved win in Austria and a somewhat fortuitous home triumph at Silverstone, closing the gap with Oscar Piastri to just eight points to effectively reset the 2025 title fight at the halfway mark. Norris could have gone for a hat-trick in his …
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A title race points swing in the high single digits, a further tightening of McLaren’s stronghold on the drivers’ championship and some curious midfield points-scoring. There was a lot of consequence unfolding in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix once it finally got underway, with inters-to-slicks timing playing its part again – and some drivers having premium opportunities snatched away from them. …
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