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Oscar Piastri believes he can still be Formula One champion but recognised things were not going his way after crashing out of the Sao Paulo sprint and qualifying fourth for Sunday’s grand prix. The Australian now trails McLaren teammate and championship leader Lando Norris by nine points in the overall standings, with three rounds remaining…
Franco Colapinto will stay with the Alpine team for 2026 even though he’s yet to score a point this year in Formula 1. The Argentine driver will head into his first full F1 season in 2026 after he replaced Australian rookie Jack Doohan at Alpine ahead of the seventh race of the year at Imola…
Champions Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton urged Formula One’s governing body not to make cooling vests mandatory at hot races after a steamy qualifying session in Singapore on Saturday. The race weekend has been declared a heat hazard because of the high temperatures, meaning drivers can either wear a vest which circulates cold liquid through…
Mercedes’ George Russell celebrates after qualifying in pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Mercedes’ George Russell celebrates after qualifying in pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Source link
Former Formula One world champion Mika Hakkinen backed F1 championship leader Oscar Piastri to bounce back after a nightmarish weekend in Azerbaijan, a fortnight ago, where the Australian crashed in qualifying and the race. “Well, you just analyse your mistakes, of what happened with the team, and [if] there was something in the car; what…
Lando Norris admitted that Max Verstappen was now “genuinely a challenger” as the 2025 Formula One championship enters the final laps of the season in Singapore on Thursday. The Red Bull driver is targeting a third consecutive Grand Prix win on Sunday — and first ever in Singapore — and is now just 44 points…
Haas’s Esteban Ocon was disqualified from Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday after his car’s rear wing failed a technical inspection. The Frenchman had qualified 18th for Sunday’s race in Baku and is now set to start last. The governing FIA’s technical delegate reported in a note that a deflection test of Ocon’s rear wing…
French driver Pierre Gasly has signed a contract extension with Alpine until the end of the 2028 season, the Renault-owned Formula One team announced at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday. Alpine is last in the constructors’ standings after 15 of 24 rounds and Gasly has scored all of its 20 points so far, with…
Lando Norris held off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on a one-stop strategy and slash the Australian’s Formula One Driver’s Championship lead to nine points going into the August break. Norris completed 39 of the 70 laps on a single set of hard tyres while Piastri stopped twice and closed…
Formula One is a healthier place after the firing of Christian Horner as Red Bull team boss, McLaren chief executive Zak Brown said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after talks with Horner’s successor Laurent Mekies at the Hungarian Grand Prix, the American welcomed the Frenchman’s appointment and said his predecessor had crossed a line. “I…
