McLaren chasing cost cap answers over Verstappen engine switch
McLaren is seeking answers from the FIA about whether Max Verstappen's fresh engine swap at the Brazilian Grand Prix will come out of Red Bull's Formula 1 cost cap allocation.After Red Bull's qualifying disaster at Interlagos - as it had both cars out of Q1 for the first time since the 2006 Japanese GP - the team elected to make major changes to Verstappen's car ahead of the race.As well as revisi...
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McLaren is seeking answers from the FIA about whether Max Verstappen's fresh engine swap at the Brazilian Grand Prix will come out of Red Bull's Formula 1 cost cap allocation.After Red Bull's qualifying disaster at Interlagos - as it had both cars out of Q1 for the first time since the 2006 Japanese GP - the team elected to make major changes to Verstappen's car ahead of the race.As well as revisi...
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McLaren chasing cost cap answers over Verstappen engine switch
McLaren is seeking answers from the FIA about whether Max Verstappen's fresh engine swap at the Brazilian Grand Prix will come out of Red Bull's Fo...
Oscar Piastri's penalty in the Brazilian Grand Prix is further evidence of Formula 1 desperately needing revisions to the racing guidelines for next year, or a change in how they are applied.What the guidelines say for 2025 about overtaking on the inside, and the overly prescribed way racing is now being monitored, means there can technically be no disputing Piastri was at fault for the collision ...
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Formula 1 title contender Oscar Piastri’s Brazilian Grand Prix weekend was derailed by his sprint crash and the 10-second penalty he got in the main race for his clash with Kimi Antonelli at the early restart.But even without those incidents, the McLaren driver never appeared to have the potential to overhaul team-mate Lando Norris, who delivered a pole and victory double.While Piastri had been qu...
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Lando Norris was cautious after victory in Sao Paulo, one which puts him 24 points clear at the head of the table with three races to go. “Seeing how quick Max was today I’m pretty disappointed we weren’t quicker,” he said. “I need to go to the team now and see where we weren’t quick enough.”Later, in the media press conference, he was even more blunt. “If Max had started a bit further up, he’d ha...
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Charles Leclerc feels Kimi Antonelli was just as much to blame as Oscar Piastri for the incident that put the Ferrari Formula 1 driver out of the Brazilian Grand Prix. F1's stewards blamed Piastri for locking up and colliding with Antonelli's Mercedes at Turn 1 after the early safety car restart, an incident which sent Antonelli's Mercedes clattering into Leclerc's Ferrari.But Leclerc aportioned e...
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Lewis Hamilton says the results of his first Formula 1 season with Ferrari have been a “nightmare” that he’s “been living for a while”, after a miserable Brazilian Grand Prix.Hamilton’s maiden Ferrari season has been a rollercoaster that’s gone from a sprint race win in round two at China through numerous lows, to fleeting highs and some recent improved consistency to a miserable weekend in Brazil...
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Plenty of strategy variation, some storming drives through the field and some poor days at the office made for an unpredictable and entertaining Brazilian Grand Prix.Here are our winners and losers from an Interlagos classic.Loser - Ferrari (DNF x2)Ferrari came into the Interlagos weekend second in the constructors’ championship, but it leaves in fourth after an incident-filled grand prix.Charles ...
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Oscar Piastri was found to be “wholly responsible” for his collision with Kimi Antonelli during Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix, that almost certainly cost Piastri a podium finish. Piastri’s F1 title hopes took a fresh blow on Sunday at Interlagos when he was penalised for clashing with Antonelli (who in turn collided with Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari) while trying to jump from fourth to second at T...
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For the second year running the Brazilian Grand Prix may prove critical to the outcome of the Formula 1 drivers' championship fight.Lando Norris took his second successive victory while his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri picked up a controversial penalty and Max Verstappen mounted an impressive comeback from the pitlane to third place.Here's what our team thinks of Piastri's penalty and Verstappe...
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Lando Norris struck a major blow in the 2025 Formula 1 title race by winning the Brazilian Grand Prix, as Oscar Piastri was penalised for causing an accident while Max Verstappen charged to the podium from a pitlane start.A mix of strategies and tyre choices plus Verstappen’s heroics made this an absolute classic of an F1 race, also helped by Piastri getting a 10-second penalty for crashing into K...
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Lando Norris extended his Formula 1 drivers' championship lead while Max Verstappen mounted an incredible comeback to finish third. Below you'll find the full race results...Lando Norris (McLaren) Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +10.3sMax Verstappen (Red Bull) +10.7s George Russell (Mercedes) +15.2sOscar Piastri (McLaren) +15.7s Ollie Bearman (Haas) +29.6sLiam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +52.6sIsack Hadjar (R...
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Max Verstappen will start Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix from the pitlane after Red Bull decided to break parc ferme in order to change the car spec and set-up, as well as take a new Honda power unit.Red Bull had a disastrous qualifying on Saturday, with Verstappen only 16th and team-mate Yuki Tsunoda 19th. This was a consequence of what team principal Laurent Mekies described as taking "some mo...
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Brazilian Grand Prix organisers have used a concrete floor saw to cut a makeshift drainage channel in the Turn 3 kerbs at Interlagos, after trapped water caught there triggered a spate of crashes in the sprint.As The Race’s exclusive photographs show, the channel – which has been sliced in the outer region of the kerb – runs the entire length of the stepped section before being diverted off onto t...
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Beyond the obvious Lando Norris pole and Max Verstappen's Q1 exit, there was plenty happening in a mixed-up qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix.Here are our winners and losers from a day which feels pivotal in the championship fight and will almost certainly be remembered for a diverse range of triumphs and failures, even by Formula 1's standards.Loser - Max Verstappen (16th)Max Verstappen’s f...
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Well, the wind had changed from yesterday, in both its direction and intensity – and that had virtually every driver out there utterly perplexed at how bad their cars felt. But the front row didn’t change – as Lando Norris again set pole from Kimi Antonelli. One-two in sprint qualifying, the sprint race and now in GP qualifying. They at least provided a baseline level of consistency on a day of wi...
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Formula 1 championship leader Lando Norris secured a commanding pole position for the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix, as title rival Oscar Piastri could only qualify fourth and Max Verstappen was eliminated in Q1.Norris messed up his first Q3 run with a lock-up at Turn 1, languishing in 10th place while Piastri put his own McLaren on provisional pole.But Norris nailed his final flying lap to take pole ...
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Max Verstappen suffered a huge Formula 1 title setback after Red Bull’s risk of changing its car “significantly” between the sprint race and qualifying backfired spectacularly.Verstappen had complained about the ride quality of his Red Bull on Friday, which he had to live with in a difficult sprint race on Saturday morning.The world champion finished fifth in that race and fell to 40 points behind...
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Lando Norris and Kimi Antonelli will share the front row at Formula 1's Brazilian Grand Prix while Max Verstappen is set to start down in 16th place. Below you'll find the full starting grid. Lando Norris (McLaren)Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)Oscar Piastri (McLaren)Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) George Russell (Mercedes)Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) Ollie Bearman (Haas)Pierre Gasl...
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Lando Norris topped qualifying for Formula 1's Brazilian Grand Prix. Below you'll find the full results from qualifying in Interlagos. Lando Norris (McLaren) 1m09.511s Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) 1m09.685sCharles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m09.805s Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 1m09.886s Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) 1m09.931s George Russell (Mercedes) 1m09.942sLiam Lawson (Racing Bulls) 1m09.962sOllie Bearman (Haa...
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If they make a mistake, Formula 1 drivers can be penalised by the stewards and rack up penalty points on their racing licence.A total of 12 points accrued results in a ban, something which happened in 2024 when Kevin Magnussen had to sit out the Azerbaijan race for Haas.Here's a full list of the amount of penalty points each 2025 F1 driver has, and the date of expiry of those points.This list will...
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