Piastri admits McLaren's Monza orders were in his mind as slump began
Oscar Piastri has admitted that losing out in McLaren's controversial team orders call at the Italian Grand Prix was playing on his mind in his subsequent disastrous Azerbaijan GP weekend that really sent his 2025 Formula 1 world championship bid spiralling downwards.McLaren asked Piastri to hand second place at Monza back to Norris after they had swapped positions due to a pitstop delay for Norri...
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Oscar Piastri has admitted that losing out in McLaren's controversial team orders call at the Italian Grand Prix was playing on his mind in his subsequent disastrous Azerbaijan GP weekend that really sent his 2025 Formula 1 world championship bid spiralling downwards.McLaren asked Piastri to hand second place at Monza back to Norris after they had swapped positions due to a pitstop delay for Norri...
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Piastri admits McLaren's Monza orders were in his mind as slump began
Oscar Piastri has admitted that losing out in McLaren's controversial team orders call at the Italian GP was playing on his mind in his subsequent ...
Red Bull and sister outfit Racing Bulls have become the first Formula 1 teams to announce launch plans ahead of the 2026 season and the start of the new rules era.As part of what is being called the 2026 Red Bull season launch, both teams' liveries for the 2026 season will be unveiled at an event being held in conjunction with Ford Racing in Detroit - where Ford was founded - on January 15.Ford is...
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The Brazilian Grand Prix once again proved its one of Formula 1’s best events with an action-packed race with plenty of title ramifications. Here’s everything we learned from Interlagos. This is Norris's title to lose nowGiven Lando Norris has a 24-point lead with just three races (and a sprint) remaining, this has to be his title to lose right now. It’s by no means comfortable. A Zandvoort-like D...
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Lando Norris had the weekend of his dreams at the Brazilian Grand Prix, taking maximum points after winning both the sprint and main races alongside both his 2025 Formula 1 title rivals having difficult weekends.While Max Verstappen was able to recover something from this weekend, charging from the pitlane to third, Oscar Piastri lost a further 23 points to team-mate Norris, whom he led in the cha...
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Ferrari president John Elkann has certainly done his part to keep the media talking in the break between Brazil and Las Vegas with the suggestions his drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton should "talk less" - among other direct or indirect team criticisms.What can we ascertain from this? Is it a good or bad move to publicly criticise parts of the team and the drivers for their performances l...
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A very big weekend for the 2025 Formula 1 world championship fight means a potentially predictable number one. But what did Edd Straw make of Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri's weekends or Kimi Antonelli's breakthrough result?Here's his full worst-to-best ranking of the Interlagos performances.Want to quiz Edd about his ranking? Head to this post in The Race Members' Club and leave your comments a...
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Ferrari president John Elkann has said Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc need to “talk less” and implied the Formula 1 team lacks unity in a surprising criticism after its Brazilian Grand Prix double retirement.Leclerc was wiped out of the race early on as a consequence of Oscar Piastri and Kimi Antonelli colliding at the first corner when Leclerc was trying to overtake Antonelli on the outside f...
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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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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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