Williams F1 team boss Vowles gets an Abu Dhabi race outing When the 2025 Formula 1 season wraps up at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 7, Williams team principal James Vowles will not be flying back to Europe. Instead, he will stay on at the Yas Marina Circuit to contest the Gulf 12 Hours the following weekend.Vowles will compete alongside 2024 Gulf 12 Hours Pro-Am winner Alexander West and International GT Open frontrunners Mark Sansom and Marco Pulc... Read more:

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Williams F1 team boss Vowles gets an Abu Dhabi race outing

The 2025 Abu Dhabi GP marks the end of the season for most involved in F1. But not Williams team principal James Vowles - who'll be staying on to r...

Revealed: The data on F1's racing decline in current rules era New analysis by the FIA has revealed how hard it is for Formula 1 cars to follow each other right now - and how much better it will be in 2026.Towards the end of a 2025 season in which drivers have increasingly bemoaned how difficult it is to race closely behind a rival, fresh data from tests conducted by the FIA has highlighted the scale of the problem.Those CFD (computational fluid dynamics) sim... Read more:

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Revealed: The data on F1's worsening dirty air problem

New analysis from the FIA - first seen by The Race - has revealed just how hard it is for F1 cars to follow one another right now, and how much bet...

What Verstappen still needs after McLaren's disastrous assist McLaren's disastrous double disqualification in Las Vegas has brought Max Verstappen closer to the lead of the Formula 1 drivers' championship points than he has been since an opportunistic victory at Imola in May.But does it mean anything with Lando Norris still in control of the championship? After all, there is a very real chance that Norris wraps up the title in Qatar this weekend anyway.What ... Read more:

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What Verstappen still needs after McLaren's disastrous assist

Max Verstappen is closer to the F1 points lead than he's been since May - but can he really force his way properly back into the equation?

Get 20% off The Race’s 2026 F1, MotoGP and BBV10s calendars The Race’s 2026 calendars are now on sale, and we're running a 20% offer for the next week!F1, MotoGP and Bring Back V10s calendars are all available and from now until Monday December 1, you can use the code BF20 to get 20% off.We’ve hand-picked some of the finest photography from XPB Images for the F1 and BBV10s calendars and from goldandgoose for our MotoGP calendar.  Don’t forget, those of you... Read more:

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Get 20% off The Race's 2026 F1, MotoGP and BBV10s calendars

The Race’s 2026 calendars are now on sale, and we're running a 20% offer for the next week!

Our verdict on Aston Martin's shock Horner move Former Red Bull boss Christian Horner has emerged as a leading candidate for Aston Martin's Formula 1 team principal vacancy that will be created with Andy Cowell's move into a powertrains-based role.Here's our take on the prospect of Aston Martin being the vehicle for Horner's F1 return, and on Cowell being moved aside.Newey's team doesn't need external disruptionGary AndersonI said a few months ... Read more:

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Should Aston Martin sign Horner? Our verdict

Christian Horner is a leading contender for the team boss vacancy Aston Martin's just created by moving Andy Cowell - here's our take on it

Two Las Vegas GP problems F1 drivers want solved Fernando Alonso has led driver complaints on two fronts over Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix, as he says changes need to be considered.While Las Vegas has become a showpiece event for F1 in attracting global and commercial attention, drivers have raised concerns about the event.The first issue Alonso wants to be considered is the track surface, which he says is borderline in terms of safety when ... Read more:

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Two Las Vegas GP problems F1 drivers want solved

Fernando Alonso has led driver complaints on two fronts over Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix, as he says changes need to be considered

Mick Schumacher's 2026 switch to IndyCar - everything you need to know Mick Schumacher will race in IndyCar in 2026, marking a return to full-time single-seater racing for the first time since he left Formula 1 in 2022.Schumacher will race for the Rahal Letterman Lanigan team - co-owned by familiar names, IndyCar legend and sometime Jaguar F1 team boss Bobby Rahal, and famous talkshow host David Letterman - in a deal which will include racing on ovals for the first t... Read more:

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Mick Schumacher's 2026 switch to IndyCar - everything you need to know

Mick Schumacher will race in IndyCar in 2026, marking a return to full-time single-seater racing for the first time since he left Formula 1 in 2022...

F1's softest tyre dropped as 2026 choices finalised Formula 1's softest tyre, the C6, will not return in 2026 as Pirelli's finalised its range of compounds for next season. Pirelli has completed analysis of its last test session in Mexico City - one of several conducted throughout the year - to establish the compounds for the first season of the new regulations. Tyre development was carried out using forecast data supplied by the teams, using simul... Read more:

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F1's softest tyre dropped as 2026 choices finalised

Formula 1's softest tyre, the C6, will not return in 2026 as Pirelli's finalised its range of compounds for next season

Eight things we learned from F1 2025's Las Vegas Grand Prix Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix produced plenty of drama once again, both before and after the chequered flag. Here's everything we learned from the Las Vegas GP weekend... Rivals pushed McLaren to risky placeWhatever McLaren got wrong versus its rivals to have the only cars disqualified in Las Vegas for excessive plank wear, it showed that the benchmark team is operating at its limit.There is cl... Read more:

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Eight things we learned from F1 2025's Las Vegas Grand Prix

Formula 1's Las Vegas GP produced plenty of drama once again, both before and after the chequered flag - here's what we took from the weekend

Edd Straw's 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix F1 driver rankings Formula 1’s 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix will mainly be remembered for who was disqualified and how that transformed the results.But before that happened, how well did everyone actually drive?Here’s Edd Straw’s best-to-worst ranking of all 20 drivers’ performances. Agree or disagree? Leave questions or comments for him on this post in The Race Members’ Club and he’ll reply in his Q&A video later this... Read more:

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Edd Straw's 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

How did everyone actually drive before the disqualifications changed it all? Here's Edd Straw's rankings

What could be behind McLaren's plank wear DSQ shock One of the intriguing aspects about McLaren’s double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix for worn planks is that the infringement was at the rear of its Formula 1 car.In a season when rivals have been paying super close attention to where McLaren’s advantage comes from, it’s been widely acknowledged that the MCL39 has a concept that predominantly runs on its front skids.So if the team w... Read more:

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What could be behind McLaren's plank wear DSQ shock

McLaren's known to have been getting closer to the edge with plank wear in recent F1 races. What tipped it over the edge in Las Vegas?

Mark Hughes: How Verstappen suckered Norris into a race-losing move Pre-race uncertainties abounded after such little dry running: Would the tyres grain? Would that decide if it was a one-stop or a two? Was this going to be about undercuts around the pitstops or overcuts? The answer to those tyre questions would be crucial to determining the fuel consumption, which no-one had properly been able to measure because of the limited representative running. Would the Mc... Read more:

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How Verstappen suckered Norris into a race-losing move

Mark Hughes analyses the many uncertainties that decided the outcome of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, plus a crucial piece of suspected gamesmanship by...

Winners and losers from F1's Las Vegas Grand Prix Aside from some opening-lap pinball, the Las Vegas Grand Prix had looked pretty straightforward through its duration - but McLaren's stunning double disqualification means that's not how it'll go into the history books.Here are our winners and losers from a dramatic evening in Nevada.Winner - Max Verstappen (1st) Win number six of 2025 for Max Verstappen appeared to be one of the most straightforw... Read more:

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Winners and losers from F1's Las Vegas Grand Prix

Here are our winners and losers from a Las Vegas Grand Prix that grew exponentially more dramatic in the post-race hours

What we know about misjudgement behind shock McLaren double DSQ The disqualification of both McLarens from the Las Vegas Grand Prix was a shock given the way the race ended had left a big implication that only Lando Norris was at risk, and for a very different reason.Norris seemed to have taken another step towards his first world title despite only finishing second after a self-described “f*** up” that helped hand Max Verstappen win the Vegas race.But after s... Read more:

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What we know about misjudgement behind shock McLaren double DSQ

Here's what we know about the misjudgement behind McLaren's shock double disqualification in the Las Vegas F1 race

Our verdict on McLaren's disastrous double DSQ A blockbuster double disqualification for McLaren means the 2025 Formula 1 drivers' title battle has suddenly closed up again coming out of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.Here's what our journalists make of what transpired in Vegas, and how it will influence the season's outcome.A spectacular blunderScott Mitchell-MalmThe inevitable attempt to argue mitigating circumstances inevitably failed - teams alw... Read more:

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Our verdict on McLaren's disastrous double DSQ

Our verdict on McLaren's disastrous double disqualification from F1's Las Vegas Grand Prix, which has opened the door for Max Verstappen to close t...

McLaren apologises to drivers for double DSQ, promises investigation McLaren has apologised for its Las Vegas double disqualification and says it will investigate the reasons for the excessive plank wear on its Formula 1 cars that caused Lando Norris and team-mate Oscar Piastri to be thrown out of the results.Norris lost second place and Piastri lost fourth after post-race inspections found their cars’ skid blocks to be worn beyond the minimum 9mm thickness set out... Read more:

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McLaren apologises to drivers for double DSQ, promises investigation

McLaren has apologised, says it will investigate the reasons for its excessive plank wear after Las Vegas double disqualification for Lando Norris ...

Aston Martin replacing F1 team boss, Horner shortlisted Former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has emerged as one of the contenders for a Formula 1 return with Aston Martin as a replacement for its current boss Andy Cowell.Horner’s name is understood to be alongside former McLaren chief Andreas Seidl and current Audi COO Mattia Binotto in being considered by Aston Martin to join the squad as part of a major management shake-up.The Race has lea... Read more:

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Aston Martin replacing F1 team boss, Horner shortlisted

Former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has emerged as one of the contenders for a Formula 1 return with Aston Martin as a replacement for ...

Norris and Piastri excluded from Vegas GP in huge F1 2025 twist McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been excluded from the results of Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix, in a huge twist to the 2025 F1 title battle.Norris and Piastri have been stripped of second and fourth place respectively in the classification due to a rearmost skid block wear infringement - with the measured thickness less than the minimum figure required, which stands at 9mm.... Read more:

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Norris and Piastri excluded from Vegas GP in huge F1 2025 twist

McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been excluded from the results of Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix, in a huge twist to the 2025...

Why FIA wasn't concerned by marshals in run-off in Vegas F1 race The FIA has no concerns about how the clean-up after the Turn 1 collisions at the start of the Las Vegas Grand Prix was handled, despite marshals being on the run-off area as the field came through at the beginning of the second lap.The incident had certain similarities with what happened at the same point of last month’s Mexican Grand Prix, when Liam Lawson arrived at the first corner to encounte... Read more:

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Why FIA wasn't concerned by marshals in run-off in Vegas F1 race

The FIA has no concerns about how the clean-up after the Turn 1 collisions at the start of the Las Vegas Grand Prix was handled - here's why

Hamilton says 'worst F1 season ever' is only getting worse Lewis Hamilton's "worst season ever" in Formula 1 is spiralling into hopelessness, with the seven-time world champion left devastated again after the Vegas Grand Prix.Hamilton made up nine places relative to his starting position in the 50-lap Vegas race, but most of that was accomplished in a "pretty straightforward" opening lap, in which Hamilton "just stayed out of trouble".He only cleared the ... Read more:

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Hamilton says 'worst F1 season ever' is only getting worse

Lewis Hamilton's "worst season ever" in Formula 1 is spiralling into hopelessness