Hamilton's vibe of capitulation gives little 2026 hope
There is no joy to be had in Lewis Hamilton’s lowest season of all.The only season in his F1 career without a grand prix win or podium, and just 156 points, his lowest haul ever.“I've said all I can about this season already, so there's not really much more to add to it,” was his take at the end of the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where he finished eighth.That honeymoon period with Ferrari was truly...
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There is no joy to be had in Lewis Hamilton’s lowest season of all.The only season in his F1 career without a grand prix win or podium, and just 156 points, his lowest haul ever.“I've said all I can about this season already, so there's not really much more to add to it,” was his take at the end of the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where he finished eighth.That honeymoon period with Ferrari was truly...
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Hamilton's vibe of capitulation gives little 2026 hope
Lewis Hamilton plans to "unplug from the matrix" over the winter, with very little positivity on offer for 2026 as things stand
Formula 1 is set to rename some of the complicated elements of the 2026 rules – such as manual override mode - in a bid to simplify things and make it clearer for fans. While the finishing touches were made this week to the technical and sporting regulations for the all-new cars, work has also been going on behind the scenes to ensure that how things are presented to the public will be as clear as...
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Max Verstappen put together one of Formula 1's greatest unsuccessful title bids and the significance of his only big error within it is inevitably a topic of debate, especially after Verstappen's surprising reaction to being asked about it when the season ended.Verstappen gave a surprisingly tense and revealing response when a journalist asked him at the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix press confe...
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The chances of an IndyCar driver switching to Formula 1 have increased after the FIA boosted IndyCar’s superlicence points allocation from 2026. Any prospective F1 driver needs to pass the 40-point threshold of points accumulated in other series before they can be granted the necessary superlicence. This is an obstacle that Cadillac’s F1 test driver Colton Herta came up against when trying to make...
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Helmut Marko, who is somewhat suddenly departing from Red Bull, was the enabler who translated his friend Dietrich Mateschitz’s racing dreams into reality. The two met in 1969 when Marko was a budding superstar driver on the way up and Mateschitz was a fan, two years Marko’s junior. Marko was competing in a hillclimb event and Mateschitz introduced himself. The two hit it off and would remain clos...
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Charles Leclerc says Ferrari's progress next year is critical to his future at the Formula 1 team, as he warns it will be a ‘now or never’ season for the squad.Off the back of a super challenging 2025 campaign where Ferrari did not win a grand prix and its drivers battled with a difficult car, Leclerc is hopeful that its early commitment of resources to next year will pay off when it comes to the ...
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Formula 1 held its first collective 2026 test of sorts as the 10 current teams stayed behind in Abu Dhabi to run a mule car each and trial next year's tyres on Tuesday.Pirelli's mule car programme developing the 2026 tyres has been rumbling away in the background all year with 12 two-day sessions across eight circuits before the final day in Abu Dhabi after the season finale. This one was the most...
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After over 20 years as the face of Red Bull's driver development in Formula 1, Helmut Marko is out.The exit was announced by Red Bull as Marko's personal decision, though the reality of it is understood to be a lot more nuanced than that.Regardless, it means another one of the architects behind the energy drink company's F1 juggernaut will no longer be part of its effort.How will Marko's stint be ...
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Williams is going to let fans decide the livery of its 2026 Formula 1 car for pre-season testing. Fans will have six different designs to choose from, which will be used when Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz debut the car during F1’s first official test in January. Don’t expect a completely radical departure from the traditional Williams designs, as all six liveries feature Williams’s signature blue.Bu...
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Helmut Marko will leave Red Bull at the end of 2025, ending a run of more than 20 years as the Formula 1 team’s motorsport advisor.The move has been framed as Marko’s decision “to step down” but his exit is understood to have a complicated backstory.Marko, who is 82, was key to the creation of Red Bull’s F1 team and its rise to being one of the championship’s powerhouses.He steered major decisions...
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Lando Norris is already back in Formula 1 action in the post-season test in Abu Dhabi but has to wait before he can run with #1 on his car as the new world champion.Norris clinched his first F1 title on Sunday, beating Max Verstappen to the crown by just two points, and said afterwards he intended to switch from the #4 he has run through his career so far to the #1.He also hoped it would be on the...
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Prototypes simulating the kind of the movable front wing system that will be used in Formula 1 next season are appearing at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi.Next year the all-new 2026 cars will feature active aerodynamics on both the front and rear wings to reduce drag on the straights, which is being approximated on the 'mule cars' in Tuesday's test by only using wing levels that were raced at t...
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Formula 1's 'mule car' test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday will impose speed limits on the straights and four DRS zones to further simulate the performance of the 2026 cars.All 10 current teams will participate in the Pirelli tyre test portion of the traditional post-season day of running at the Yas Marina circuit.It is a chance for them to sample the majority of the compounds that Pirelli has decided to...
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The final weekend of the 2025 Formula 1 season taught us plenty, both about the three title protagonists and those who went under the radar.Here's everything we learned from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. Norris proved himself wrongNew F1 champion Lando Norris went into remarkable depth during multiple media engagements after sealing the title.But arguably the most telling revelation was that h...
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So much of the attention during Formula 1’s title-decider was understandably on its three championship protagonists - but there were plenty of other things happening behind them.For the other 17 drivers, the title battle was irrelevant to them and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was simply a chance to end the season on a high.But the TV broadcast overlooked many important moments in the race in favour of...
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For a company as big and well known as PepsiCo, its return to Formula 1 team sponsorship after 34 years away has inevitably prompted some intrigue about why now?After all, PepsiCo already had its foot in the door of grand prix racing through a global partnership with F1 that involved three of its core brands: Gatorade, Sting and Doritos.But there is good reason as to why it has committed to a majo...
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The 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix crowned a new Formula 1 world champion - but how high does Lando Norris climb in the weekend's rankings?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 week.How do the rankings work? The 20 drivers will be ...
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The outpouring of relief and pride - and the release of tension - in Lando Norris's incredibly raw reaction to becoming Formula 1 world champion laid bare his gruelling process of turning self-described embarrassment and doubt into a career-changing accomplishment.Two Norris journeys have collided to bring him to celebrate his maiden title.There is the one that has consumed his and his family's li...
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Oscar Piastri’s spectacular lap one pass around the outside of Lando Norris at Turn 9 of Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix showed that he wasn't going to down without a fight.The manoeuvre earned plenty of fanfare for the way it was delivered with inch-perfect precision during a campaign where Piastri and Norris have quite rarely been involved in such wheel-to-wheel passes.But things are not always...
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Lando Norris, world champion. It slotted into place in the season finale in a way no one could have any real complaints about. Max Verstappen won his eighth race of 2025 (more than anyone else) to cap a truly brilliant seasonal performance, but Norris did all he needed to do in finishing a conservative third. The way McLaren went about winning one of its drivers a title for the first time in 17 ye...
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