3 red flags and ‘cancelled lap’ chaos as Verstappen wins ‘messy’ Australian GP
Max Verstappen kept the field at arm’s length as carnage unfolded at the 2023 Australian GP, with Lewis Hamilton second and Fernando Alonso third
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Lando Norris has been languishing in an underperforming McLaren while his peers have gone on to win grands prix. He’s now pinning his hopes on a team reshuffle. Adam Cooper has the details
Max Verstappen secured pole position in a closely-contested qualifying session with the Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton second and third
Oscar Piastri will arrive in Melbourne for the first time as an F1 driver at the 2023 Australian Grand Prix. But can he follow in the footsteps of drivers who have pulled off miracle performances on home soil?
Mercedes is pressing ahead with a major redesign of its 2023 F1 — but Lewis Hamilton has identified an issue that can’t be fixed so easily
Lewis Hamilton was all at sea with the troublesome Mercedes W14 in qualifying at Jeddah. The first sector in particular, with its high-speed bends between the very close walls, requires…
David Coulthard’s 13th and final F1 win at the 2003 Australian GP was packed with incident from start to finish – a strong contender for the championship’s best-ever opening race
F1’s free practice sessions should be scrapped in favour of a more entertaining format, according to the series’ CEO, Stefano Domenicali. Is it unrealistic to demand non-stop excitement throughout a grand prix weekend? asks Chris Medland
30 years ago, Ayrton Senna won his home grand prix for the final time, an F1 victory that provoked a storm of emotion at Interlagos
Max Verstappen kept the field at arm’s length as carnage unfolded at the 2023 Australian GP, with Lewis Hamilton second and Fernando Alonso third
Lando Norris has been languishing in an underperforming McLaren while his peers have gone on to win grands prix. He’s now pinning his hopes on a team reshuffle. Adam Cooper has the details
Max Verstappen secured pole position in a closely-contested qualifying session with the Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton second and third
Oscar Piastri will arrive in Melbourne for the first time as an F1 driver at the 2023 Australian Grand Prix. But can he follow in the footsteps of drivers who have pulled off miracle performances on home soil?
Mercedes is pressing ahead with a major redesign of its 2023 F1 — but Lewis Hamilton has identified an issue that can’t be fixed so easily
Lewis Hamilton was all at sea with the troublesome Mercedes W14 in qualifying at Jeddah. The first sector in particular, with its high-speed bends between the very close walls, requires…
David Coulthard’s 13th and final F1 win at the 2003 Australian GP was packed with incident from start to finish – a strong contender for the championship’s best-ever opening race
F1’s free practice sessions should be scrapped in favour of a more entertaining format, according to the series’ CEO, Stefano Domenicali. Is it unrealistic to demand non-stop excitement throughout a grand prix weekend? asks Chris Medland
30 years ago, Ayrton Senna won his home grand prix for the final time, an F1 victory that provoked a storm of emotion at Interlagos
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
He’s only 19, but Kimi Antonelli has shown F1 championship-winning pace and may never get a better title shot. The ingredients are there for another historic battle between one experienced team-mate and a thrusting newcomer, says Mark Hughes
Kimi Antonelli looked like he’d have blasted to victory in the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, no matter what rules F1 was racing under, says Mark Hughes. However, the result was once again overshadowed by the shortcomings of the series’ new regulations
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
March 21, 2026 Sebring, Florida, USA Porsche Penske Motorsport trio Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich completed a double in the ‘36 Hours of Florida’ when they added Sebring…
There is a word for what happens when platforms stop serving the people who made them great. Should Formula 1 learn it?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Leading the world championship aged 19, Kimi Antonelli has proved he has the pace to win the title — and this could be his best shot. Plus: how GPs could be shortened over safety fears, and why Max Verstappen is serious in threatening to quit
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
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