Everything you need to know about the F1 safety car
A definitive guide to how Formula 1’s safety car works, when it is deployed, and why it so often reshapes the outcome of grands prix
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Mercedes has unveiled a new Formula 1 safety car for 2026. Here’s how fast it is – and how it differs from the road car
From dramatic races to shocking plot twists and standout performances, these are the 12 pivotal moments that shaped the opening half the 2025 Formula 1 season
Laurent Mekies arrives as Red Bull F1 team principal with a series of immediate challenges to solve and long-term issues to tackle. He’ll either sink or swim, says Mark Hughes
Former McLaren F1 team-mates Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard are set to renew old rivalries in a new Evening with… tour – they told James Elson all about it
In Formula 1, driver contracts may look iron-clad on paper, but history shows that some of its biggest stars have made dramatic early exits
Former McLaren F1 ace told James Elson about his private audience with The Beatles’ George Harrison, who played an unreleased grand prix-themed song
As he fights for the F1 title, Lando Norris cements his influence off track with the sale of Quadrant to esports powerhouse Veloce
With Max Verstappen already on four Formula 1 titles, where should he sit in the list of the greatest Formula 1 drivers in history? Here’s our latest verdict on the top 15
A definitive guide to how Formula 1’s safety car works, when it is deployed, and why it so often reshapes the outcome of grands prix
Mercedes has unveiled a new Formula 1 safety car for 2026. Here’s how fast it is – and how it differs from the road car
From dramatic races to shocking plot twists and standout performances, these are the 12 pivotal moments that shaped the opening half the 2025 Formula 1 season
Laurent Mekies arrives as Red Bull F1 team principal with a series of immediate challenges to solve and long-term issues to tackle. He’ll either sink or swim, says Mark Hughes
Former McLaren F1 team-mates Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard are set to renew old rivalries in a new Evening with… tour – they told James Elson all about it
In Formula 1, driver contracts may look iron-clad on paper, but history shows that some of its biggest stars have made dramatic early exits
Former McLaren F1 ace told James Elson about his private audience with The Beatles’ George Harrison, who played an unreleased grand prix-themed song
As he fights for the F1 title, Lando Norris cements his influence off track with the sale of Quadrant to esports powerhouse Veloce
With Max Verstappen already on four Formula 1 titles, where should he sit in the list of the greatest Formula 1 drivers in history? Here’s our latest verdict on the top 15
Lando Norris’s soaring confidence and an improved McLaren mean we’re witnessing a Formula 1 driver at his outer limits, Mark Hughes argues
Fast enough to build an unassailable lead, Lando Norris was too quick to catch the VSC pit window. And so his flawless F1 Madring weekend ended cruelly, as even the winner acknowledged, Mark Hughes says
With a brand new surface and a tyre-punishing banked Turn 12, Madrid’s inaugural Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix weekend could reshuffle the Mercedes-McLaren-Ferrari pecking order once again, writes Mark Hughes
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
A secret Teddington wind tunnel shared with torpedo tests and a particle accelerator gave McLaren its first taste of porpoising four decades before the sport rediscovered it
There’s no version of the VSC rule that’s fair to everyone, and the Spanish GP just proved it again
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