How Liam Lawson landed a 2025 Red Bull F1 seat with six great drives
Liam Lawson staked his claim for a Formula 1 seat with Red Bull over the course of two short reserve driver stints. We analyse what made his best drives so impressive
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Ferrari said goodbye to Carlos Sainz and invited his father for a family F1 test, before team boss Fred Vasseur explained why he has full confidence in Lewis Hamilton, ahead of a frantic start to 2025
Lewis Hamilton’s last race for Mercedes after 84 grand prix victories and six world titles was a neat summation of his desultory last three seasons there. Quick in the practices…
Five of this year’s Formula 1 drivers still have no contract for next season, and at least three look certain to leave the grid: here is every F1 driver out of contract at the end of 2024
Controversial? Yes, but only because it was so brilliantly clever. Gordon Murray’s marvel would have changed the game, which is why his boss – with one eye already trained on…
By 2002, Ferrari’s axis of power – shaped by Rory Byrne, Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher – had gone full supersonic. The F2002 was dominant – too much unless you…
I worked for Bernie Ecclestone at the Brabham Formula 1 team back in the 1980s and then in 1995 he asked me to look after his cars. The collection was…
Created in short order after an outrageously late change to Formula 1’s aerodynamic regulations, Gordon Murray conjured his most beautiful creation – a contender for the most aesthetically pleasing racing…
A quarter of a century before Jean Todt oversaw Ferrari resurgence with Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, Luca di Montezemolo set the template of how it should be done with Mauro Forghieri…
Liam Lawson staked his claim for a Formula 1 seat with Red Bull over the course of two short reserve driver stints. We analyse what made his best drives so impressive
Ferrari said goodbye to Carlos Sainz and invited his father for a family F1 test, before team boss Fred Vasseur explained why he has full confidence in Lewis Hamilton, ahead of a frantic start to 2025
Lewis Hamilton’s last race for Mercedes after 84 grand prix victories and six world titles was a neat summation of his desultory last three seasons there. Quick in the practices…
Five of this year’s Formula 1 drivers still have no contract for next season, and at least three look certain to leave the grid: here is every F1 driver out of contract at the end of 2024
Controversial? Yes, but only because it was so brilliantly clever. Gordon Murray’s marvel would have changed the game, which is why his boss – with one eye already trained on…
By 2002, Ferrari’s axis of power – shaped by Rory Byrne, Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher – had gone full supersonic. The F2002 was dominant – too much unless you…
I worked for Bernie Ecclestone at the Brabham Formula 1 team back in the 1980s and then in 1995 he asked me to look after his cars. The collection was…
Created in short order after an outrageously late change to Formula 1’s aerodynamic regulations, Gordon Murray conjured his most beautiful creation – a contender for the most aesthetically pleasing racing…
A quarter of a century before Jean Todt oversaw Ferrari resurgence with Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, Luca di Montezemolo set the template of how it should be done with Mauro Forghieri…
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Formula 1’s two-year return to Portimao may be less a long-term endorsement than a holding pattern, as the championship keeps calendar space open for future street races
Two Australian F1 drivers who came to Europe at the same time: one became world champion, the other faded from memory. But both Alan Jones and Brian McGuire have their place in racing history
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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