Having raced on three very different circuits in Melbourne, Shanghai and Suzuka, the early stages of 2026 have provided a first look at which teams hit the ground running in Formula 1's bold new era and who has missed the mark.
Mercedes came out swinging with a clean sweep of the first three races, while questions will be asked at struggling Williams and Aston Martin. Here's an overview of all ...Keep reading

Former Red Bull team advisor Helmut Marko has become the latest figure to criticise the new Formula 1 rules and regulations, as he points to where the problems began and how he hopes solutions can be found.
F1’s new era has received a mixed response at best, with the increase in action and overtaking contrasting complaints by drivers about artificial overtakes and unnatural ways to drive the ...Keep reading

Are F1’s 2026 rules going to be tweaked, and when?
Formula 1’s new-for-2026 rules have received a mixed reception so far. Drivers tend to enjoy the smaller, nimbler cars, but this has been overshadowed by the greater emphasis on electric energy and the consequent preponderance of energy management.
Drivers are openly dissatisfied with the amount of energy-saving and energy-harvesting ...Keep reading

"He's going to kick my butt because of the start. I deserve that,” is what Kimi Antonelli said in response to his major area to improve within his dream start to 2026, in which the entire month of April – in part due to the cancellations of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs – he will have spent leading the Formula 1 world drivers' championship. Antonelli knows he has a job to do, kick up the ...Keep reading

Autosport's driver ratings have been going on for, well, decades, and the responsibility of giving the drivers a score out of 10 has passed through the hands of many esteemed writers and journalists through the years. 
Framed by that previous sentence, you might be thinking "well, why do you do them now, then?". And that's only fair...
Since the driver ratings were also launched online ...Keep reading

Many in the paddock had expected a difficult start for Red Bull under the new technical regulations, but for a different reason than the one currently at play. Ahead of winter testing in Barcelona and Bahrain, the biggest question marks surrounded the all-new power unit, with Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff stating that Red Bull had “the Mount Everest to climb”.
Wolff then completely ...Keep reading

Despite its historic period of dominance in Formula 1 between 2022 and 2023, Red Bull has since gradually seen its key figures leave, sometimes under murky circumstances. Here is a  look back at all the major departures from the team over the past three years.
Rob Marshall, chief engineer

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The announcement of Rob Marshall’s move ...Keep reading

Many teams felt the weight of expectation heading into Formula 1's 2026 season, particularly through their own publicly declared intent of entering the championship's latest era with a sizeable impact. Those who had enjoyed success wanted to sustain it, and those starved of results wanted to use the reset to their advantage. 
It wasn't entirely surprising that Mercedes vaulted to the top of ...Keep reading

The FIA has laid out a timeline for further discussions to improve the 2026 Formula 1 regulations after a "constructive dialogue" on tweaks to energy management.
On Thursday technical experts from the teams and power unit manufacturers convened for the first of a series of meetings to propose and discuss tweaks to 2026 technical and sporting regulations to address a number of concerns around ...Keep reading

Gianpiero Lambiase will join McLaren as its chief racing officer, the British Formula 1 team announced on Thursday.
Autosport revealed Lambiase’s career move earlier today, with Red Bull subsequently confirming the Briton’s eventual exit from the Milton Keynes-based outfit.
Lambiase joined Red Bull from Force India in 2015 and has been Max Verstappen’s race engineer ever since the ...Keep reading