The McLaren F1 arrived in the 1990s as a road car that behaved like a prototype racer, a machine so far ahead of its time that rivals spent decades trying to catch it. Even now, more than thirty years on,

Toto Wolff has warned McLaren that they have “set a precedent that is very difficult to undo” after ordering Oscar Piastri aside for world championship rival Lando Norris during Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. A botched pit stop for Norris towards the ...

Vettel was always the outside bet. He’d become F1’s youngest race winner in 2008, aged 21, but the pressure of his first championship fight through 2010 had tolled at points with some on-track errors. At no point had he led the standings, and it was only thanks to a late-season surge with wins in Japan and Brazil that he’d stayed in the hunt.

The air in Baku is electric, and it’s not just because of the notoriously tight corners of its city circuit. There’s a palpable sense of anticipation, a feeling that we could be on the verge of witnessing something truly historic. The team at the heart ...

Last weekend’s Brazil Grand Prix was another sign of how competitive F1 has become, with all 10 cars (representing seven different teams) within 0.528s in Q3 on an admittedly short Interlagos track. An almost identical gap separated the top 14 drivers in ...

Lando Norris is the leader heading into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but F1 history shows that guarantees nothing.