Formula 1 News & Updates | fastestlap.com

0%

❮

SWIPE

❯

slide 1

slide 2

0%

home
Breaking News
Videos
Tickets
Facebook

home
Breaking News
Videos
Tickets
Facebook

Popularity

VER

38.5%

Negative

HAM

30.8%

Positive

RUS

15.4%

Positive

LEC

3.8%

Positive

STR

3.8%

Neutral

fastestlap.news

Carlos Sainz left Silverstone with a blunt verdict

Carlos Sainz left Silverstone with a blunt verdict: Williams is bringing updates and shedding weight, but the car’s relative pace is still sliding backwards. After a strong start briefly put him in the top 10, he faded to 17th — and it’s become a pattern, with Sainz now four races without a point and Alex Albon’s last score coming in Monaco.

The worry runs deeper than one rough weekend. Sainz says the gaps to the midfield ahead are “simply too big” and fears Williams may be missing aerodynamic load or failing to correlate upgrades to real lap time under these regulations. With the team eighth in the standings on 11 points, his message is clear: the parts are arriving, but the performance isn’t, and Grove needs answers fast.

#F1 #WilliamsRacing #CarlosSainz #BritishGP #Silverstone #F1News

Mohammed Ben Sulayem arrived at Silverstone with t

Mohammed Ben Sulayem arrived at Silverstone with two familiar flashpoints — refuelling and engines — but the real impact is political. The FIA president says a return to refuelling is being “studied” rather than imminent, a move that would reshape car design and race strategy, and he framed it alongside sustainable fuels and potentially more electrification.

The bigger tremor was his idea of an “FIA-selected engine” that customer teams could use, aimed at reducing manufacturers’ leverage over smaller outfits in a sport where votes and supply deals are tightly intertwined. It raises immediate questions over who builds it, how it’s funded, and how the FIA avoids conflicts if it’s both regulator and gatekeeper. With Ben Sulayem also talking up a post-2026 reset toward lighter cars and a simpler V8 concept, the next paddock battle is starting to look less like lap time — and more like control of F1’s future.

#F1 #FIA #BritishGP #F1Engines #F1Politics #MotorsportNews

Verstappen’s Silverstone weekend ended in the Stow

Verstappen’s Silverstone weekend ended in the Stowe gravel after a sudden rear snap robbed him of a podium — and, more importantly, reignited a bigger concern: it’s the second high-speed failure in two races. He didn’t hide it afterwards, saying he’s “fed up” with being left as a passenger in corners where the consequences can be serious.

Red Bull has traced the Silverstone incident to a rear wing system fault that didn’t fully close on the approach, creating unpredictable aero behaviour at very high speed. Team principal Laurent Mekies backed Verstappen’s frustration and stressed the team is treating it as a duty-of-care issue, not just a points loss, while noting this failure appears different to Austria’s — reassuring in one way, unsettling in another.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #MotorsportNews

Silverstone turned sour for Aston Martin before th

Silverstone turned sour for Aston Martin before the lights were even close to going out: Alonso’s car shut itself off halfway through the formation lap. He managed to restart and run the rest of the race without further drama, but the stoppage forced a pitlane start and turned a P21 weekend into an 18th-place trudge focused on logging laps and gathering data.

Post-race, neither Alonso nor Mike Krack could explain the shutdown, with possibilities ranging from ECU and chassis systems to the energy side — the kind of intermittent, electronics-led mystery that’s hardest to pin down. Alonso also used the moment to criticise what he called “push-button” overtaking, arguing that energy states are increasingly deciding passes rather than braking skill and risk.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #AstonMartin #FernandoAlonso #MotorsportNews

George Russell isn’t hiding behind bad luck in 202

George Russell isn’t hiding behind bad luck in 2026. After Silverstone, he admitted Kimi Antonelli has simply been better across the first nine races, leaving Russell 25 points adrift in the title fight — a gap he believes reflects their performances, even factoring in errors like his Monaco penalty.

Silverstone summed it up: a “very challenging” weekend, a puncture that should have sunk his race, and yet a gritty salvage job to P2. Russell praised fighting Verstappen and Hamilton, accepted the team’s realistic ceiling, and still walked away grateful for the result. With Mercedes leading the way again, Antonelli’s five-win run has flipped the expected pecking order, and even the senior driver is calling it straight.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #BritishGP #Silverstone

Silverstone exposed just how far Red Bull’s 2026 h

Silverstone exposed just how far Red Bull’s 2026 has slipped from “difficult” into dysfunctional for Max Verstappen. From the opening laps he was reporting poor power deployment, straight-line issues, high-speed understeer and messy downshifts, while the pit wall cycled through setting changes just to keep the car manageable. After pushing for an engine change before the race and being overruled, Verstappen’s radio turned into a lap-by-lap scorecard of problems — capped by the verdict that the team “should have just done what I said yesterday.”

The weekend ended in the gravel at Stowe on lap 47, leaving Verstappen classified 20th and adding a third non-finish of the season. Post-race, the spin was linked to a rear-wing reattachment issue — shifting the story from setup frustration to build integrity and reliability. When the driver who usually masks the flaws is openly at war with the machinery, the bigger Red Bull problem isn’t pace — it’s trust.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #MotorsportNews

Adrian Newey was caught doing what he’s always don

Adrian Newey was caught doing what he’s always done best at Silverstone: quietly, intensely studying the competition. Cameras snapped Aston Martin’s technical chief leaning over Red Bull’s RB22 on the grid, after he’d already given Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari SF-26 the same forensic once-over. With his Red Bull era only just in the rear-view mirror and Ferrari fresh off a British GP win, it was a reminder that the grid is still F1’s most revealing showroom for anyone hunting the next advantage.

For Aston Martin, the backdrop was grim: Alonso and Stroll qualified last for the fourth race running, and Stroll’s afternoon unravelled with a stack of track-limits penalties. But change is coming fast. A major Hungary upgrade is set to focus on a lighter chassis and gearbox architecture, plus rear suspension, nose and aero revisions. Newey has called it a “large step” — and the urgency behind that weight-loss push is now impossible to miss.

#F1 #AstonMartinF1 #AdrianNewey #BritishGP #HungarianGP #Formula1News

Silverstone delivered its usual chaos, but the tak

Silverstone delivered its usual chaos, but the takeaway was uncomfortably clear for everyone else: Charles Leclerc didn’t just win, he made it look repeatable. Ferrari’s SF-26 finally seems to have a wider operating window than expected, and with Hungary and Zandvoort next, this felt like a genuine step forward rather than a one-off. It also sharpens the spotlight inside Maranello, where Lewis Hamilton’s muted run now has an even clearer reference point on the other side of the garage.

The title fight twisted again as Kimi Antonelli and Max Verstappen both showed pace, then lost everything to late retirements. Antonelli still leads by 25 points, but a second DNF in three races has turned a cushion into a warning, while Red Bull’s aero-related issues are starting to look like a pattern. Add Lance Stroll stacking three five-second track limits penalties in nine laps, and Adrian Newey taking a very interested look at Leclerc’s Ferrari on the grid, and Silverstone’s message lands: the shift isn’t noise anymore.

#F1 #BritishGP #Ferrari #CharlesLeclerc #MaxVerstappen #KimiAntonelli

Oscar Piastri has labelled modern F1 wheel-to-whee

Oscar Piastri has labelled modern F1 wheel-to-wheel combat “boost-button roulette”, arguing that too many overtakes are now decided by battery deployment timing and guesswork rather than set-up moves, tyre phases or braking execution. He pointed to Silverstone’s sprint as the clearest example: positions changed quickly in packs, but often because of who had energy, who spent it, and who burned it reacting to threats that never came.

Starting eighth, Piastri said the first lap felt like a “multi-pass race start”, with rapidly changing closing speeds as different cars deployed at different moments. Boxed in and tagged on the run to Turn 6, he broke his front wing and had to pit, calling the current energy picture “a mess” and warning that the sport is incentivising early gambles that can end in carbon fibre consequences.

#F1 #OscarPiastri #McLaren #BritishGP #Silverstone #MotorsportNews

Colton Herta isn’t sugarcoating his first Formula

Colton Herta isn’t sugarcoating his first Formula 2 season. At the halfway point, he says it simply hasn’t been good enough — a problem when 2026 was meant to be his Super Licence and credibility push after leaving IndyCar, and when Cadillac’s long-term driver plan is still taking shape.

Heading to Budapest he’s 17th in the standings with 20 points, on a five-race scoreless run, and even trails Hitech team-mate Ritomo Miyata. Herta points to qualifying as the clear weakness, with race pace and starts often stronger once he’s already fighting from the back. He also says the F2 car and its sensitive Pirellis punish the aggressive style he built in IndyCar, to the point that F1 machinery actually feels more natural. With another Cadillac FP1 outing lined up and future sessions still undecided, Hungary becomes an important weekend to show real progress on both fronts.

#F2 #ColtonHerta #CadillacF1 #Formula2 #F1 #MotorsportNews

Kimi Antonelli’s Silverstone turned from promise t

Kimi Antonelli’s Silverstone turned from promise to pure damage control in a heartbeat. On lap 41 he reported a sudden issue, and Mercedes’ stop only partly helped. Toto Wolff later suggested something lodged around the front-left; the wheel shield came off, but the car still wouldn’t behave. Even the idea of retiring was raised on the radio, yet Antonelli stayed out and fought on while a points finish slipped away.

A late Safety Car wiped out his last shot at a point, then a Turn 6 track limits infringement brought a five-second penalty, with the stewards ruling a mechanical problem wasn’t a justifiable reason. After five straight wins, it’s now a DNF in Barcelona and just eight points from Silverstone — but Antonelli left focused on the pace shown and insisting the setback only “makes the fire grow” heading to Spa.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #Mercedes #KimiAntonelli #MotorsportNews

Ferrari didn’t just win at Silverstone — it shifte

Ferrari didn’t just win at Silverstone — it shifted the mood around Charles Leclerc. Taking his first victory since the 2024 United States GP, he made it clear he’s heard the noise after a run where Lewis Hamilton outscored him over the previous five races, leaving Leclerc P4 in the standings and 39 points back.

The decisive moment came where Ferrari has been quietly strong: the launch. Leclerc and Hamilton both jumped pole-sitter Kimi Antonelli off the line, flipping the race early. Antonelli briefly got back ahead, but Leclerc retook the lead on lap 36 and never let the door reopen, helped late on by an issue for the W17. More important was how it looked and sounded: calm tyre management, clear control, and a driver talking about instinct and confidence again after a poor sprint start the day before. One win won’t rewrite the season, but it forces a recalibration inside Ferrari — and beyond.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #Ferrari #CharlesLeclerc #MotorsportNews

Mercedes didn’t win the British GP by being quicke

Mercedes didn’t win the British GP by being quickest in clean air. They won it by reading the ending — and backing a call that would’ve looked awful if the race had actually restarted. After Max Verstappen’s late spin and stoppage at Stowe brought out the Safety Car, Ferrari pitted Charles Leclerc from the lead and Lewis Hamilton followed, but George Russell stayed out and kept track position. With the Safety Car running to the flag, the “attack” on fresh tyres never arrived, leaving Russell to take the win while Hamilton was stuck behind.

The finish was made messier by mixed messaging, with a “Safety Car in this lap” alert briefly raising expectations before the FIA later blamed a software error and insisted the procedure was followed. Toto Wolff backed Race Control’s call even if it dulled the spectacle, while Martin Brundle questioned whether the unlapping rule still works on long circuits. In the end, Silverstone was decided by process, timing and one strategic gamble.

#F1 #BritishGP #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #LewisHamilton #FIA

Silverstone felt like a hard reset. Ferrari arrive

Silverstone felt like a hard reset. Ferrari arrived with tension and noise, but when it mattered Charles Leclerc found the feel again, pivoted on set-up for Sunday and drove away from Lewis Hamilton, who admitted a wing-setting split left him fighting understeer early on. It wasn’t just a lucky win either: the upgraded Ferrari package looked properly in sync in the cooler conditions, and Leclerc’s result was a timely reminder that the internal pecking order won’t be rewritten by headlines.

Behind him, Kimi Antonelli had a weekend of pace and poise that still ended in frustration after a wheel shield failure wrecked his car’s behaviour, trimming his championship lead to 25 points. Red Bull’s problems got louder: Max Verstappen crashed out with what looked like a rear wing attachment issue, amid visible tension over strategy calls and a wider sense of instability. McLaren scraped a quiet fourth with Lando Norris while Oscar Piastri’s race was derailed by first-lap contact; Racing Bulls kept rolling with another double points; Williams struggled again as Carlos Sainz admitted he’s worried; and Alpine’s Franco Colapinto turned a messy Saturday into points as the midfield fight tightened up.

#F1 #BritishGP #Ferrari #CharlesLeclerc #RedBullRacing #Silverstone

Silverstone delivered the finish nobody wants: the

Silverstone delivered the finish nobody wants: the British GP decided at Safety Car pace after Max Verstappen’s late trip into the gravel brought neutralisation on lap 48. Charles Leclerc takes the win, with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton on the podium, but the lasting story is a procedural squeeze that left the field frozen to the flag.

After the Red Bull was recovered, lapped cars were released to unlap on lap 51 — and that time cost meant the restart never truly arrived. An on-screen “Safety Car in this lap” message briefly suggested a final green-flag tour, but the FIA later said it was a software error and that Race Operations followed the regulations requiring a full lap after unlapping, forcing a Safety Car finish. The result stands, yet the confusion reopened the old debate: chasing spectacle with red-flag triggers risks turning race control into an entertainment lever, while tightening unlapping and fixing messaging might be the cleaner way forward.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #SafetyCar #FIA #CharlesLeclerc

Silverstone felt policed as much as it was raced.

Silverstone felt policed as much as it was raced. Lance Stroll collected three separate five-second penalties for track limits after six infringements, turning a difficult Aston Martin weekend into a slow bleed of lost time. The hits came at Club (Lap 33), Copse (Lap 35) and Stowe (Lap 42), with stewards finding no mitigating factors — and Stroll ended up last of the classified finishers in 19th, just behind Alonso.

Williams also left with a rewritten result: Carlos Sainz was given a post-race one-lap penalty that dropped him from 12th to 17th after the team “inadvertently gained a lap” during a Safety Car sequence, tripped up by Silverstone’s pit-lane/timing line layout and a misread of the Race Control ‘lapped cars’ message. Two different cases, same takeaway: the margins in modern F1 are as procedural as they are fast.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #TrackLimits #AstonMartin #Williams

Martin Brundle’s Silverstone take lit the fuse: on

Martin Brundle’s Silverstone take lit the fuse: on Sky, he suggested “Team Verstappen” helped torpedo Red Bull’s leadership and even sounded out McLaren. Jos Verstappen hit back hard on social media, calling Brundle “an idiot” and dismissing the idea he understands what’s really happening inside the team.

The flare-up lands in a Red Bull that’s been shedding senior figures since the 2024 tensions went public: Newey and Wheatley gone, Horner out with immediate effect after the 2025 British GP, Marko departing in December, and Paul Monaghan now on the way out. Max Verstappen remains contracted through 2028 but with a reported performance clause, while he stays publicly calm — saying he’ll be on the grid next year “definitely” without rushing to confirm where.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #JosVerstappen #MartinBrundle #SillySeason

George Russell’s 2026 is starting to look like a s

George Russell’s 2026 is starting to look like a season of spikes rather than a steady climb. Mercedes may have made qualifying its playground, but inside the garage it’s Kimi Antonelli setting the weekly standard: he leads Russell 6–3 head-to-head on Saturdays, and in a year where track position is everything, that gap is shaping the title fight.

Mark Webber’s read is blunt: Russell still has the “big lap” (Austria’s pole was the perfect example), but Antonelli is living on a higher baseline session after session. Silverstone underlined it again with Antonelli on pole and Russell fourth, 0.370s adrift, while Russell also flagged an unexplained straight-line deficit. Russell has trimmed the championship gap to 25 points and usually converts when he starts up front, but Antonelli’s pole-to-win rhythm has been relentless. If Russell can’t turn Saturdays into routine, the title charge risks dying by a thousand cuts.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #Qualifying #TitleFight

Mercedes is taking Kimi Antonelli’s W17 back to Br

Mercedes is taking Kimi Antonelli’s W17 back to Brackley for a full strip-down after Silverstone swung from a likely win to damage limitation in a handful of laps. With tyres around 10 laps fresher, Antonelli was hunting down Charles Leclerc when the car suddenly lost its willingness to change direction, turning the closing stint into survival.

Toto Wolff says the suspicion is a front-left failure, potentially a brake duct and wheel shield collapsing or something jamming in the corner, leaving Antonelli almost unable to place the car through the fast stuff. A late five-second penalty for repeated track limits — plus the pace loss and Safety Car timing — dropped him to 15th and out of the points, tightening the title fight: Antonelli’s lead over George Russell is down to 25 points, with Lewis Hamilton 32 back. Mercedes won’t appeal the penalty, but the priority now is understanding exactly what failed and why it had such severe consequences.

#F1 #BritishGP #MercedesF1 #KimiAntonelli #Silverstone #F1News

Carlos Sainz leaves the 2026 British GP with one o

Carlos Sainz leaves the 2026 British GP with one of F1’s harshest sanctions: a one-lap penalty for overtaking the Safety Car without permission, confirmed hours after the race finished behind the Safety Car. It didn’t change his points (he was classified 12th), but it’s a huge black mark — and a stewards’ call that feels wildly out of step with the usual five- and 10-second world.

The backdrop was a messy Silverstone finale: “Safety Car in this lap” appeared, the field prepared for a restart, then the Safety Car stayed out and Leclerc was escorted to the flag, later blamed on an FIA software error. In the chaos, Williams misread Sainz’s lap status through Silverstone’s awkward pit lane/Safety Car line quirks, and the stewards said he wasn’t eligible under the “lapped cars may now overtake” instruction — plus he wasn’t listed in the message naming permitted cars. The FIA leaned on the wider Sporting Code to justify the “nuclear” penalty, turning an already controversial finish into an even bigger farce.

#F1 #BritishGP #Silverstone #CarlosSainz #WilliamsRacing #FIA

Follow on Instagram

loading… ▼

Loading sessions…

Sessions converted to your time:

Starting engines…

0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Last Run	Avg 10 Runs	Fastest Run	Pro Time (0.250s)

3

Reaction Time: 0.000 seconds

Standings

Latest News

Silverstone Aftershock: F1 Declares War on Online Abuse
Max To McLaren? The Clause That Could Break Red Bull
Ferrari’s Quiet Revolt: Has Mercedes’ Reign Started to Crack?

We are dedicated to Formula 1 News 24/7. We aggregate the most profesionally writen news from around the world and ensure you stay up-to-date with notifications and breaking news announcements.

Useful Links

Home
About Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy (UK)
Cookie Policy (EU)
Opt-out preferences
News

All Rights Reserved © 2025 grandpx.news

Today's Score

LEVEL: Casual Fan

0%

All time record

Casual

1

Serious

2

Hardcore

7

Your Current Streak: 0 days

Record Streak: 0 days

Articles Read: 0

Overall Level: Casual Fan

Swipe this card for more info

The Game

This is a simple game that rewards you for your engagement. The more you engage with the app, the more medals you can collect.

Tips to increase your score:

Just read articles. Simple :)
Use daily to maintain your streak
Don't be afraid to use and interact with everything you see

This game is still in BETA and is subject to change and improvements.

Have fun!

You can swipe back now...

Bronze Medal

Silver Medal

Gold Medal

Updates available. Press to reload

Manage Cookie Consent

We use cookies to store personal data. This is used for personalized advertising.

Functional Functional Always active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Manage options
Manage services
Manage {vendor_count} vendors
Read more about these purposes

Preferences

{title}
{title}
{title}

Manage Cookie Consent

We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.

Functional Functional Always active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Manage options
Manage services
Manage {vendor_count} vendors
Read more about these purposes

Preferences

{title}
{title}
{title}

Want breaking news notifications?

Install

×

Install this FASTESTLAP on your iPhone and then Add to Home Screen

×