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Cadillac has moved to shut down the latest driver-

Cadillac has moved to shut down the latest driver-market noise, with Graeme Lowdon flatly dismissing rumours that Valtteri Bottas is already under threat after Canada and could be replaced by reserve Colton Herta. Lowdon called the talk “completely incorrect” and said there’s “no foundation of truth” to any suggestion Bottas is on borrowed time, or that Sergio Perez is headed elsewhere.

He also pointed out the basic reality check: Herta doesn’t have the super licence points, making the supposed near-term swap implausible on its face. More broadly, Lowdon stressed Cadillac is still building its operation while racing, meaning the drivers’ jobs go far beyond headline lap-time comparisons — and he took aim at how social media speculation turns into “fact” in today’s news cycle.

#F1 #CadillacF1 #ValtteriBottas #ColtonHerta #SergioPerez #F1News

Mercedes arrived in Montreal with its first major

Mercedes arrived in Montreal with its first major upgrade of the year and, by its own assessment, it worked. But the Canadian GP became a reliability bruise when George Russell suffered his first retirement of the season after 29 laps, with James Allison confirming a “catastrophic” battery failure that triggered an engine kill. Early signs point to heat damage, leaving Mercedes to dig into whether packaging, cooling or operating margins are being pushed too hard.

The DNF cut short a lively on-track fight with Kimi Antonelli and instead handed the teenager a fourth straight win — and a 43-point lead after five races that’s starting to look like a stranglehold. Russell’s frustration also spilled over post-retirement, earning a suspended €5,000 fine for throwing his headrest on track, before he apologised publicly. Mercedes has the pace; now it has to make sure the hardware reaches the flag.

#F1 #Mercedes #CanadianGP #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #F1News

Adrian Newey has put £10,000 into a GoFundMe suppo

Adrian Newey has put £10,000 into a GoFundMe supporting renowned driver coach Rob Wilson as he awaits a kidney transplant. It’s a rare public moment from a figure who usually lets the lap time do the talking, and a reminder that the F1 paddock still looks after its own when it counts.

Wilson, 73, has helped shape careers from Räikkönen and Rosberg to Montoya, Coulthard, Bottas, Perez and Lance Stroll, with coaching built on stripped-back “flat car” fundamentals rather than flash. The appeal had reached £162,621 of a £185,000 target, with contributions spanning the grid and beyond — including Bottas (£5,000), Perez (£4,298), Zak Brown (£7,500) and others. The NHS covers the transplant, while funds are aimed at associated costs and ensuring Wilson’s donor, Dr Georges Kaye, isn’t financially disadvantaged during recovery.

#F1 #AdrianNewey #RobWilson #AstonMartinF1 #Motorsport #RacingCommunity

Zak Brown isn’t dismissing the idea of McLaren bui

Zak Brown isn’t dismissing the idea of McLaren building its own F1 engine, but he’s framing it in the only terms that matter: it happens only if it’s financially viable. After riding Mercedes customer power to major success and admitting they’ve felt “on the back foot” early in 2026, the familiar works-team question is back as McLaren look for control when margins tighten at the front.

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has floated a cheaper, simpler future powertrain concept, including talk of a V8 return around 2030/31, potentially lowering the barrier for a programme like McLaren’s. Brown, speaking to Sports Business Journal, stressed McLaren “couldn’t be happier” with Mercedes, and that partnership is locked in until at least the end of 2030. But with McLaren already building its own twin-turbo V6 for the 2027 WEC hypercar, the message is clear: the door isn’t open for romance, it’s open for a spreadsheet.

#F1 #McLaren #ZakBrown #MercedesAMG #FIA #PowerUnits

Lewis Hamilton left Montréal with his best result

Lewis Hamilton left Montréal with his best result yet as a Ferrari driver, finishing P2 behind Mercedes teenager Kimi Antonelli. But sharing a Canadian GP podium with the championship’s newest pace-setter didn’t turn Hamilton into an on-call mentor as the 2026 title fight heats up.

Antonelli’s win made it four straight to start his F1 victory tally — a first — and stretched his lead to 43 points after George Russell retired. Hamilton praised Antonelli’s level and pointed to the “scaffolding” modern teams provide, crediting Toto Wolff and Mercedes for the support around him, especially on the mental side. Still, Hamilton drew a clear line: competitors don’t trade pointers when trophies are on the table.

#F1 #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #Mercedes #KimiAntonelli #CanadianGP

Monaco is going full throwback in 2026: the FIA ha

Monaco is going full throwback in 2026: the FIA has confirmed there’ll be no Straight Mode zone all weekend, meaning F1’s new movable-wing system won’t be used at the principality at all. It’s the first grand prix since 2011 to run without the sport’s main movable-wing overtaking tool, with the FIA effectively deciding the risk of big aero shifts on Monaco’s narrow, curved “straight” doesn’t add up.

Drivers will still get Overtake Mode (energy boost) within one second, but with Monaco’s low energy stress and easy recharging, the advantage may be limited. With the two-stop experiment also dropped for 2026, the classic Monaco equation returns: qualifying matters more than ever, track position is structural, and Sunday will hinge on precision, strategy timing, and whatever chaos the walls decide to invite.
#F1 #MonacoGP #FIA #Formula1 #Motorsport #F12026

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Martin Brundle’s Montreal gridwalk found its perfe

Martin Brundle’s Montreal gridwalk found its perfect flashpoint: Juan Pablo Montoya, freshly in the crosshairs after suggesting drivers who publicly “talk sh*t” about the 2026 rules should face consequences — even penalty points or a one-race ban. Brundle teed it up with “you’ve upset the Verstappens,” and Montoya barely flinched: “Anything new there?”

Max Verstappen has already hit back hard, calling Montoya’s comments “rubbish” and questioning why F1 would “associate itself” with him, with a pointed jab at his pundit role. Montoya insists the quote was pulled out of context, saying it was about respecting the sport rather than targeting Verstappen personally, and that they’re cordial in the paddock. But the bigger fight is clear: old-school “don’t trash the show” versus modern drivers refusing to be policed for speaking their mind — and as 2026 gets closer, this debate is only getting louder.

#F1 #CanadianGP #MaxVerstappen #JuanPabloMontoya #MartinBrundle #F12026

Valtteri Bottas isn’t the “early-season casualty”

Valtteri Bottas isn’t the “early-season casualty” some Monaco whispers tried to make him. Cadillac values the calm, experience and technical grounding he was hired for, with Herta not even a straightforward option without the required Super Licence and Bottas understood to have an option into 2027. The noise says more about Cadillac attracting attention than any genuine internal panic.

In Canada, Verstappen’s first podium of 2026 also marked a milestone for Red Bull-Ford Powertrains: Ford’s first F1 podium since Brazil 2003. Off-track, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is reportedly backing a proposal to remove presidential term limits, while McLaren’s Zak Brown has written to push tougher enforcement on multi-team ownership rules. And in Maranello, Luca di Montezemolo has publicly slammed Ferrari’s first fully electric road car, urging the Prancing Horse be removed from it.

#F1 #CadillacF1 #ValtteriBottas #FordPerformance #FIA #Ferrari

Oscar Piastri has raced at F1 speed around the wor

Oscar Piastri has raced at F1 speed around the world, but a visit to the Isle of Man TT this week still left him wide-eyed. Fresh from Canada, Piastri and Mark Webber took in the Mountain Course from the roadside and paddock, with Webber calling it a “privilege” to show someone the TT for the first time and praising the “sheer courage” on display.

Piastri’s own clips captured the full contrast: squeezing through fences to reach “the spot,” then watching bikes blast past walls and hedges with the kind of commitment modern grand prix racing doesn’t demand. “I don’t know what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it,” he said, before landing on the only verdict that fit: “These guys are nuts.” He also hinted it won’t be his last trip, as this year’s TT rolls through practice and qualifying ahead of race weekend, with Peter Hickman’s 2023 lap record still the benchmark at 136.358mph average.

#F1 #OscarPiastri #MarkWebber #IsleOfManTT #TTRaces #Motorsport

Sergio Perez has gone public with his frustration

Sergio Perez has gone public with his frustration after another points-less weekend for Cadillac, saying the car’s pace is improving but the team is “not maximising the results” because of repeated operational issues in qualifying and the race. With Cadillac and Aston Martin the only scoreless teams so far in 2026, Perez’s message is clear: when you’re fighting on the P10–P15 fringes, small execution errors cost everything.

Team boss Graeme Lowdon acknowledged the learning curve of a new operation while calling Canada Cadillac’s most competitive weekend yet after further upgrades. Perez insists his driving is delivering and is pushing for sharper processes ahead of the European run, where tighter margins and a packed calendar will make clean weekends the difference between progress and anonymity.

#F1 #CadillacF1 #SergioPerez #Formula1 #F1News #Motorsport

The first real 2026 driver-market noise has landed

Montreal was the best advert yet for F1’s 2026 rul

Montreal was the best advert yet for F1’s 2026 rules: cars that can follow closely, overtakes in both Sprint and Grand Prix, and a genuine front-end fight that didn’t collapse into tyre-management theatre. Lewis Hamilton backed it up with P2, his best grand prix result so far in Ferrari red, after trading blows with Max Verstappen once George Russell’s Mercedes fell out with a battery issue.

But Hamilton’s verdict came with a clear caveat. With Canada’s season-low 6.0MJ energy recharge per lap exposing the new formula, he says the power delivery still feels wrong: hit Straight Mode, then the power drops mid-straight and the revs fall away. He called it “less exciting” than the V10/V8 days, even while praising the car as a “fundamentally better design.” Up front, Kimi Antonelli made it four straight wins and agreed the system can still catch drivers out, with more refinement likely — including a mooted 2027 shift back toward combustion, and even longer-term talk of a V8 return around 2030.

#F1 #LewisHamilton #Ferrari #CanadianGP #2026Regulations #MotorsportNews

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McLaren has taken aim at F1’s growing web of “shad

McLaren has taken aim at F1’s growing web of “shadow alliances”, urging the FIA to treat the “independent constructors” principle as a hard line, not a grey area. Zak Brown has written to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem calling for a ban on future co-ownership and a plan to unwind existing structures, arguing that even if relationships stay technically legal, they can still tilt the playing field through influence, easier staff movement and loopholes that are difficult to police after the fact.

Andrea Stella doubled down in Montreal, saying the concept should be enforced “totally” and backed by a framework that limits control and convenient pathways, rather than relying on perfect behaviour. Red Bull’s Laurent Mekies and Racing Bulls’ Alan Permane defended existing safeguards and compliance, but the debate is reignited by Mercedes’ reported interest in an Alpine stake — and the bigger question of whether perception of influence is becoming a competitive factor.

#F1 #McLaren #ZakBrown #AndreaStella #FIA #Formula1

George Russell had the Canadian GP in his hands un

George Russell had the Canadian GP in his hands until his Mercedes stopped from the lead with a battery failure, turning a potential title-changing win into a silent DNF. The points swing was huge: Kimi Antonelli inherited the moment and left Montreal with a 43-point championship lead, as Mercedes’ perfect start to 2026 rolls on with five wins from five.

Toto Wolff called Russell the paddock’s benchmark for resilience after another run of bad breaks, stressing there was no mistake to dissect this time. Russell admitted the “pressure is off” now and says he’ll just chase wins, but in a season where Mercedes’ advantage makes big rival scores rare, Antonelli’s cushion already changes the shape of this fight.

#F1 #CanadianGP #MercedesAMG #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #F1News

Verstappen’s P3 in Montreal wasn’t just damage lim

Verstappen’s P3 in Montreal wasn’t just damage limitation for a messy Red Bull weekend. It marked the first podium of the Red Bull Powertrains-Ford era, and Ford’s first F1 rostrum since 2003. For a partnership built around Red Bull’s biggest structural gamble—becoming a true manufacturer operation ahead of 2026—that’s a timely proof point, especially with paddock talk that the RBPT package is already among the grid’s sharpest.

But the feel-good headline comes with pressure. Red Bull is managing a major leadership transition under Laurent Mekies while the FIA’s catch-up rules and ADUO checkpoints threaten to shape who gets development freedom next. If RBPT-Ford is already inside the key performance window, it could mean fewer upgrade opportunities while rivals get a leg-up. Ford insists the project is stable and long-term. Montreal delivered a milestone; the regulation war is next.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #FordPerformance #MaxVerstappen #CanadianGP #PowerUnit

A French court is about to rule on the FIA’s presi

Lewis Hamilton shut down the retirement noise in M

Lewis Hamilton shut down the retirement noise in Montreal, insisting he isn’t going anywhere “any time soon” and telling anyone waiting for him to move aside to get used to it. He then backed it up with his best Ferrari Sunday yet: a hard-earned second place after a bruising, high-quality fight with Max Verstappen. For Ferrari, results like that don’t just score points — they buy time and strengthen Hamilton’s hand inside a team that rarely changes course unless it has to.

That’s where the Oliver Bearman dilemma deepens. Ferrari’s protégé is delivering again, sitting ninth in the standings with 18 points, and his long-term goal remains a Ferrari seat. But with Hamilton performing and Charles Leclerc still in the mix, the obvious path narrows. Bearman is keeping it simple: no timeline, just keep building the case until the market opens up around the end of 2026 and into what’s expected to be a volatile 2027.

#F1 #CanadianGP #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #OliverBearman #SillySeason

Montreal exposed the first real cracks in Mercedes

Montreal exposed the first real cracks in Mercedes’ 2026 “perfect partnership” narrative. In Saturday’s Sprint, Russell defended hard enough to force Antonelli onto the escape road, and the championship leader didn’t hide his anger on the radio, calling it unfair and pushing for a penalty. Toto Wolff quickly shut it down live: focus on driving, we’ll deal with it internally, drawing a clear line on public in-team arguments.

Sunday made it look less like a one-off and more like a pattern. Russell and Antonelli went wheel-to-wheel again in the GP, trading the lead and mistakes at the hairpin, with Antonelli refusing to yield despite holding a 43-point title lead. Russell’s race ended with a battery issue, followed by a rare flash of visible frustration as he threw his headrest onto the track. With pundits calling Canada a flashpoint, Mercedes now has a real intra-team title fight to manage before those boundaries get tested again at 300km/h.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #CanadianGP #F1Sprint

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