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Red Bull’s Miami reset starts off-track, with a co

Red Bull’s Miami reset starts off-track, with a confirmed technical reshuffle: Ben Waterhouse steps up to chief performance and design engineer, while Andrea Landi arrives from Racing Bulls as head of performance on July 1. It reads less like panic and more like Red Bull tightening the correlation and accountability loop as this era keeps shifting.

The bigger undercurrent is Max Verstappen addressing Gianpiero Lambiase’s future move to McLaren for the first time, saying Lambiase asked for his “approval” and he told him to take the “fantastic offer”. The switch isn’t immediate (McLaren say no later than 2028), but the countdown and succession planning now start in public. Elsewhere, George Russell says he’s close to hitting the metrics that would trigger a 2027 Mercedes extension, Alpine swaps Renault CFO Duncan Minto for M&A chief Guillaume Rosso on its board amid stake interest, and Damon Hill reopens debate over Max Mosley with a sharply critical response.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #McLaren #MercedesAMGF1 #AlpineF1Team

A year after being dropped from Red Bull’s senior

A year after being dropped from Red Bull’s senior team, Liam Lawson’s 2026 reset at Racing Bulls is starting to look like more than damage control. Three races, three points finishes, 10 points, and P10 in the standings isn’t flashy, but it’s bought him breathing space and changed the tone around him: calmer, more grown-up, and productive.

Team principal Alan Permane’s message is even clearer than the results: the pace is there, now stop giving away weekends. Racing Bulls want Lawson to eliminate the low points that turn a Q3 driver into a Q1 exit a week later, because in the midfield those swings are costly. Lawson agrees the car hasn’t even been “that fast” yet, which makes the early points feel like a foundation — and the reinvention, for now, is about winning by not losing.

#F1 #LiamLawson #RacingBulls #Formula1 #Motorsport #F1News

Gianpiero Lambiase, the steady radio voice and tru

Gianpiero Lambiase, the steady radio voice and trusted right-hand man behind Max Verstappen’s Red Bull run, is set to join McLaren no later than 2028. He’ll become Chief Racing Officer under Andrea Stella, a senior operational hire that signals McLaren’s intent to level up process, standards and culture with a proven title-winning operator.

For Red Bull, it’s another heavy hit in a growing list of exits, and Karun Chandhok has warned it’s not just about lap time. Even with strong results late last season, the departures point to a deeper cultural shift that can snowball, with key figures often pulling networks of talent with them. With Laurent Mekies now tasked with steadying the team, the challenge is stopping the brain drain and restoring Red Bull as a destination — with Chandhok even suggesting they should start recruiting from Mercedes.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #McLaren #MaxVerstappen #Formula1 #F1News

Haas hasn’t found a miracle for 2026, but Ayao Kom

Haas hasn’t found a miracle for 2026, but Ayao Komatsu says it’s starting to scare rivals for a simpler reason: execution. The team hit the early milestones cleanly — shakedown, Barcelona, and both Bahrain tests — and in a regulation reset that kind of discipline can be worth as much as big-name infrastructure. The car has a solid base, and “togetherness” has translated into fewer wasted weekends and more momentum.

Komatsu is also blunt about the limit: Haas still has to learn too much at the track because it lacks the deep off-site tools others rely on, and the development race will be brutal. That’s why the simulator project at Banbury matters, even if the payoff won’t be instant. Add in Oliver Bearman’s rapid rise — seventh in the standings, consistent under pressure, and praised for how he lifts the team — and Haas’s message is clear: this is method, not hype, and it’s getting harder to ignore.

#F1 #HaasF1 #AyaoKomatsu #OliverBearman #Formula1 #F1News

Cadillac is putting structure around Colton Herta’

Cadillac is putting structure around Colton Herta’s long-running F1 ambition: he’ll take all four of the team’s mandatory rookie FP1 sessions in 2026, starting in Barcelona. It’s a deliberate Super Licence play as much as it is seat time, with each outing offering extra points if he completes 100km — a built-in buffer in a world where careers turn on fine print.

Herta is doing the rest the hard way in Formula 2, sitting seventh after Australia and just five points shy of the 40-point licence threshold as things stand. With Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas set as Cadillac’s race drivers, these Fridays also underline a bigger message: Herta isn’t a box-tick, he’s the pipeline — learning, logging mileage and proving he can deliver clean, useful work in a full F1 weekend environment.

#F1 #CadillacF1 #ColtonHerta #Formula2 #SuperLicence #FP1

Miami could be the weekend where nothing changes o

Miami could be the weekend where nothing changes on paper, but everything shifts in how F1 cars are driven. The FIA and FOM have been meeting with teams and engine manufacturers over a tweak to this season’s energy-management behaviour, with a final vote expected on 20 April. The main idea: adjust the maximum harvestable energy on a circuit-by-circuit basis, lowering the current 8.5MJ cap (trialled at 8.0MJ in Suzuka) and potentially pushing it down into the 5.0–6.0MJ range to reduce the most extreme lift-and-coast and other unnatural techniques.

The catch is timing. If approved, Miami is where everyone finds out what it really does, with no testing to lean on and a sprint format that leaves just one practice session before parc fermé. Teams will need to validate new power unit software and rework run plans on the fly, while customer outfits like Haas may be especially reliant on whatever strategies and code arrive from their supplier. It’s not a revolution, but it could reshape who looks comfortable quickest when the weekend gets fast in a hurry.

#F1 #MiamiGP #SprintWeekend #FIA #PowerUnits #EnergyManagement

George Russell is keeping Mercedes’ 2026 contract

George Russell is keeping Mercedes’ 2026 contract talk deliberately dull: the performance clauses in his one-plus-one deal sound more like paperwork than a pressure point, and with Mercedes starting the year as the benchmark (three wins from three races), he says the targets should be comfortably met. His message was blunt and calm: he expects to be there next season.

But the real noise sits behind Russell’s certainty. With Red Bull no longer the obvious best car and fresh focus on a reported Verstappen exit clause tied to his mid-season championship position, Mercedes inevitably becomes the headline destination again. Toto Wolff insists there are “no Max discussions” and he’s happy with Russell and Kimi Antonelli, yet F1’s market can turn overnight if Verstappen becomes available. For now, Russell is performing, Mercedes is winning, and the door doesn’t look as open as the speculation suggests.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #MaxVerstappen #SillySeason #Formula1

A month after his 50G Suzuka crash, Oliver Bearman

A month after his 50G Suzuka crash, Oliver Bearman has stopped calling it “one of those things” and has labelled Franco Colapinto’s late defence “unacceptable” in a new era where huge speed differentials can appear mid-battle. Bearman says Colapinto looked in his mirror and still moved across as Haas arrived with deployment while Alpine was harvesting, turning a moment that might once have been “on the limit” into something far more dangerous. He chose the grass to avoid an even bigger impact and still destroyed the car, limping away with a bruised knee.

The bigger issue, Bearman argues, is systemic: the closing speeds were already raised in the drivers’ briefing, and old habits around late moves can’t survive. The FIA has backed that in its analysis, and talks are already under way with teams and manufacturers to refine 2026 energy-management rules before Miami. While criticism stays on-track, Alpine has also condemned the online abuse aimed at Colapinto since the incident. Bearman is physically fine, but the warning is clear: adapt quickly, or the next one may not end as lightly.

#F1 #OliverBearman #FrancoColapinto #Suzuka #HaasF1 #FIA

Red Bull is making a quiet but telling move ahead

Red Bull is making a quiet but telling move ahead of 2026: tightening the link between design, vehicle performance and the day-to-day development grind. With its senior technical leadership already locked into long-term deals, Laurent Mekies has opted for a targeted reshuffle under technical director Pierre Waché aimed at clearer accountability and a faster track-to-factory feedback loop.

Ben Waterhouse has been promoted to chief performance and design engineer, consolidating responsibility across design and performance and reporting directly to Waché — a clear sign Red Bull wants fewer handovers and quicker decisions when correlation or development direction gets messy. Andrea Landi joins from Racing Bulls on July 1 as head of performance, bringing race-team instincts and deep vehicle dynamics experience. No theatrics, just process: make the organisation react faster so good ideas turn into lap time more reliably.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #Formula1 #F1Tech #2026F1 #MotorsportNews

McLaren’s Nürburgring trip wasn’t about headlines,

McLaren’s Nürburgring trip wasn’t about headlines, it was about rebuilding a season that’s started in fits and starts. In a tightly controlled two-day Pirelli tyre test alongside Mercedes, the priority was simple: bank mileage, validate procedures, and get back into a rhythm under the new regulations after too many early interruptions.

Oscar Piastri’s first day was cut short by a technical issue, limiting him to 66 laps. Lando Norris took over and logged 108 laps, topping out at a 1:33.640 — a number that means little in isolation, but mattered because the car ran cleanly and consistently. With cancelled rounds in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain disrupting plans, and a messy opening stretch highlighted by Piastri’s Australia incident and a double-DNS in China, even a restricted tyre test became a valuable reset ahead of Miami.

#F1 #McLaren #Nurburgring #LandoNorris #OscarPiastri #PirelliTest

Damon Hill has reignited the debate over Max Mosle

Damon Hill has reignited the debate over Max Mosley’s legacy after a birthday tribute described the late former FIA president as “scarily intelligent” but “hard and even cruel.” Hill wasn’t having the softening of the edges, replying that Mosley’s humour was “always at someone else’s expense” and arguing intelligence isn’t much to celebrate when it’s used “in the service of hatred and division.”

That verdict sits alongside the uncomfortable complexity of Mosley’s 1993–2009 reign: a central force in F1’s post-Imola safety push that reshaped what the sport could survive, but also an era remembered for bruising politics, grudges and governance by confrontation. Hill isn’t disputing what Mosley achieved; he’s challenging what those instincts served, and refusing to let time polish a reputation that still divides the paddock.

#F1 #Formula1 #DamonHill #MaxMosley #FIA #MotorsportNews

Max Verstappen has confirmed Gianpiero Lambiase di

Max Verstappen has confirmed Gianpiero Lambiase didn’t decide on McLaren alone. After receiving what Verstappen called a “fantastic offer,” Lambiase asked for his driver’s approval — and Verstappen told him to take it, saying he’d be “daft not to.” McLaren announced Lambiase will join as chief racing officer, arriving no later than 2028 when his Red Bull contract ends.

The move puts a countdown on one of Red Bull’s defining partnerships, with Jos Verstappen noting they’ve known for a while and that it’s on Red Bull to find a replacement. It also adds fresh noise to the bigger Verstappen future conversation, even as Max focuses on track time elsewhere: he’s set for Nürburgring 24h qualifiers this weekend ahead of his endurance debut next month, sharing a Red Bull-branded Mercedes-AMG GT3.

#F1 #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #McLaren #GianpieroLambiase #MotorsportNews

The FIA has moved fast to shut down a qualifying w

Oscar Piastri’s 2026 finally got moving at Suzuka

Oscar Piastri’s 2026 finally got moving at Suzuka after two pre-race non-starts to open the year — a reconnaissance-lap crash in Melbourne, then an electrical issue in China that wiped out both him and Lando Norris before lights out. In Japan, he made up for lost time immediately, launching into the lead and controlling the first half of the race with McLaren looking properly in the fight.

Then the Safety Car rewrote the script. The timing gifted Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli a low-cost stop and track position, and with it, Piastri’s win chance. Still, P2 felt like a reset more than a consolation: proof the MCL40 can run at the front when it’s in the window, and that Piastri is ready to lean on it. The “what if?” will linger, but so will the bigger takeaway — McLaren is chasing, and the baseline is finally there.

#F1 #JapaneseGP #Suzuka #OscarPiastri #McLaren #Mercedes

Lando Norris has added a different kind of accolad

Helmut Marko thinks Mercedes is already on course

Helmut Marko thinks Mercedes is already on course for an internal title fight in 2026, predicting the championship will come down to George Russell vs Kimi Antonelli and warning that genuine two-car contention usually brings tension with it.

Mercedes has started the new era exactly as it would’ve hoped: Russell delivered early with pole and a Melbourne win, while Antonelli rebounded from an FP3 crash to qualify second and finish P2. Then Antonelli flipped the script with the youngest-ever pole, wins in China and Japan, and a nine-point lead as Russell hit reliability trouble. Marko rates Antonelli’s pace but flags the long-season grind, pointing to Russell’s experience and the risk that a close, equal pairing can slide from healthy rivalry into something more like the Hamilton–Rosberg years.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #Formula1 #MotorsportNews

Franco Colapinto returned to the Alpine A526 at a

Franco Colapinto returned to the Alpine A526 at a damp, camera-packed Silverstone for the team’s second and final 2026 filming day. Officially it was a routine 200km run; unofficially it carried extra weight after Alpine published a rare open letter condemning online abuse and knocking down “sabotage” claims, insisting both Colapinto and Pierre Gasly have the same machinery apart from minor, low-impact parts changes.

With Gasly scoring in all three opening races and Colapinto coming off a tough Suzuka weekend, the timing mattered: a low-stakes reset to get back into the rhythm, correlate early-season data, and move the conversation back to work rather than noise. Next up is Miami, followed by an Alpine roadshow in Colapinto’s Buenos Aires on April 26, as the team tries to keep momentum—and the narrative—pointed forward.

#F1 #AlpineF1Team #FrancoColapinto #PierreGasly #Silverstone #MiamiGP

Oliver Bearman says he’s “all okay now” after his $Oliver Bearman says he’s “all okay now” after his huge Suzuka crash, but the part that lingered wasn’t the 50G headline number. It was the trip home. No fractures, just a bruised, swollen right knee, yet the long-haul flight and the days after were a grim reminder that modern safety can prevent the worst without making a hit like that feel small. The shunt came after a closing-speed misjudgement while battling Franco Colapinto into Spoon, a jink onto the grass, and a cross-track slide into the barrier. Bearman was back on the simulator within days once the swelling eased, grateful it “could have been a lot worse” and already focused on Miami. Suzuka also feeds into ongoing 2026 regulation discussions, another data point when closing speed ends in a 50G impact. #F1 #OliverBearman #HaasF1 #Suzuka #MiamiGP #MotorsportNews$

The FIA has moved to shut down a 2026 qualifying t

The FIA has moved to shut down a 2026 qualifying trick that had become the paddock’s worst-kept secret, issuing a technical directive to stop teams using the MGU-K “shutdown for reliability” allowance as a repeatable tool to reshape mandatory energy ramp-down to the timing line.

Red Bull and Mercedes were understood to be exploiting the 60-second lockout in ways that fit neatly into out-laps and cooldowns, potentially carrying an extra 50–100kW versus rivals who followed the taper as intended. The issue escalated beyond data traces when Ferrari raised safety concerns, with slow cars spotted in Suzuka’s fast sections and a Williams stoppage linked to the procedure. The FIA’s clarification limits shutdown to genuine emergencies, removing a significant qualifying lever and underlining how tightly 2026’s energy rules will need to be policed.

#F1 #FIA #Mercedes #RedBullRacing #MGUK #2026Regulations

Lando Norris likes what the 2026-style cars are as

Lando Norris likes what the 2026-style cars are asking of drivers — lower downforce, a livelier limit, and more opportunity to catch slides and make a difference. But he’s uneasy about the new power unit behaviour, after a Suzuka moment where battery deployment effectively forced his hand in a fight with Lewis Hamilton.

Norris said the car “triggered” energy release when he didn’t want it, committing him to the pass, then leaving him exposed on the next straight where he’d planned to use that battery. With the new 50-50 split pushing energy management to the forefront — and speed differentials already biting, as seen in Oliver Bearman’s big Spoon crash — Norris’ message is a warning, not a rant: keep the driver in control. He says dialogue with the FIA has been positive and he expects tweaks before Miami.

#F1 #LandoNorris #McLaren #LewisHamilton #Suzuka #FIA

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