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Lewis Hamilton’s early Ferrari spell looked like a

Lewis Hamilton’s early Ferrari spell looked like a superstar dropping into Charles Leclerc’s house, but the balance inside Maranello is shifting fast. Ex-Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley says Hamilton is increasingly “corralling the team around him”, with the Italian press and people in the factory rallying behind him in a way that goes beyond lap time.

The results are starting to match the romance: P2 in Monaco and Montreal, then Hamilton’s first win in red in Barcelona, while Leclerc’s late DNF last time out leaves him 40 points behind his new team-mate. Smedley expects the season to tighten as 2026 develops, but he currently leans Hamilton for the title — and at Ferrari, momentum and mood can become their own kind of pressure heading into Austria.

#F1 #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #CharlesLeclerc #ScuderiaFerrari #F1News

RM Sotheby’s will offer one of Ayrton Senna’s pers

RM Sotheby’s will offer one of Ayrton Senna’s personal Honda NSXs in London this October 2026: chassis T000233, finished in red with a black roof, with an estimate starting at £500,000 and talk of £800,000. This is one of three NSXs supplied to Senna during his McLaren-Honda years, backed by unusually complete Portuguese documentation, warranty book and ownership history.

The car’s pull goes beyond famous-name provenance. Senna’s early prototype feedback helped Honda stiffen the NSX’s chassis and refine its suspension, and this very car was photographed at Estoril and seen in a 1992 documentary where he drives it hard, then washes it himself. After changing hands carefully across Portugal, the UK and Japan, it has also appeared in tributes at Imola and Silverstone—adding yet more weight to one of the most emotionally loaded road cars of its era.

#AyrtonSenna #HondaNSX #RMSothebys #MotorsportHistory #F1 #CarAuction

Mercedes says it’s finally got a clear read on the

Mercedes says it’s finally got a clear read on the battery reliability issues that have been undermining its 2026 campaign — and, crucially, a plan to protect the wider Mercedes-powered “fleet” from more headline DNFs. The urgency is obvious after Barcelona, where Kimi Antonelli stopped from P2 just after passing George Russell, echoing Russell’s similar power unit failure in Montreal. With the W17 showing real flashes, these retirements aren’t just lost points; they’re momentum killers.

James Allison insists the main risk areas are now “largely understood” and tied to the same broad region of the battery system, even if each failure looks a little different. With hardware slow to return for full investigation due to safety shipping procedures, Mercedes has had to balance caution with performance — turning things down to survive, then engineering the “proper cure” to get lap time back. The next step is phasing updated battery modules into the pool as the season progresses, with the hope that reliability — and confidence — rebounds across every Mercedes-engined car.

#F1 #Mercedes #W17 #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell #PowerUnit

Carlos Sainz has floated a “slightly crazy” idea t

Carlos Sainz has floated a “slightly crazy” idea to find out who’s really fastest in F1: take drivers out of teams entirely. In his thought experiment, drivers would be employed by F1 and rotated through every car on a fixed schedule, so everyone gets the same machinery across the season and the drivers’ title becomes a purer test of speed and adaptability.

Constructors would still score points, but tied to whichever driver is in their car that weekend. It’s an intriguing concept that would rip up much of what F1 is built on — star-driver identities, sponsorship continuity, and the deep driver-engineer integration that makes modern cars work — and Sainz admits it’s never going to happen. Still, coming from a proven race winner currently stuck in the midfield at Williams, it highlights the uncomfortable truth: the best driver doesn’t always have the best chance.

#F1 #CarlosSainz #Formula1 #WilliamsRacing #F1News #Motorsport

McLaren marked its 1,000th F1 grand prix with plen

McLaren marked its 1,000th F1 grand prix with plenty of spectacle, but the most pointed moment came back at Woking: a new bronze statue of Mika Häkkinen, cast by Paul Oz, installed at the McLaren Technology Centre beside the MP4-13 and captured in his Suzuka 1998 title celebration. It joins a boulevard of champions already immortalised in bronze, putting the team’s history directly in the line of sight.

Häkkinen kept it warm and typically blunt — “Wow… good memories!” — before joking he’d need to sort his six pack before racing again. With Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri present, the message was clear: this isn’t nostalgia, it’s a standard. Norris spoke openly about the pressure of living up to McLaren’s greats; Piastri called it “good pressure” and set the target of becoming the sport’s most successful team. For a McLaren back in full momentum, the past isn’t a comfort blanket — it’s the benchmark.

#F1 #McLaren #MikaHakkinen #LandoNorris #OscarPiastri #MotorsportNews

Rachel Brookes says the toughest part of her job i

Rachel Brookes says the toughest part of her job isn’t a spiky post-race pen, it’s what comes after. On the Road To Success podcast, the Sky F1 presenter described the “horrific” abuse she received online for asking Max Verstappen a direct follow-up after his controversial clash with George Russell in Spain last year, where a 10-second penalty and Nico Rosberg’s on-air view that it “looked deliberate” had already lit the fuse.

Brookes says she wasn’t chasing a viral moment, just reflecting the debate F1 itself was having. Verstappen’s response was dismissive, and while he later admitted he’d made “a mistake,” the online reaction turned personal enough that she switched off Instagram comments. Inside the industry, she says colleagues backed her for asking what others avoided, and her experience underlines a growing reality: it shouldn’t take bravery to do basic accountability on live TV.

#F1 #Formula1 #MaxVerstappen #RachelBrookes #SkyF1 #MotorsportNews

Mercedes has withdrawn its Right of Review bid ove

Mercedes has withdrawn its Right of Review bid over George Russell’s Monaco penalties, with Russell admitting the quiet part out loud: after checking every angle, there simply wasn’t a winnable case. The request gained momentum after Pierre Gasly’s penalties were rescinded, but Mercedes pulled back days later.

The team says the bigger win was pushing the FIA and Formula One into a collaborative review of Monaco’s “unique circumstances” and the procedural tangle that turned a five-second pitlane speeding penalty into a 20-second sanction at the flag. Russell still leaves Monaco with zero points and a win drought stretching back to Australia, while others continue the fight through appeal — Mercedes is betting on governance fixes instead of a courtroom battle.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #MonacoGP #FIA #MotorsportNews

Lewis Hamilton is a race winner in Ferrari red. Hi

Lewis Hamilton is a race winner in Ferrari red. His first victory for the Scuderia in Barcelona cut 25 points out of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead after the Mercedes driver retired, bringing the gap down to 41 and delivering a landmark moment: win number 106, the first over-40 GP winner since 1994, and the first British driver to win for Ferrari this century.

But Hamilton’s message after the champagne was a warning, not a coronation. He says Ferrari still aren’t the benchmark, pointing to a power deficit and suggesting Mercedes’ W17 is also ahead as a chassis. The SF-26 has a strong core, yet its floor can drop at tracks that expose horsepower weakness, so the focus now shifts to development meetings, aero upgrades and finding lap time through the corners to mask what can’t be fixed mid-season.

#F1 #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #SpanishGP #MercedesF1 #Formula1

Max Verstappen’s message to Red Bull is familiar,

Max Verstappen’s message to Red Bull is familiar, but with a sharper edge: he wants to stay until 2028 and even finish his career there, yet only if the project keeps delivering a genuine shot at wins. His manager Raymond Vermeulen confirmed long-standing exit clauses exist, while stressing they’ve never been used — loyalty remains, but performance is the price.

After an uneven start to the new era, Verstappen sits seventh after seven race weekends with 55 points and just one podium, leaving an exit clause tied to championship position looking less theoretical. A high-level meeting in Barcelona with Red Bull’s top decision-makers underlined the urgency, and Verstappen reportedly won’t commit beyond this year or buy out the clause. Mercedes noise is back, but there’s no sign of active talks; for now, the pressure is on Red Bull to prove direction, not just promise it — with clarity on 2027 potentially coming before the summer break.

#F1 #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #DriverMarket #Formula1 #MercedesF1

Red Bull arrived in Barcelona needing calm, but le

Red Bull arrived in Barcelona needing calm, but left with a louder kind of noise: Max Verstappen, despite being contracted to 2028, refused in a senior team meeting to offer any public reassurance about staying beyond next year. With a performance clause believed to sit in his deal and only four races left before the summer break, every weekend now matters. Verstappen sits seventh in the standings, 60 points behind second-placed Lewis Hamilton, and if he’s still outside the top two by August, the pressure around that clause turns from paddock gossip into a real leverage point.

Elsewhere, Mercedes has dropped its right of review petition over George Russell’s Monaco penalties, opting not to keep feeding a controversy already inflamed by Alpine’s successful appeal for Pierre Gasly. Aston Martin confirmed Jak Crawford will take Lance Stroll’s car for FP1 in Austria as part of the rookie running requirement, while Jacques Villeneuve fired back at Hamilton for a recent comment involving his father Gilles, a line that’s continued to sting even after Hamilton’s first Ferrari win in Spain.

#F1 #SpanishGP #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #MercedesAMG #AstonMartinF1

Liam Lawson’s 2026 season at Racing Bulls is turni

Liam Lawson’s 2026 season at Racing Bulls is turning into a quiet power move. After a rushed Red Bull audition last year, he’s rebuilt his case the only way F1 really listens: steady results. Five points finishes in seven races have him on 28 points, 10th in the standings, and looking like the kind of reliable operator Red Bull’s system eventually has to take seriously.

He’s doing it alongside highly-rated rookie Arvid Lindblad, who impressed early with points on debut, but Lawson has brought the cleaner Sundays and the consistent accumulation. The edge is still there, just better controlled. With Racing Bulls sitting sixth in the constructors’ fight and a driver pairing that’s pushing forward rather than tripping up, Lawson doesn’t need a viral weekend — he’s making himself unavoidable, one solid finish at a time.

#F1 #LiamLawson #RacingBulls #RedBullRacing #Formula1 #MotorsportNews

Daniel Ricciardo has opened up on retirement in a

Daniel Ricciardo has opened up on retirement in a candid letter via Enchanté, and the headline is simple: he’s enjoying not driving. After stepping away in September 2025 (following his final F1 start with Racing Bulls at Singapore 2024), Ricciardo says life away from the cockpit has brought a different kind of energy — one that doesn’t come with lap deltas, airports and constant pressure, even as he stays connected through an ambassador role with Ford ahead of the 2026 Red Bull power unit era.

What he didn’t expect was how hard the Indianapolis 500 would hit. Ricciardo went to watch longtime friend Conor Daly finish 12th, took in a city that treats race day like a civic holiday, and got caught up in the emotion on the grid. Daly’s approach to “locking in” — wanting every cheer and every sound — seemed to flip a switch for Ricciardo, who wrote about feeling those childhood rushes again. No comeback tease, just a driver learning how to be close to racing without being consumed by it, and loving the freedom of being a fan.

#DanielRicciardo #Indy500 #IndyCar #F1 #ConorDaly #Motorsport

Rafael Camara arrived in F2 with the weight of an

Rafael Camara arrived in F2 with the weight of an F3 title, Ferrari backing and Invicta expectations, then took a hit in Monaco as the noise got loud. In Barcelona, he shut it down the hard way: pole position and a feature win built on discipline, stretching the softs to 22 laps and nailing the execution. Invicta boss James Robinson called the result “vindicated,” dismissed online talk about any engineer-driver friction, and praised the strategy and garage effort while backing team-mate Joshua Durksen after a difficult Sunday.

In the title fight, Gabriele Mini did what leaders do with a double podium (P2 sprint, P3 feature) to hold a six-point advantage over Nikola Tsolov, with Camara up to third. Kush Maini added a controlled sprint win for ART. Over in F3, Theophile Nael finally converted his perfect pole record into a feature victory under pressure, James Wharton won a safety car-heavy sprint, and Hiyu Yamakoshi responded to Monaco frustration with a strong second in the feature.

#Formula2 #Formula3 #BarcelonaGP #RafaelCamara #InvictaRacing #RoadToF1

Lewis Hamilton didn’t just win in Barcelona, he re

Lewis Hamilton didn’t just win in Barcelona, he rewrote Ferrari’s priorities. His first GP victory in red, after back-to-back P2s in Monaco and Canada, has opened up a 40-point gap to Charles Leclerc inside the team — with Leclerc now failing to finish for a second straight weekend. Hamilton is up to P2 in the championship too, 41 points behind leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli, and suddenly Ferrari’s title chase looks real only if it stops trying to be two-pronged.

Jacques Villeneuve’s verdict is blunt: back Hamilton or lose the chance. He argues Ferrari should focus upgrades, strategy and pit wall decisions around the driver who “knows how to win” and doesn’t need persuading into title mode, while Leclerc’s long runway of status and time is no longer a shield. Barcelona, more than any quote, is the number that forces the call.

#F1 #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #CharlesLeclerc #BarcelonaGP #JacquesVilleneuve

Mercedes had Barcelona in its hands until executio

Mercedes had Barcelona in its hands until execution slipped. George Russell controlled the opening stint from pole, but Mercedes confirmed a problem with the adjuster gun at his final stop led to an incorrect front-wing change, leaving him with heavy oversteer and compromised pace just as the fight intensified. Kimi Antonelli pressured, passed Russell into Turn 1, then retired with a power unit failure, handing Russell P2 and a useful points gain despite the frustration of a win that was there.

Ferrari capitalised. Lewis Hamilton’s aggressive three-stop had the speed to matter, and a well-timed VSC swung track position his way, letting Ferrari convert cleanly for its first win of the season. For Mercedes, it was a weekend defined by small errors adding up: strategy margins, time lost in close-quarters racing, Antonelli’s DNF, and the pit-stop wing fumble that turned Russell’s race on its head.

#F1 #SpanishGP #Mercedes #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #GeorgeRussell

George Russell keeps saying the “pressure’s off” a

George Russell keeps saying the “pressure’s off” as Mercedes’ 2026 title picture tilts away from him, but Lando Norris isn’t convinced it works as a reset button. Seven rounds in, Russell has gone from Australia winner and pre-season favourite to damage limitation: he’s third in the standings, 50 points behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli, who’s rattled off five straight wins from China to Monaco. Lewis Hamilton is in between them too, nine points ahead of Russell after winning in Barcelona.

Norris, who used a similar mindset shift to rescue his own season and win last year’s title, says the context matters. He sees Russell’s situation as the opposite trajectory — from confidence to uncertainty — and warns that “no pressure” can become a slogan if it isn’t paired with something sharper. With Antonelli “not making any mistakes”, the pressure isn’t just external; it’s across the garage, every weekend.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #LandoNorris #KimiAntonelli #LewisHamilton

Aston Martin will meet another of its rookie-runni

Aston Martin will meet another of its rookie-running requirements in Spielberg, handing Jak Crawford Lance Stroll’s AMR26 for Friday morning practice at the Austrian GP. It’s Crawford’s second meaningful FP1 outing this season, and the team is treating it as more than a cameo: a structured, data-led run to check how his simulator work and recent Barcelona Pirelli test mileage translate on track.

With more than 3,800km now logged in F1 machinery and a clear brief focused on process over headlines, Crawford returns to a circuit he knows well and where he first tested an Aston Martin in 2024. For Stroll it’s a one-session swap before business resumes from FP2, while Aston Martin gets both the regulatory box ticked and a valuable correlation check on a short lap where execution and tyre prep can decide everything.

#F1 #AustrianGP #AstonMartinF1 #JakCrawford #AMR26 #RedBullRing

A month after the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Max Versta

A month after the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Max Verstappen’s debut has picked up an unexpected footnote: the Verstappen Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shared with Jules Gounon, Lucas Auer and Daniel Juncadella has been promoted to 36th in the final classification. That comes after the #84 Lamborghini, originally second overall, was disqualified for exceeding the permitted power output tolerance in post-race Balance of Performance checks. Red Bull Team Abt won’t appeal, so the result is now final.

The shake-up matters most at the front, with the #34 Aston Martin moving up to P2 and the #99 BMW inheriting P3, while the #80 Mercedes keeps the win. For Verstappen, it’s an administrative bump that can’t rewrite the real story: a late driveshaft failure after leading with four laps to go. Still, the speed and composure turned heads, and he’s already talked about wanting to return in 2027.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

Mercedes has withdrawn its Right of Review request

Mercedes has withdrawn its Right of Review request over George Russell’s Monaco penalties, stepping away from a fight that’s become less about stewarding and more about whether the pitlane speed data was reliable in the first place.

Russell was hit with a five-second penalty for pitlane speeding, then upgraded to a drive-through after the team mistakenly worked on the car before the five seconds had elapsed. But after Alpine successfully overturned Pierre Gasly’s pitlane speeding penalty due to a discrepancy in a Monaco timing loop, the entire weekend’s “uniform” speed readings came under a cloud. Mercedes says talks with the FIA and Formula One, and their commitment to review the “unique circumstances” from Monaco, made continuing the case pointless for the team and the sport. Meanwhile, Red Bull and McLaren are still pursuing appeals, with McLaren arguing that removing penalties after others served them risks undermining sporting fairness and consistency.

#F1 #MonacoGP #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #FIA #PitLaneSpeeding

Gabriel Bortoleto has stopped calling it “teething

Gabriel Bortoleto has stopped calling it “teething problems” and put Audi’s tough first year as a works team down to one issue: the power unit. He says the chassis is already “very competitive”, but the engine deficit can swell to more than a second per lap on certain tracks, turning midfield promise into anonymous races. With both of Audi’s 2026 points coming from Bortoleto, the frustration is clear: in a tight pack, they’re giving away far more than a couple of tenths before the braking zones.

Audi management has echoed the same scale of loss, and the numbers back it up, with Audi’s raw power at least 4% down on the benchmark and eligible for additional development upgrade opportunities. Bortoleto’s message is patience over panic: hardware lead times are brutal, and meaningful gains take time to design, validate and integrate. But if the platform is as strong as he believes, getting the power back won’t need a revolution to change Audi’s Sundays.

#F1 #AudiF1 #GabrielBortoleto #PowerUnit #MotorsportNews #Formula1

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