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4 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Nick Golding |Aaron Deckers
Max Verstappen has been handed a clear message by Red Bull team principal Christian Horner to get through this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix cleanly, to avoid a race ban. Should Verstappen receive one penalty point at the Red Bull Ring this weekend, he will be banned from the British Grand Prix. The four-time world champion would become just the second driver to receive a race ban since the introduction of the penalty points system, following Kevin Magnussen last season.
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4 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Nick Golding |Aaron Deckers
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he is "constantly battling the engineers" at Ferrari to try different things in an attempt to make progress without upgrades. The seven-time world champion is desperate for the Maranello-based outfit to introduce an upgrades package, something team principal Fred Vasseur hinted was coming for the Austrian Grand Prix.
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5 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Nick Golding |Aaron Deckers
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has addressed the outfit's strategy of moving on from the clash in Canada, an incident he recognises looked like the "worst disaster ever" initially. Lando Norris struck Oscar Piastri on lap 67 of the Canadian Grand Prix whilst battling for fourth along the start/finish straight, resulting in him crashing into the pit wall.
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5 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Nick Golding |Aaron Deckers
Lewis Hamilton has dealt Ferrari a clear demand that having a car he can be victorious in next season is the "priority". The seven-time world champion has endured a difficult start to life in red, with Ferrari's 2025 challenger not performing as Hamilton nor Charles Leclerc want. Hamilton is yet to secure a podium for the Maranello-based outfit, although did claim a surprise sprint win back in China.
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5 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Nick Golding |Aaron Deckers
Esteban Ocon has denied that seeing Alpine struggle makes him "smile", despite clashing with the outfit ahead of his departure last season. Ocon's relationship with Alpine/Renault had started strongly when he joined the French outfit in 2020; however, it crumbled as his exit approached last year. During his time with the Enstone-based team, Ocon became an F1 race winner in the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix – his winning car is kept in the Frenchman's home.
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6 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Jake Nichol |Aaron Deckers
Lewis Hamilton has spied a minor positive he can carry forward at Ferrari, with an improvement to his qualifying. At the Canadian Grand Prix, Hamilton out-qualified team-mate Charles Leclerc for the third time in grands prix, and crucially, for the first time back-to-back after taking fifth to Leclerc's eighth. The 0.156s advantage to Hamilton was his best over Leclerc of the season, with Leclerc 7-3 up in grand prix qualifyings and 8-4 in total once Sprints are included.
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6 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Jake Nichol |Aaron Deckers
Isack Hadjar insists he "can't erase" parts of his character but has learned to control himself over the F1 radio. The Racing Bulls driver had a reputation for fiery messages over the team radio, but since graduating to F1, he has toned them down so they are not broadcast by FOM. The French rookie has impressed in 2025 and is currently being tipped to step up to Red Bull Racing in 2026 to partner Max Verstappen if Yuki Tsunoda cannot turn his performances around.
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6 days ago | 
racingnews365.com | Jake Nichol |Aaron Deckers
Aston Martin boss Andy Cowell has explained how a "steely" Fernando Alonso is questioning anything which could hamper preparations for F1's major rules reset in 2026. The Silverstone-based team and new technical chief Adrian Newey have most of its focus on the new chassis and power unit rules coming into force from next season, with the hopes of climbing into race-winning and championship contention.
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1 week ago | 
racingnews365.com | Jake Nichol |Aaron Deckers
George Russell has proposed that Lewis Hamilton's struggles at Ferrari could be the result of the seven-time F1 champion trying too hard. Russell served as Hamilton's team-mate for three seasons at Mercedes, and replaced the elder Briton as Mercedes team leader after the 40-year-old defected to Ferrari at the start of this year. Aside from a Sprint pole and win in China, Hamilton has largely struggled at Ferrari, and was particularly downbeat after the Spanish GP, in which he was sixth.
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1 week ago | 
racingnews365.com | Jake Nichol |Aaron Deckers
Charles Leclerc has revealed the major surprises he has discovered about Lewis Hamilton's approach to F1, both inside and outside the cockpit. Hamilton follows Marcus Ericsson, Sebastian Vettel, and Carlos Sainz as serving as Leclerc's team-mate after his 12-year stint with Mercedes came to an end.
