James Elson

5 days ago | motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson

There are few things which makes Max Verstappen’s blood boil more. Wrestling an inferior car, before getting shuffled back into the pack on granite-like hard tyres while all around you are better placed for a safety car restart. Then, as if things just couldn’t get any worse, you’ve got Formula Partridge in your mirrors. Verstappen’s final act of his little tête-à-tête with George Russell was to simply, and quite deliberately, smash into him.

1 week ago | motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson

To join the official Motor Sport magazine 2025 F1 Fantasy league, click here. You can’t win ‘em all. For the first six races of the season, Mercedes was the value for money F1 Fantasy constructor, racking up the points like nobody’s business. And so, Motor Sport sagely advised you to pair Brackley with McLaren – before the Silver Arrows proceeded to have two absolute nightmares in Imola and Monaco.

1 week ago | motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson

Sport and tactics. It’s a match made in heaven (or hell, depending on your viewpoint). They were meant to be together though, as demonstrated by the Monaco GP’s better-than-usual showing yesterday. It was affected by the new F1 rule that all cars had to stop at least twice during the race, throwing up some unconventional tortoise-and-hare racing, where a team-mate would slow down to back the pack up, allowing their colleague to pull out enough of a gap to make a stop without losing a place.

2 weeks ago | motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson

To join the official Motor Sport magazine 2025 F1 Fantasy league, click here. Things don’t always go to plan in the cut-throat world of grand prix racing. No one saw Max Verstappen sling-shotting himself from as far away as theFranco-Italian border to whip round the outside of F1 Fantasy hero Oscar Piastri in Imola – least of all the Aussie itself.

2 weeks ago | motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson

America: Land of the Free, Home of the Corporate Tie-Up.It’s a place that can’t hold a time-out water break without selling the rights and slapping a label on it, and there’s no better example of this than at the Indianapolis 500, where 33 200mph billboards fight it out for milk and glory. There’s nothing wrong with any of the above of course, having given us some of the greatest racing colour schemes ever seen.