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1 week ago | 
the-race.com | Jon Noble |Edd Straw
Formula 1 drivers are all battling increasing problems with dirty air this season, with some cars better able to overcome that handicap than others. But for one team in particular, the issue is so bad it has left its drivers in what one of them calls a fight for "survival". Rather than the dirty air just making things more difficult when it comes to overtaking, Sauber duo Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto find themselves behind the wheel of a car that simply cannot follow another that's ahead.
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1 week ago | 
the-race.com | Jon Noble |Edd Straw
Formula 1 manufacturers may have rejected an early switch to V10 engines for now, but the move to something different remains on the table for 2029. FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem gathered F1's carmakers together for a meeting ahead of last weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix to discuss the future direction for engine rules amid concerns about the next generation of turbo hybrids coming for next year.
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1 week ago | 
the-race.com | Scott Mitchell |Edd Straw |Jon Noble
The Bahrain Grand Prix exposed some brutal weaknesses in some Formula 1 drivers and teams, including several championship protagonists, while rewarding impressive improvements from others. Here is everything we learned from F1's return to its pre-season testing venue and how things have moved on. Undisputed step makes Piastri favourite…Lando Norris still leads the world championship but the best McLaren driver so far this season has been Oscar Piastri.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Scott Mitchell |Jon Noble
It didn’t look like Haas were going to have a strong showing at the Bahrain Grand Prix, but Sunday’s race went better than team principal Ayao …
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1 week ago | 
the-race.com | Scott Mitchell |Jon Noble |Josh Suttill
We’ve seen plenty of flashes of dominant pace from McLaren in the early stages of the 2025 season, but could it deliver its most ominous warning shot yet at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix? McLaren is coming off the back of its first 2025 defeat at Suzuka, but a reverse of the factors that thwarted it there is what is making some of its rivals nervous for this weekend.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-race.com | Josh Suttill |Jon Noble
Carlos Sainz could face further punishment from the FIA stewards at Formula 1's Bahrain Grand Prix because of his reaction to his fine for a pre-race incident at Suzuka. Sainz wasn't in place for the national anthem at the Japanese GP at the specified time of 1.44pm (16 minutes prior to the formation lap) and so was referred to the stewards, who handed him a €20,000 fine, half of which is suspended for 12 months subject to there being no further breaches of the rule.
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3 weeks ago | 
the-race.com | Josh Suttill |Jon Noble
Lando Norris believes McLaren is the only Formula 1 team with “two good drivers at the minute”. While McLaren appears to have a marginal pace advantage, F1 2025 is shaping up to be a four-way fight between that team, Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes. Reigning champion Max Verstappen believes McLaren is “quite comfortably ahead” but Norris said he thinks that margin is being skewed by the strength of McLaren’s driver line-up right now.
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3 weeks ago | 
the-race.com | Jon Noble |Scott Mitchell
Yuki Tsunoda says he expected Red Bull's RB21 Formula 1 car to be more of a handful on the simulator, after he crammed in two days' worth of running at Milton Keynes last week ahead of his debut with the team at the Japanese Grand Prix. Tsunoda has been moved across from Racing Bulls to sister squad Red Bull ahead of his home race at Suzuka this weekend, after the squad lost faith in Liam Lawson following his dire start to the season.
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3 weeks ago | 
the-race.com | Scott Mitchell |Jon Noble
Williams has started the Formula 1 season as brightly as new signing from Ferrari Carlos Sainz could have hoped for. Sainz himself, though, has had a tougher time. Three disqualifications for rivals in the Chinese Grand Prix meant Sainz did get elevated to 10th, scoring his first point for Williams, but that amounts to just under 6% of the team's early total as Alex Albon has begun 2025 in electric form and lies sixth in the championship after two events, with 16 points.
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1 month ago | 
the-race.com | Scott Mitchell |Edd Straw |Jon Noble
Two different Formula 1 teams and drivers won at Shanghai on a Chinese Grand Prix weekend that proved surprisingly storied. While Sunday’s race itself was not a classic, it still threw up some in-race drama and plenty after it, giving us lots to learn from the event as a whole. Verstappen doesn't think much of this Red BullMax Verstappen is hanging onto the early pace in the championship despite clearly being unimpressed with his Red Bull.
