Keith Collantine

5 days ago | racefans.net | Keith Collantine

Formula 2 championship leader Alex Dunne will make his debut in an official Formula 1 practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend. The 19-year-old, who is part of the team’s driver development programme, will take over Lando Norris’s car for the first practice session at the Red Bull Ring. Dunne has already driven the team’s 2023 car, the MCL60, under F1’s Testing of Previous Cars regulations.

5 days ago | racefans.net | Keith Collantine

Over the first 10 rounds of 2025 Oscar Piastri has established himself as the driver to beat within McLaren and must be considered the favourite to win the championship. But why, after two years of trailing his team mate Lando Norris, has Piastri now pulled ahead? There are two competing explanations. One is, rather obviously, the fact that Piastri only made his Formula 1 debut two years ago and the experience he had accumulated during that time has paid off.

5 days ago | racefans.net | Keith Collantine

The Formula 1 season resumes this weekend at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Formula 2 and Formula 3 will also be in action. Having held a sprint round in recent years, the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix will revert to the classic race weekend format. Join us on RaceFans Live throughout every session of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Look out for the live page on the site during every session and follow all the action with your fellow RaceFans.

6 days ago | racefans.net | Keith Collantine

The 2026 Formula 1 season will be the third time in as many years the championship consists of 24 rounds. Fernando Alonso was the only driver from the current crop on the grid for the first race of the 21st century. During his time in F1 the number of events on the schedule has grown by 41%. F1 also takes in a broader range of venues than before. In 2001, out of the 17 events which took place, 11 were held in Europe. That has fallen to nine despite the expansion of the calendar.

1 week ago | racefans.net | Keith Collantine

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur is pleased with the gains they have made following their setback at the start of the year. “I think we are improving from the beginning of the season to today,” said Vasseur. However he admitted they need to continue their progress to regain their race-winning form of last year. “The initial goal was to fight for the championship but I think [that was] true for us [and] it’s true for McLaren, for Red Bull and for Mercedes.