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1 week ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
Ahead of this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem praised the country’s contribution to securing a long-term place for the Arab world in Formula 1. Since joining the Formula 1 calendar in 2021, the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has quickly become a fixture of Formula 1’s global expansion, with Ben Sulayem emphasising its growing impact across the region.
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1 week ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
Juan Pablo Montoya has summed up what most Formula 1 fans and pundits (including our team at GRANDPRIX247) are realising: Red Bull is imploding in real time, with Max Verstappen increasingly disenchanted. The wonder Red Bull team – the one that took Verstappen to four back-to-back F1 titles, especially in 2023 – is now a distant memory. Disarray and a mass abandoning of ship by top RBR commanders since the Christian Horner sexting scandal is hitting home hard.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
The shenanigans surrounding the second Red Bull seat, and the ‘curse’ of being Max Verstappen’s teammate, have exonerated Sergio Perez and thrust the Mexican Formula 1 veteran into the 2026 Silly Season spotlight as a possible Cadillac driver next year. Perez’s story is well told. Out of the Formula 1 picture for now, his replacement Liam Lawson struggled so much that Red Bull axed him after two races and thrust Yuki Tsunoda into the lion’s den for the Japanese Grand Prix.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
McLaren Racing confirmed it will enter the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2027, marking a major return to top-level endurance racing more than three decades after its legendary Le Mans 24 Hours victory.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) President Mohammed Ben Sulayem looks back on the progress made during his leadership of Formula 1’s governing body while hailing the progress of motorsport in the Gulf region. Now well into his fourth year in the role as FIA President, Ben Sulayem used the build-up to the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix to outline key achievements since taking office in December 2021 and to highlight the growing impact of the Middle East on global motorsport.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
April 21 will mark 40 years since Ayrton Senna’s breakthrough win at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, and to honour the milestone, the Lotus 97T he drove to victory at Estoril will return to the circuit—this time with his nephew Bruno Senna behind the wheel. The commemorative run is part of a wider celebration uniting two key anniversaries: the 75th year of the Formula 1 World Championship and the legacy of Team Lotus, whose pioneering spirit helped define the sport’s golden eras.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
After scoring their first points of the season in Japan, Racing Bulls are aiming to continue their upward trajectory at the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix — returning to the Sakhir International Circuit where pre-season testing began. One of this year’s standout rookies, effervescent Racing Bulls driver Isack Hadjar scored his maiden Formula 1 points at Suzuka and arrives in Bahrain with growing confidence and momentum.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
Ferrari Team Principal Frédéric Vasseur has admitted the Scuderia are still short of their performance targets as Formula 1 returns to Bahrain for round four of the 2025 season. The Bahrain Grand Prix offers a timely benchmark for Ferrari, with the SF-25 set to run at the same venue where it underwent pre-season testing in February. Despite encouraging signs since then, Vasseur made clear that the team’s development curve remains a work in progress.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
In an exclusive with GRANDPRIX247, we had the opportunity to do a short interview with Professor Richard Hopkins regarding Red Bull’s second driver conundrum and their quest to find a suitable teammate for Max Verstappen. Red Bull used a third different driver in four races to try and solve their number two driver crisis after they sent Sergio Perez packing at the end of last season. Liam Lawson was tested and tried but brutally found lacking after two races. Another Verstappen victim.
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2 weeks ago | 
grandprix247.com | Paul Velasco
Honda Racing President Koji Watanabe reflected on the end of the Japanese manufacturer’s current partnership with Red Bull Racing, describing it as one of the most successful collaborations in Formula 1 history, as attention turns to its future works alliance with Aston Martin. Speaking during Honda’s final home Grand Prix as Red Bull partners, Watanabe told The Japan Times: “Looking back now, we’re very proud of the results that we have achieved with this partnership.
