Phillip Horton

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Phillip Horton

Fernando Alonso’s luckless 2025 continued at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday as he retired from seventh place mid-distance due to a power unit issue. It means that one-third into the 2025 season, Alonso is still without a point in the Formula 1 Drivers' Championship standings. It's the first time since his rookie season in 2001 that he has gone this far into a year scoreless. The 43-year-old Alonso, however, has his eyes fully focused on next year’s regulation changes.

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Phillip Horton

Formula 1 drivers have called for a rethink after a mandatory two pit stop rule designed to hopefully bring more excitement to the F1 Monaco Grand Prix resulted in gamesmanship and a poor spectacle in another Monaco race that featured little race craft. Several drivers were vocal in the aftermath of Sunday’s race that Monaco’s event requires further alteration, in the wake of a handful of drivers running several seconds off the pace to create gaps for their respective teammates.

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Phillip Horton

Lando Norris claimed his first victory since the opening round of the season as he controlled the two-stop Monaco Grand Prix to close on team-mate Oscar Piastri in the standings. Autoweek rounds up the main talking point from Monte Carlo. Norris Back on TopNorris’ opening-round victory in Australia looked to be the portent for a stride towards the title, but as teammate Piastri hit form Norris often made a rod for his own back by failing to hit the required peaks in qualifying.

2 weeks ago | autoweek.com | Phillip Horton

Pole position is always a huge asset in Monaco because of the tight circuit. This year, however, teams and drivers are heading into the unknown on Sunday. That’s because Formula 1 is giving a trial to a Monaco-only mandatory rule of pitting twice, which could lead to some quirky pit stop timings.

2 weeks ago | motorsportweek.com | Phillip Horton

Charles Leclerc completed a clean sweep of practice sessions after topping the final hour of running ahead of Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix. Leclerc, who won around the streets of Monaco in 2024, was fastest in both sessions on Friday and retained an advantage during Saturday’s session in warm and dry conditions. Leclerc posted two laps fast enough for top spot, the quickest a time of 1:10.953s which put him 0.280s clear of reigning champion Max Verstappen.