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F1 2025 recap: Oliver Bearman’s full-time debut proves he’s on course for success

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 16:00
Oliver Bearman entered Formula 1 with a bang when he was thrown in at the deep end, deputising for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Coming at a tricky circuit in the highest-profile team on the grid, then 18-year-old Bearman showed he had the steel to match his talent by taking seventh on his unexpected debut.
Bearman's maiden full-time campaign for Haas has gone on ...Keep reading

Ford: Red Bull’s F1 engine programme ‘on target’ ahead of first on-track test

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 14:30
After a stint with Honda that delivered four drivers’ titles and two constructors’ championships, Red Bull will compete with its in-house power unit in 2026, in partnership with Ford.
Although Ford Performance director Mark Rushbrook acknowledges that the project – as Toto Wolff put it in Zandvoort – “has Mount Everest to climb”, he believes the preparations in Milton Keynes have ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso: No normal person could achieve what Marc Marquez has

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 13:00
Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso has hailed Marc Marquez after his countryman won the 2025 MotoGP title, saying only a few people in sport can achieve what he did.
Marquez dominated the championship this year after stepping up to a factory Ducati seat, completing an incredible comeback from the 2020 Jerez accident that left him with a career-altering shoulder injury.
Like Alonso, Marquez ...Keep reading

F1 2025 recap: Carlos Sainz shines despite move to the midfield

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 11:30
Carlos Sainz rounded out his 2024 Formula 1 campaign at Ferrari with one final podium for the Scuderia, which dropped him for the new season in favour of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. That, the Spaniard thought, would be his final podium for some time as he moved to Williams, who finished ninth last year.
Ahead of his debut with the Grove outfit, Sainz warned fans that 'you're not ...Keep reading

Bortoleto on his rookie year and Audi excitement

Formula 1 - Sun, 2025-12-28 10:44
Gabriel Bortoleto reflects on his rookie season in Formula 1 with Lawrence Barretto, as well as the exciting future with Audi.

Every twist and turn from a dramatic 2025 title battle

Formula 1 - Sun, 2025-12-28 10:44
F1.com reflects back on the milestone moments of an epic fight for the World Championship in 2025.

Ferrari’s best and worst moments from 2025

Formula 1 - Sun, 2025-12-28 10:44
At the start of 2025 much was expected of Ferrari. Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton had been signed, and the talk was of an expected title bid after the Scuderia pushed McLaren all the way for the 2024 Teams’ Championship. However, that didn’t materialise. Instead, Ferrari dropped to fourth in the standings, failed to claim a Grand Prix victory and Hamilton was unable to record a podium finish for the first time in his illustrious F1 career. With the team’s focus switching to 2026 earlier than expected, here’s Ferrari’s end of year report…

What was the biggest heartbreak of F1 2025?

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 10:13
Every year, Formula 1 is packed with surprises and great storylines as 20 of the world’s best drivers battle for supremacy and the chance to lift the F1 World Drivers' Championship Trophy. But it wasn’t all good news over 2025, and the season had its fair share of heartbreak as well.
From Lewis Hamilton’s collision with a groundhog in Canada to Lando Norris’ retirement in Zandvoort that ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli surprises go-karters as he goes undercover at Milton Keynes track

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 09:15
Andrea Kimi Antonelli decided to go undercover at a Milton Keynes go-kart track at the start of the Formula 1 winter break.
The Italian driver, who finished his rookie season for Mercedes in seventh in the drivers' championship with 150 points, chose the name Henry Shovlin as his alias as he arrived at the Daytona Milton Keynes track. While he didn't win the main race due to picking up two ...Keep reading

The Brad Pitt fitting that decided the look of the "F1" movie

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 09:10
A single costume fitting with Brad Pitt proved to be one of the most consequential creative moments within the making of the F1 movie, as it not only decided on the aesthetic of Pitt's character, but also of the whole production.
Julian Day, the movie's costume designer, was confronted with quite the challenge: to create a team that not only looked authentic, but one that also looked ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon relive chaotic Interlagos drivers' parade moment

Motorsport - Sun, 2025-12-28 09:06
Williams Formula 1 drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon have reminisced about their favourite off-track memory of the 2025 season, when they raced kit cars around Interlagos for the Brazilian Grand Prix drivers' parade.
The drivers had branded kit cars with one driver per team and a pickup-style seat across the back for the passenger. As Sainz and Albon walked to the grid and clocked that there ...Keep reading

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