Wasim Khan
The 2026 Formula 1 season was always going to be a test of temperament as much as technology. New chassis regulations, heavily revised power units, and a tyre range designed to punish conservative thinking have compressed the grid and stretched the strategic window at every circuit. For Scuderia Ferrari, a team that has spent the … Read more
The championship will not be won in the press conference room at Monza, or in the grandstands filled with Italian flags. It will be won in Brackley weeks earlier, on a whiteboard covered in reliability curves, lap-time simulations and points probability charts. That is where Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS made its call for the run-in of the … Read more
The final Formula 1 race at Circuit Zandvoort before its hiatus from the calendar was always going to be remembered for its chaos. What few expected was that its most enduring talking point would not be the first-lap accident that eliminated Max Verstappen in front of 105,000 home fans, nor Lando Norris’s measured drive to … Read more
When Formula 1 returns to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza for the 2026 Italian Grand Prix, it will do so with a storyline the sport has not experienced in over seven decades. The championship leader arriving at the Royal Park is Italian. He is twenty years old. And he is being asked to win the title … Read more
McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team confirmed on 29 August 2026 that Lando Norris will remain with the team until at least the end of the 2030 season. The multi-year extension includes an option to continue beyond 2030 and was delivered personally by Norris to staff during McLaren’s annual family and friends open day at the … Read more
When Fernando Alonso speaks about rivals, the paddock listens. Not because he is generous with praise, but because his sample size is unmatched. Twenty-four seasons, four different regulatory eras, more than 400 Grand Prix starts, and direct combat against every generational benchmark since the turn of the millennium. So when the two-time world champion sat … Read more
The 2026 Formula 1 World Championship has evolved into one of the most finely balanced contests of the hybrid era, with margins at the front measured in tenths and strategy calls carrying championship weight. Nowhere has that pressure been more visible than inside Ferrari. The Dutch Grand Prix at Circuit Zandvoort on 23 August 2026, … Read more
Formula 1 rarely offers a clean second chance. When it does, it almost never comes with time to prepare. For Liam Lawson at the 2026 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix, the summons to Oracle Red Bull Racing arrived late, brief, and with almost no margin for familiarization – a single simulator day, one practice session before … Read more
On the morning of 29 August 2026, McLaren chose a deliberately intimate setting for one of the most significant announcements in its recent history. There was no grand press conference in a paddock hospitality unit, no choreographed video drop ahead of a race weekend. Instead, at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, during the team’s … Read more
Toto Wolff and the long shadow of Abu Dhabi 2021: acceptance, authority, and the enduring question of sporting fairness Five Years Later, A Different Tone Nearly five years after Formula 1 produced its most divisive championship decider in decades, Toto Wolff has offered his clearest statement yet that the wound has closed, if not disappeared. … Read more
