30 March 2025 16:26
The FIA has given a further clarification over its decision to keep tightening Formula 1's rear wing deflection tests, and defended the delay of its stricter front wing tests until the Spanish Grand Prix.
Over the last few years exploiting aero-elasticity has emerged as a key tool to keep this generation of ground-effect cars balanced between faster and slower corners, so much so that teams ...
30 March 2025 14:59
Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso – in his 22nd Formula 1 campaign – is still encountering a new experience. It’s not just the six rookie racers on the 2025 grid. In Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto, he’s racing his own official protege.
Since 2023, Bortoleto has been a part of Alonso’s A14 driver management stable.
This is run by Albert Resclosa Coll and Alberto Fernandez Albilares ...
30 March 2025 12:31
Hundreds of Formula 1 fans lined the streets of Tokyo for one last chance to visit Honda's Aoyama headquarters, the elegant white high-rise a stone's throw away from the Olympic Stadium that hosted the 2021 summer games.
The iconic Aoyama building is set to be closed and redeveloped, with a new, state-of-the-art headquarters to be built by 2030 on the same site. Sunday's closing ceremony ...
30 March 2025 10:36
Yuki Tsunoda says he is targeting a podium spot at next week's Japanese Grand Prix as he reacts to his shock Red Bull switch for the remainder of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
As anticipated by Motorsport.com in China last weekend, Red Bull confirmed on Thursday that it would promote Tsunoda to the seat alongside Max Verstappen meaning Liam Lawson is back at Racing Bulls after two difficult ...
29 March 2025 18:51
Was it a mistake for Red Bull to pick Liam Lawson over Yuki Tsunoda in the first place? Why wasn’t the New Zealander allowed to race for the team in Japan, a track he knows well? What did Max Verstappen think of the decision? And is Red Bull risking its long-term future by continuing to build the car around a single driver?
Here’s Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko’s detailed take on the ...
29 March 2025 16:12
When Yuki Tsunoda starts the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, he will become the 14th driver to compete for Red Bull Racing in a Formula 1 race. The pressure will be immense not only because he's suddenly been promoted to the A-team, but add in the fact that he's replacing Liam Lawson after just two races and that this is all happening around his home race. In the end, a points result would be ...
29 March 2025 12:42
Eddie Jordan Racing became a big player in junior single-seaters prior to the Jordan squad arriving in Formula 1 in 1991.
Before becoming the Midland-owned MF1 Racing for 2006, Jordan built up a cult following, helped launch the careers of several drivers and briefly became a championship contender.
Here’s our choice of the squad’s finest moments.
10. Winning the 1987 British F3 ...
29 March 2025 10:42
When Romain Grosjean's Haas car split in two and burst into flames during the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, it was the titanium halo that ultimately saved his life. But what few people know is that a groundbreaking welding technique played a crucial role in making the halo strong enough to perform as designed in that terrifying moment.
The halo, now an essential part of Formula 1's safety package ...
28 March 2025 18:02
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has stated that Yuki Tsunoda’s future will be secure until the end of the 2025 Formula 1 season, after the Japanese driver was promoted to the main team at Liam Lawson’s expense.
Red Bull’s decision was made following the Chinese Grand Prix, where Lawson vastly underperformed again in his second outing with the Milton Keynes-based outfit – including placing ...
28 March 2025 17:57
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed Max Verstappen disagreed with Red Bull swapping Liam Lawson for Racing Bulls’ Yuki Tsunoda just two rounds into the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Red Bull made the call after Lawson failed to perform at both Albert Park and Shanghai, with him placing last in both qualifying sessions at the Chinese Grand Prix a fateful lowlight.
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28 March 2025 17:31
When the Miami Grand Prix was added to the Formula 1 calendar on a 10-year contract, F1 purists were skeptical. The race represented everything that they had resisted for years: glitz, extravagance, and an overtly American spectacle. But Miami quickly cemented itself as a marquee event, not just by delivering solid on-track action – but by winning over fans. At the center of its success is Hard ...
28 March 2025 13:20
Christian Klien, Scott Speed, Sebastien Bourdais, Daniil Kvyat (twice), Pierre Gasly, Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo – the list of drivers being replaced mid-season by Red Bull or its sister team is lengthy. As of this week, Liam Lawson joins that group and, in a way, he’s even a record-breaker: no Red Bull-contracted driver has been dropped faster. That Lawson was given just two rounds with ...
28 March 2025 11:24
Pre-season, those amenable to a wager would have thought the odds on Jack Doohan being fired before Liam Lawson insufficiently lucrative to justify placing a bet. It seemed to be a dead cert, what with Alpine lining up Franco Colapinto as a ‘test and reserve driver’ within a month of Doohan’s low-key first race outing in Abu Dhabi.
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28 March 2025 10:10
Before the 2025 Formula 1 campaign actually began, figuring out the pecking order in the midfield based on pre-season testing was tricky, with the data pointing to a close fight.
Fast-forward two weeks, and Racing Bulls has consistently qualified top of the midfield – Yuki Tsunoda fifth in Melbourne, then Isack Hadjar up to seventh at Shanghai with his team-mate ninth. China’s sprint ...
27 March 2025 19:50
It’s been only three months since Red Bull announced Liam Lawson as Max Verstappen’s new teammate. Yet, in less than a hundred days, the New Zealander's adventure with the Milton Keynes-based team has already come to an end, as Red Bull confirmed yet another mid-season change this morning.
Lawson will step back to Racing Bulls, while Yuki Tsunoda is promoted to the parent team, facing what ...
27 March 2025 16:19
It’s no secret that Red Bull is known for quick decisions when it comes to the driver market, but even by its standards, a change after just two race weekends is extreme. However, Red Bull has deemed it necessary to swap Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda after just two weekends.
The decision is presented as a collective one, after a high-level meeting in Dubai on Tuesday with team principal ...
27 March 2025 14:14
Next up: Yuki Tsunoda.
The Japanese driver has now officially entered Red Bull’s version of Russian roulette, overseen by Helmut Marko. Liam Lawson was the previous name drawn, but his shot at glory quickly turned into a nightmare. His long-awaited promotion alongside Max Verstappen was celebrated off-track, but the moment he hit the tarmac in pre-season testing in Bahrain, his dream started ...
27 March 2025 12:06
The 2025 Formula 1 season may only be two races old, but it has not been short on either on-track storylines or off-track intrigue — with some of those narratives centring around the Mercedes team. Motorsport.com's Roberto Chinchero sat down with its team principal, Toto Wolff, over the Chinese Grand Prix, to discuss the latest developments within the team, and insight on the series' V10 ...
27 March 2025 12:01
Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff believes the series would look 'silly and erratic' if it were to introduce V10 engines before 2031 and reduce the planned five-year period for the 2026 hybrids.
The return of V10 power units has been placed on the agenda by FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem, with various options under discussion at this stage.
The most straightforward idea is to stick to ...
27 March 2025 10:57
Is it fair to Liam Lawson to drop him after just two races into the season? No, it's probably not. After all, you can't help but feel he hasn't been given a chance to learn and even try to improve. At least giving him a race at Suzuka, a track he knows and likes, would've been more understandable. Just one last chance.
Is it harsh? It is. No doubt about that. No need to elaborate.
But ...
27 March 2025 10:26
If you are looking for a short answer on why Helmut Marko has played such an influential role in the careers of dozens of drivers, it could be: Jochen Rindt. The two grew up together in Graz, tearing up the roads in the Styrian Alps in a Volkswagen Beetle in the early 60s while planning road trips to the Nurburgring to watch Formula 1 cars up close.
"We drove all night, parked in the woods and ...
27 March 2025 10:04
Yuki Tsunoda will replace Liam Lawson at Red Bull for the Japanese Grand Prix next week following poor performances from the New Zealand driver. Partnering Max Verstappen is a tricky task on its own, but the RB21 has been prone to unpredictable handling, which has proved difficult for Lawson in the opening two rounds of the season. The second seat at Red Bull has also been a tough place for other ...
27 March 2025 09:51
Where does Liam Lawson go from here? The 23-year-old was demoted to the "B-team" after just two races behind the wheel of Red Bull's tricky RB21. At least it's not a total wash, as he steps back to rejoin the familiar Racing Bulls outfit while Yuki Tsunoda steps up to partner Max Verstappen at F1's next race on the calendar, the Japanese Grand Prix. It’s rather embarrassing news for the Kiwi ...
27 March 2025 09:45
Yuki Tsunoda will race for Red Bull from the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix onwards, with Liam Lawson returning to Racing Bulls after a tough start to 2025.
Lawson was promoted to the senior team having contested the final six races of last year for Racing Bulls as Daniel Ricciardo's replacement. The Kiwi racer was preferred as Sergio Perez’s replacement despite Tsunoda having completed four ...
26 March 2025 16:54
Red Bull's impending swap between Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda feels particularly brutal coming just two grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 season - but history shows the company is not shy of shaking up its driver line-ups.
Not counting its agreement with Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi in its maiden 2005 campaign, Red Bull has rotated its driver carousel for performance reasons on ...
26 March 2025 15:39
Liam Lawson is set to be dropped by Red Bull after just two grands prix for the Formula 1 squad and he is due to be replaced by former team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.
The New Zealander moved from sister squad RB, now Racing Bulls, for 2025 after Sergio Perez was ousted having massively struggled against Red Bull star Max Verstappen finishing 285 points below him last year.
RB duo Lawson and Tsunoda ...
26 March 2025 11:51
The change is all but confirmed. As Motorsport.com revealed on Sunday, Red Bull began considering a change to its driver line-up even before the Shanghai race - with Yuki Tsunoda emerging as the frontrunner to replace the struggling Liam Lawson.
Discussions have since progressed following meetings in recent days, with the move now all but guaranteed - the official announcement is expected by ...
26 March 2025 10:40
For Isack Hadjar, Australia doesn't count.
In our analysis of rookie debuts, thanks to the bumper crop of newcomers trickling into the field across the past six months, there's been a lot to discuss. Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Gabriel Bortoleto got their appraisals last week but, given Hadjar registered a Did Not Start in the Australia opener, it was impossible to delve into the Racing Bulls ...
25 March 2025 23:04
Yuki Tsunoda is in line for a call up to Red Bull’s F1 team for next week’s Japanese Grand Prix - just as Motorsport exclusively reported last Sunday.
Lawson has come under pressure after making a difficult start to the season, crashing out of the Australian GP and was a lowly 15th place in China. The New Zealander has struggled to adjust to the RB21, which has prone to unpredictable ...
25 March 2025 13:00
2025's Formula 1 supertimes currently make for interesting reading and, despite a relatively small sample size, Mercedes just edges ahead of Red Bull to have the second-fastest car of the year so far – 0.345% short of McLaren. Red Bull (or rather, Max Verstappen) is just another 0.008% behind.
It's been an encouraging start to 2025 for Mercedes, as the early indications are that its car is ...
25 March 2025 11:59
When Liam Lawson needed a logo that encapsulated his personality, his racing style and his heritage, New Zealand-based graphic designers Harris Keenan and Oliver James stepped up to the task. With only three weeks to bring the concept to life last year, the duo set out to create a unique logo that would stand apart from the sleek, monochromatic branding associated with most other F1 drivers. The ...
25 March 2025 11:05
If Formula 1's mixed-weather opener in Australia could mask Red Bull's ails, thanks in no small part to Max Verstappen's exquisite driving, then Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix really set the alarm bells ringing.
Verstappen rallied to finish fourth with a strong second stint on the hard tyres, but the preceding stint on mediums – in which the Dutchman shipped nearly a second per lap to the ...
24 March 2025 16:20
Ferrari had a day to forget at Formula 1's Chinese Grand Prix with a double disqualification for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, but fake team order drama further added to team boss Fred Vasseur's misery.
Hamilton and Leclerc were running fourth and fifth respectively after their first pitstop around lap 20 when the tifosi were first alerted to team orders being in play, and Hamilton ...
24 March 2025 13:50
Formula 1’s 2025 Global F1 Fan Survey is your opportunity to tell the series what matters most to you. All you have to do is take the survey, which you can find here.
The results of the last survey in 2021 saw Max Verstappen named as the most popular driver overall, with Lando Norris in second, though the Briton was the overwhelming favourite driver with fans under 24. McLaren was named as ...
24 March 2025 12:47
After Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu admitted the team was off the pace in Australia, he conceded it may take time to correct early-season issues affecting its cars.
That did not stop a number of F1 Fantasy players sticking with a combination of Haas elements in their teams for the heavy points-scoring sprint weekend in Shanghai.
New leader RW Moore, who was fifth in the Race our Writers ...
24 March 2025 12:01
Like many things in the modern world, it all started with a social media post.
Three days after F1’s season launch in London, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem posted a message on Instagram, saying that, inspired by “positive discussions on the future of the sport”, the motorsport world should explore “a range of directions” for its top category – “including the roaring sound of ...
24 March 2025 10:26
The second Red Bull seat alongside Max Verstappen has long been considered one of the toughest roles in Formula 1. Still, speculation about a driver change after just two races is extreme, even by Red Bull standards.
Liam Lawson began his full-time Red Bull campaign with optimism, but by now admits that he is struggling more than expected. The New Zealand driver has finished 18th, 20th and 20th ...
24 March 2025 09:37
When Formula 1 revealed that Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli had won its driver of the day poll, having crossed the finishing line in eighth place, this news generated the customarily sneering response. When team boss Toto Wolff congratulated his driver over the team radio, the eye-rolling was almost palpable.
And yet, while the results of the social media poll are often fatuous, in this ...
23 March 2025 16:51
F1 2025's second race of the season in Shanghai was held in vastly different circumstances than Melbourne's mixed-weather thriller, but this week's winners-losers section features some familiar figures.
Winner: Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri, McLaren
Photo by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Images
If a composed wet-dry-wet win in Australia showed Lando Norris is driving like a ...
23 March 2025 15:24
Stop the count!
Donald Trump’s peculiar Tweet during the 2020 United States presidential election has long since become a meme. You can imagine, given Ferrari’s double disqualification from the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, that the Scuderia will be wishing fervently that everyone had just packed up and flown home on the Saturday, after Lewis Hamilton won the sprint race.
Events in China then ...
23 March 2025 13:56
The Ferrari Formula 1 team says excessive tyre wear from the Chinese Grand Prix's surprise one-stop race is behind Charles Leclerc's car being found underweight, while it admitted "misjudging" Lewis Hamilton's skid wear.
Leclerc and Hamilton finished fifth and sixth at the Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday, but soon after the race the Ferrari pair were disqualified due to failing ...
23 March 2025 12:50
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner might not be aware of it, but he was channelling his inner William Edwards Deming as he discussed Liam Lawson’s future following another disappointing outing at the Chinese Grand Prix.
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion,” the American statistician and business theorist once said – and now Horner is seemingly hanging ...
23 March 2025 12:34
Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton have both been excluded from the Chinese GP after falling foul of the technical regulations, with Alpine's Pierre Gasly also thrown out of the results.
During post-race scrutineering Leclerc's and Gasly's cars were both found to weigh 799kg after fuel was removed, one kilogram below the minimum weight limit. In Leclerc's case, his damaged front ...
23 March 2025 12:23
Liam Lawson accepts that he must perform to keep hold of his Red Bull Formula 1 seat, but notes that he needs time he doesn't necessarily have to get acquainted with the team's 2025 car.
The Kiwi racer qualified last for Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix, which Red Bull used as an opportunity to break parc ferme and kit him out with a series of changes to his RB21 - and he thus ran different aero ...
23 March 2025 11:39
Haas Formula 1 boss Ayao Komatsu has hailed the “amazing reaction” from his team to recover from a disastrous Australian weekend and achieve a double top-10 Chinese Grand Prix finish.
Esteban Ocon finished seventh at Shanghai, while Oliver Bearman made the most of an alternate tyre strategy to reach 10th from 17th on the grid.
This was in contrast to Haas' Australian struggles, where the ...
23 March 2025 11:11
Charles Leclerc has explained that the decision to soldier on with a broken front wing throughout the Chinese Grand Prix after contact with Lewis Hamilton was to preserve track position.
The two Ferraris made light contact at Turn 3 on the first lap as Hamilton tried to assume the apex line and clipped Leclerc, which knocked the endplate off his front wing.
Race engineer Bryan Bozzi told ...
23 March 2025 11:03
Lando Norris admits he was lucky to finish the Chinese Grand Prix, having taken second place despite a worsening brake issue to remain at the top of the Formula 1 drivers’ championship.
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23 March 2025 10:01
Liam Lawson could be replaced at Red Bull by Yuki Tsunoda as early as the Japanese Grand Prix, Motorsport.com understands.
Amid a difficult start to the season for Lawson, Red Bull is already considering changing its driver line-up ahead of Suzuka, with Tsunoda named by paddock sources as a potential replacement.
Although no final decision has been taken, discussions about such a scenario ...
23 March 2025 09:50
Here's what we thought after the second race of the season...
Piastri emerges as Norris' main title challenger
Despite early struggles in Shanghai, McLaren has confirmed its status as early-season favourite in the main race. However, the same can't be said for Lando Norris. The British driver had a messy weekend and clearly didn't get the most out of it. The sprint was particularly poor for ...
23 March 2025 09:43
Oscar Piastri secured victory at the Chinese Grand Prix as he benefited from putting his McLaren on pole position to avoid the tyre issues of the chasing pack.
With tyre management the order of the day throughout the field, Piastri was able to control his race and took the third win of his career, leading home team-mate Lando Norris, who was forced to manage a worsening brake issue in the ...
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