Formula 1

World champion Lando Norris heaped praise on the McLaren team on Sunday after driving his updated car to a first win this year in the Hungarian Grand Prix. The 26-year-old Briton repeated his 2025 victory at the Hungaroring, where McLaren have won for the last three years and became the first winner there from pole position since seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton triumphed for Mercedes in 2020. "Wooohh!" he cried on team radio. "Beautiful. The car was unbelievable today. Well done, guys. Incr

Championship leader Kimi Antonelli roared to pole position for Mercedes on Saturday when he beat Red Bull's four-time champion Max Verstappen in the final seconds of Belgian Grand Prix qualifying. The 19-year-old Italian clocked a superbly-executed best lap in one minute and 44.361 seconds to outpace the Dutchman by 0.317sec with defending champion Lando Norris third for McLaren. Norris has a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday's race after taking a new engine. It was Antonelli's sixth pole this

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc won the British Grand Prix under safety car ⁠conditions in late drama on Sunday as Mercedes's Kimi Antonelli failed to score for the second time in three races ‌and saw his once-commanding Formula 1 lead slashed to 25 points. The win was Ferrari's ‌250th in Formula 1 and came at the Silverstone circuit ‌where the championship started in 1950 and in front of a capacity ‌race-day crowd of 175,000. On a day of changing fortunes, with Red ‌Bull's Max Verstappen crashing o

Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli, the youngest championship leader in F1 history, will seek to complete a hat-trick of early-season victories this weekend as Formula 1 returns after a month's enforced absence due to the Middle East war. The 19-year-old Mercedes driver, triumphant in China and Japan, leads teammate George Russell, who won the season-opening Australian race, by nine points ahead of what is effectively the start of another season, complete with revised rules and widespread car upgr

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli won the ‌Japanese Grand Prix on ‌Sunday to clinch ‌his second straight Formula ‌1 victory and become ‌the youngest-ever championship leader. The 19-year-old Italian, ‌who had started from ⁠pole ‌but quickly dropped back to sixth, crossed the line 13.7 seconds clear of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri with ⁠Ferrari’s  Charles Leclerc completing the podium. Antonelli's teammate George Russell crossed the line ‌fourth with world champion Lando Norris fifth in the other McLar

The Formula One fires up its engines on the first weekend of March 2026, marking the start of a new era with plenty of stories to tell: fresh car designs, new power units, new teams, and the return of veteran drivers. Here’s your complete guide to what’s coming. After a scintillating end of the 2025 season, which saw Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, and Max Verstappen all still have a chance to win the World Drivers' Championship in the final race in Abu Dhabi, the biggest motorsport spectacle on e

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli was involved in a car cash close to his home in San Marino ahead of this weekend’s Formula 1 pre-season test in Bahrain. The 19-year-old was however unharmed in the incident which happened over the weekend and will be able to take part in the first test at the Bahrain International Circuit. Mercedes in a statement said: “We can confirm that Kimi was involved in a traffic accident on Saturday night close to his home in San Marino. “The police attended the scene,

Scuderia Ferrari and Alpine have launched their cars for the upcoming 2026 Formula 1 season which ushers in a new era of technical regulations. The challenger, the SF-26, Ferrari’s features the unchanged classic red livery but includes more white than its predecessor, the SF-25. Lewis Hamilton will be aiming for a stronger second season with the Italian marque after enduring a nightmare debut campaign where he failed to finish on the podium for the first time in his career and was outperformed