Ferrari and McLaren have been testing tyres for Pirelli for the 2026 season, and the opening day saw Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in action on behalf of Ferrari. On the Spanish track, the seven-time world champion was just slightly quicker than the Monegasque.
By far the majority of drivers have had to report to race control at some point last season. Either they caused an incident, or they were involved in one thanks to another driver. With the new season approaching, it is a good time to take a look at how many penalty points drivers have behind
Did the FIA intervene too much in the championship with a rule change set to take effect ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix? Red Bull sign 60 new staff members, while Andrea Stella wants Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari. GPblog brings you the best news of the day from the world of F1!
Lewis Hamilton’s first day of arriving in Maranello and finally wearing the famous Ferrari suit took the world of F1 by storm. McLaren team principal Andrea Stella also enjoyed Hamilton’s arrival, but warned their rivals ahead of the upcoming 2025 season.
For a long time, McLaren seemed to have a partnership in place with Ford. However, the American manufacturer made the decision to enter a hypercar team of the World Endurance Championship, which leaves McLaren having to find another engine supplier for their WEC project. Or is another option the most logical solution?
With a month and a half to go before the 2025 Formula 1 season gets underway, Juan Pablo Montoya looks ahead to what is to come. The former F1 driver thinks he can predict who will be world champion: he would put his money on McLaren driver Lando Norris.
Despite winning the constructors’ championship with McLarens during the 2024 Formula 1 season, the driver’s title was not on the cards for Lando Norris. Red Bull Racing CEO and team principal Christian Horner thinks that this is due to the Briton’s own mistakes. He also thinks that Norris has learned from them heading into 2025.
The FIA will be even stricter in terms of the use of flexible wings. According to Autoracer.it, after consultation over the winter, a new technical directive that was issued should ensure that the tracks used to make front wings flexible will be reduced.
Newey comments on Red Bull, Johnny Herbert lands a new job, and Hamilton talked about what he expects in a more ’emotional’ Ferrari environment. Together with GPblog’s exclusive interview with Alpine team boss Oliver Oakes and McLaren’s Pirelli tyre test in France, we bring you the best news of the day from the world of
After Oscar Piastri sit in the McLaren on Wednesday, today it was Lando Norris’ turn as Pirelli conducted the first test of the season at the Paul Ricard circuit in France. Pirelli’s Director of Motorsport classified the test ‘useful’, and talked about what’s next for the Italian brand this season.
Lewis Hamilton had his first taste of the intense emotionality that engulfs Ferrari’s passionate aura at the day of his presentation as a Ferrari driver, leaving the Briton to expect a ‘massively’ different experience to those he underwent at his two former -British- teams, Mercedes and McLaren.
While Ferrari was testing an old F1 car in Barcelona this week, McLaren was a few hundred kilometres away testing the MCL60, the car driven in the 2023 season by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. The latter was in action on Wednesday at the Paul Ricard circuit, where a tyre test did not go as
