Alex Albon

Andrea Kimi Antonelli's victory from pole in Austin puts him 123 points clear with five rounds left, while Ferrari rue a lost podium and Red Bull's reliability and radio problems resurface.

Baku has a habit of exposing the smallest lapses in judgement, and this year's Azerbaijan Grand Prix delivered another reminder of why the streets around the Old City are among the least forgiving on the calendar.

There's a particular flavour to the days before Monza that no other race weekend quite replicates — the sense of history pressing in on the present.

The financial and developmental toll of the Zandvoort crash could derail Williams' midfield progress given their car's flawed 2026 design principles.

Williams' decision to field reserve driver Luke Browning for the Italian Grand Prix raises questions about Albon's status and the team's driver depth.

There's a particular flavour to F1's news cycle in the days before the paddock scatters for its August recess, and this week has it in abundance.

There's a particular flavour to the F1 news cycle in a season when the pecking order is still settling: technical curiosities dominate the agenda as much as results do, and everyone from team principals to pundits is reading tea leaves for clues about who's actually building the right car for the long haul.

Formula 1's summer shutdown is meant to be the sport holding its breath — factories shuttered, phones (in theory) switched off, and nobody allowed to so much as sweep a garage floor.

There is a particular kind of tension that surfaces at a Formula 1 team when results stall and the messaging from the top starts to diverge from the mood in the cockpit.

The paddock has a habit of sounding loudest when the championship battle itself goes quiet, and the day after Hungary feels like exactly that.

Formula 1 heads into its summer break with more loose threads than a season usually allows itself at this stage.

Incidents involving three cars are rarely as simple as they first appear, and the Sainz-Piastri clash is turning into exactly that kind of forensic puzzle.