Andrea Kimi Antonelli can clinch the title in Austin if results fall his way, while Ferrari's upgrade impresses, Red Bull struggle and 207 practice lap times are deleted for track limits.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli can become Formula 1's youngest champion in Austin, while Ferrari's handling of Lewis Hamilton in Singapore draws criticism and Max Verstappen celebrates a poignant victory with Gianpiero Lambiase.
Franco Colapinto has asked fans to stop the online abuse he fears is harming his career, exposing how far Formula 1 and its teams still have to go to shield drivers from it.
Formula 1's return to Sepang after a nine-year absence was always going to be a step into the unknown, but few expected the unknown to be quite this literal: a circuit so weathered by the tropics that Friday practice unfolded four and a half seconds off Pirelli's own simulations.
The paddock arrives in Malaysia this week carrying an unusual geographic footnote — a Bahrain Grand Prix being run nowhere near Sakhir — but the stranger subplot is everything swirling around the teams themselves.
The champion explains his apology to Colapinto and condemns the online abuse that followed his comments.
The dust has barely settled on Baku, yet the paddock's attention is already split three ways: dissecting exactly how George Russell dismantled the field, working out what Red Bull's muted response to a team-mate collision actually tells us about the pecking order there, and squaring the timetable oddity of a "Bahrain Grand Prix" that will not, in fact, be held in Bahrain.
A safety car restart is supposed to be one of the more manageable moments in a Grand Prix — a controlled procession that snaps back into a race at a single, predictable point.
Every so often a Grand Prix weekend produces a race report that reads like a footnote to everything that happened around it, and Baku is shaping up to be exactly that kind of event.
The Baku street circuit has a habit of turning tame afternoons into chaos, and the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix followed that script to the letter.
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 energy to Monza that no other circuit on the calendar quite replicates — the cathedral of speed, the tifosi banking every hope on the red cars, and this year an added layer of intrigue because so many of the sport's power-unit and personnel storylines are converging on the Autodromo Nazionale at once.
Franco Colapinto has had a fortnight that captures the strange duality of life as a modern Formula 1 driver: contractual reassurance on one hand, regulatory scrutiny on the other.
Political enthusiasm and calendar reality rarely move at the same speed in Formula 1, and the renewed talk of an Argentine Grand Prix is a textbook illustration of that gap.
Two days on from the Dutch Grand Prix, and the paddock's attention has already split three ways: dissecting why Max Verstappen ultimately stayed loyal to Red Bull, working out whether McLaren's Zandvoort dominance was a blip or a statement, and picking through the wreckage of another awkward afternoon for Ferrari's two-driver policy.
The Hungaroring has a habit of serving as a season's confessional booth. It arrives after a triple-header, before six weeks of silence, and teams tend to use it either to unveil what they've been hiding or to admit what isn't working.
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