Ben Anderson

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Norris survives two wall strikes to dominate Singapore GP

Lando Norris survived two swipes of the unforgiving Singapore barriers to dominate the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix and cut Max Verstappen’s Formula 1 championship lead down to 52 points with six full races and three sprints remaining

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Is McLaren rear wing trick F1's next major controversy?

The ongoing row over flexible wings in F1 has taken a fresh turn - as attention has switched from controversy over front wing flexibility to an apparent trick McLaren has come up with on its rear wing

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Piastri beats Leclerc to Baku win, Norris gains on Verstappen

Oscar Piastri defeated Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari to win a thrilling Azerbaijan Grand Prix for McLaren and continue Piastri’s strong run of recent form in Formula 1

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Strong start for Red Bull as Leclerc crashes in first Baku practice

Max Verstappen led Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez in the opening practice session at Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as Charles Leclerc caused one of three red-flag interruptions

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Leclerc and Ferrari snatch Italian GP win from McLaren

Charles Leclerc scored a brilliantly opportunistic victory for Ferrari in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, defeating Oscar Piastri’s McLaren thanks to a strategic masterstroke at Monza

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Laptimes suggest Mercedes and Ferrari could be an Italian GP threat

Barely more than a tenth and a half covered the top five fastest Formula 1 cars in second practice for the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, but no Red Bull featured in that picture thanks to the odd circumstances of FP2 at Monza

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Haas F1 team free to leave Zandvoort as sponsor dispute settled

The Haas Formula 1 team can now send its equipment to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix, having obtained clearance to depart the Netherlands after resolving its legal dispute with former sponsor Uralkali

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The laptime evidence that Red Bull's on back foot at Zandvoort

The Dutch Grand Prix looks like a three-way fight after Friday, as Mercedes narrowly set the single-lap pace, McLaren showed a long-run edge and Max Verstappen was only just about with them

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The early indicators in renewed McLaren vs Red Bull battle

There was not an incredible amount to learn from first practice at Formula 1's 2024 Dutch GP, except to say the very tentative early signs indicate another close fight between the upgraded McLaren and the reconfigured Red Bull

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The laps that suggest an ominous Belgian GP warning will come true

Max Verstappen and Red Bull made an ominous start to a Belgian Grand Prix weekend in which he needs to take a 10-place grid penalty

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Where Ferrari really stands after topping first Hungarian GP practice

Ferrari has started Formula 1’s 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix on the front foot, with Carlos Sainz setting the pace in first practice

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Hamilton ends F1 victory drought in British GP thriller

Lewis Hamilton took his first Formula 1 victory since 2021 at the 2024 British Grand Prix, defeating Max Verstappen and Lando Norris in a tense and thrilling finish at Silverstone

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Russell on British GP pole as Norris and Verstappen mess up

George Russell claimed pole position for the 2024 British Grand Prix, leading a Mercedes 1-2 at Silverstone as Lando Norris aborted his final Q3 lap and Max Verstappen’s Red Bull was hobbled by floor damage

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British GP FP2: The laptimes that suggest Red Bull trails McLaren

Lando Norris led a McLaren 1-2 in second practice for Formula 1’s 2024 British Grand Prix, giving a stronger indication that McLaren is in contention to beat Red Bull at Silverstone

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McLaren sets misleading pace in first British GP practice

Lando Norris set the pace for McLaren in first practice for F1's British GP as the pace of team-mate Oscar Piastri and Lance Stroll's Aston Martin kept Max Verstappen out of the top three - though the early competitive picture at Silverstone was skewed completely by a tyre offset

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The alarming trend emerging in Ferrari's 2024 F1 season

Ferrari began F1 2024 as Red Bull's nearest challenger but that's emphatically no longer the case. Ben Anderson looks at where the team is slipping behind - and asks whether there's a deficiency in Ferrari's understanding of what's still possible under these rules

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Ferrari's upgrade verdict makes this letdown more puzzling

Ferrari has either the fourth-quickest F1 car at Barcelona or, at best, is a marginal third. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are adamant that's not good enough - but it's a situation made more worrying by the way its significant Spanish GP upgrade has been received

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Is Russell too limited to become Mercedes' F1 team leader?

Is George Russell too error-prone to become Mercedes' spearhead when Lewis Hamilton departs? You asked, we answered

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Red Bull's paying the price for its era-defining Verstappen swoop

Red Bull’s increasingly underwhelming driver choices are a direct consequence of two things: Max Verstappen’s incredible ascendancy and increasing competition in the junior driver ranks forcing Red Bull to operate in a more conventional sense in the Formula 1 driver market

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The fallout from Ferrari's first 2024 F1 disaster

Ferrari has pledged to conduct a “deep analysis” after a miserable Canadian Grand Prix weekend in which both cars failed to make Q3 and the team scored zero points after an astonishingly poor grand prix for both drivers

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Ferrari's incredible Canada flop - what we know

Ferrari came into the Canadian GP weekend tipped by many as hot favourite to make it back-to-back F1 wins. But it ended qualifying with neither car in the top 10. Even with a tight field spread, why did Ferrari end up so uncharacteristically on the wrong side of that?

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Podcast: F1's new 2026 rules explained + why they're changing

We give our immediate reaction to the details of the 2026 Formula 1 regulations released by the FIA today in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast

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F1 reveals 2026 cars - everything worth knowing

The first official look at Formula 1’s 2026 car rules has been revealed by the FIA, along with several new key details including dropping the drag reduction system as we know it

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'Not good enough' - Worrying start for Imola's most upgraded F1 car

In the high-stakes game of top Formula 1 teams bringing extensive upgrades to Imola, one team has reason to feel most concerned about its competitive standing at this track

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McLaren fastest in FP3 but Perez shunt clouds the true picture

It’s difficult to get a proper read on form heading into Emilia Romagna GP qualifying, as the business end of the final F1 practice at Imola was interrupted by Sergio Perez’s clumsy crash at the Variante Alta chicane

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Why Williams is admitting to a shocking F1 laptime-killer

Williams team principal James Vowles revealed the area where Williams is astonishingly losing almost half a second a lap with its current Formula 1 car

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Ben Anderson's 2024 F1 Miami Grand Prix driver rankings

A first-ever Formula 1 victory for Lando Norris - but did he do enough to take the top spot in our Miami Grand Prix driver rankings?

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Ricciardo's heroics and Hamilton's misery: Miami GP sprint takeaways

Max Verstappen took an expected victory in Formula 1's Miami GP sprint, but it was a very eventful race - with multiple protagonists and a safety car appearance

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Leclerc's blunder and more takeaways from sole Miami GP practice

Charles Leclerc may have already compromised his Miami Grand Prix weekend by spinning out of the sole practice of the weekend - which Max Verstappen topped as usual, although it didn't come easy

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Where Alonso's Russell battle tactics crossed a line

Fernando Alonso’s public defence of how he drove while protecting position from George Russell on the penultimate lap of Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix was a typically bombastic piece of self-promotion, which only flirted with the full picture of what happened

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Red Bull makes easy work of Saudi Arabian GP

Red Bull dominated Formula 1’s 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with Max Verstappen ahead of Sergio Perez, comfortably clear of all rivals

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How first Saudi F1 practice swung from Mercedes to Red Bull

A deeper dive into the laptimes from the opening Saudi Arabian GP practice, as reigning champion Max Verstappen led the way

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Explaining how Sainz and Alonso denied Verstappen in final practice

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz set the pace in the final practice session for Formula 1’s 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix, ahead of Fernando Alonso and Max Verstappen

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Explaining Bahrain GP's Ricciardo-led first practice session

A well-timed soft tyre run by Daniel Ricciardo and RB meant an unusual order in the first practice session of the 2024 Formula 1 season at the Bahrain Grand Prix

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What next for Sainz after Hamilton's Ferrari F1 bombshell?

Lewis Hamilton has blown up Carlos Sainz's Ferrari career in spectacular fashion, but other doors will open - especially for a driver as good as Sainz. Here, we assess his 2025 F1 options.

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McLaren's Norris contract 'priority' is telling of Red Bull threat

Having established himself as one of the top five drivers on the grid, Lando Norris has naturally become hot property on Formula 1’s driver market - and McLaren has made clear keeping him is one of its key 2024 priorities

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Six takeaways from McLaren's early F1 2024 launch

McLaren’s 2024 Formula 1 livery may be pretty familiar, but there were enough hints at its surprise early season launch that its new car won't be

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What does Red Bull do if neither Ricciardo or Perez impresses?

The decision on who partners Max Verstappen at the Red Bull Formula 1 team in 2025 is being billed as a head-to-head between Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo. But what happens if neither makes a compelling enough case for the seat?

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Gene Haas is mistaken about his team’s place in modern F1

Gene Haas's squad was once a welcome addition to an F1 grid beset by crises. But F1 has changed since - and Haas doesn't seem to have accepted this

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The other F1 returnee who enjoyed his 2023 comeback

As The Race reflects on the 2023 motorsport season, we’ve asked our writers to recount their standout motorsport memory or feeling from the past 12 months. Much like a couple of drivers in the 2023 F1 field, Ben Anderson had spent some time away from the paddock before he returned earlier this year