Edd Straw

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How Sauber went from disaster to 2025 breakout star

Sauber as a leading midfield contender? You'd have been laughed at for thinking so at the start of the 2025 F1 season. Edd Straw speaks in depth to the team's technical director about its dramatic turnaround

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Why Cadillac will use rival's car for F1 testing debut

The Cadillac team will conduct on-track Formula 1 testing this year using a car supplied by another team as it ramps up preparations for its debut in 2026

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'I'd like to shut down that rumour' - Cadillac on Horner

The Cadillac team has emphatically torpedoed rumours that Christian Horner could return to Formula 1 as part of its operation

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The alternate F1 reality where Albon leads the championship

Alternative F1 points with certain teams removed are always a fun exercise. There's a 2025 version that really puts the grid's wildest battle in sharp focus

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Lessons for F1 as it pushes to make its cars smaller again

The stunning array of Formula 1 cars at the Silverstone Festival offered some lessons at a time when F1 is trying to make its cars smaller again

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How different will 2026 F1 cars be to drive?

How different will 2026 Formula 1 cars be to drive, and what different skills will they demand of drivers?

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Ranking the 2025 F1 rookies so far

An outstanding crop of rookies? The first 14 weekends of the 2025 F1 season have at least partly delivered on that expectation. We rank how they've fared so far

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Grading every F1 team's 2025 performance so far

Points standings don't lie - but when it comes to F1 they're not always a genuine reflection of a team's success or failure. We rank every team on how they've performed so far in 2025

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Embarrassment to respect: The transformation of Audi's F1 team

Audi's F1 project looked set for a disastrous start as Sauber floundered. Now there's much more hope. Team boss Jonathan Wheatley talks us through the transformation

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Edd Straw's mid-season 2025 F1 driver rankings

Here's our worst to best countdown of every F1 driver's 2025 performance so far - based on our average grand prix weekend rankings

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Why a deceptive Mercedes upgrade is being chucked in 'a bin'

Mercedes says its 2025 F1 rear suspension upgrade will end up "in a bin". Why did it take the team so long to realise there was an issue?

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Edd Straw's 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

The battle for victory might have taken centre stage at the Hungarian Grand Prix, but it was a couple of midfield F1 drivers who stole the show in Edd Straw's driver rankings

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What's really made Leclerc F1's qualifying danger man again

Charle Leclerc's magic touch in F1 qualifying has returned, and that’s all about the effect Ferrari’s recent upgrades have had on him

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Why Hamilton's trying to help Antonelli and what he's told him

Lewis Hamilton has reached out to Kimi Antonelli amid the toughest spell of Antonelli's rookie F1 season

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Mercedes makes another spec U-turn to stop F1 form tailspin

Mercedes is rolling back the rear suspension Formula 1 upgrade it debuted in Imola in a bid to find the reason behind its 2025 performance drop-off

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Six reasons for Ferrari's surprise F1 boss announcement

Fred Vasseur's multi-year renewal as Ferrari's F1 boss came as a surprise ahead of the Hungarian GP. What's convinced Ferrari that Vasseur's the one for the job - and why has it been announced now?

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Edd Straw's 2025 Belgian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

The 2025 Belgian GP might not have been a classic, but this classic track did once again allow some drivers to make the difference over the course of the weekend. Edd Straw ranks the F1 field at Spa

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Mercedes holding crunch meeting to solve where car has gone wrong

Mercedes has called a meeting at its Brackley factory on Monday with both of its drivers to help ascertain where it has gone wrong with its Formula 1 car

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Verstappen: Calls like Belgian GP delay destroying F1 rain racing

Max Verstappen says it made “no sense” to delay the start of the Belgian Grand Prix because of the weather – as he said Formula 1 may as well stop racing in the rain if it is this cautious.

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How each F1 team is set up for a wet or dry Belgian GP

Wing choices and downforce levels are always a hot topic at Spa - and doubly so when there's a wet Belgian GP in prospect

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Why Hamilton's struggling while Leclerc thrives in upgraded Ferrari

There could not have been a starker contrast between the two Ferrari drivers after qualifying for the Belgian GP - as Charles Leclerc revelled in the upgraded SF-25 while Lewis Hamilton lamented an "unacceptable" failure

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The ridiculous lengths Bearman went to for obscure track record

Haas F1 driver Ollie Bearman has revealed he went to drastic measures to break a small kart track's lap record during his holiday between races

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Where has Leclerc's qualifying magic gone?

Extraordinary qualifying performances have been Charles Leclerc's calling card throughout his F1 career. But by his own estimation, he's "not doing the job" in qualifying in 2025

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Ferrari's lost junior: Was Bianchi on Leclerc's path?

Edd Straw, who followed the late Jules Bianchi's F1 career closely first-hand, explores the comparison between Bianchi and Charles Leclerc and the outcome fate tragically denied

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Why McLaren's rivals have been so bad in 2025

The 2025 McLaren is a great car but it's been helped by the struggles of its key rivals. We explain their deficiencies and assess their prospects of improving

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F1 2025's hidden rookie star

Gabriel Bortoleto has had a much better rookie F1 season than some people might have noticed. Edd Straw explains

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Everything you need to know about Cadillac's F1 driver search

Cadillac looks closer than ever to securing its first Formula 1 driver signing - here's what you need to know

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Edd Straw's 2025 British Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

A crowd-pleaser podium and a victory-deciding penalty will be what the British GP was remembered for - but how did everyone really fare amid the chaos?

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Hulkenberg's podium ends a terrible F1 injustice

Nico Hulkenberg couldn't be more deserving of shedding the record of being, statistically, Formula 1’s most prolific failure

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Why McLaren should fear Red Bull's bold Verstappen set-up choice

The set up for the British Grand Prix echoes that of the Japanese Grand Prix in April. So what chance of a repeat at Silverstone and Max Verstappen keeping the papaya tide at bay?

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'Death by 1000 paper cuts' - Mayer's motivation to beat Ben Sulayem

Tim Mayer has gone straight on the offensive in the fight for the FIA presidency

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What we've learned about Verstappen and Russell's F1 futures

Max Verstappen and George Russell have provided a little more clarity on where their minds are at right now regarding their future as Jon Noble and Edd Straw explain...

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Alpine rejected Bottas before. Now he's exactly what it needs

Alpine has spurned Valtteri Bottas before. But in the situation it finds itself in this F1 season, he's probably exactly what it needs

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Nine things we've learned about Cadillac F1 team's progress

How is Cadillac's build-up to joining the F1 grid in 2026 really going? Edd Straw found out

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A lost champion? How good Kubica really was in F1

Robert Kubica's Le Mans 24 Hours win in a Ferrari - and his role in securing that result for his crew - has thrown his great 'what if?' F1 story back into the spotlight. Edd Straw explores Kubica's many peaks

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Impressive but clunky - Our early verdict on the new F1 movie

Edd Straw has seen F1: The Movie - here's his take if it's any good

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Edd Straw's 2025 Canadian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

Did anyone string together a better weekend than the driver who had total control of the Canadian GP? And how big a hit to Lando Norris's ranking did two costly errors provide?

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Eight things we learned from F1's Canadian GP

From F1 2025's new race winner to a team getting left behind at the foot of the championship, here are eight things we learned from the Canadian GP

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McLaren's plea to its drivers after Canada clash

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri’s lesson from their Canadian Grand Prix collision needs to be to leave each other more margin for misjudgement, according to their F1 team boss Andrea Stella

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Le Mans triumph is redemption for lost F1 great Kubica

Robert Kubica is likely to play down his Le Mans 24 Hours triumph at the wheel of a Ferrari (and his role in it). But given what he's been through, it's a sensational story