Edd Straw

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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

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McLaren drivers could run different suspension for rest of title fight

McLaren boss Andrea Stella has suggested Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri may well end up diverging on suspension choice over the remainder of the year – but denies this could become a factor that influences their Formula 1 title battle

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Verstappen's 'childish' ban talk ire hints Russell tactics worked

Max Verstappen has never been afraid of expressing his displeasure at a line of question he either dislikes or doesn’t want to face...

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FIA suspends Warwick from Canadian GP stewarding duties

The FIA has suspended Derek Warwick from his duties as driver steward for this weekend's Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix

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What Hadjar has to face before he's ready for Red Bull

Isack Hadjar's admission that he doesn't feel ready for a Red Bull Racing Formula 1 race seat right now is telling

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'Why should I change?' - Verstappen defiant amid ban risk

It took just one question for Max Verstappen to dismiss the notion that a very real threat of a one-race ban might impact his uncompromising approach to racing at this weekend's Formula 1's Canadian Grand Prix

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What we know about sudden Vasseur criticism and Ferrari exit talk

A wave of reports in some of Italy’s biggest media outlets have criticised various aspects of Fred Vasseur’s Ferrari leadership ahead of Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix. Here's what we know

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'Stop making up stuff' - Hamilton slams speculation over him and Vasseur

Lewis Hamilton ended an unequivocal defence of under-fire F1 team boss Fred Vasseur with a request to "please stop making up stuff" about his own future too, in a surprising reaffirmation of his multi-year Ferrari deal

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Mercedes should be 2026 F1 favourite. It risks wasting its chance

If paddock whispers about Mercedes' 2026 engine performance figures are accurate, its works team should be in great shape next year. But not if it can't understand why its current car doesn’t work as intended

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The new leading contender for a 2026 Red Bull F1 seat

Isack Hadjar has gone from falling into an F1 seat almost by default to being Red Bull's preferred next option for Max Verstappen's team-mate if Yuki Tsunoda continues to struggle

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How F1's slowest car was upgraded to a Ferrari-beater

Sauber has generally been the slowest package in the 2025 F1 field. But on the weekend its big upgrade arrived, it beat a Ferrari to fifth on merit

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What we know about mysterious Stroll injury after 'paddock gossip'

What is Lance Stroll's recovery plan and who will replace him if he can't race? Here's what we know following the Aston Martin F1 driver's Spanish GP withdrawal and subsequent procedure

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Edd Straw's 2025 Spanish Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

Several reliable performers - including one who'd strung together 95% of a great weekend - find themselves towards the bottom of our Spanish GP driver rankings

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11 things we learned from F1's Spanish GP

There was even more going on at F1's Spanish GP than two big narratives (one pre-race and one in-race) would suggest. Here's what we learned at Barcelona

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How has Tsunoda ended up last on the Spanish GP grid?

A baffled Yuki Tsunoda has said it does not stack up that his feeling in Red Bull's Formula 1 car translated into last place in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, as he feels he has been making "good progress…and suddenly it drops like hell"

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Our trackside take on day one of F1's aero policing reset

Edd Straw headed trackside for Spanish Grand Prix practice to assess all 10 cars' behaviour as the flexi-wing crackdown took effect

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What F1 drivers think of Monaco GP track change proposals

The Monaco GP has "always been the same" when it comes to a lack of overtaking opportunities. But that doesn't mean proposals to improve the spectacle have gone unnoticed by F1 drivers

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Everything we learned from F1's 2025 Monaco GP weekend

An experimental Monaco Grand Prix didn’t quite fire into life as Formula 1 hoped, but it was a fascinating weekend and a storied race

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Edd Straw's 2025 Monaco Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

The mandatory two-stop strategy and extreme team tactics that triggered shaped an odd Monaco GP - but who actually drove well amid the traffic jams? Edd Straw ranks the F1 field

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What explains Ferrari's Monaco pace - and what still doesn't add up

Charles Leclerc spent the build-up to Monaco writing off Ferrari's hopes but almost took pole. So what changed?

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Why two Monaco GP red flag overtakes weren't penalised like Bearman's

Two Formula 1 drivers were spared penalties for overtaking under red flags in Monaco Grand Prix practice, a day after Ollie Bearman incurred a heavy 10-place grid penalty for the offence.

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Nine things we learned on Monaco GP's surprising Friday

A great day for Ferrari and Liam Lawson, frustration for Red Bull and a big escape for Oscar Piastri plus lots of strategy headaches on Friday in Monaco

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The price Tsunoda is still paying for his Imola F1 qualifying crash

Yuki Tsunoda will carry a disadvantage in car specification into the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, but Red Bull is being coy about the extent

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Every 2025 F1 car's key strength and weakness right now

Seven races into the 2025 F1 season and the biggest strengths and weaknesses of each car are becoming ever clearer

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Edd Straw's 2025 F1 Imola Grand Prix driver rankings

Two mid-race interruptions and some tyre curiosities meant the Imola GP finishing order doesn't really reflect which drivers had the best weekends

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10 things we learned from F1's Imola race weekend

Our top takeaways from a weekend of surprises at Imola

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Trackside view: What we learned at one of F1's most revealing corners

Acque Minerali is not only one of the greatest corner names in Formula 1, but also a picturesque and fascinating place to watch grand prix cars in action

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The big off-track sign of Haas's F1 transformation

Haas has a very different presence in the F1 paddock from this weekend's Imola race. Edd Straw gets a tour of its new paddock base and explains why it's so significant

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'It smelled bad' - Alpine's Doohan axing blasted by F1 rookies

Dropped Alpine Formula 1 driver Jack Doohan was racing with a gun to his head from the start of the season and has been treated unfairly, reckon two of his fellow rookies

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Colapinto's Alpine shot is a dangerous opportunity for him

Another chance to make a play for a full-time F1 seat, but it could be detrimental or even 'dangerous' for his chances. Edd Straw assesses Franco Colapinto's return racing with Alpine

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How Williams resolved its first flashpoint with two top drivers

Williams team principal James Vowles has promised there will be no repeat of the miscommunication that led Carlos Sainz to think either Alex Albon or an engineer had disobeyed a team order in the previous Formula 1 race

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Why F1 teams' 2026 weight panic is wrong

Why should F1's minimum car weight be set low enough for all teams to easily hit?

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Colapinto's turned a career-long disadvantage into a huge F1 strength

Franco Colapinto has been able to transform a long-standing disadvantage into a strength that makes him well-placed to seize a career-making opportunity at Alpine, as Edd Straw explains

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Briatore's return eroded final bit of Renault's F1 credibility

Renault bringing the architect of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix scandal back to its Formula 1 team erodes the final bit of the outfit's credibility, says Edd Straw

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Eight things we learned from F1's 2025 Miami Grand Prix

Fierce fights at the front, and the potential end of an F1 career further back, made for a dramatic Miami Grand Prix - so here’s everything we learned from a highly unpredictable weekend

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Edd Straw's 2025 F1 Miami Grand Prix driver rankings

Nobody strung together a truly complete Formula 1 weekend in Miami this time - but one driver clearly came closest