Edd Straw

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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

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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