Edd Straw

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Everything now points to Renault selling its F1 team

Alpine and Renault insist their F1 team is not for sale. But all the steps being taken around it align with what you'd do if you were planning to sell sooner or later.

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Is Audi's surprise appointment the leader it needs?

Doubts about Mattia Binotto were raised before his Ferrari exit, and there've been more since considering how his replacement Fred Vasseur has fared. Binotto has a chance to improve his F1 reputation now's he's heading to Audi - but is he the right fit?

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Edd Straw's 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix driver rankings

Nobody had a perfect weekend at the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix - so who made the best of it? Find out as Edd Straw ranks the F1 field

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Norris's response to team orders fallout reveals inner conflict

Lando Norris's attempt to brush aside McLaren's Hungary team orders tension was unconvincing. But even if he realised too late the impact his actions would have, he still made a significant point to his team and rivals

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Where Perez really stands after awfully-timed Q1 crash

A Q1 crash is not what the under pressure Sergio Perez needed in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. So why is he still (relatively) upbeat?

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Is McLaren wasting F1's best 2024 car?

McLaren could arguably have added to its 2024 F1 win tally at any of the last six grands prix, but its strike rate since emerging as a genuine frontrunner has been poor. So has McLaren been wasting this year's best car? Edd Straw dissects its lost wins

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Edd Straw: How I'd fix F1's broken racing rules

Formula 1's current racing rules aren't fit for purpose and some of the artistry of wheel-to-wheel racing is being eroded, says Edd Straw. This is how he'd fix it...

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Ferrari's 'worse than a nightmare' F1 run isn't going to end soon

Charles Leclerc didn’t grasp for positives about Ferrari’s plight as its struggles continued at Silverstone. And there's little evidence things will get better in the short-term, as Edd Straw explains

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F1 Tech Show: What's going so wrong with Ferrari?

Edd Straw and Gary Anderson are back, fresh from their trip to the British Grand Prix, where they got the chance to take a close look at the cars on track. As ever, Gary made some shrewd observations, which he reports back on in the first part of The Race F1 Tech Show

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Edd Straw's 2024 F1 British Grand Prix driver rankings

There were plenty of contenders for 'best performer' from a thrilling British GP weekend in which drivers faced a real mix of weather conditions. But who's come out on top in Edd Straw's F1 driver rankings this week?

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100 seconds slower - Ferrari's embarrassing gamble explained

Ferrari's historical reputation for nonsensical Formula 1 judgment calls was only boosted by an embarrassingly doomed tyre gamble at the British Grand Prix that ensured Charles Leclerc's miserable run of form continued

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Ferrari's 'downgrade' lays bare its big weakness

Ferrari knew the British GP weekend would be difficult. But Silverstone hasn't just exposed a weakness in fast corners - it's demonstrated how big a bouncing problem it's battling with its 2024 F1 car

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What you need to know about Ferrari's biggest hope since Leclerc

Newly confirmed 2025 Haas Formula 1 driver Ollie Bearman is Ferrari's biggest hope of producing another star for its own team since Charles Leclerc

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An emphatic response to lingering Mercedes leadership concerns

George Russell's second career grand prix win was obviously a welcome result. But it wasn't the best thing to come out of the Austrian GP weekend for a driver who has had to face questions about his execution in the past

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Edd Straw's 2024 Austrian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

A particularly eventful Austrian Grand Prix was dominated by the Max Verstappen/Lando Norris shunt - but Edd Straw's driver rankings also unveils some rollercoaster races for the rest of the Formula 1 grid

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Tsunoda's €40k fine for ableist slur lays down a marker

RB Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda has been fined €40,000, half of which is suspended, for using an ableist slur over the radio during qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix

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Norris's self-criticism was entirely justified after 'amateur' slip

Lando Norris may not have believed McLaren had the pace to win the Austrian Grand Prix sprint race, but he was right to admit that he “left the door open, like an amateur” because that denied him the chance to find out if it really was winnable

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How Perez became biggest loser in Austria F1 qualifying mess

Red Bull driver Sergio Perez was the big loser of the game of brinkmanship at the start of the final runs in sprint qualifying having had to do his final lap sandwiched between Alpine drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly

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Verstappen car drama: What happened in sole Austria F1 practice

Max Verstappen ground to a halt in the sole practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix - before quickly returning to the track and later setting the fastest time

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Everything worth knowing about Williams's F1 hiring spree

Williams has gone on a mass-hiring spree - bringing in 32 new recruits, including the technical director who oversaw Alpine's troubled start to the 2024 #F1 season. Team principal James Vowles tells The Race about Williams's masterplan

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Alpine gives Gasly new F1 deal - and steps up Sainz chase

Alpine has firmed up one part of its F1 2025 line-up by extending Pierre Gasly's deal - and is making a solid pitch for Carlos Sainz's services to complete the line-up

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What's prompted Alonso's stark Aston Martin warning shot

'Talk less, deliver more' is the message from Fernando Alonso, who's expecting a tough run until an upgrade Alonso hopes can replicate the leaps McLaren and Mercedes made

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Edd Straw's 2024 Spanish Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

The Spanish GP is well known as a proper test of car performance, but that didn't prevent a number of standout drives shining through - as Edd Straw's F1 driver rankings show

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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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Why Verstappen has been testing Red Bull's 2022 F1 car

Max Verstappen was out testing Red Bull's 2022 Formula 1 car ahead of the 2024 Spanish Grand Prix. Edd Straw explains why

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Briatore return erodes 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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Alpine brings Briatore back into F1 team in new role

Alpine has controversially hired former Benetton and Renault Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore as an executive advisor

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The first test of whether Ferrari's eradicated a key weakness

Neither Ferrari's day of days in Monaco, nor its 2024 nadir in Montreal, are representative of where it stands in F1 right now. But that Canadian GP weekend does pose the first real test of 'this' Ferrari and its focus

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Nigel Mansell answers your questions

When we gave The Race Members' Club the chance to put their questions to 1992 F1 champion Nigel Mansell, it was no surprise the response was enormous. So here are the answers to your questions - as revealing and as typically 'Mansell' as you'd expect

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The throwaway remark about F1 2026 that's actually a big deal

Amid the fanfare of the FIA's 2026 rules announcement was a throwaway remark doing seriously heavy lifting in terms of the performance objectives of the next generation of F1 cars - one that's far from straightforward to achieve

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The outsider forcing his way into 2025 F1 seat contention

An Alpine seat has to be one of the least-fancied in F1 right now, but two drivers in particular are being linked with its vacancy. One of them's an 10-time grand prix winner, and the other? He'd be a rookie. But he's an option being taken very seriously by the team

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Edd Straw's 2024 Canadian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

Who passed all the tests a wet-dry Canadian GP threw at them most convincingly, and who had a miserable time in Montreal? Edd Straw passes judgement with his driver rankings

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The plan to address F1 teams' 2026 rules fears

F1's 2026 regulations will be changed to address the biggest fears teams have raised so far, but only after an initial version is approved in the "most restrictive" form

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Why Mercedes is dropping its unique F1 front wing concept

Mercedes will drop the unique Formula 1 front wing concept introduced at the start of the season for good, with both drivers set to race the new design at the Canadian Grand Prix - despite using the old specification for the rain-affected Friday practice

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What's concerning teams about F1 2026 plans

Formula 1 teams doubt how achievable some of the FIA’s objectives are for the 2026 rules. Here's everything they're concerned about

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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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Winners and losers from F1's 2024 development war so far

A third of the way through the 2024 F1 season, we've seen significant upgrades to most teams' cars. So who's winning and losing in the development war so far this year?

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Why Mercedes has gone too far with its 2024 F1 car

Twelve months on from Mercedes abandoning its original ground effect Formula 1 car concept, just how much progress has the team actually made and did it go too far with its 2024 car?

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Edd Straw's 2024 Monaco Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

Charles Leclerc got the Monaco GP win he'd yearned for, but plenty more F1 drivers had very frustrating Sundays. Here's Edd Straw's judgement on the field

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Leclerc's pole to lose? All you need to know from Monaco FP3

Charles Leclerc cemented his status as favourite for Monaco Grand Prix pole position by topping the final free practice session on his home streets