Jon Noble

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Mercedes reverts to new suspension it parked after its debut

Mercedes is to reintroduce the latest version of its rear suspension for Formula 1's Canadian Grand Prix this weekend – having parked it for the last two races

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Ben Sulayem's controversial changes voted through despite warnings

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has won an overwhelming majority for controversial changes to the governing body’s statutes despite a last-minute warning about their impact

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New attack on Ben Sulayem plans warns of 'dark period' for FIA

Senior FIA figures have been warned that the governing body’s credibility is at risk if they vote in support of proposed changes to the statutes put forward by president Mohammed Ben Sulayem

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F1 tightens 2026 rules to close off tyre cooling tricks

Formula 1 teams will be explicitly banned from exploiting any tyre cooling tricks from next year via an intriguing new amendment to the 2026 technical regulations

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The true impact of F1's mid-season rule change is still to come

McLaren's rivals didn't get the instant game-changer they hoped for from the flexi-wing crackdown, but look out for longer-term impacts

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Why Audi is talking down its new F1 team

Sauber's come a long way lately. But there is still a much longer way to go before its new Audi guide will be as good as it needs to be, admits its F1 project chief Mattia Binotto in an exclusive interview

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Stroll on target to be fit for Canadian GP after all

Lance Stroll looks to be on course to return to Formula 1 action at the Canadian Grand Prix, but a final decision is unlikely to be made until next week as he recovers from a wrist operation

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The F1 officiating issue Horner feels Verstappen incident exposed

F1 teams are being left to second-guess stewards' decisions and need better guidance on whether drivers need to give positions back, according to Red Bull's Christian Horner

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Red Bull set for exemption that would give it new F1 driver option

A Formula 1 superlicence exemption request from Red Bull for its protege Arvid Lindblad is to be discussed by the FIA next week, The Race can reveal

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Red Bull mule car debut shows us what to expect from 2026

Red Bull’s participation in this week’s Pirelli 2026 Formula 1 tyre test has given us another clear indication about how much downforce is going to be reduced next year

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Alonso's heroics are masking this Aston Martin overtaking problem

Fernando Alonso wants Aston Martin to sort out its lack of straightline speed in Formula 1, so he can stop needing to “invent” bold places to overtake

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Three revelations from Mercedes' disastrous triple-header

What really went wrong for Mercedes in a triple-header where it was leapfrogged by Ferrari and outscored by Racing Bulls? Here's what we've learned from the F1 team's post-Spanish GP debrief

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Tsunoda finally gets his Red Bull test with bonus double run

Yuki Tsunoda's hopes of unlocking the answers he needs to turnaround his lack of form have received a timely boost this week with a double Formula 1 test for Red Bull

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F1 abandons plan to make divisive skid block change mandatory

Formula 1 has abandoned plans to make steel skid blocks mandatory for selected races this year, and has come up with a new plan instead

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Cadillac's first big-name F1 sponsor deal explained

Cadillac has secured the first sponsor for its new F1 team with a deal that will bring clothing brand Tommy Hilfiger back to grand prix racing

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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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Why Red Bull made the Spanish GP call that doomed Verstappen

Red Bull's decision to put Max Verstappen on the unfancied hard tyre late on in the Spanish Grand Prix aged very badly very quickly - but what was the original logic?

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Verstappen concedes Russell clash shouldn't have happened

Max Verstappen has now admitted that his crash with George Russell in F1's Spanish GP was "not right and shouldn’t have happened"

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F1's wing clampdown effects are bigger than they seem

Formula 1's new flexi-wing directive didn't draastically change the order - but seems to be having an under-the-radar impact that should be more pronounced in races

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'I take responsibility' - Leclerc's qualifying sacrifice explained

Charles Leclerc says he will take personal responsibility if Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix weekend ends in disappointment, after he pushed for the tyre calls that hurt his chances in qualifying

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'Disconnected' tyre should force Spanish GP strategy variety

F1 should finally get a natural two-stop race at the Spanish GP as teams cannot get one of the tyre options to work

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Six things we learned from rare Briatore media appearance

Flavio Briatore's first appearance in an official F1 press conference in a decade and a half was pretty eventful

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The new headache steel skid block move will give F1 teams

Steel skid blocks which effectively "wear down like butter" could force Formula 1 teams to raise their car ride-heights later this year if they are made mandatory at specific grands prix

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Silverstone and Spa next to get F1 strategy shake-up

Pirelli has elected to shake things up with its Formula 1 tyre selection for the British and Belgian Grands Prix in its efforts to spice up the racing

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'Poorly designed' F1 rules need flexi-wings, argues Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton believes Formula 1's flexi-wing clampdown is a step in the wrong direction – because it gets rid of a "Band-Aid for poorly designed technical regulations"

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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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What first look at McLaren tells us about F1 flexi-wing revisions

The first images of McLaren's revised front wing aimed at passing tougher F1 flexibility tests highlight how the devil will be in the detail of what teams have had to change

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Mercedes drops new F1 suspension

Mercedes has elected to park for now the upgraded rear suspension it brought to Imola, as it continues to work on improvements to it

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FIA's divisive skid block change set for Spanish GP test

Formula 1 teams are to conduct tests with steel skids blocks at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix as the FIA pushes on with its idea to avoid grass fires

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F1 already has a 2026 Monaco passing fix it could deploy

Monaco might not need another strategy tweak or even circuit changes. F1's 2026 rules have a provision that really could create overtaking

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How Monaco GP 'manipulation' really began

Williams took the heat for it, but the Monaco Grand Prix team games controversy began at Racing Bulls. Here's how it came about, and why the team has no qualms about it at all

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Three feasible ways to create Monaco overtaking - Wurz's proposals explained

Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alex Wurz has outlined three feasible ways that Monaco's Formula 1 circuit can be improved to help overtaking

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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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Where Hamilton stands after difficult Monaco and more Ferrari radio angst

Fresh radio angst and a big gap to team-mate Charles Leclerc - what was going on with Lewis Hamilton's Monaco GP?

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'We had no choice' - Williams' mid-race apology to Mercedes

Williams boss James Vowles texted Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff during the Monaco Grand Prix to apologise for the manipulation tactics his team had unleashed

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Chaos, loopholes and fears: How Monaco GP is shaping up

F1 teams are braced for 'chaos' in an impossible to predict Monaco Grand Prix - here's why

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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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Norris's emphatic qualifying turnaround explained

Pole for the Monaco GP might look transformational for Lando Norris - and there's no doubting what it meant to him. But he knows his pace was never in doubt

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F1 teams trying tyre blanket tricks amid Monaco dilemma

The knife-edge performance of Pirelli's new softest C6 compound has prompted teams to try some unusual tyre blanket tactics in a bid to unleash its best performance

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Newey exposes key Aston Martin weakness that may take two years to fix

Adrian Newey has revealed a key weakness with one of Aston Martin’s major new investments