Scott Mitchell-Malm

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Who really has control as Verstappen exploits major McLaren wobble

The points are on Piastri's side. The momentum is with Verstappen. McLaren has a faster car than its results suggest. Who's really in charge of an increasingly captivating F1 2025 title fight?

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Everything we learned from F1's United States Grand Prix

We may be 19 rounds into the final year of this Formula 1 regulation cycle, but it’s still producing plenty of fresh talking points

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Red Bull attempted to interfere with Norris grid marker

Red Bull’s pre-race rules breach involved a team member attempting to interfere with a reference marker McLaren placed on the pitwall next to Lando Norris’s grid slot

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What was behind 17th place controversy that 'disappointed Alpine

Franco Colapinto defied an instruction to stay behind Alpine Formula 1 team-mate Pierre Gasly in an unusual controversy over 17th place

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'Dangerous' Tsunoda setting bad example to kids - Bearman

Ollie Bearman said Yuki Tsunoda acted “against the spirit of how we should go racing” after the two almost collided at the 2025 United States Grand Prix

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What we know about Piastri's worrying Austin struggles

Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri has lacked confidence all weekend at the United States Grand Prix, which is turning into a very costly struggle

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Why Lawson keeps annoying Tsunoda

Yuki Tsunoda says Liam Lawson is always doing "some s**t" on purpose - but his excuses for another poor qualifying don't stack up

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Why McLaren's being so secretive over Norris 'consequences'

The consequences Lando Norris will face following his Singapore clash with team-mate Oscar Piastri are sporting in nature, although McLaren will not disclose specifics. What we've learned so far, here

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Eight mid-season wobbles F1 champions got away with

Oscar Piastri's troublesome run of misfortune and error got us thinking - how many times did champions have mid-season wobbles and still win the title? Our writers pick out eight, from Senna to Hakkinen, from Schumacher to Verstappen and more

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Norris has consequences for clash McLaren blames him for

Lando Norris says he is facing the consequences of McLaren holding him accountable for his first-lap clash with team-mate Oscar Piastri in F1's Singapore GP

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What Russell had to overcome to be what Mercedes needs

There's a key change in George Russell this year that's made him just the kind of talisman Mercedes needed after Lewis Hamilton

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Leclerc's big 2026 warning for Ferrari

Charles Leclerc's verdict on Ferrari's disappointing F1 season is only getting more bleak as it gets nearer the end - and it sounds like longer-term doubts are starting to creep in

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McLaren's explosive Palou court case - all you need to know

Accusations of duplicity and the surprise role played by Oscar Piastri's infamous tweet denying he would race for Alpine are among new revelations from McLaren's ongoing court case against Alex Palou

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Norris's Red Bull verdict doesn't match McLaren's

Lando Norris was a bit dismissive of the suggestion that the Singapore GP was a key test of Red Bull's 2025 F1 progress - even though McLaren believed it was exactly that

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Red Bull's 2025 progress has come at a surprising cost

Red Bull's deliberately taken attention back off the 2026 rules as it mounts its late-season 2025 F1 title push

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Why five drivers were cleared over yellow flag rules breach

Yuki Tsunoda is one of several drivers who face a post-qualifying investigation for potential yellow flag infringements in Q1 at the Singapore Grand Prix

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From dominance to third-best: Why McLaren's struggling

Lando Norris conceded the "tables have turned" on McLaren after last year's dominant F1 Singapore GP winner felt George Russell's 2025 pole lap was "out of our league"

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Williams drivers thrown out of Singapore GP qualifying

Williams is set to have both cars disqualified from F1 Singapore GP qualifying for a technical infringement

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Ferrari's fine amount revealed after Norris pitlane shunt

Ferrari has been fined for Charles Leclerc’s pitlane collision with Lando Norris in Friday practice at the Singapore Grand Prix.

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McLaren's shock split with top F1 junior - what we know

McLaren has unexpectedly dropped Alex Dunne from its Formula 1 driver development programme - here's what we know

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What Verstappen proved with his Nordschleife GT3 win

You might think Max Verstappen's emulating Fernando Alonso with non-F1 exploits such as his NLS win. But there's a big difference

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The trap McLaren's set itself for the rest of its title fight

McLaren's handling of the Italian Grand Prix means it has set itself up for some much more awkward decisions in the remainder of the Oscar Piastri-Lando Norris title fight this year

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Nine things we learned from F1's Italian Grand Prix

Everything we learned from an Italian GP weekend where there was as much to keep up with off-track in F1 as there was on it

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'Very difficult to undo' - Mercedes warning after McLaren order

Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has warned that McLaren has "set a precedent that is very difficult to undo" after ordering Oscar Piastri to let team-mate Lando Norris by in the Italian GP

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The glaring hole that's been exposed in F1's racing rules

Ollie Bearman being penalised for his collision with Carlos Sainz at Monza exposes a glaring hole in the logic of F1's racing rules

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Angry Hadjar's Sainz incident and Q1 exit - what really happened

A week after his Zandvoort heroics, Isack Hadjar suffered his first F1 Q1 exit at Monza - for which he mainly blamed Carlos Sainz. But it wasn't quite what it seemed

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Winners and losers from F1's 2025 Italian GP qualifying

Here's our pick of the standout performances and major flops from 2025 Italian GP qualifying

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The routes Norris has to an unlikely 2025 F1 title comeback

Here's how Lando Norris can pull off a rare, long-shot turnaround - and why you can argue there's only a 15% chance of him succeeding

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How an Alpine F1 2026 seat audition went

Alpine is undecided on who should partner Pierre Gasly in 2026 - so Paul Aron's Monza FP1 outing was a timely F1 audition. Judging that appearance in isolation, you can at least see why he's in contention for now

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Everything we've learned from first day at F1's Italian GP

Formula 1’s first day at the Italian Grand Prix has answered some of the dangling questions produced by a chaotic and controversial race at Zandvoort

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Hamilton on shocking penalty, 'volatile' year and crash findings

Lewis Hamilton was “shocked” to discover he had a “pretty hardcore” F1 penalty for his first Italian Grand Prix at Monza with Ferrari, as his first year with the team continues to be emotionally “volatile”

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Hadjar's theory for 2026 making Red Bull move 'way easier'

Isack Hadjar reckons F1’s massive rule changes for 2026 will eliminate talk about Red Bull’s second car problem as it will be “way easier” to step into its main team then compared to now

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Big McLaren ownership change completes recovery from dire position

A significant change in ownership of McLaren’s racing division, and therefore its Formula 1 team, has completed the recovery from its quietly dire position just a little under five years ago

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Tsunoda out of time? What we know about Red Bull's F1 driver plan

Red Bull expects to make a decision on its 2026 Formula 1 driver line-up before the end of the season, giving Yuki Tsunoda just a handful of races to keep his seat

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10 things we learned from F1's Dutch Grand Prix

A dramatic Dutch Grand Prix led to a big swing in the title fight and several breakthrough results elsewhere - so here’s everything we learned from Zandvoort

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'Complete joke' - Sainz’s penalty rage and our verdict

Carlos Sainz labelled the decision to penalise him for a clash with Liam Lawson in the Dutch Grand Prix a “complete joke” and not at the right standard for Formula 1

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F1's most curious driver - who may be Verstappen's next team-mate

This last-gasp addition to the 2025 Formula 1 grid has been a fascinating bright spot amid the Red Bull driver pool's woes

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Haas referred to stewards for unusual F1 rule breach

The Haas Formula 1 team has been referred to the stewards for an unusual alleged rule breach after Dutch Grand Prix qualifying

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Tsunoda's 'very strange' setback as his big Red Bull threat stars

Yuki Tsunoda was confused by a disappointing Dutch Grand Prix qualifying result that came at the same time the biggest threat to his Red Bull Formula 1 seat put in a statement performance

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Winners and losers from F1's 2025 Dutch Grand Prix qualifying

As the all-McLaren Formula 1 title fight continued on the Dutch Grand Prix’s front row, there were plenty of surprises and disappointments further back on the Zandvoort grid