Scott Mitchell-Malm

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Why we should take notice of Verstappen's unusual clash admission

Max Verstappen does not really do apologies. He rarely backtracks, he never panders. This time, he eventually did

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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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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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Russell: Verstappen crash 'felt deliberate', antics let him down

George Russell accused Formula 1 rival Max Verstappen of letting himself down with “totally unnecessary” driving that he likened to bad online racing, after their controversial clash in the Spanish Grand Prix.

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Verstappen on brink of F1 race ban after Russell clash punishment

Max Verstappen is one penalty point away for a race ban for the next month after the stewards' ruling over his Spanish Grand Prix clash with George Russell

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Verstappen's Russell hit was needless act of self-sabotage

Max Verstappen’s frustrated lunge on George Russell was a needless act of self-sabotage in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix

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Aston Martin warned over Stroll breach caused by his injury

Aston Martin has been formally warned by the FIA over Lance Stroll’s failure to comply with Formula 1’s driver weighing procedure after Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, despite Stroll subsequently withdrawing from the race altogether

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Stroll withdraws from F1's Spanish GP to undergo surgery

Lance Stroll has withdrawn from Sunday’s Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix and will undergo a procedure with an undisclosed recovery time

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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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Why Williams's prospects are suddenly so bleak in Spain

Williams is braced for a bleak Spanish Grand Prix by its current standards as even its much-improved 2025 Formula 1 car is proving incompatible with the Barcelona circuit

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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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Why Red Bull's a huge threat to McLaren in Spain (and it's not about flexi-wings)

McLaren is braced for a much bigger threat from Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, but it won't be down to Formula 1's flexi-wing clampdown

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What you should know about F1's flexi-wing clampdown at Spanish GP

This weekend Formula 1 introduces what one team boss has described as 'essentially a regulation change' - here's what you need to know

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Should Newey's candid verdict worry Aston Martin?

Does Adrian Newey's admission of a major weakness among Aston Martin's F1 tools set it back again?

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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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Williams drivers sorry for 'manipulation' of F1's Monaco GP

Williams drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz have expressed their regret that F1's mandatory two-stop strategy experiment at the Monaco GP descended into "manipulation"

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Why it 'doesn't matter what you do' to Red Bull's car in Monaco

Max Verstappen and Red Bull have saved several Formula 1 weekends this season with big turnarounds - but not in Monaco, where it "doesn't matter what you do with the set-up"

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Where next for Russell and Mercedes after 'abysmal' qualifying?

George Russell looked and sounded utterly deflated at the prospect of starting the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix from well outside the top 10

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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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'He was toast' - The mistake Mercedes vows not to make again

Mercedes will apply lessons from its rookie driver's exhausting home race

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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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Five curveballs F1 teams could face in overhauled Monaco GP

Formula 1's new tyre rule will make the 2025 Monaco GP unique - and throw plenty of curveballs at the drivers and teams

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Why Leclerc's dreading Monaco and what may save Ferrari

Charles Leclerc is not relishing his home grand prix in Monaco, fearing it will expose the worst of his 2025 F1 car's weaknesses. But might the track layout actually help Ferrari?

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F1 drivers' verdict after watching new F1 movie

The Formula 1 grid was invited to a private screening of the new F1 film - here's what they made of it

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Newey's role at first F1 race with Aston Martin and why it matters

Adrian Newey is attending his first F1 race with Aston Martin at this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix - here's what you need to know

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Red Bull is heading towards another F1 driver problem

Red Bull may feel its early 2025 F1 driver change has already been justified. And it probably has been. But it's still not solved the problem - and it might have an even bigger one at its second team

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'Everyone thinks I had a s**t race' - The unseen Imola GP rollercoaster

There was a lot more to grand prix drive at Imola than the headline figures of '19th-to-17th' suggest

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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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What Piastri should've done against Verstappen's 'win or bin' move

Max Verstappen's opportunistic around-the-outside overtake that surprised Oscar Piastri was the decisive moment in F1's Imola race - and a move that Verstappen didn't think was on at first

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What's so worrying about Tsunoda's 'unacceptable' crash

Yuki Tsunoda did not hold back on the self-criticism after a first major Red Bull F1 crash

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Colapinto pleads with fans to be respectful after Tsunoda abuse

Franco Colapinto has demanded more respect be shown to rival Formula 1 drivers after Yuki Tsunoda was subjected to a swarm of abusive messages including racist insults after their minor practice altercation at Imola.

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Big Colapinto shunt clashes with a key Briatore demand

Alpine F1 chief Flavio Briatore put an emphasis on new signing Franco Colapinto avoiding crashes - especially, presumably, of the kind Colapinto suffered in Imola qualifying

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Imola F1 qualifying interrupted twice by huge crashes

Yuki Tsunoda avoided major injury in a terrifying crash on his first flying lap in Emilia Romagna GP F1 qualifying

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What prompted Colapinto's practice defences that puzzled Verstappen

Franco Colapinto's first day back in F1 featured a surprising amount of wheel to wheel racing in practice and a radio complaint from Max Verstappen

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Mercedes' first big update of 2025 revealed

Mercedes has a raft of car changes at Imola after going without "particularly enormous or sexy" upgrades for the first quarter of the 2025 F1 season

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Why Alpine has clarified Briatore really is 'fully in charge'

The Alpine Formula 1 team has sought to clarify Flavio Briatore is "fully in charge of the team" despite not officially being registered as its team representative in the wake of Oliver Oakes' exit

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How Colapinto's dealing with five-race chance that's 'not enough'

Franco Colapinto admits his initial five-race run at Alpine is not enough time to get fully on top of its F1 car but he hopes to make quick progress as he replaces Jack Doohan

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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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The first test of whether Aston Martin's escaped upgrade 'chaos'

Aston Martin's F1 upgrade package at Imola is the first big test of its reshaped technical team and working processes that are crucial to the project's long-term success

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Why Williams is sacrificing its best F1 season in a decade

This is Williams's best start to an F1 season for almost a decade. But it's probably right to forfeit that if it really wants to build on the evidence that its revival is real