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Aston Martin’s Mike Krack has acknowledged one of the team’s cars reaching the chequered flag in Japan is no cause for celebration, but he feels the Formula 1 team and its Honda engine partner also need to appreciate the collaboration’s small wins. The Aston Martin-Honda project suffered a woeful start with an engine that is uncompetitive and unreliable, with its vibrations also having an impact further downstream on the chassis and its drivers. While there were no miracles for Aston and Honda on F1’s third grand prix weekend of the new rules cycle, the Japanese manufacturer’s home race was an important…
Franco Colapinto is set to become the first Argentinian to drive an F1 car on the streets of Buenos Aires, with the Alpine racer confirmed to take part in a historic road show in April. Colapinto will get behind the wheel of the 2012 E20 F1 Car – which ran during the Enstone-based team’s guise as Lotus but will sport a full Alpine livery for the event – in the Palermo neighbourhood on April 26, in his home city of Buenos Aires.“Driving at home in a Formula 1 car will be one of the most special moments of my life,”…
Kimi Antonelli made it two wins from two Grands Prix in Japan – impressing our Power Rankings judges along the way. But who else reached the top 10 on our Suzuka list? Check out the latest scores and overall leaderboard below…Antonelli arrived in Japan fresh from his first Grand Prix pole position and victory at the Chinese Grand Prix, and the young Italian looked full of confidence from the outset – setting an impressive pace in practice and beating more experienced Mercedes team mate George Russell in Qualifying again. A tricky start to the race cost him several places, but…
Betteridge’s law of headlines dictates that any headline phrased as a question can be answered with a hard ‘no’, and disregarded. Certainly a cursory perusal of the odds being offered by various bookmakers reveals that long-time favourite George Russell remains the choice of the turf accountancy trade – if by a diminishing margin. We may only be three grand prix weekends into a 22-round season, but Kimi Antonelli’s performance at Suzuka represents not just another clear progression in the trend line of quality, but also a clear statement of intent in terms of his championship ambitions. Before the start of…
By Balazs Szabo on 30 Mar 2026, 23:00 Mercedes entered the Japanese Grand Prix as the clear favourite after dominating qualifying, yet both Andrea Kimi Antonelli and George Russell immediately complicated their afternoon with sluggish starts. What followed, however, was a demonstration of why Mercedes currently sits at the top of Formula 1’s competitive hierarchy: Antonelli recovered, controlled the race after the Safety Car, and delivered a performance that the race‑pace data confirms was the most complete of the season so far. A Poor Start, a Perfect Reset Antonelli’s slow getaway allowed Oscar Piastri and Charles Leclerc to surge ahead,…
Making its own power unit, gearbox and chassis, Audi has made an impressive entry into F1 after three races, with points on the board already and two appearances in Q3 from Gabriel Bortoleto. It has done so with a car, the R26, highly original in concept and quite distinctive in detail. The technical group of the former Sauber team – led by James Key and chief of aero Alessandro Cinelli – has taken advantage of the new freedoms permitted by becoming a full manufacturer rather than a customer team.
Laurent Mekies watched his Red Bull team score just four points in Japan on Sunday, with Max Verstappen finishing eighth and Isack Hadjar outside the top 10 in P12. The team have a best finish of sixth so far this season, achieved in Australia – not the return they hoped for from the first three races of the year. Hadjar called Red Bull the “fourth or fifth” fastest team prior to any track action at Suzuka and the results back that up, with Mercedes, McLaren and Ferrari, along with Pierre Gasly in the Alpine finishing ahead of the Bulls. But…