April 30, 2025

Everything you think about F1 Academy is wrong. Since its launch in 2023, opinions have been plentiful, but facts are harder to come by. The series marked a visible step forward for women in motorsport: a glossy, all-female grid backed by Formula 1, aimed at widening the pipeline and shifting the narrative. But here’s the catch: F1 Academy isn’t a proving ground for the next female F1 driver …Keep reading

Shaila-Ann Rao has returned to the FIA after the world governing body for motorsport confirmed her appointment as a presidential advisor.It marks another post for Rao, who previously worked for the FIA as legal director between 2016-2018 and as interim secretary general for motorsport for a five-month spell in 2022.Her initial return followed a stint working at Mercedes and saw her step …Keep reading

Racing Bulls team boss Laurent Mekies says losing Yuki Tsunoda to Red Bull was a success for his Formula 1 squad despite his fluctuating driver line-ups conflicting with the outfit’s performance targets.Mekies’ squad has received “super ambitious targets” to fight in F1’s tighter upper midfield, which the team slowly but surely is succeeding in. Strategic decisions have cost the Anglo-Italian …Keep reading

Can Oscar Piastri hold on to the championship lead?Having scored his third win of the season in Jeddah, Oscar Piastri moved to the top of the standings. Fun stat: any driver with such a win rate in the first five races either won the championship or was already a champion. Piastri has made a strong case for himself, forcing the public to reassess the pre-season expectations – he’s now the …Keep reading

There was a time when you had to have a race in your own country to see a Formula 1 grand prix, a feat that only two major countries in Latin America were lucky enough to achieve in the early days of the championship.Argentina hosted a race for most of the 1950s, allowing locals to enjoy the exploits of the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán González. When the South American …Keep reading

The trailer for an upcoming documentary on Formula 1 hotshot Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been released ahead of its premiere next week.Netflix will publish ‘The Seat’ on Monday 5 May, and it will be a 45-minute documentary charting the previous year of the Italian’s life as he geared up for his promotion to F1.In August of last year, Mercedes announced Antonelli as its Lewis Hamilton …Keep reading

Ott Tanak felt Hyundai was “clearly unprepared” for the demands of Rally Islas Canarias after suffering a crushing defeat to World Rally Championship rivals Toyota. Hyundai admitted that it underestimated the difficulty of the first pure asphalt event of the 2025 WRC season as it was unable to take the fight to a dominant Toyota that recorded an impressive 1-2-3-4 result. The Korean …Keep reading

Gorianstrasse is a small, dead-end street in Salzburg’s Riedenburg neighbourhood, around halfway between the old city nestling at the foot of the Hohensalzburg fortress and the airport on the western outskirts. There, in a new-build block, Roland Ratzenberger bought a two-storey apartment with beautiful views of Untersberg mountain from the terrace.For 29 years now this has been the home of …Keep reading

Pedro Acosta underwent surgery on Tuesday to treat the compartment syndrome in his right forearm, a condition that has affected him since his MotoGP debut last year.In a brief statement released by KTM late on Tuesday, the Austrian manufacturer confirmed the intervention on its rider, though it stopped short of providing much detail.“Pedro Acosta underwent surgery for chronic compartment …Keep reading

Before switching to Mercedes in 2013 and becoming one of the most successful drivers in Formula 1 history, Lewis Hamilton kicked off his F1 career with McLaren where he won his first world title and, apparently, helped finesse the company’s road cars.Hamilton joined the Woking-based team in 2007 and won his first F1 race with Mclaren later that year. The following season, he went on to claim …Keep reading