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Liam Lawson insists he has no interest in what McLaren CEO Zak Brown has to say on Red Bull’s choice of drivers for 2025.Speaking after qualifying for last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, Brown praised Yuki Tsunoda after he put his Racing Bulls fifth on the grid, while Lawson struggled and could only manage 18th in his first race for Red Bull.Tsunoda was overlooked in favour of Lawson …Keep reading

Former Formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan has died at the age 76 following a battle against illness, his family has announced.Jordan had been fighting an aggressive form of bladder and prostate cancer which spread to his spine and the pelvis, revealing his diagnosis last December.Read Also:Formula 1Eddie Jordan, 1948-2025The Irishman was a mainstay of the F1 …Keep reading

Edmund Patrick Jordan, who has died aged 76 while undergoing treatment for cancer, was an energetic entrepreneur who brought a disruptive touch of rock and roll to Formula 1 in the 1990s.Born in Dublin, Jordan flirted with the idea of joining the priesthood in his youth before embarking on a career in finance – more specifically, becoming a clerk at the Bank of Ireland. But Jordan was born …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has hit back at media making too much of his radio exchanges with his new Ferrari race engineer during his Scuderia debut in Australia, suggesting “far worse” comments by Max Verstappen went unnoticed.Hamilton endured a difficult Ferrari debut in Melbourne, with the team struggling for performance in both dry qualifying conditions and in a mixed-weather race, and taking wrong …Keep reading

Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu admitted he thought something was broken when his Formula 1 outfit logged its initial FP1 laps at the Australian Grand Prix, and doesn’t expect an immediate fix to its high-speed corner problems.After following a similar run plan in Bahrain testing to what it had run in 2024, by sacrificing all performance runs for long-run pace and tyre management exploration, Haas …Keep reading

Max Verstappen admits McLaren looks good across the board in 2025 as the reigning world champion believes Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes will trade blows in the battle for best of the rest.Lando Norris won the first race of the season in Australia last weekend and will be looking to hammer home McLaren’s obvious pace advantage at the Chinese Grand Prix, with the year’s first sprint race …Keep reading

Eddie Jordan’s team burst into Formula 1 in 1991 and immediately made an impression.Before becoming the Midland-owned MF1 Racing for 2006, Jordan Grand Prix built up a cult following, helped launch the careers of several drivers and briefly became a championship contender.Read Also:Formula 1Eddie Jordan, 1948-2025Early breakthrough1991 Canadian GP (2 June …Keep reading

F1 Academy provides talented female racers with the opportunity to showcase their skills on the main stage of motorsport, and this year, many new drivers will be given that chance.And the addition of a new team, Hitech, means the grid has increased from 15 to 18 cars, with one of those serving as a wildcard entry, allowing a driver to take part in a one-off race weekend at each of the …Keep reading

Pull the 21 April 1988 edition of Autosport from the archives and you’ll find an image of Johnny Herbert, arm aloft in triumph, crossing the finishing line in the opening round of the International F3000 season at Jerez. In a stark visual echo of the white border around the photo, Johnny’s Eddie Jordan Racing-entered Reynard 88D is also almost completely white, bereft of sponsor logos but for …Keep reading

George Russell felt confident with his Mercedes W16 on the harder compounds during practice for Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix, but thought the car was struggling to get more out of the softs during the qualifying simulations.Russell placed 10th overall in the FP2 timesheets, although displayed good levels of projected race pace during the end-of-session long runs, as he felt more …Keep reading