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Special Carlos Sainz letter to Williams emerges ahead of F1 2026 season
2+ hour, 38+ min ago Carlos Sainz enjoyed a fine first season with Williams in 2025 Carlos Sainz has written a special letter to Williams staff after his first season with the team in F1 2025, it has emerged. Sainz joined Williams ahead of the F1 2025 season after being…...
PlanetF1.com Awards: Best Race of the F1 2025 season
3+ hour, 40+ min ago Our writers have chosen what they think to be the best race of the 2025 season. In our look back over the F1 2025 season, our writers are now taking a look at the best races of the year. It was a dramatic…...
Max Verstappen at centre of new Red Bull future update as 'performance clause' addressed
5+ hour, 20+ min ago Red Bull driver Max Verstappen is a four-time F1 world champion Red Bull boss Oliver Mintzlaff is convinced that Max Verstappen will finish his F1 career with the team despite rumours of a move away for the F1 2027 season. And he has insisted…...
Former Charles Leclerc race engineer returns to F1 with Cadillac
5+ hour, 40+ min ago Xavier Marcos Padros served as Charles Leclerc's Ferrari race engineer between 2019 and 2024 Xavier Marcos Padros, Charles Leclerc's former race engineer at Ferrari, has landed the role of chief race engineer of the Cadillac F1 team. It comes after PlanetF1.com exclusively revealed…...
Christian Horner 'bitten' as Toto Wolff takes aim at 'sense of entitlement"
6+ hour, 24+ min ago Christian Horner and Toto Wolff enjoyed one of the great F1 team boss rivalries Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes Christian Horner's perceived "sense of entitlement" ultimately "bit him in the end" at Red Bull. And he reckons Horner "would have come…...
F1 chief drops 'form book ripped up' 2026 tease as new era looms
6+ hour, 54+ min ago The 2026 season will bring all-new chassis and power unit regulations into Formula 1. Stefano Domenicali, the Formula 1 president and CEO, has suggested that the "form book" will be "ripped up" with the arrival of the new F1 2026 regulations. Smaller, lighter cars, increased…...
Lewis Hamilton lands brutal 'not on my level' retort to Rosberg retirement talk
7+ hour, 10+ min ago Lewis Hamilton to Nico Rosberg and retirement talkers: "Not even on my level" Nico Rosberg was among the former racing drivers to weigh in on Lewis Hamilton and the idea of him retiring after a lacklustre first season with Ferrari....
F1 2026 engine 'loophole' claims: What's really going on?
12+ hour, 54+ min ago The cars will be shorter and narrow, in the hope of being more 'nimble' for the drivers. As F1 moves ever closer to the start of the F1 2026 season, discussion remains ongoing in a number of key areas. That includes specifics relating…...
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 'support' comes to light amid Ferrari woes
23+ hour, 56+ min ago Mercedes continues to "support" Lewis Hamilton as he struggles at Ferrari Lewis Hamilton swapped Mercedes for Ferrari in time for F1 2025, but it is a move which is yet to deliver a fresh spark for the sport's most successful driver. Hamilton…...
Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez get new race engineers as Cadillac F1 plans confirmed
1+ day, 3+ hour ago Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez have signed for Cadillac Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez's new Cadillac race engineers for the F1 2026 season have been decided, PlanetF1.com can reveal. Former Aston Martin performance engineer Carlo Pasetti will act as Perez's race engineer,…...