Articles: Motor racing

Kimi Antonelli arrived in Baku talking about leaving himself a tiny margin for error. Mercedes promptly removed something more useful: most of his first practice. A hydraulic issue limited the championship leader to seven laps in FP1, while George Russell put the other Mercedes fastest, four tenths clear of Max Verstappen. Antonelli’s +125 price therefore […]

Lando Norris arrives at the F1 Monza GP with clear evidence. He took pole at Zandvoort by 0.102 seconds over George Russell, then won the Grand Prix after McLaren transformed when it moved from the soft tire to the hard. Norris has now won consecutive races, while championship leader Kimi Antonelli is expected to start […]

Lando Norris will start the final Dutch Grand Prix from pole position after producing a 1:11.163 as rain approached Zandvoort in the closing minutes of qualifying. George Russell missed him by 0.102 seconds, with championship leader Kimi Antonelli another 0.031 behind in third. The grid says Norris. Saturday morning supplied a less comfortable answer. Russell […]

Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Spain looked important. Charles Leclerc’s win at Silverstone made it feel significant. This is the ingredient that makes the Belgian Grand Prix prediction a fascinating journey. Now Formula 1 arrives at Spa-Francorchamps, a circuit that rarely allows flattering illusions to survive for very long. The longest lap on the calendar rewards […]

Austria gave Formula 1 an answer: Mercedes are genuinely quick. Silverstone may ask a much more interesting question: How fast is a car when expectation climbs into the cockpit with the driver? For most of this season, Mercedes have lived a rather comfortable existence. Kimi Antonelli was the extraordinary rookie collecting victories and leading the […]

Formula 1 spent the week after Spain asking whether Lewis Hamilton had just delivered Ferrari’s most important weekend of the season. Austria may provide the answer. Hamilton’s victory changed the conversation around Ferrari. It also changed the pressure surrounding the Austrian Grand Prix. Suddenly the paddock is no longer looking exclusively at Mercedes. Attention has […]

As I was finishing an article about Ferrari before the Formula 1 Barcelona Grand Prix, I caught myself drifting away from the subject I was supposed to be writing about. The article was about the Scuderia’s recent progress. The results made sense. The championship standings made sense. Ferrari were clearly getting closer to Mercedes. Yet […]

Formula 1 qualifying sessions are often described as pure speed contests, but Barcelona has never entirely agreed. The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has a habit of exposing compromises long before the race begins. A car that looks planted through the fast corners tends to remain planted. A car that overheats its tires during a qualifying simulation […]

There are races where the fastest car spends half the afternoon trapped behind a slower car; The Great American Getaway 400 arrives carrying that possibility. NASCAR weekends often begin with conversations about qualifying speed and clean air. Yet, races have a habit of becoming something entirely different once pit cycles, tire wear, and caution flags […]

Second place can be an oddly misleading result in Formula 1; Sometimes it confirms a gap. Sometimes it suggests the gap is shrinking. As Formula 1 arrives at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Lewis Hamilton’s consecutive runner-up finishes have created an uncomfortable question for the rest of the paddock. Mercedes remain the benchmark, but Ferrari no longer […]