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  1. the 2026 bahrain grand prix (in malaysia): the dutch lion finally wins oneverstappen wins his first race of 2026 at a soaked sepang, russell's mercedes dies behind the safety car and alonso scores four points.race report
  2. it took three months to decide who finished third in monacopierre gasly has lost his monaco podium for the second time, and the FIA now has three different answers for one pit lane.editorial
  3. george russell found out he is the number two on lap 65mercedes swapped its cars at zandvoort and says the championship had nothing to do with it. the points table disagrees.editorial
  4. lawson gets the red bull seat back (thanks to a punching bag)isack hadjar broke his wrist over the summer break, so liam lawson gets a second go at red bull, at the last ever dutch GP.editorial
  5. cadillac sacked its team boss eleven races ingraeme lowdon built cadillac's F1 team from nothing and was replaced by marcin budkowski in the middle of the summer break. harsh, but very F1.editorial
  6. aston martin has one point and i'm choosing hopeeleven races, one point, half the starts unfinished. a summer break report on my team, and the two reasons i haven't given up yet.editorial
  7. mclaren finally won a race and still made it awkwardlando norris took mclaren's first win of 2026 in hungary, 15 seconds clear, after spending half the race asking his own team to let him past.editorial
  8. russell's title bid ran out of battery at spageorge russell reached the top of eau rouge with zero percent battery, hamilton did the rest, and a 25-point gap to antonelli became 50.editorial
  9. antonelli's 66-point lead is down to 25three race weekends ago the championship looked finished, and now russell and hamilton are both within 32 points going into spa.editorial
  10. silverstone ended behind the safety car because of a software errorleclerc won the british GP and ferrari got win number 250, but race control promised a final-lap restart and then couldn't deliver it.editorial
  11. verstappen's best result of 2026 is a second placemax verstappen dragged the red bull to P2 in austria, he's still seventh in the championship, and his contract has an exit clause.editorial
  12. the only rookie on the 2026 grid is arvid lindbladthe youngest driver in F1 is an 18-year-old at racing bulls who scored on his debut, and this weekend is his team's home race in austria.editorial
  13. lewis hamilton won a race for ferrari at 41hamilton's first ferrari win came in barcelona with three stops and a free pit stop from alonso's dead aston, and it cut antonelli's lead to 41.editorial
  14. F1 measured its own pit lane wrong, and only gasly gets his race backthe stewards cancelled gasly's two monaco speeding penalties because the timing zone was 77cm out, and the other four drivers it caught get nothing.editorial
  15. alpine is fifth in the championship with an engine it didn't buildlast in 2025, fifth after five rounds of 2026: how a mercedes power unit, gasly and colapinto turned alpine into the best of the midfield.editorial
  16. the 2026 monaco grand prix: kimi's grand slam, leclerc's two walls and a point for the GOATantonelli becomes the youngest ever monaco winner, verstappen lasts one lap, leclerc finds the wall twice and alonso scores aston martin's first point.race report
  17. mercedes says antonelli and russell are free to race. let's see how long that lastsantonelli leads russell by 43 points after montreal, mercedes refuses to pick a side, and monaco qualifying is the first real test of that.editorial
  18. welcome to the downforce blogwhat the downforce blog is, who writes it, and what to expect from it.site news
  19. the 2026 canadian grand prix: the gods don't want george in this fightrussell took both poles and the sprint, then his mercedes died while leading, so antonelli won a fourth straight race and went 43 points clear.race report
  20. my experience at the 2025 qatar GP (friday)my friday in the paddock club at lusail: a pit lane walk, a lot of signatures, and sprint qualifying from inside aston martin's garage.paddock
  21. the 2025 são paulo grand prix: verstappen's masterclass, ferrari tragedy and the 'norris era'verstappen goes from the pit lane to the podium, both ferraris retire, and norris leaves brazil 24 points clear in the championship.race report
  22. the 2025 são paulo sprint: slip 'n' slides, LICO and lawson being lawsonnorris wins a damp sprint, piastri bins it on a puddle his own teammate put there, and lawson collects yet another penalty.sprint report
  23. the 2025 mexico grand prix: the stewards' room circusnorris wins by half a minute and takes the title lead by a single point, while the FIA hands out a harsh penalty and a badly timed VSC.race report
  24. the beginner's guide to F1 (part 2): drivers, teams, terms, and memespart 2 of the beginner's guide: the F1 terms that confused me most when i started watching, each with a definition and an example.guide
  25. hot take: verstappen wouldn't be in the WDC fight if mclaren was competenta 104-point gap is down to 40 with five races left, and max verstappen's talent is only half of the explanation.editorial
  26. the 2025 austin grand prix: back to 2023max verstappen took both poles, both wins and every lap of the grand prix, and the title fight is now a three-way one.race report
  27. the 2025 austin sprint: chaos, chaos and more chaosboth mclarens out at turn 1, stroll torpedoes ocon, and max verstappen takes a free 8 points off the pair of them.sprint report
  28. the beginner's guide to F1 (part 1): drivers, teams, terms, & memesnew to F1? part 1 of the beginner's guide walks through a race weekend, from media day on thursday to the podium on sunday.guide