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Max Verstappen made his dissatisfaction with his car clear in final practice for the Italian Grand Prix. “Mate I have less power than the Fiat Punto,” he told race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase as he prepared for his final run. “I can’t do anything, I can’t even race with them.” Verstappen made his comment shortly before his run-in with Lewis Hamilton…

The Formula E GEN4 car opens a wider range of development areas for teams. Formula E The old promise of motorsport was simple: race on Sunday, sell on Monday. Yet the gap between a modern single-seater and a consumer car has continued to widen. Formula E has always aimed to be different. Its manufacturers confront the same problems as electric…

Pierre Gasly has lost his podium finish in the Monaco Grand Prix after the FIA Court of Appeal reinstated the penalties he originally received in the race. The Alpine driver’s two five-second time penalties for exceeding the pit lane speed limit were removed after the team requested a review of the decision following the race three months ago. The removal…

The FIA Court of Appeal has reinstated Pierre Gasly’s two penalties which the Monaco Grand Prix stewards previously cancelled. The Alpine driver therefore falls from third place to seventh in the final classification for the race. Isack Hadjar regains his third place finish while Oscar Piastri and Racing Bulls team mates Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad also move up one…

Alpine executive consultant Flavio Briatore has accused a member of the FIA Court of Appeal of bias after the team lost its third place in the Monaco Grand Prix. Red Bull and McLaren successfully petitioned the appeal court to reinstate the two pit lane speeding penalties issued to Gasly during the race. This relegated him to seventh in the final…

Formula 1 will hold a three-day pre-season event in Milan next year. The series is reviving the ‘F1 75 Live’ event it previously held in London last year. F1 said all 11 teams will take but did not indicate whether they will use the event to launch their new liveries, as they did last year. F1 Live Milan will take…

Charles Leclerc led the opening practice session for the Italian Grand Prix in hot conditions at Monza. The track temperatures soared to 53C during the opening hour. The FIA has issued a heat hazard warning for this weekend’s event. Leclerc produced a fastest lap of 1’23.008 which was almost three seconds slower than the best time in the same session…

During his decade in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, Mitch Evans has been synonymous with Jaguar TCS Racing, achieving 16 victories, 38 podiums, and 10 pole positions with the British-based squad. As of the end of the 2025/26 season, the New Zealander has won the most races of any driver in the history of the all-electric championship.  The…

Andrea Kimi Antonelli will wear a helmet paying tribute to Italian multiple Moto GP champion Valentino Rossi at his home race this weekend. The world championship leader has picked a design Rossi used when he won the 2002 Italian Grand Prix at Mugello. It was the first of his seven consecutive victories in the race. “It was a special wish…

On this day in 1966 Ludovico Scarfiotti won the Italian Grand Prix. This remains the most recent occasion the Italian Grand Prix was won by an Italian – and he did it in a Ferrari as well. However this is not the most recent home race win for an Italian driver. That remains Riccardo Patrese’s triumph in the 1990 San…

Talk of a potential return to Buenos Aires for the Argentinian Grand Prix prompted one reader to recall the time they lapped the six-kilometre layout on roller-skates. Formula 1 used this track configuration until 1981 (below): I don’t think we bothered to time our lap, and it was 45 years ago. I went with a friend on a week day,…

Spanish rising star Pepe Martí will continue his Formula E journey with Cupra Kiro for the 2026/27 season, giving the young driver an opportunuity to build on an impressive rookie campaign. The announcement comes at an important moment for both Martí and the championship, with Formula E preparing to enter its new Gen4 era. Martí made an immediate impression during…

Fernando Alonso’s Adrian Campos tribute helmet, Monza, 2026 Fernando Alonso will wear a helmet based on that worn by Adrian Campos, the former Formula 1 driver who helped promote his career. Campos raced in F1 for Minardi in 1987 and 1988 (below), the same team Alonso made his debut with in 2001. Campos’s junior teams still compete in F1’s feeder…

*This article was first published in Christophorus Magazine, issue 419, a Porsche magazine. Content has been edited for PMW. Porsche Formula E pilots will have a new model, the 975 RSE, for the coming season. The Porsche Newsroom took a deep dive into the technical development of the Gen4 race car at the Weissach Development Centre Nico Müller, Formula E…

Pepe Martí had a rookie season he could scarcely have imagined when he joined Formula E paddock at the start of the 2025/26 season. Not only did the CUPRA KIRO driver achieve two podium finishes and end the year as the highest placed rookie, but he also made history as the first Spaniard in the championship to secure a podium. …

Will Formula 1’s new engines ruin Monza’s high-speed spectacle? Will Isack Hadjar return? Eight talking points for this weekend’s race. Cathedral of Clipping? Formula 1’s disastrous 2026 regulations have left its cars with power units which are woefully inadequate for the challenge of racing on the world’s fastest and most demanding circuits. Those in F1 prefer language which lays the…

Isack Hadjar will miss a second consecutive grand prix due to his wrist injury, Red Bull has confirmed. As when Hadjar missed the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, Liam Lawson will take his place at Red Bull. Red Bull’s second team Racing Bulls confirmed Yuki Tsunoda will return for another round in place of Lawson. “It’s good to hear Isack…

Jacques Villeneuve said he was close to tears as he watched footage from a new movie on the life of his father Gilles. “Villeneuve: Rise of a Legend” (trailer below) will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 19th. The film tells the story of the future F1 driver’s early racing exploits, leading up to…

Formula 1 heads to the fastest circuit on its calendar this weekend. The Italian Grand Prix at Monza is the 13th round of what is now a 23-round season, following the addition of an extra race in Malaysia. Formula 2 and Formula 3 will support F1 this weekend. Here’s how to watch the 2026 Italian Grand Prix live in the…