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McLaren clinched the Formula 1 constructors’ championship with their sixth grand prix victory of the season last weekend. The team has been waiting 26 years for its latest title win. This was its ninth, giving them as many as Williams, and only Ferrari have more. McLaren’s half-dozen wins is the fewest any constructors’ championship-winning team has achieved since 1999, when…

The new Formula E season begins on Saturday in Sao Paulo with a blisteringly quick car, a handful of exciting new drivers and perhaps most importantly – a new free-to-air TV deal in the UK. The series prides itself on being ‘net zero since day zero’ but its impressive sustainability record is only the start – with cutting-edge innovation, dramatic…

The final round of F1’s longest ever season, it was hard not to feel as if some drivers were feeling the effects of accumulated fatigue in Abu Dhabi. A weekend where many chapters came to an end, some produced performances to be proud of, while others appeared to let themselves down. But while there was plenty of action and intrigue…

Laurence Edmondson, Senior Writer, F1Dec 10, 2024, 11:04 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Ferrari has confirmed a “multi-year” deal to supply engines and gearboxes to the Cadillac Formula 1 team for its planned arrival on the grid in 2026. In November, F1 announced an agreement in principle with the General Motors-backed outfit…

Formula E is looking at holding a large-scale event at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami to help plug its eight-week calendar gap between mid-February and mid-April next year. That event would not be an extra round of the championship. Instead, The Race can reveal that the advanced plans for this event are centred upon media influencers taking part in…

Carlos Sainz Jnr has revealed he was already thinking about his first test for Williams as he completed his final grand prix for Ferrari on Sunday. Williams’s new driver had his first run in their car less than 24 hours after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the same track. He is also driving for the team today in the…

Oliver Rowland believes “more than one f**k up” cost the Nissan Formula E driver a shot at victory in the Sao Paulo E-Prix, having failed to score any points despite leading the most laps. The Briton started second for the first race of the 2024-25 season, losing out to polesitter and reigning champion Pascal Wehrlein by just 0.099s in qualifying….

Esteban Ocon, Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz Jnr have joined their new teams for 2025 as Formula 1 began its post-season test at the Yas Marina circuit. However one driver who was expected to run today is absent from the test. Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who will replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes next year, is not present, and the team’s reserve…

Lewis Hamilton’s bizarre incident with a bollard during qualifying cost him a chance to win his final race for Mercedes, team principal Toto Wolff believes. Wolff fumed over the team’s strategy after Hamilton was eliminated in the first round of qualifying, which left him 16th on the grid. Mercedes sent both their drivers out late in Q1, giving them the…

In the round-up: Alpine consultant Flavio Briatore reveals he promised Renault boss Luca de Meo success for his F1 team within three years. In brief Three years to make Alpine winners – Briatore Briatore, who returned to the Renault-owned team earlier this year, praised the team’s recovery to finish the constructors’ championship in sixth place. “It’s the result of everybody…

Laurence Edmondson, Senior Writer, F1Dec 9, 2024, 12:11 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Even though the dust has barely settled on the 2024 Formula 1 season, it’s hard not to get excited about what 2025 has in store. The primary reason is that F1 has never seemed as open as it did…

Lando Norris acknowledged he will have to do better when he fights Max Verstappen on-track than he has done this year. McLaren clinched the constructors’ championship yesterday but Norris lost the drivers’ title fight to the Red Bull driver two rounds earlier. Norris had never won a grand prix before the season began. He said this year gave him the…

After yesterday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix some drivers said goodbye to F1 for good, some prepared to change teams – while others faced uncertain futures. Here’s how each of them said goodbye. F1 drivers’ farewell messages in Abu Dhabi Sainz: “Smooth operator…” Hulkenberg: “Arigato, boss” Magnussen: “You got the fastest lap” Bottas: “A shit ending” Zhou (and Zehnder): “The drinks…

Sergio Pérez is holding talks with Red Bull in the coming days to work out the “right way forward,” with his Formula 1 exit likely to be confirmed. Sources have told ESPN that Red Bull are set to move on from Pérez after the discussions, which both team principal Christian Horner and — for the first time publicly — the…

The reigning champion ended the race upside down – and the driver who he just beat to the title won from last on the grid. The headlines were loud from Formula E’s 2024-25 season opener, and they truly reflected the chaotic nature of the race. Here’s what we learned from the Sao Paulo extravaganza, that also served as the debut…

Red Bull appeared to anticipate Max Verstappen’s displeased reaction to his penalty during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and chose a different approach to letting him know about his latest sanction. Verstappen picked up his fifth penalty for a driving infringement in the last five rounds during Sunday’s race after he knocked Oscar Piastri into a spin immediately after the…

Brad Pitt has been on location at multiple F1 events this year. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Formulas 1’s season ended with a new face on the top step of the podium at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Brad Pitt. Pitt, filming scenes for the 2025 Jerry Bruckheimer movie “F1,” joined Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Mercedes’ George Russell in spraying champagne…

McLaren has sealed its first Formula 1 constructor’s championship for 26 years in the final round of the 2024 championship. Lando Norris’s victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix secured the title for the team. They suffered a scare at the start of the race when Oscar Piastri, who qualified second, was immediately knocked into a spin by Max Verstappen….

Mitch Evans has said that “there was a lot to learn” from his Jaguar TCS Racing team in the final round of the FIA Formula E World Championship in London in July. The Kiwi star, who fell just short for the fourth season in a row, said the team have taken the experience from the heartbreaking final race in which…