Formula 1

Can Mercedes be beaten this season? Oscar Piastri believes so after he managed to get the better of George Russell in Japan.

Valtteri Bottas said he was “really proud” of Kimi Antonelli in the wake of the teenager’s maiden F1 win in Shanghai, which he followed up a week later with another victory in Suzuka.

Three races into a new season and an all-new era of regulations, the Formula 1 2026 season has hit an unexpected pause.

Alpine has written an open letter refuting "completely unfounded" fan allegations that they have been sabotaging the car and competitive chances of their Argentinan driver Franco Colapinto.

F1 stakeholders have three priority areas for immediate 2026 changes, and six solutions in play. Here's what we know about those plans

How the driver rankings from our Members' Club compare with Edd Straw's from the Japanese GP weekend

Ferrari's current F1 regime prefers gradual upgrades - but expect big changes on the car next time out due to the enforced April break

After Max Verstappen ejected a journalist from an F1 media session, a past world champion who once did the same himself gives his take

There's a worst-case scenario with F1's rules that can leave drivers at the "mercy" of their engines completing accidental overtakes

Our team debated Netflix show Formula 1: Drive to Survive and its virtues in a recent episode of our Film Club series in The Race Members' Club

With Alpine climbing from the bottom of the pack in 2025 to battling with Red Bull during the opening rounds of 2026, F1.com takes a closer look at the factors behind their upward trajectory.

Why are there no races in April? How is the break in the calendar different to the enforced summer and winter ‘shutdowns’? What will the teams be working on during this period? F1.com answers all of these questions and more in a special explainer…

McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella has set out the factors that he believes helped the squad to “stay in the race” in Japan, with the Italian admitting that there is one particular area where the team “have to improve”.

Haas and Racing Bulls caught the eye at Suzuka last weekend with a couple of creative one-off liveries – the former introducing the iconic Godzilla monster to the F1 world and the latter taking inspiration from Japanese shodo calligraphy.

With a few weeks to go until the next round on the calendar, we asked our writers to give us their take on how the 2026 season has unfolded so far – and who has the most work to do when the campaign resumes…

F1.com's Lawrence Barretto speaks to Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, with the seven-time World Champion's form in 2026 suggesting he is very much back on song.