Max Verstappen says McLaren is putting together a “quite extraordinary” performance so far this season and believes Red Bull needs improvements soon to be able to stay in the fight for the drivers’ championship.

F1's Sprint schedule will now see earlier Saturday races followed by main qualifying after changes were approved by the Formula 1 Commission.Sprint race weekends have been under review for a number of months, and RACER understands the topic of reverse grids was given serious consideration. However, the final changes that...

I know, if you’re reading this and you’re not a Red Bull fan, you’re probably wondering why I’m about to shove more Max Verstappen dominance down your throats when you thought the season was over and you’d have a few months off from it.But the truth is, it has been...

Max Verstappen wants Formula 1 to scrap sprint weekends and focus instead on finding ways to close the field after the first Saturday of the year run to the tweaked trial format.F1 introduced the sprint format in 2021 as a trial to address the balance between competitive track time and...

Sergio Perez eased to a comfortable victory at the Azerbaijan sprint ahead of Charles Leclerc.Perez started from second alongside Leclerc but couldn't jump the Ferrari off the line. The race was then neutralized at the end of the first lap with a safety car owing to Yuki Tsunoda crashing his...

Max Verstappen has reiterated a threat to walk away from Formula 1 if it continues to put what he considers to be business priorities ahead of sport.This weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix is the first of six sprint rounds this season but the first run to an altered format, with the...

Williams rookie Logan Sargeant thinks his recent Formula 2 experience could give him a leg up in Formula 1’s new condensed sprint format.The F2 weekend format offers far less time for practice than F1’s usual schedule, with drivers allowed only 45 minutes of free running on Friday compared to the...

Changes to the sprint format have been approved by the F1 Commission and FIA World Motor Sport Council, including a new qualifying to be known as the "sprint shootout."As previously reported by RACER, Formula 1 teams had agreed to remove FP2 from the sprint weekend as it had limited value,...

Formula 1's new sprint rules are still being finalized to make sure that changes don’t inadvertently destroy the rest of a race weekend, according to Williams team principal James Vowles (pictured middle, above).Formula 1 teams have agreed to drop FP2 during a sprint weekend in favor of an extra qualifying...

All Formula 1 teams have agreed an updated Sprint format that will see two races from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend onwards, with Saturdays becoming a standalone event with a separate qualifying session.To address concerns that the FP2 session on a Saturday morning was largely pointless during a Sprint weekend...