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© XPB Pierre Gasly has lifted the lid on an ugly aftermath to Alpine’s troubled Spanish Grand Prix, revealing that the criticism aimed at him after the race escalated into threats and abuse directed not only at him, but also at members of his family and entourage. The Frenchman became one of the main targets of an online backlash after Alpine’s strategy split at the Madring left him stranded on hard tyres for 55 laps.

© XPB Red Bull has ended any lingering uncertainty over its 2027 driver line-up, confirming that Isack Hadjar will remain alongside Max Verstappen for a second season at the Milton Keynes-based outfit team. The announcement comes as little surprise given the 21-year-old Frenchman’s progress since making the step up from Racing Bulls.

© XPB Guenther Steiner has cast his eye over the second half of the 2026 Formula 1 season and sees two potentially significant developments unfolding at opposite ends of the drivers’ championship. The former Haas team principal believes Max Verstappen’s frustrating campaign will continue without a victory, while Lando Norris has the momentum to turn his current deficit to George Russell into a second-place championship finish. Neither prediction is short on intrigue.

© XPB Cadillac’s first Formula 1 season is about to enter a particularly unforgiving phase, with the fledgling team facing the opening round of a punishing triple-header in Baku before races in Malaysia and Singapore. For team principal Marcin Budkowski, the challenge extends well beyond what happens on track.

©Mercedes Despite Mercedes’ dominant position at the top of the championship standings, Toto Wolff is refusing to let recent success soften the team’s approach as Formula 1 enters a punishing stretch of the season. Kimi Antonelli’s victories at the Madring and Monza have given the Silver Arrows additional significant momentum, yet Wolff believes those results say little about what awaits them in Baku.

© XPB Formula 1 Chief Executive Officer Stefano Domenicali has emerged – quite predictably – as the highest-paid director of Formula One Management Limited following the filing of the company's 2025 annual report with the UK’s Companies House.

© XPB McLaren head to Baku with fresh aerodynamic weaponry for the MCL40, but chief technical officer Rob Marshall is warning that the Azerbaijan Grand Prix could be less about outright pace than the team’s ability to get everything right. The Woking squad arrives after a run of encouraging form, with Lando Norris taking victory at Zandvoort before securing pole and third place in Madrid.

©Red Bull Red Bull has ended the uncertainty surrounding Isack Hadjar’s return to Formula 1 action, confirming that the Frenchman is fully recovered from the wrist injury that kept him out of the last three grands prix. Hadjar suffered the fracture during the summer break, forcing Red Bull to draft Liam Lawson into its senior team alongside Max Verstappen for the races in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. But Hadjar’s enforced spell on the sidelines is now over.

©McLaren The FIA has confirmed that Formula 1’s Grand Prix races will become slightly shorter in 2027, with the change forming part of a wider package of sporting and technical adjustments agreed by the F1 Commission in London on Monday. The standard race distance is set to fall from 305km to 290km, although the measure still requires formal approval from the FIA World Motor Sport Council. At most venues, that reduction is expected to amount to roughly three laps.

© XPB Formula 1 will swap its familiar Sunday slot for a Saturday finish in Baku this weekend, with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix scheduled for September 26 rather than Sunday, September 27. The unusual change is not a sporting experiment or a response to the championship’s packed schedule. It is a matter of respect for Azerbaijan’s Remembrance Day, observed every September 27. The national day commemorates those who died during the 2020 war that began on September 27.