The Paddock
The rulebook, the upgrades and their jargon, the cost cap, the team principals coming and going, the series and the media circus. The laughter goes upwards, at the institution, told through what people live, never through an org chart.
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Antonelli keeps 12 instead of 1: we note a number, not a crown
Kimi Antonelli, world champion, will not run number 1 next season and is keeping his number 12. Number 1 thus disappears from the grid for the first time since 2021.
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Herta is one superlicence point short, and Nathan is hunting the bug in the database
Colton Herta does not have the forty superlicence points Cadillac thought were secured after free practice in Mexico: he is one short. IndyCar’s website had ranked him sixth in the 2025 championship…
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Wolff says Russell is out of his window, and Nathan hunts for the setup to reopen it
Toto Wolff, the Mercedes team principal, puts George Russell’s struggles down to a car that does not suit him once it leaves its optimal operating window. He is answering Helmut Marko, a…
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Horner says it all comes down to the edit: post 14 is still waiting for its episode
Christian Horner said in an Autosport interview, picked up by Formule1.nl, that Drive to Survive made the name of Günther Steiner, the former Haas team principal. In his view, the edit can…
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Louis Vuitton makes the F1 trophy trunk, Philippeville brings out its blue cool box
According to Formule1.nl, Louis Vuitton makes the trunk for the Formula 1 trophy, one detail among others in a sport that looks, on Sunday television, like a travelling film festival.
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Bottas sees progress at Cadillac but no points: Nathan looks for it in his ghost
According to RaceFans, Cadillac have not scored a point in their first F1 season. Valtteri Bottas insists the team improves every weekend, “not necessarily in the results yet”, and rates its facilities…
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Tom Hart on Verstappen’s radio from Austin: Nathan changes the voice in his sim
Tom Hart will be Max Verstappen’s race engineer for three of the last six Grands Prix of 2026, starting with Austin. Gianpiero Lambiase, with whom Verstappen won 73 Grands Prix and four…
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Gasly drives to Singapore: Fabienne Racing salutes a driver who travels like her
After the Malaysian Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly (Alpine) reached Singapore by car, in four and a half hours by his own account, to avoid flying. Valtteri Bottas made the journey by bicycle;…
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Sprint at Monaco: Nathan drove a hundred laps behind his ghost to test Verstappen
Monaco will host a Sprint race from 2027. For Max Verstappen (Red Bull), the number of laps does nothing for the impossibility of overtaking; Oliver Bearman (Haas), who first thought it was…
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Alpine settles on “a lesson well learned”: Fabienne Racing holds its own debrief
Alpine will take no further action against Franco Colapinto after his collision with Pierre Gasly at the Baku restart. The driver held several meetings with Flavio Briatore, Steve Nielsen, Dave Greenwood and…
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Ferrari reaffirm their confidence in Vasseur: the gazebo votes the same, unanimously
Maria Conti, Ferrari’s head of communications, stated on behalf of John Elkann and Benedetto Vigna the team’s “total confidence” in Fred Vasseur, after Christian Horner called the idea of running Ferrari a…
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Horner rules out being an employee again: Fabienne Racing says it sorted that first
Christian Horner, removed from Red Bull in July 2025 after twenty years at the helm, tells The Times he will only return to Formula 1 as a shareholder, never as a plain…