Formula 1

Max Verstappen won the Belgian Grand Prix© AFP Max Verstappen reeled off his eighth successive win of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday with his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez in second. Verstappen also won Saturday’s sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps to maintain his relentless charge to a third Formula One world title.

Max Verstappen was in imperious form as he came from sixth on the grid to win the Belgian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver’s eighth consecutive victory in the final race before the summer break extended his championship lead to 125 points. Verstappen led Sergio Perez home to a Red Bull one-two but was in

4. His decision to dedicate his life to motorsport came out of the blue “We were invited by a friend to watch him racing in Formula 3, which is a junior series,” says Toto. “I ended up on the track and… walking onto the grid, this is where [I felt] this massive explosion within me

Drivers say the poor quality of Formula 1’s ‘extreme’ wet tyre is adding complications when starting races in bad visibility. They also backed the race officials’ call to delay the start of the Belgian Grand Prix sprint because of spray. But Max Verstappen, George Russell and Charles Leclerc all called for improvements to Pirelli’s wet

Max Verstappen increased his lead by a further eight points in the world championship with a calculated and convincing victory ahead of Australian rookie Oscar Piastri in Saturday’s rain-delayed sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull’s double defending world champion rode his luck when McLaren’s Piastri snatched the lead by making an early pit-stop

Max Verstappen caught and passed McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to win an incident-packed wet sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix. Piastri, who started second behind Verstappen, took the lead as a result of stopping for a change to intermediate tyres as soon as the race was started following five laps behind the safety car. Verstappen

Alain Prost says he hopes the major changes at Alpine will be an “electroshock” to a team suffering from too much corporate interference. The four-time champion made swingeing criticisms of the Renault-owned team in an interview with L’Equipe newspaper. Prost said history showed F1 teams needed “a simple structure detached from an industrial organisation chart”.

File image of Max Verstappen© AFP Max Verstappen took pole position for Red Bull in the sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday by a wafer thin margin from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri. The defending double world champion and runaway leader of this year’s title race wound up just 0.011seconds clear of the rookie

Max Verstappen pipped McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix sprint race by just 0.011 seconds. The world champion was the very last driver to cross the line on a drying track, the condition of which was improving consistently throughout the session. Nevertheless, Piastri’s performance continued the strong impression the Australian

Valtteri Bottas is travelling down the start-finish line at Interlagos, Brazil, at almost 200mph. It is pouring with rain and he can’t see a thing. Ahead of him and stranded on the left of the track is Kimi Raikkonen, who has lost control and crashed. Bottas gets closer and closer until he flies past the

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will start from pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix despite Max Verstappen having set the fastest time in qualifying on Friday. Double world champion Verstappen incurred a five-grid penalty for a change of gearbox on his Red Bull demoting him to sixth for Sunday’s race. Verstappen’s teammate Sergio Perez will start

Max Verstappen set the fastest time in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying but a grid penalty means Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will start from pole position. The Red Bull driver beat Leclerc by 0.820 seconds on a drying track but has a five-place grid drop for using too many gearbox components this season. Leclerc edged the second

Alpine will part ways with team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane after the Belgian Grand Prix. The latest in a series of management changes at the team come after a disappointing performance by the Renault-owned team this season so far. Alpine are also losing chief technical officer Pat Fry, who will start

Max Verstappen cruised to another majestic victory on Sunday, reeling off a record 12th straight win for Red Bull as he dominated the Hungarian Grand Prix with a textbook drive from lights to flag. The defending double world champion grabbed the lead from pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton at the start and remained in control for his seventh

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Max Verstappen’s dominant victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix set a wins record for his Red Bull team. The Dutchman’s seventh victory in a row and ninth of the season was Red Bull’s 12th consecutive win, dating back to the final race of 2022 in Abu Dhabi. The achievement broke the record of 11 straight

Lewis Hamilton claimed his first pole position since 2021 after edging Max Verstappen in qualifying on Saturday for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The seven-time world champion ended a barren run stretching back 33 races by claiming a record-increasing 104th pole of his career and his record ninth at the Hungaroring circuit. His success with a last-gasp

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc set the pace in a Friday practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix which offered few clues as to the true competitive picture. Leclerc was 0.015 seconds quicker than McLaren’s Lando Norris but world champion Max Verstappen was only 11th fastest and Mercedes close to the back. The Alpines of Pierre Gasly and