Sauber's gone for some particularly darkly-lit renders of its new-for-2025 car - and Gary Anderson isn't totally convinced there was all that much to hide, as you can read in this early access version of his upcoming column on the site...
It's not Audi-badged yet - but Sauber must take a step f...
2025-02-19 20:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post
An intense first double-header of the 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E world championship season in Jeddah is picked over by regular hosts Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt, in addition to special guest Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans.
A strong weekend for Oliver Rowland is analysed along with Max Guenther’s win it then bi...
2025-02-19 12:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We react to Formula 1’s first-ever group launch event in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Jon Noble and Charley Williams join Edd Straw from the O2 Arena in London to appraise F1 75 and ask whether this one-off event could become a regular one.
We pick out the teams that made the best (and worst) impre...
2025-02-19 00:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Nine MotoGP riders switched teams over the winter. One then got injured pretty much immediately.
Of the other eight, who's hit the ground running with their new team and who is on the back foot for race one?
Val and Simon give their verdicts in our latest MotoGP video - available ad-free here on Patreon.
2025-02-18 19:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Lewis Hamilton has embarked on the biggest week of his Ferrari Formula 1 move so far – and we’ve pieced together some fascinating details about how life at his new team has really begun.
2025-02-18 15:06:40 +0000 UTC View Post
We have some exciting news: We're launching a brand-new podcast - and we wanted you to be the first to hear the trailer.
As the former team principal of the Racing Point, Aston Martin and Alpine F1 teams, Otmar Szafnauer knows a thing or two about what it takes to run a multi-million dollar Formula 1 operation, and he'...
Karun Chandhok joins Edd Straw to discuss his new book Drive to Victory in our latest exclusive The Race Members’ Club podcast.
You’ll all be very familiar with Karun from his exploits behind the wheel, his work for Sky Sports F1 and his appearances on Bring Back V10s, but he’s also something o...
2025-02-18 10:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Something a bit different for you this weekend. Let's hear your suggestions!
The only rule of the game is you can't specify a particular driver... GO!
2025-02-16 09:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Williams has gone all-out with an ambitious launch for its 2025 F1 car. The event at Silverstone to reveal the FW47 shows just how far Williams has come from a disastrous situation 12 months ago, when it was barely ready for testing. This time around it is so on top of the 2025 car, it has shaken the car down and held a full ...
2025-02-14 17:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The launch of the Williams FW47 is the subject of the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
First Jonathan Noble joins Edd Straw in the Silverstone garages to explain the significance of Williams being the second team to launch its 2025.
We run through the significant progress Williams has made in order to ...
2025-02-14 17:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In an exclusive bonus column for The Race Members' Club on Patreon, Gary Anderson highlights an element of McLaren's 2025 F1 car launch day that made him most convinced this is a team on the right track.
When you’re designing and developing a Formula 1 car, you’ve got to identify and u...
2025-02-13 20:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
McLaren sprung a surprise by revealing its 2025 Formula 1 car - albeit in a camouflage livery - at Silverstone today.
Here's the ad-free version of our video delving into everything we've learned about what McLaren's changed on its new design and how it plans to tackle this crucial season.
2025-02-13 19:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Ducati ended the 2025 MotoGP pre-season by going back to its 2024 engine and chassis - permanently in one case, probably temporarily in the other.
But it still looks like it’ll dominate the season even after that change of plan, as Simon Patterson, Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer explain on a slightly delirious end of p...
2025-02-13 19:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We tell all about the surprise launch of the first new Formula 1 car of 2025 - the McLaren MCL39 - in the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast.
First, Mark Hughes joins Edd Straw at a cold and blustery Silverstone to discuss McLaren’s prospects of the season and what drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, as w...
2025-02-13 17:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a short but very packed two MotoGP testing days of crunching numbers and jotting down rider comments - and this is the picture that's formed coming into the season.
This is an ad-free version of the video produced for our YouTube channel - and more coverage of the test is, of course, comi...
2025-02-13 16:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
For the final regular episode of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we let YOU choose a race from 1996, and you voted for the chaotic Monaco Grand Prix that was won by Olivier Panis's Ligier.
Ahead of the third season of our sister podcast And Colossally That's History, Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw are joined by Colossally co...
2025-02-13 15:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Take two! Bring Back V10s host Glenn Freeman sits down to work through another brilliant bundle of comments and questions from all of you, in reaction to our episode on the 2002 US GP at Indianapolis!
(Apologies for the problem with the initial upload - hopefully it all works this time!)
2025-02-12 22:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It's almost time for another Bring Back V10s Debrief, exclusively here on Patreon! Drop your thoughts, comments and questions on anything from episode five of Season 11 covering the 2002 United States GP, and Glenn Freeman will soon sit down for what is bound to be another epic stint to work through them all!
2025-02-11 08:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post![The Race post What Williams can learn from its last great season [Early access] from patreon](https://img5.xxx4fans.com/storage/10/qy/ei/66b995-019e838b-ef00-7a70-aff4-22cfab7dabca.jpg)
With Carlos Sainz joining Alex Albon to form Williams’s strongest line-up in many years, there is going to be a lot of attention on the team going into the 2025 Formula 1 season.
So we asked Edd Straw to look back at Williams’s last truly successful campaign, where it came from ...
2025-02-11 06:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We feared Formula 1's own big launch event might make car launch season - one of our favourite parts of the year, and yours too - a bit less rewarding in 2025. But our fears have been allayed.
Here's our video guide to what you'll see and when as teams reveal their cars and hit the track for the first time, what will an...
2025-02-10 18:21:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We look ahead to Formula 1’s imminent launch season in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Scott Mitchell-Malm and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to explain how the time between now and the first day of testing in Bahrain on February 26 will play out.
The centrepiece of launch season is the F1 75...
2025-02-10 17:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
With a Formula 1 rules revolution coming in 2026 with all-new cars, things are much more straightforward for this season as we head into a year of stable regulations. But that’s not to say there aren’t some important rules changes coming in 2025 - so here are six of the most important to keep an eye out for.
2025-02-10 12:44:21 +0000 UTC View Post![The Race post Gary Anderson on the key design dilemma facing every F1 team [Early access] from patreon](https://img5.xxx4fans.com/storage/9/ae/ki/66b995-019e838b-eef6-7e7f-a186-828d28082ef3.jpg)
Take an early look at Gary Anderson's next column for The Race ahead of its publication on the website next week
When coming up with a new package to suit current or, more importantly, new regulation concepts, the front and rear suspension layout is a major topic of discussion in the initial de...
2025-02-09 13:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostSimon's sceptical face whenever MotoGP's first ever official season launch event in Bangkok came up in our planning meetings or podcasts suggested he had a few doubts about whether it would work... but he loved it!
Here's his video from the event for our MotoGP social channels, which we've put here on Patreon for you to...
2025-02-09 12:43:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was supposed to a short video chat with 2020 MotoGP champion Joan Mir at the series' Bangkok launch turned into something else entirely when Pecco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo and Marc Marquez all joined in - so we've figured we really should just give you the whole thing in full.
Featuring Marc hilariously telling Fa...
2025-02-09 08:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
There may be another year to go before the all-new Formula 1 cars hit the track for the first time, but every team is already well-advanced in work on their 2026 car designs for what some, including Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, call the biggest rules reset in F1 history.
And after a raft of changes to the r...
2025-02-08 09:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Yamaha was the surprise star of MotoGP's first full 2025 pre-season test, leaping up the order to finish the week as Ducati's main rival.
Ducati's new bike looks extremely fast, but the works team has a big dilemma. And its 2024 could be an early-season headache in its satellites' hands.
Here's our latest ad free ...
2025-02-07 18:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Yamaha was the big winner of the first full MotoGP test of 2025, with genuine evidence of a breakthrough over the winter and Fabio Quartararo looking the most likely rider in the field to take the fight to Ducati at the front right now.
Simon Patterson and Val Khorounzhiy join Matt Beer on The Race MotoGP Podcast to loo...
2025-02-07 16:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in October last year, we presented a list of 10 drivers who never had a shot in frontrunning F1 machinery that we think deserved one.
Off the back of that article you inundated us with feedba...
A little Patreon bonus for you - here's the raw footage of a section of the video we'll put out at the end of the first test. It's Simon in the Sepang paddock talking about Yamaha's very impressive start to 2025, with a little bit of apologetic gatecrashing from Miguel Oliveira.
Full video available ad-free on Patreon l...
2025-02-07 07:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
