Key Highlights Sixteen-year-old Luna Fluxa Cross will make her F1 ACADEMY debut as the Wild Card entrant at the 2026 season finale in Las Vegas. The Spanish racer previously made history as the first woman to claim an FIA international championship since 1966 after winning the OK-N Senior title. Fluxa Cross will pilot the #10 ...
Key Highlights Alan Jones, Australia’s 1980 Formula 1 world champion, has passed away on the Gold Coast at the age of 80 following a short illness. Jones secured the first-ever drivers’ world championship for Williams Grand Prix Engineering in 1980 and remains the last Australian to win the Australian Grand Prix. Following his grand prix ...
Key Highlights: Formula 1 is mourning the passing of Australian motorsport legend Alan Jones, the 1980 F1 World Champion, at the age of 79. Jones secured 11 of his 12 career Grand Prix wins with Williams, delivering the outfit’s historic first Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships. Tributes have poured in across motorsport, led by Formula ...
Key Highlights Kimi Antonelli has officially won the 2026 Formula 1 World Championship, claiming the title with four Grands Prix left to spare. At just 20 years old, Antonelli makes history as the youngest World Champion in the history of Formula 1. The historic campaign featured a landmark victory at Monza, establishing Antonelli as the ...
Key Highlights Rising motorsport star Kimi Antonelli is celebrated as a world champion and history maker in a retrospective reflecting on his career. The narrative of Antonelli’s journey to elite racing is chronicled through the intimate perspectives of the people from his hometown of Bologna. The account focuses on the roots, community support, and early ...
Key Highlights: Kimi Antonelli has officially etched his name into the record books as the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history. BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Chequered Flag team—Harry Benjamin, Marc Priestley, and Jennie Gow—analyzed the monumental milestone and its wider impact on motorsport. The coverage explores the journey behind how the prodigy rapidly ...
Key Highlights: Freddie Hunt has commemorated the 50th anniversary of his father James Hunt’s historic 1976 Formula 1 World Championship victory over Niki Lauda. Appearing on F1’s official Beyond The Grid podcast, Freddie detailed James Hunt’s technical adaptability, perseverance through injury, and the authentic friendship behind his intense rivalry with Lauda. The retrospective underscores James ...
Key Highlights: Heineken and Formula 1 have evaluated global fan submissions to narrow down the competition to six finalists for the Heineken F1 Season Ticket. Finalists submitted personal video entries demonstrating their deep connection to motorsport and detailing why they deserve full trackside access. Public voting is now officially open, allowing motorsport fans worldwide to ...
Key Highlights: Koji Watanabe, President of Honda Racing Corporation (HRC), will retire on 1 January 2027. Keiichi Yasuda, current Executive Vice President and Representative Director, has been appointed as his successor. The executive transition follows major organizational milestones, including the merger of Honda’s two-wheel and four-wheel racing arms and its official Formula 1 return with ...
Key Highlights: Four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen will race in the GT World Challenge Europe Cup season finale at Portimao. The entry places Verstappen on the same grid as nine-time motorcycle racing grand prix champion Valentino Rossi. The Portimao outing comes in the middle of an intense racing schedule that will see Verstappen ...