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Albon has signed a new multi-year contract with Williams. Exactly what "multi-year" means remains to be seen; so far they've only confirmed it keeps him there through 2026, but heavily implied it's longer.

Ferrari have a big upgrade package coming for Imola. There's a few photos emerged as they've used a filming day to give it a shakedown. They've switched to Red Bull 2024 style sidepod inlets (having started the season with Red Bull 2023 inspired inlets).

The thorn has become a whole lot more thornier. Ahead of the Miami race weekend, a bipartisan group of 12 US congress politicians sent a letter to FOM / Liberty demanding an explanation on why Andretti Cadillac's entry had been refused and accusing them of anti-competitive / cartel behaviour...

And done :). Think Norris could take a couple more this year. They had the first significant upgrades on Norris' car this weekend. Piastri gets them for the next race. Norris looked a lot closer to Red Bull all weekend other than that rogue set of softs for the sprint Q3

I'm a little suspicious of Norris (sprint Q) and then Ricciardo (race Q) having sets of softs in qually sessions that just had no grip. Quality control issue at Pirelli?

Oh wow ... they didn't wait until after the Senna anniversary was behind us. Official confirmation now, Newey will leave Red Bull: Other sources have confirmed that he ceases work for the Formula 1 team with immediate effect, however he will continue to work with Red Bull on their RB17...

Jos Verstappen has dropped a hint that Max might be available for 2026. The hot rumour at the moment is a move to Mercedes, taking Marko (whose leaving Red Bull would trigger an exit clause for Verstappen) and as many RBR engineers as possible. A Verstappen / Norris swap is an interesting...

In more contemporary news: it is widely expected that Red Bull and Newey will confirm that Newey is leaving this weekend (possibly Thursday, once the Senna stuff is out of the way). Speculation is that Newey has negotiated an immediate release, so that his contractual 1 year non-compete clause...

30th anniversary of the deaths of Senna and Ratzenberger at the Imola GP weekend in 1994 is this week. Netflix have chosen to mark this by releasing a teaser trailer for their 6-episode mini-series about Senna, very cleverly entitled "Senna"...

So with the 2025 driver moves hotting up, thought I'd start a tracker. Driver names in bold are theoretically locked in by contract already. Red Bull 1. Verstappen (contract to 2028; but if Red Bull implodes he'll go early) 2. Perez (out of contract after 2024); Ricciardo (needs to up his form...

Hulkenburg has signed for Sauber/Audi from 2025: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/nico-hulkenberg-first-audi-f1-driver-haas-exit/ And rumours have emerged that Gasly is in talks with Williams. My own interpretation of this is that the Alpine drivers know that Alpine are likely to promote...

Conflicting report / rumour that this may simply be a case of Newey telling RBR he won't be renewing his contract (which expires at the end of 2025). So he may not be going anywhere immediately. But if his intent is to go to another F1 team post-RBR, it's likely he'll be placed on gardening...

Beat me to it. It's exploded all over the F1 press - and we're not talking the press who are willing to take risks. IMO he's leaving, no doubt about that. The question will be where to? From here, the next thing to watch for is any change in Verstappen's approach once this gets confirmed. The...

Five races in the bank, and with rumours re: Sargeant's future emerging (see above), I thought it might be a good time to take a look at how my pre-season predictions are standing up. Those predictions were: 1. Yep, think this will pan out. Suspect there will be more races later this season...

A rumour has started swirling that Logan Sargeant's last race with Williams might be the upcoming Miami GP. Joe Saward has speculated that he'll be replaced by Mercedes' young protege Kimi Antonelli from Imola. I would assume this would be in a bid to prepare him to fill Hamilton's seat at...

Ricciardo would have needed another stop for either softs or hards before the end of the race. He would have been in a similar position as Alonso to finish the race: initially outside the points, but with a tyre advantage to push back in. Think 9th or 10th might have been available. What's...

I've finally got my 8 year old son interested in watching, and only have C4 highlights available, so I'll be watching it tomorrow afternoon at some point. Very tricky conditions in SQ3 (as well as the rain arriving part way through SQ2 preventing second runs) has resulted in a nicely mixed up...

China this weekend. And it's a sprint race weekend. Could be an interesting one given they've not been to China since 2019, and the circuit has needed some remedial work (removing some bumps that have developed) to make it ready for the ground-effect cars. As far as talking points ahead of the...

I think "brake test" is over-egging it. What Alonso planned to do was legitimate. The reason he got in trouble for it is he messed up the execution. Suzuka up next. I suspect this'll be another Verstappen easy win, but I think we'll need to keep a close eye on the McLarens and Norris in...

Nah - turns out Mercedes tried a radical alternative set up on Hamilton's car and it just didn't work. I would expect Hamilton's car to revert to Russell's set up for the start of Practice 3 and in theory Hamilton should be much quicker from that point onwards (albeit behind the curve and still...