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The surface colours of the season constantly changed but the background of its canvas was always papaya as McLaren delivered a formidable weapon for its drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri; the unv

It took a while for Sainz to get going at Williams but, once he did, he demonstrated his class as both a driver and a driving force at the team. It had been an inauspicious start in Australia, where h

Hamilton knows things can’t get much worse ► ...

Mercedes raised a few eyebrows when it fast-tracked junior phenomenon Antonelli’s F1 debut to replace Lewis Hamilton. For a youngster who had made his first tentative steps in single-seater racing in

Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in

During the summer break, Piastri pointed to Bahrain and Barcelona as two of his best drives; after that, his efforts in Qatar surely stand among them in a hell-for-leather exhibition of directed rage