How the rookies did in 2025

Formula 1’s midfield battle had a peculiar look to it in 2025. Unless teams were fighting for bigger prizes at the front of the field, the well-documented regulation changes for 2026 soon made the sea

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 ► ...

EACH SEASON, WE RANK THE TOP 50 DRIVERS of the year. It’s an enormous task that creates debate and controversy, inside and outside the Autosport office. This is not who we think the 50 best drivers ar

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