Zak brown

In 2016 McLaren was at a low competitive and commercial ebb, locked in a toxic cycle of mutual recrimination with its engine partner, Honda, and struggling to attract high-value sponsors – and retain

When Lando Norris pulled his McLaren on to the grass in a puff of oil smoke at Zandvoort back in August, all appeared lost. Mechanical retirements in Formula 1 are so rare these days that we feared th

Going behind the headlines in the GP paddock

I t’s almost time. Formula 1 awaits the auspicious knock at the door from the Grim Reaper, before the hooded harbinger’s collection of its current technical rules. At the end of 2025, it will lead the

There is a school of thought that George Russell earned his promotion to Mercedes at precisely the wrong time, for it coincided with that team’s plunge from frontrunner to also-ran in the new ground-e

His season finished on a high with his ...