George Russell is nine points behind his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli in the 2026 Formula 1 drivers’ championship. Three races in, the 19-year-old Italian has won two of them. By any conventional reading, the momentum belongs to Antonelli. Russell, however, does not accept the conventional reading. Speaking after the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on […]
There is a particular moment in every young driver’s career when rivals stop offering advice and start watching their back. For Andrea Kimi Antonelli, that moment appears to have arrived. The 19-year-old Mercedes driver has revealed that both Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have pulled back the open, mentoring approach they offered him throughout his […]
The BWT Alpine F1 Team published an open letter on Thursday, April 2, following the Japanese Grand Prix. The team addressed a wave of online abuse, death threats and sabotage claims that have followed its drivers across consecutive race weekends. The statement, directed at the broader Formula 1 community, is one of the more candid […]
