🍝 Kitchens as big as four football pitches 🥗 100,000 meals in a weekend 🦞 Up to 3,000 lobsters per day Feeding F1's VIPs is no easy task. But one man, Attila Dogudan, has created a small empire out of it after a life-changing phone call 33 years ago... ✍️ @lukesmithf1.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4mzFsvA

Romain Grosjean will make his return to the cockpit of a Formula One car by taking part in a test day with his former team, Haas, in Italy on Friday. The outing comes almost five years after Grosjean sustained severe injuries in an accident at the start of the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix.

Carlos Sainz took a big gamble on joining Williams when he left Ferrari. Through most of 2025, bad luck and incidents have plagued his Sundays. But finally, a breakthrough in Baku: Sainz delivered Williams' first podium for four years. ✍️ @madelinecoleman.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4nm3rjc

Red Bull has announced it has finalized an agreement with Christian Horner over the termination of his contract, after his exit as its Formula One team principal and CEO in July. ✍️ @lukesmithf1.bsky.social and @nauckas.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6651258/?sou...

Oscar Piastri took the blame for “silly mistakes” in his “messy” Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend, which ended with a first-lap race crash after jumping the start and falling to the rear of the field. More from @lukesmithf1.bsky.social ⤵️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6648813/?sou...

Max Verstappen wins the Azerbaijan Grand Prix! The Dutch driver picks up his fourth victory of the season, and cuts the gap to championship leader Oscar Piastri to 69 points...

Six red flags. Championship leader crashes. And somehow Carlos Sainz finds himself starting P2 with Williams' best shot at a podium in years. Chaos consumed Baku qualifying. It sets up for a fascinating grand prix. @lukesmithf1.bsky.social breaks down the madness ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/4nEAK0r

🏆 The most Mercedes wins since 2022 1️⃣ Team leader after Lewis Hamilton's exit ⛔️ But there's still no new contract for George Russell @lukesmithf1.bsky.social explains what's holding up the announcement of a formality ⤵️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6636752/?sou...

F1 keeps pushing into “destination cities” while locking in decade-long deals with historic venues. It’s a strategy that gives financial security to tracks, teams and the championship itself — but leaves little room to shake things up. Is it worth risking a stale calendar? @lukesmithf1.bsky.social

The start time for the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix has been pushed back in a bid to avoid a direct clash with the Indianapolis 500. The F1 race will start at 4 p.m. ET, giving a window of more than three hours for the 500 to be completed. ✍️ @lukesmithf1.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6633571/?sou...

Formula One has confirmed its 2026 sprint calendar as talks continue about expanding the number of Saturday races and making format changes such as reverse grids in the future. More from @lukesmithf1.bsky.social ⤵️

Red Bull is going to wait until the end of the 2025 season before making a call on who will be Max Verstappen's teammate for F1 2026. But there is already a clear list of candidates.

Formula One runs on data, simulators and endless calculations. But sometimes the most important feedback comes is simple: How does the car feel? That's what Red Bull leaned into at Monza, where Max Verstappen's instincts delivered his most commanding win of 2025. ✍️ @madelinecoleman.bsky.social

Max Verstappen laughed when McLaren asked Oscar Piastri to give up position to Lando Norris after a slow pit stop. Most F1 teams would never make such a call. But McLaren is doubling down on its unprecedented approach to fairness between title-fighting teammates. ✍️ @lukesmithf1.bsky.social

Haas' Oliver Bearman is just two penalty points away from an automatic race ban following his collision with Williams' Carlos Sainz during the Italian Grand Prix. More from @madelinecoleman.bsky.social ⤵️

The Italian GP gave shades of 2023. Max Verstappen anticipated it to be a tough battle, but in the end, it seemed like a Sunday drive through the Italian countryside. @lukesmithf1.bsky.social and @madelinecoleman.bsky.social review the action in Monza 🇮🇹

Max Verstappen wins the Italian Grand Prix! 🇮🇹

Max Verstappen set the fastest qualifying lap in Formula One's 75-year championship history on Saturday. For a driver who has won just twice this season after dominating recent years, moments like these are to be remembered, writes @lukesmithf1.bsky.social. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

Max Verstappen's pole lap for the Italian GP is the fastest lap in Formula One history. The Dutchman's time of 1:18.792 eclipses Lewis Hamilton’s previous track record at Monza. More from @madelinecoleman.bsky.social

Max Verstappen is on pole for the 2025 Italian GP! 🇮🇹

Daniel Ricciardo confirmed in an open letter that his racing days are done. More from @madelinecoleman.bsky.social

Monaco will remain on the Formula 1 calendar until 2035 🇲🇨

Williams is working to find evidence to overturn Carlos Sainz’s Dutch Grand Prix penalty, the Spaniard said during Thursday’s FIA news conference. Even a few days removed from the incident, Sainz still firmly feels “the penalty was not acceptable.” @madelinecoleman.bsky.social: bit.ly/466fsSc

The boys in blue 🔵

"Right now, Oscar Piastri pairs the luck all champions need with unflappable steel — and that is what makes Lando Norris’s task so much greater." @nauckas.bsky.social on the major twist thrown in the F1 championship fight last weekend. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Isack Hadjar's F1 debut ended in infamy and tears. His first podium on Sunday in the Netherlands wasn't just well-earned — it was the latest sign of a strong bounce-back rookie campaign. @madelinecoleman.bsky.social explains. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri won the Dutch Grand Prix, where Ferrari drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc both crashed out and Lando Norris retired late on with an engine problem. More from @lukesmithf1.bsky.social & @madelinecoleman.bsky.social

A podium for Isack Hadjar 👏

Oscar Piastri wins the Dutch GP!

Lando Norris is out. Engine failure.

You can really feel this image.

Charles Leclerc is out after coming together with Kimi Antonelli. A bad day for Ferrari.

Charles Leclerc moves past George Russell — and the Mercedes driver is not happy... "He was fully off the track, surely!" he tells his engineer.

Lando Norris has been told the plan is to go to the end of the race on this set of tires. He'll be told if the team wants to add a stop, but the goal should be to get to the end. @lukesmithf1.bsky.social

Lewis Hamilton's miserable run at Ferrari just gets worse. A crash for the seven-time world champion at Turn 3. He's out of the Dutch GP.

It's almost time for lights out at Zandvoort - follow the Dutch GP live on @theathletic.com ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

P4 for Isack Hadjar. What a lap.

Oscar Piastri will start the #DutchGP on pole position!

Razor thin margins between the McLarens on the first run there, Oscar Piastri up by just 0.012 seconds in their opening efforts...

Since the start of the world championship in 1950, five women have entered an F1 race. Only two have qualified and started a grand prix. How did we arrive at this point, and what challenges still need to be addressed? @madelinecoleman.bsky.social explains ⬇️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6579866/?sou...

Today's Formula 1 drivers walk away from 220 mph crashes. The drivers who made this possible never could. From @dansheldon.bsky.social: How the sport's darkest moments created today's life-saving technology ⤵️ 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

McLaren is the last F1 team to get a title sponsor. CEO Zak Brown is on record as saying the team wouldn’t need one — even going so far as to call F1 title sponsorship “dangerous.” So why have McLaren become McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team? 📝 @lukesmithf1.bsky.social

Formula 1's corporate hospitality used to be tables for eight to 10 people and a bar. Fans are now charged $27,000 for dinner with Gordon Ramsay, steps away from the cars. @nauckas.bsky.social tells the story of F1's hospitality revolution ⤵️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6576995/?sou...

Why Cadillac has hired Sergio Pérez and Valtteri Bottas to form its first F1 driver line-up, for the new team's entry in 2026. It will immediately have the third-most experienced line-up on the grid. @lukesmithf1.bsky.social 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are returning to Formula One. The two veterans will make up Cadillac’s 2026 driver lineup when the American team makes its debut in 2026, it announced on Tuesday. More from @madelinecoleman.bsky.social 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

🏎️ Most improved driver 🏎️ Best young driver 🏎️ Championship positions at the summer break The Athletic's F1 team reassess what we got right and (mostly) wrong in predicting the storylines of what was supposed to be a grand prix season for the ages. This has turned out to be a McLaren success fest.

However the Formula 1 drivers' championship pans out, there is likely to be one winner reveling in his first crown, and a crestfallen loser — and these figures will, almost certainly, be teammates wearing papaya race suits. How does Zak Brown plan on dealing with that scenario?

“We had a thousand people. I changed three. "So, the same 997 that gave us the car at the beginning of 2023 are the same 997 people that gave us the car that just won the world championship. I changed three."

In just two years, McLaren went from consistently underwhelming in Formula 1 to utterly dominating. The team's key figures — including Zak Brown, Andrea Stella, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris — explain how it achieved this to @lukesmithf1.bsky.social.

Max Verstappen & Fernando Alonso are dominating their teammates But things are much closer elsewhere in 2025's intra-team qualifying speed battles. @lukesmithf1.bsky.social crunches the numbers from every grand prix qualifying session so far in 2025... 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...