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Race & Results
Interlagos: Norris masters the rain as Mercedes clinch the constructors' title
On pole, beaten at the very first corner, Lando Norris still went on to win the Brazilian Grand Prix by more than 14 seconds from Max Verstappen, after 71 laps on a track that never stopped changing. Fourth and fifth for George Russell and Kimi Antonelli gave Mercedes the constructors' title, their first since 2021.
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Antonelli crowned youngest world champion,
Kimi Antonelli is the Formula 1 world champion. Third in a Mexico City Grand Prix won by Max Verstappen ahead of Lewis Hamilton, the 20-year-old Mercedes driver becomes the youngest title winner in history, beating Sebastian Vettel's record by three years.
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Austin: Antonelli in total control, the title awaits in Mexico
Starting from pole, Kimi Antonelli cruised to his ninth win of the season at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday. Leclerc and Verstappen completed the podium, but the Italian's coronation will have to wait one more week.
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Horner admits Red Bull shaped its car around Verstappen's demands
On a podcast released just days before the United States Grand Prix, Christian Horner admitted what the paddock had suspected for years: the Red Bull was built around Max Verstappen, and the Dutchman's camp pushed to keep it that way when Sergio Pérez started going a little too well.
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Red Bull locks in Laurent Mekies until 2031 and turns the page on Horner
Fifteen months after inheriting Christian Horner's chair, Laurent Mekies has signed on for five more seasons at the helm of Red Bull. The extension lands right after two wins and says a lot about how Milton Keynes intends to approach the years ahead.
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Antonelli champion in Austin? There is only one way, and it is a narrow one
Two days after Singapore, the real question is no longer whether Kimi Antonelli will be world champion, but where. Austin gives him a first chance. To take it, he will have to win, and hope his pursuers give him a little help.
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Singapore: Verstappen finally conquers Marina Bay as Antonelli earns his first title shot
Only one line was missing from Max Verstappen's CV: Singapore. Not anymore. Starting from pole, the Dutchman led from start to finish on his 250th Grand Prix start, ahead of Charles Leclerc and Kimi Antonelli. And while Red Bull celebrated, the championship leader earned the right to be crowned as early as Austin.
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Singapore: Verstappen Snatches Pole by 54 Thousandths as Ferrari Stay Within Reach
Under the lights of Marina Bay, Max Verstappen came out on top. The Dutchman will start from pole with both Ferraris on his tail, less than 0.13 seconds behind, while Mercedes ends a difficult night with Russell sent to the back of the grid.
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Sepang: the FIA owns up to the bug that froze the cars on the formation lap
Dead throttle pedals, cars stranded at a crawl, a red flag before the race had even started: Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, relocated to Sepang, produced one of the most baffling scenes of the season. Shortly after the finish, Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA's single-seater director, explained what happened: a bug in the federation-supplied software that had never been tested at such low speeds.
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Sepang: Verstappen tames the deluge to hand Red Bull its first win of 2026
It took until round sixteen. In rain that delayed the start by more than an hour, Max Verstappen turned pole into victory at Sepang, ahead of Kimi Antonelli and a Lewis Hamilton who came back from nowhere. George Russell, meanwhile, watched his title hopes fade with a retirement.
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Sepang: Verstappen finally lands his first pole, Hamilton crashes the front row
It took the Bahrain Grand Prix, held in Malaysia this year, to finally see Max Verstappen on pole. On a scorching Sepang track, the Dutchman claimed his first pole of the 2026 season, the very first for a car not powered by Mercedes this year. Alongside him on Sunday: a revitalised Lewis Hamilton.
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Baku: Russell holds Verstappen off by two tenths as Red Bull return to a double podium
From pole position, George Russell claimed his third win of the season in Baku. But he had to hold on all the way to the flag against a Max Verstappen who finished just 0.196s behind, at the end of a race broken up by two safety cars and a long list of retirements.
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Why F1's return to Sepang could suit Verstappen and Antonelli
Formula 1 returns to Sepang for the first time in nine years on October 2-4, officially run under the Bahrain Grand Prix name. According to Juan Pablo Montoya, the track's demanding, punishing layout could hand an edge to two very different drivers: Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli.
Transfers & Contracts
Max Verstappen extends with Red Bull through 2030, closing out a summer-long saga
On the eve of the Dutch Grand Prix, Red Bull put months of speculation to rest by announcing Max Verstappen's contract extension through the end of the 2030 season. The timing carries real symbolism, coming on the four-time world champion's home turf.
Technical & Regulations
The 'Macarena' wing: why Red Bull backed off before Spa
A rear wing that rotates to pick up top speed — in the paddock, they call it the 'Macarena', a nickname coined by Frédéric Vasseur himself. Two Max Verstappen crashes later, the FIA took a close look at the system, and Red Bull chose to leave theirs in the truck for the Belgian Grand Prix rather than risk a third.