Oscar Piastri’s slump began at the Azerbaijan GP in September, when he crashed out of both qualifying and the race. As Ted Kravitz says, it was a completely unrecognisable performance.

David Coulthard has called Hamilton an ‘anomaly’ among the greatest F1 drivers because he’s a ‘very clean racer’. Drivers like Verstappen and Michael Schumacher have been painted as ‘villains’ by some ...

But beyond Verstappen’s stats, Johansson believes the Red Bull pilot is the greatest driver of all time as he is “the most complete” he has ever seen. The 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours outright winner also ...

McLaren have ruled out a chassis change for Piastri, but they are inspecting his MCL39 in depth. This indicates that the team are confused by his drop-off after 15 races of elite-level consistency.

The past five rounds have seen Norris and Verstappen destroy 34 and 104-point deficits to Piastri in the F1 drivers’ championship, having each fallen to their largest deficits of the 2025 season so ...