While the introduction of a spending limit for teams in 2021 has helped compress the field, with the front to the back of the grid having never been closer, this season has witnessed an interesting split among the competitorsThe top five squads – made up of Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and Mercedes – have appeared to break away from the...

The Maranello squad has generally been the stronger team in the first five races of the 2024 season, being the only non-Red Bull winner in the Australian GP thanks to Carlos Sainz's victory.But McLaren's Lando Norris had the upper hand in the last race in China, where he was Max Verstappen's closest challenger to finish in second.Ferrari duo Charles...

Haas has made considerable progress on the issue that blighted its F1 campaign last year, which was caused by a fundamental aerodynamic imbalance that meant the VF-23 could get its tyres working well for qualifying, but would then chew through them in races.In preparing its VF-24 2024 challenger in pre-season testing, Haas spent most of its time in...

Red Bull crushed the 2023 season by winning 21 out of 22 grands prix, with its early dominance allowing the team to hold off on producing many in-season car upgrades.Instead, the team focused most of its resources on 2024, producing a car that looks substantially different despite its predecessor's successes.Its decision to go for an aggressive evolution...

The Shanghai round was the first event where F1’s latest sprint format has been deployed, with the parc ferme restrictions on car adjustments relaxed between the two Saturday sessions.This opened the possibility for teams to run very experimental set-ups in the shorter races, especially for cars starting outside the top 10 on the grid, but in practice,...

The Faenza-based squad has found itself locked in an intense fight with Haas for supremacy of the five-squad chasing pack that is behind F1's top teams of Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Aston Martin.The current competitiveness of the F1 grid means that there are scant few points on offer for the bottom five teams, meaning Haas and RB have...