How summer downgrade saved Racing Bulls from complacency

A lot of attention has gone to Ferrari and the cursed Barcelona floor upgrade that sent it back to the drawing board over the summer, but behind the Scuderia in F1’s midfield RB suffered a similar fate.
After an encouraging start RB also introduced a new floor at June’s Spanish Grand Prix, an upgrade which actually turned out to make the car slower. The team paid the price against increasingly …Keep reading

The F1 record we’re unlikely to ever see again

Now that Valtteri Bottas is dropping off the Formula 1 grid in 2025, the unique record he shares with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen is unlikely to be extended.
This is the statistic for most podium appearances across any F1 driver triplet arrangement, with Bottas, Hamilton and Verstappen having appeared together in 20 podium ceremonies.
This run occurred between the 2018 Spanish Grand …Keep reading