Where Mercedes is missing out to “a smidge quicker” McLaren in F1 2025

The 2025 Formula 1 supertimes make for interesting reading so far and, despite a relatively small sample size, Mercedes pips Red Bull to have the second-fastest car – 0.345% short of McLaren. Red Bull (or rather, Max Verstappen) is just another 0.008% behind.
It’s been an encouraging start to 2025 for Mercedes, as the early indications are that its car is much less capricious than last …Keep reading

Rebel with a cause – New Racing Bulls partner aiming to complete the ‘challenger’s code’

For RebelDot, the devil is in the detail – or, more specifically, in the data. All seven megabytes pour in from each Racing Bull every second, that is.
It is becoming increasingly common for Formula 1 teams to have their own partners who deal with data, intelligent automation and insights, crunching numbers at such speed that they can cover in an hour what a human would struggle to process in …Keep reading

What really happened with Ferrari’s “joke” team orders saga

Ferrari had a day to forget at Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix with a double disqualification for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, but fake team order drama further added to team boss Fred Vasseur’s misery.
Hamilton and Leclerc were running fourth and fifth respectively after their pitstops around lap 20 when fans were first alerted to team orders being in play, and the seven-time world …Keep reading