The “huge changes” Aston Martin had to overcome to make the Barcelona F1 shakedown

Like Indiana Jones snatching his misplaced fedora from under a rapidly descending stone doorway, Aston Martin’s timing was dramatically close to the edge this week. The team arrived for the Barcelona shakedown week late on the third of the five days and only achieved a handful of laps when its AMR26 emerged from the garage on the afternoon of the fourth.
Aston Martin had admitted – albeit …Keep reading

What happened on day four of F1’s secretive 2026 shakedown

Aston Martin finally appeared on track in the latter stages of the fourth day of the Barcelona Formula 1 shakedown, while Mercedes kept collecting miles and McLaren’s day was cut short with trouble.
Fresh from turning over 90 laps apiece on Wednesday, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and George Russell traded turns again on Thursday with a combination of long runs and shorter outings to get on top of …Keep reading

Exclusive interview: Lowdon on why Cadillac F1 hired on values over ability

As Formula 1’s first expansion team in a decade, Cadillac is very much up against it to take on F1’s establishment when its veteran race winners Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez join the grid in March.
Following an intense recruitment spree for its bases in Silverstone and North America, which the team says yielded over 140,000 job applications for around 600 positions, the organisation …Keep reading