Oleksandr Bondarev,16, is part of Williams Racing Driver Academy, which helps develop young motorsport talent by offering support from the F1 team in Grove, Oxfordshire. Having recovered from a career-threatening injury, he said his victory in single-seater machinery in Imola on 3 August was "a really proud moment".

Russia’s motor racing chiefs are suing Formula One for £50m in the High Court after the sport scrapped its races in the country following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Newly crowned IndyCar champion Alex Palou has been linked with a shock switch to Formula 1 partnering Max Verstappen at Red Bull Racing in 2026.

The first race of the 2026 season is the Australian Grand Prix in March. Bottas and Perez will hit the track in January, testing out the new car before its official debut in early February. Towriss noted that both men signed multi-year deals with Cadillac. Graeme Lowden was named team principal last December.

Brundle has elected to miss the Dutch GP as part of his 16-race deal with Sky in 2025, which will see him miss eight races across the season. The F1 legend was last absent at the Austrian GP, and will stage his return for the Italian GP at Monza at the beginning of September.

Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has confirmed that the team is “not in any hurry” to decide who will be Max Verstappen’s team-mate for next year’s Formula 1 season. The Milton Keynes-based squad has once again struggled on the front of its second seat, with Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda failing to make any significant mark.

After 14 rounds, a McLaren driver has won all but three races this year. And judging by the results of two Friday practices, we shouldn't expect much change to the pecking order.

F1 finally returns after the summer break for round 15 and the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. The 2025 iteration of the Dutch GP will be the penultimate year F1 races in the Netherlands, with Zandvoort choosing not to extend their deal beyond 2026.