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Gary Anderson: Sauber's new design doesn't scream progress (early access)

Sauber's gone for some particularly darkly-lit renders of its new-for-2025 car - and Gary Anderson isn't totally convinced there was all that much to hide, as you can read in this early access version of his upcoming column on the site...

It's not Audi-badged yet - but Sauber must take a step forward with the newly-launched C45.

So far, these ground effect regulations haven’t been kind to the team, aside from the brief spell early on when simply having ...

Reviewing Formula E's intense Jeddah double-header (ad-free)

An intense first double-header of the 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E world championship season in Jeddah is picked over by regular hosts Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt, in addition to special guest Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans.

A strong weekend for Oliver Rowland is analysed along with Max Guenther’s win it then bin it races, while the 'Boy Wonder' Taylor Barnard’s extraordinary ascent is detailed in full.

Evans gives details on why Jaguar had such a poor weekend by their l...

Our verdict on F1's huge launch event in London (ad-free)

We react to Formula 1’s first-ever group launch event in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.

Jon Noble and Charley Williams join Edd Straw from the O2 Arena in London to appraise F1 75 and ask whether this one-off event could become a regular one.

We pick out the teams that made the best (and worst) impressions with their segments and what we want to see more, or less, of in the future.

We also gauge the crowd reaction and what it says about F1. And with plenty of n...

MotoGP 2025 rider moves: Who's quick and who's struggling?

Nine MotoGP riders switched teams over the winter. One then got injured pretty much immediately.

Of the other eight, who's hit the ground running with their new team and who is on the back foot for race one?

Val and Simon give their verdicts in our latest MotoGP video - available ad-free here on Patreon.

How Lewis Hamilton's first weeks at Ferrari have really gone (ad-free video)

Lewis Hamilton has embarked on the biggest week of his Ferrari Formula 1 move so far – and we’ve pieced together some fascinating details about how life at his new team has really begun.

⚠️ Coming soon... The Team Principal Podcast - with Otmar Szafnauer!

We have some exciting news: We're launching a brand-new podcast - and we wanted you to be the first to hear the trailer.

As the former team principal of the Racing Point, Aston Martin and Alpine F1 teams, Otmar Szafnauer knows a thing or two about what it takes to run a multi-million dollar Formula 1 operation, and he's here to share that wisdom with you!

Alongside his deputy TP, Ben Anderson, Otmar will share honest, unfiltered stories from his career, and use his unique viewpo...

F1 Book Club: Karun Chandhok on his new F1 book for kids

Karun Chandhok joins Edd Straw to discuss his new book Drive to Victory in our latest exclusive The Race Members’ Club podcast. 

You’ll all be very familiar with Karun from his exploits behind the wheel, his work for Sky Sports F1 and his appearances on Bring Back V10s, but he’s also something of a writer. This is his first book, and it’s aimed at young fans aged nine and upwards. 

This makes it the ideal book to help foster a lifelong love of Formu...

What would you ask a current F1 driver?

Something a bit different for you this weekend. Let's hear your suggestions!

The only rule of the game is you can't specify a particular driver... GO!

Williams’s ambitious F1 2025 car reveal explained (ad-free video)

Williams has gone all-out with an ambitious launch for its 2025 F1 car. The event at Silverstone to reveal the FW47 shows just how far Williams has come from a disastrous situation 12 months ago, when it was barely ready for testing. This time around it is so on top of the 2025 car, it has shaken the car down and held a full launch with a one-off livery. 

What Williams's early car launch says about its 2025 prospects (ad-free)

The launch of the Williams FW47 is the subject of the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. 

First Jonathan Noble joins Edd Straw in the Silverstone garages to explain the significance of Williams being the second team to launch its 2025.

We run through the significant progress Williams has made in order to be in this position, and what its expectations are for the coming year. 

Gary Anderson then offers his technical appraisal of the car, picking out the key aspe...

Gary Anderson: The McLaren launch element I found most convincing

In an exclusive bonus column for The Race Members' Club on Patreon, Gary Anderson highlights an element of McLaren's 2025 F1 car launch day that made him most convinced this is a team on the right track.

When you’re designing and developing a Formula 1 car, you’ve got to identify and understand your shortcomings – and understand the strengths you already have - before you make concept changes for your new machine.

If not, you’re simply doing ...

McLaren’s surprise early 2025 F1 car reveal - what we learned

McLaren sprung a surprise by revealing its 2025 Formula 1 car - albeit in a camouflage livery - at Silverstone today.

Here's the ad-free version of our video delving into everything we've learned about what McLaren's changed on its new design and how it plans to tackle this crucial season.

Why Ducati's dropped its 2025 MotoGP bike after testing (ad-free)

Ducati ended the 2025 MotoGP pre-season by going back to its 2024 engine and chassis - permanently in one case, probably temporarily in the other.

But it still looks like it’ll dominate the season even after that change of plan, as Simon Patterson, Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer explain on a slightly delirious end of pre-season testing episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast.

We assess where the Marc Marquez vs Pecco Bagnaia power balance stands, and how the works team’s switch back...

Why McLaren has gone 'aggressive' with 2025 F1 car (ad-free)

We tell all about the surprise launch of the first new Formula 1 car of 2025 - the McLaren MCL39 - in the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast. 

First, Mark Hughes joins Edd Straw at a cold and blustery Silverstone to discuss McLaren’s prospects of the season and what drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, as well as team principal Andrea Stella, revealed about the season ahead. 

And we also highlight the influence of a certain ex-Red Bull technical leader that is ve...

MotoGP 2025 bikes ranked after pre-season testing (ad-free)

It's been a short but very packed two MotoGP testing days of crunching numbers and jotting down rider comments - and this is the picture that's formed coming into the season.

This is an ad-free version of the video produced for our YouTube channel - and more coverage of the test is, of course, coming soon.

BBV10s S11 E8: Panis's sensational sole F1 win (early access)

For the final regular episode of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we let YOU choose a race from 1996, and you voted for the chaotic Monaco Grand Prix that was won by Olivier Panis's Ligier.

Ahead of the third season of our sister podcast And Colossally That's History, Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw are joined by Colossally co-host Matt Bishop to look back on a bonkers afternoon in Monte Carlo, and to discuss everything else that was going on in F1 around that weekend.

We look at how Pa...

BBV10s Debrief: 2002 US Grand Prix (full show)

Take two! Bring Back V10s host Glenn Freeman sits down to work through another brilliant bundle of comments and questions from all of you, in reaction to our episode on the 2002 US GP at Indianapolis!

(Apologies for the problem with the initial upload - hopefully it all works this time!)

BBV10s Debrief: Send us your thoughts on the 2002 US Grand Prix!

It's almost time for another Bring Back V10s Debrief, exclusively here on Patreon! Drop your thoughts, comments and questions on anything from episode five of Season 11 covering the 2002 United States GP, and Glenn Freeman will soon sit down for what is bound to be another epic stint to work through them all!

What Williams can learn from its last great season [Early access]

With Carlos Sainz joining Alex Albon to form Williams’s strongest line-up in many years, there is going to be a lot of attention on the team going into the 2025 Formula 1 season.

So we asked Edd Straw to look back at Williams’s last truly successful campaign, where it came from and why that form wasn’t sustainable - and we’re releasing his article here on Patreon first ahead of it running on The Race website later this week. 2025-02-11 06:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Video: F1's weird launch season - Everything you need to know

We feared Formula 1's own big launch event might make car launch season - one of our favourite parts of the year, and yours too - a bit less rewarding in 2025. But our fears have been allayed.

Here's our video guide to what you'll see and when as teams reveal their cars and hit the track for the first time, what will and won't be revealed at the F1 75 launch event in London, and a few things we think you should keep an eye out for as the teams and drivers emerge into the spotlight again...

Previewing F1's 2025 launch season (ad-free)

We look ahead to Formula 1’s imminent launch season in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. 

Scott Mitchell-Malm and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to explain how the time between now and the first day of testing in Bahrain on February 26 will play out. 

The centrepiece of launch season is the F1 75 event at London’s O2 Arena on February 18, where all 10 teams will have a slot on stage to reveal their livery. We explain what to expect from that, and debate whether...

Six important rule changes you need to know about for F1 2025 (early access)

With a Formula 1 rules revolution coming in 2026 with all-new cars, things are much more straightforward for this season as we head into a year of stable regulations. But that’s not to say there aren’t some important rules changes coming in 2025 - so here are six of the most important to keep an eye out for.

Gary Anderson on the key design dilemma facing every F1 team [Early access]

Take an early look at Gary Anderson's next column for The Race ahead of its publication on the website next week

When coming up with a new package to suit current or, more importantly, new regulation concepts, the front and rear suspension layout is a major topic of discussion in the initial design meetings for every Formula 1 team.

The question of whether to go pushrod or pullrod and what the pros and cons of each system are is an important one. That’s...

Video: MotoGP's season launch wins Simon over!

Simon's sceptical face whenever MotoGP's first ever official season launch event in Bangkok came up in our planning meetings or podcasts suggested he had a few doubts about whether it would work... but he loved it!

Here's his video from the event for our MotoGP social channels, which we've put here on Patreon for you too after the positive feedback last time we did that. 

A surprise chat with four (!) MotoGP champions

What was supposed to a short video chat with 2020 MotoGP champion Joan Mir at the series' Bangkok launch turned into something else entirely when Pecco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo and Marc Marquez all joined in - so we've figured we really should just give you the whole thing in full.

Featuring Marc hilariously telling Fabio off for cracking his knuckles, Marc strongly rejecting the idea of more media sessions and a general vibe of goofing off.

Early access video: How F1's 2026 cars will now be two seconds faster

There may be another year to go before the all-new Formula 1 cars hit the track for the first time, but every team is already well-advanced in work on their 2026 car designs for what some, including Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, call the biggest rules reset in F1 history.

And after a raft of changes to the rules late last year, the 2026 cars are now going to be two seconds faster than expected - as we explain in our latest video, which we're giving you on Patreon a day ahead...

Five things we learned from MotoGP 2025's first pre-season test

Yamaha was the surprise star of MotoGP's first full 2025 pre-season test, leaping up the order to finish the week as Ducati's main rival.

Ducati's new bike looks extremely fast, but the works team has a big dilemma. And its 2024 could be an early-season headache in its satellites' hands.

Here's our latest ad free video going through what we've learned about all of that, Aprilia's week without its injured champion Jorge Martin and Honda's promising but perplexing start.

Yamaha vs Ducati? Our MotoGP test one verdict (ad-free)

Yamaha was the big winner of the first full MotoGP test of 2025, with genuine evidence of a breakthrough over the winter and Fabio Quartararo looking the most likely rider in the field to take the fight to Ducati at the front right now.

Simon Patterson and Val Khorounzhiy join Matt Beer on The Race MotoGP Podcast to look at Yamaha’s progress, the reasons for it and whether that makes it a little race winner or even title challenger or just a firm second best to Ducati.

Which Duc...

🏎 F1 Extra: We debate the drivers YOU think F1 should have taken more seriously

Back in October last year, we presented a list of 10 drivers who never had a shot in frontrunning F1 machinery that we think deserved one.

Off the back of that article you inundated us with feedback and your own suggestions, so much so that we promised a members' podcast on the subject - and here it finally is!

So settle in as Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and Mat...

MotoGP video preview - Simon on Yamaha's great start

A little Patreon bonus for you - here's the raw footage of a section of the video we'll put out at the end of the first test. It's Simon in the Sepang paddock talking about Yamaha's very impressive start to 2025, with a little bit of apologetic gatecrashing from Miguel Oliveira.

Full video available ad-free on Patreon later today, along with our end of test podcast!