Alonso Says Honda Engine Gains Won't Decide His Aston Martin Future
Fernando Alonso wants you to believe that whether Honda's new engine is any good or not makes precisely zero difference to his future plans.
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Fernando Alonso wants you to believe that whether Honda's new engine is any good or not makes precisely zero difference to his future plans.
One driver just secured his future to 2030 and probably a house extension to go with it.
Nikita Mazepin is racing again, and he wasted no time reminding everyone why Haas signed him in the first place.
Isack Hadjar's wrist is healing nicely, which is good news for him and mildly inconvenient for Liam Lawson, who had rather enjoyed reminding everyone he still exists.
Lando Norris took pole and won the Dutch Grand Prix for McLaren. His own team boss was not there to see it.
Lando Norris has just told McLaren he's not going anywhere until 2030, and fair enough, why would he leave a team that's just handed him a title and two upgrade-fuelled wins on the bounce?
Lando Norris has just signed away the best part of his career to McLaren, and on paper it looks like a love story.
For months the paddock treated Max Verstappen's contract situation like a soap opera.
Cadillac wants you to believe swapping team bosses mid-season is just sensible evolution.
In this article we take you through the F1 news of Friday 28 August 2026 so you are up to speed again.
Sergio Perez wants you to know he was never going anywhere.
Kimi Antonelli leads the championship, he's Italian, and he's about to start his home race from the back of the grid.
Carlos Sainz has never been shy about telling it straight, and this time the honesty stings.
Charles Leclerc has looked at Mercedes' recent slump, the empty development budget, the two-race losing streak, and decided the sensible thing to do is panic quietly on their behalf.
George Russell can't catch a break.
Ferrari needs a story right now, and it has found two: a new engine it swears will close the gap to Mercedes, and Michael Schumacher's ghost wheeled out in seven-star glory.
Sergio Perez has done something remarkably rare for a Formula 1 driver: put an actual number on his own decline.
Max Verstappen has decided to make peace with F1's hybrid engines, but only in the way you make peace with a dentist's appointment: reluctantly, and counting down the days until it's over.
Everyone else is scrambling to get into Formula 1.
While Stefano Domenicali was busy reassuring everyone at Zandvoort that Formula 1 will finish its season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi exactly as planned, MotoGP appears to have quietly reached the opposite conclusion.