All of today's Formula 1 news, collected from international sources. Also check the F1 calendar 2026 and the F1 standings.
Lando Norris will start Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix from deep in the field after McLaren confirmed a 10-place grid penalty for fitting his car with a fourth power electronics unit this season.
RacingNews.TodayMax Verstappen can't quite commit to Red Bull's future, he's been sniffing around McLaren informally, and now he's gone and signed a McLaren junior as his first-ever driver management client.
RacingNews.TodayWhen a manager has to publicly insist, for what feels like the hundredth time, that his client is not leaving, you have to wonder who exactly he is trying to convince.
RacingNews.TodayWhile Max Verstappen struggles to get Red Bull off the line in 2026, the engineer who used to make those starts look effortless has quietly walked out the door and into the competition.
RacingNews.TodayMax Verstappen calls Spa-Francorchamps his favourite circuit on the calendar.
RacingNews.TodayKimi Antonelli leads the 2026 title race, has five wins, and is demonstrably the fastest driver on the grid right now. His biggest threat is not George Russell.
RacingNews.TodayThe mystery is over. Honda has confirmed its upgraded power unit will debut at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort in August.
RacingNews.TodayHelmut Marko has offered the simplest possible defence for his Amsterdam meeting with Verstappen's inner circle: he was there for a family wedding. Tidy, innocent, entirely plausible.
RacingNews.TodayFernando Alonso will sit out FP1 at Spa-Francorchamps this Friday as Jak Crawford takes the wheel of the AMR26 for his third free practice outing of the season.
RacingNews.TodayThe 2026 cars have never turned a competitive lap in the wet. Not once. And now they are heading to Spa-Francorchamps.
RacingNews.TodayThe PR version of Sergio Perez's time at Red Bull was always rather neat: loyal number two, vital team player, five wins.
RacingNews.TodayThe Verstappen-to-McLaren speculation has developed a life of its own.
RacingNews.TodayLando Norris has made no secret of his Le Mans ambitions, but at Goodwood this weekend he did something rather more specific: he named his dream teammate.
RacingNews.TodayMcLaren rocked up to Silverstone without the latest Mercedes power unit, while Alpine and Williams had already taken delivery. The official explanation from McLaren's camp?
RacingNews.TodayHamilton's joke about sneaking into Mercedes' garage to undo bolts was funnier than he perhaps intended.
RacingNews.TodayIf there was any doubt that Red Bull are genuinely preparing for life without Max Verstappen, consider this: the team is reportedly tracking Oliver Bearman as a long-term successor.
RacingNews.TodayOne year since Laurent Mekies replaced Christian Horner at Red Bull, and the Milton Keynes outfit is sitting on a peculiar paradox: a surplus of promising young drivers and a deficit of the one that actually matters.
RacingNews.TodayMercedes has issued its verdict on Kimi Antonelli's Silverstone disaster, and the message is essentially: one small part, catastrophic consequences.
RacingNews.TodayWhen a driver's manager starts using words like 'nonsense' and 'fiction', you know the rumour mill has gone completely off the rails.
RacingNews.TodayMercedes wins seven of the first nine grands prix, and the reward for everyone else? Mercedes gets engine upgrade tokens. You genuinely could not script this.
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