Friday's press conference from Barcelona with Jose Carabante, Jean-Francois Caubet, Stefano Domenicalli, Mark Gallagher and Adam Parr. read more »
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Pirelli has jumped to the defence of its new hard compound tyre after Lewis Hamilton branded it a disaster on Friday at the Spanish Grand Prix read more »
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Marussia Virgin Racing has yet to decide whether it will race the full upgrade package on Timo Glock’s MVR-02 this weekend, with the squad currently working through data... read more »
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Pirelli’s Motorsport Director Paul Hembery: “One of the main objectives that we have outlined for the new PZero Silver tyre is to provide a bigger read more »
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Having first told GPUpdate.net as much in Barcelona on Thursday, Fernando Alonso has reiterated that Red Bull dominating much of practice is no surprise. The Spanish Ferrari... read more »
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Despite having recorded only the fifth fastest time in Friday's practice, Fernando Alonso believes positives can be taken from the performance... read more »
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Following Friday practice at the Circuit de Catalunya, FIA Race Director Charlie Whiting is heading a meeting in relation to engine mapping, with the Formula 1 governing body... read more »
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Jerome D'Ambrosio, 21st: "I personally had a good day; it was really about analysing different compounds, especially with the new hard tyre that we've been read more »
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Fernando Alonso, 5th: "We tried a lot of new things today and now we must extrapolate the information from all this work and select the read more »
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Nico Rosberg, 6th: "It was a good day in terms of set-up and we learned quite a few things about our car. Of course, it's read more »
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Adrian Sutil, 19th: “I ran with all our new aero parts this morning and in the afternoon, but to be honest we haven’t managed to read more »
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Colin Kolles, Hispania Racing Team Principal: “The timesheet doesn’t look too good today but I’m positive because I know what we have done and I read more »
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Nick Heidfeld, 10th: “What was really interesting today were Pirelli’s new super hard tyres. Although we’ve gained some experience of them... read more »
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Sam Michael, Technical Director: "We went through all of our programme today which included running the new aero parts on both cars at various stages. read more »
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Kamui Kobayashi, 9th: “We have had a really interesting day. In the morning I was busy testing the exhaust, and evaluating the new aero parts. read more »
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Nick Heidfeld admits that he was not expecting such tardy lap times with the new Pirelli tyres in Barcelona on Friday. Practice sessions 1 and 2 gave drivers a first chance to... read more »
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Lewis Hamilton says he expects a challenging race weekend in Spain given the performance of the Pirelli tyres during Friday practice read more »
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Mark Webber, 1st: “The car ran well today; we’ve still got some work to do, but it was one of our better Fridays. It’s read more »
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Lewis Hamilton, 2nd: “It’s difficult to get an accurate read on pace: we stuck to our programme today and didn’t appear to be too far off, read more »
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For Barcelona, Pirelli had modified its Hard compound tyre in order to make it even harder than the previous specification, thus meaning greater variation between the Hard and... read more »
Japanese Grand Prix
29th of March 2026
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| Pos | Driver | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Russell | 51 |
| 2 | Kimi Antonelli | 47 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | 34 |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | 33 |
| 5 | Oliver Bearman | 17 |
| 6 | Lando Norris | 15 |
| 7 | Pierre Gasly | 9 |
| 8 | Max Verstappen | 8 |
| 9 | Liam Lawson | 8 |
| 10 | Arvid Lindblad | 4 |
| Pos | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercedes | 98 |
| 2 | Ferrari | 67 |
| 3 | McLaren | 18 |
| 4 | Haas F1 Team | 17 |
| 5 | Red Bull Racing | 12 |
| 6 | Racing Bulls | 12 |
| 7 | Alpine | 10 |
| 8 | Audi | 2 |
| 9 | Williams | 2 |
| 10 | Cadillac | 0 |