Barely a day after Charles Leclerc’s new contract at Ferrari was formally announced, McLaren now has its long-time Formula 1 prospect Lando Norris locked into what it’s describing as a “long-term” agreement – like Leclerc’s, the end point in undisclosed. What we do know is McLaren’s line-up is now set to remain unchanged until at

Quashing rumours of a shock Red Bull switch is one of the motives behind Lando Norris’s new long-term commitment to McLaren’s Formula 1 team. Norris has removed himself from what’s expected to be a very volatile F1 driver market for the next couple of years by signing a new multi-year contract with McLaren. He remains

Two of F1’s best drivers have signed new long-term deals on the eve of the 2024 season that have more wide-reaching consequences than both of them staying put might initially suggest. Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc are sticking with the status quo by betting on McLaren and Ferrari respectively, and in doing so are removing

Why are McLaren and Ferrari refusing to reveal how long they’ve secured Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc for in their new long-term Formula 1 driver deals? Does Norris’s new McLaren commitment definitively end the ongoing storyline of whether he’ll eventually join Red Bull? And why are drivers of Norris and Leclerc’s calibre making early commitments

Lando Norris’s new “long-term” McLaren deal oddly does little to change his position in Formula 1’s driver market. Prior to the new contract, the question was whether someone (that someone being Red Bull) might write a big enough cheque to extract him from his McLaren deal. That question is left hanging, albeit extended beyond the

Lando Norris has made a brave call here. But when you talk with the senior people at McLaren, it’s easy to see why the team has inspired such confidence within him; it feels like a team going places, with a vision and a clear idea of how to achieve it. Also it has been his

Even if Formula 1 teams carry over some parts from last year into their 2024 car designs, what really can transform a car are the big items that have to be changed to alter the overall architecture of the car. This includes the chassis, rollover bar structure, side-impact structures, nose, fuel tank location and shape,

Lando Norris’s tacit admission he does not want to go up against Max Verstappen as Red Bull Formula 1 team-mates was honest, rational and, in the eyes of his critics, woefully unambitious. His comments are an easy stick to beat him with. However those doing just that seem to have completely missed the point. This

Legendary Formula 1 race engineer Rob Smedley is our special guest on the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. Smedley joins host Edd Straw and Mark Hughes to delve into the art of engineering in F1 and explain a craft much talked about but not always well understood. This includes a look at the

Is Lando Norris’s candid admission that he doesn’t want to join the “best driver in the world” at Red Bull evidence of his lack of ambition or it is simply the smart attitude to have? That’s the topic of our latest video in which Scott Mitchell-Malm, Ben Anderson and Glenn Freeman debate whether Norris is