Edd Straw

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The details that made Verstappen's pole so incredible

Max Verstappen isn’t sure if his latest pole position ranks as the best of his 41 in Formula 1 - but a closer look confirms it was a genuine all-timer of a lap.

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What wrecked Tsunoda's debut Red Bull qualifying

Why did Yuki Tsunoda's strong early Japanese GP weekend pace end in a disappointing Q2 exit on his Red Bull debut?

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A detailed analysis of Tsunoda's first day in Red Bull's 2025 F1 car

Edd Straw goes in-depth on Yuki Tsunoda's driving and radio feedback to assess his first day as Max Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate

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How Verstappen's first Red Bull victim is helping Tsunoda

Few F1 drivers understand the challenge Yuki Tsunoda faces in going up against Max Verstappen after his Red Bull promotion. Fortunately, one of his closest allies already has first-hand experience

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The minuscule tweak that could transform Doohan's F1 prospects

Jack Doohan's career as a full-time F1 race driver hasn't started well if you look at the results. But it's a very different story if you look at his driving in the broader sense

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Why a McLaren weakness is hurting Norris much more than Piastri

Why is a McLaren weakness hurting Lando Norris more than Oscar Piastri at the start of the 2025 F1 season? Edd Straw explains

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Living up to the hype? How Antonelli's F1 career has really started

None of this year's rookies came in with so much hype - so has Kimi Antonelli delivered on it during his first two races? Edd Straw gives his take

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Why F1 is suddenly wavering over its 2026 engine revolution

Formula 1 heralded its 2026 rules as a "robust" new era when six manufacturers originally signed up. So why are those rules now potentially heading for the bin?

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Red Bull's entire F1 driver system is failing

Red Bull's 2025 driver choice disaster shows it needs to totally re-evaluate its strategy from its top team to its junior picks

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11 things we learned from F1's Chinese GP weekend

Here's what we learned from a Chinese Grand Prix weekend that proved surprisingly storied

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Edd Straw's 2025 Chinese Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

Oscar Piastri got his F1 2025 championship challenge back on track with a very impressive Chinese GP weekend - but was he the standout of the 20-driver grid at Shanghai?

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'A joke' - Ferrari angered by F1 radio of Hamilton-Leclerc swap

Ferrari has branded Formula 1's use of radio messages "a joke" and a deliberate attempt to stir up drama over how it swapped Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in the Chinese GP

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Edd Straw: Trackside view badly exposes Lawson's deficit

Liam Lawson charged into view on his first flying lap of the Chinese GP weekend and, for a moment, looked faster than Red Bull F1 team-mate Max Verstappen. What followed proved he's facing a tough weekend

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Alpine first to admit changes for wing rule, McLaren points at others

McLaren insists it was not the worst offender in triggering Formula 1's ‘mini-DRS' clampdown, as Alpine became the first team to admit on Friday that it has had to make changes to its rear wing

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Legendary F1 team owner Eddie Jordan dies aged 76

Eddie Jordan, the last of the truly successful independent Formula 1 team owners and one of the most charismatic figures ever to grace grand prix racing, has died at the age of 76

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How an impossible F1 2025 job really started

It would be easy to conclude Jack Doohan's unenviable job of holding onto his Alpine F1 seat started miserably in Australia. But that's not the case, as Edd Straw explains

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Everything we learned from F1's 2025 season opener

Nine things we learned from Formula 1's 2025 season-opener at the Australian Grand Prix

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Edd Straw's 2025 Australian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

Weekend-wrecking errors by drivers across the F1 experience range weigh heavily in Edd's Melbourne judgements

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A 'crash course' with no confidence - Hamilton on his Ferrari debut

Lewis Hamilton said a "crash course" in finding out how to drive his Ferrari Formula 1 car in the wet left him grateful to just make it to the finish of the Australian Grand Prix

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Piastri's reaction to spinning Australia podium away

How McLaren Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri reacted to spinning away a podium on home soil at the Australian Grand Prix

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McLaren's real F1 advantage may be smaller than this

McLaren downplayed its pre-season testing advantage, then smashed everyone in the first qualifying session of 2025 - but is that misleading? Edd Straw takes a closer look

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Edd Straw's trackside verdict on every car at F1 2025 opener

Friday's first day of running at the Australian Grand Prix was obviously the most meaningful comparison of all 10 F1 cars so far in 2025. Here's what Edd Straw made of them all

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What we've learned at F1's Australian GP already

The Australian Grand Prix weekend is up and running - and so too is the F1 season. Here are the main takeaways from day one in Melbourne

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Red Bull commits to new floor despite testing problems

Red Bull is committing to its new floor for Formula 1's season opening Australian Grand Prix, despite the doubts it had with it in Bahrain testing

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Newey's first 10 days: 'The Adrian effect' Aston Martin's already seen

Aston Martin says it's already feeling "the Adrian effect" from tech guru Adrian Newey as he begins to work on the team's 2026 F1 car

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F1 Podcast: Is Verstappen's downbeat Red Bull prediction correct?

We look ahead to the Australian Grand Prix, and discuss home hero Oscar Piastri’s new McLaren deal,  in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast

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F1 Tech Show: Where the top four teams' 2025 cars differ

The new season of The Race F1 Tech Show kicks off with a look Formula 1’s big four and the directions they have taken with their 2025 cars

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How F1's reacting to Las Vegas GP ticket sales letdown

The second Las Vegas Grand Prix didn't produce the ticket sales F1 hoped it would. Here's what it's doing to fix that in 2025

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Ferrari's other big Mercedes signing - and how he's helped Hamilton

Jerome d’Ambrosio may be the lowest-profile of the Ferrari's trio of recruits from Mercedes, but he may have a very big long term impact

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What Williams can learn from its last great F1 leap forward

The 2026 rule change provides an opportunity for a Williams team which has excelled in similar circumstances before, like in 2014. But the slump that followed that year provides a warning, too

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How each 2025 F1 car handles - Our trackside analysis

Our team-by-team rundown of how each 2025 F1 design behaves on track

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Everything we learned from 2025 F1 pre-season testing

Here’s what we learned from Bahrain F1 pre-season testing where we’ve spent hours trackside, analysed hundreds of laps, and heard from all the teams and drivers over the three days of action

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Edd Straw's trackside view of F1 testing's unlikely pacesetter

Williams topping F1 testing is obviously misleading - but that doesn't mean there's not plenty for it to be optimistic about, according to Edd Straw's trackside impressions

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Edd Straw's trackside verdict on every 2025 F1 car

Day one of F1 2025 testing is done. How did every car look in Bahrain? Edd Straw gives his view from the track

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Why Red Bull's real 2025 F1 car looks so similar to last year's

The Red Bull 2025 car that has begun its Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain is "fundamentally" what the team will run at the start of the season, according to team boss Christian Horner

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The change that's helped Haas fix a fundamental F1 flaw

The contrasting case studies of two upgrade packages introduced one year apart is proof of how Haas has overcome a fundamental F1 flaw

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Aston Martin's last pre-Newey F1 car matters more than you think

Aston Martin is eyeing 2026, not 2025, to realise its ambitions - with Adrian Newey arriving and Honda becoming a works engine partner. So why should you care about what it does this year?

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What Piastri needs to do to fulfil his bold F1 title claim

Oscar Piastri's 2025 target is clear: to win the F1 drivers' title. But is he ready? And what does he need to improve to accomplish this feat?

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Awkward Doohan debut exposes his impossible F1 2025 position

Were anyone sceptical of the looming threat to Jack Doohan’s Alpine seat posed by the recruitment of Franco Colapinto, his first media appearance of 2025 in a press conference ahead of the F1 75 launch event in London demonstrates Australian rookie is in an impossible situation

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What we learned from an ambitious Williams 2025 F1 car launch

Here's seven things we learned from Williams's ambitious 2025 F1 car launch