Alex Albon was on the metaphorical Formula 1 scrapheap when Williams picked him up for 2022. He's vindicated that faith with a single-handed performance worth tens of millions of dollars
The 2023 F1 season concluded with a combined young driver/tyre test at Abu Dhabi. But do any of those 'rookies' have prospects of making it? That's the question asked on The Race F1 Podcast
The final race of the 2023 season decided several constructors' championship battles that will have an impact on the crucial aerodynamic testing allowances for early 2024
Two win-less years was not what Lewis Hamilton expected at this end of his incredible F1 career. That was clearly weighing on Hamilton when Mark Hughes heard from him in a very candid end-of-season interview
Esteban Ocon ended the final day of 2023 Formula 1 running fastest for Alpine, with a bridge leak that interrupted the session and a George Russell crash among the talking points in the post-race Abu Dhabi test
Look at the points margin AlphaTauri lost to Williams by in the fight for seventh, and it's easy to see one example where Yuki Tsunoda could've made the difference. But focusing on that ignores the fact AlphaTauri was largely only that close in the first place because of him
There was a feeling of lethargy in the Formula 1 paddock as the 2023 season reached its conclusion in Abu Dhabi. That has to be a warning for 2024 (and beyond) when the championship tackles a record 24 races
Did Charles Leclerc miss some tricks in his effort to use Sergio Perez to make sure Ferrari beat Mercedes to second in the constructors' championship? And if so, was he being sporting or practical?
The circumstances were there for drivers to trip up during F1's season-ending Abu Dhabi GP weekend, but some of them absolutely excelled. Edd Straw ranks the field one final time in 2023
As the Abu Dhabi GP marked the end of the 2023 F1 season, so too some will be hoping it signalled the end of such a one-sided fight at the front. Those in that camp might have faced a grimmer winter though had Max Verstappen and the RB19 been fully unleashed
