When Codemasters and EA announced F1 24 back in February, they promised an “overhauled career mode” to the excitement of many F1 game fans. Particularly when there hasn’t been a major change to career mode since the inclusion of 'My Team' in F1 2020. Details on the changes have been light until a recent media presentation which shed some light on the new inclusions that set F1 24’s career mode, specifically driver career, apart from previous entries. This year the developers have put greater attention on the challenges F1 drivers face. Such as the battle with their team-mate and how a team’s ..read more

Is Oscar Piastri not quite living up to the hype of his excellent rookie Formula 1 campaign? Is Max Verstappen undervalued - and should you expect him to assert himself even further and break away even more as the season develops? Is Mercedes' faith in George Russell shaken - and should it be? And could Aston Martin ever drop Lance Stroll? This and more in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast, tackling a variety of questions from the Members Club. The Race F1 Podcast is available free to subscribe to from all good podcast suppliers, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. I ..read more

Formula 1's new sprint format posed a new challenge to the Formula 1 teams at the Chinese Grand Prix - but one team got it very wrong in particular. Gary Anderson and Edd Straw review how the teams responded to the new sprint format on the latest episode of The Race F1 Tech Show. There are also listener questions on whether losing a front wing endplate actually loses you any performance, and how teams manage ride heights across low-fuel qualifying and high-fuel race runs. If you'd like your question answered on a future episode of The Race F1 Tech Show, send it to podcasts@the-race.com via a ..read more

The next-generation Formula 1 car for 2026 is getting closer to being finalised and there is a new overtaking aid from the engine that will be part of it. There is a June 2024 deadline to get a first draft of the chassis technical regulations approved and published, to go along with the engine rules that have existed for a couple of years now. F1 will continue with V6 turbo-hybrid engines in 2026 but that undersells the size of the technical challenge faced by the six registered manufacturers: Red Bull Powertrains, Mercedes, Ferrari, Honda, Renault and Audi. What engine every F1 team is us ..read more

Formula 1's points system could change if approval is granted to a new system that would award points to the top 12 finishes in a grand prix. The Race understands the new system will remain the same for the top seven finishers (25-18-15-12-10-8-6) but distribute 5-4-3-2-1 point/s for eighth through 12th places. Reaction from teams and drivers has been split, with the likes of Alpine driver Pierre Gasly saying "if you're not in the top 10 you've just to go work harder", while Haas boss Ayao Komatsu called the proposed new system "clearer for the fans and then for the motivation of everybody wo ..read more

Let's put talk of Mercedes' interest in Max Verstappen - which has left Christian Horner fed up - to one side for a moment. Assuming Verstappen stays put, Red Bull has a five-drivers-for-three-seats conundrum to solve ahead of the 2025 Formula 1 season. We know that's the case thanks to revelations made in the lead up to the Chinese Grand Prix, as Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko acknowledged that the team is talking to Carlos Sainz - and that reserve driver and star 2023 F1 stand-in Liam Lawson has the promise of a drive for next year. Throw in Verstappen's incumbent team-mate Sergio ..read more

The third event at the new Miami Grand Prix circuit will play host to the sixth round of the 2024 Formula 1 season. And for the first time ever Miami will be holding a sprint race, just two weeks on from the debut of the new-for-2024 format in Shanghai. Miami GP timings (May 3-5) Miami is four hours ahead of GMT, and five hours ahead of BST. The sole practice session kicks off the weekend on Friday at 12.30pm local time (5.30pm UK time), followed by sprint qualifying at 4.30pm local time (9.30pm UK time). The sprint race is on Saturday at midday local time (5pm UK time) followed by qualifyin ..read more

Lewis Hamilton’s admission that he mistakenly drove extreme set-up changes at the Chinese Grand Prix is part of Mercedes' Formula 1 team admitting it needs to focus on the basics. Whether at the team’s behest or in the case of Hamilton a driver’s own direction, there have been many instances in the last two-and-a-bit years of Hamilton or sometimes George Russell putting volatile performance swings down to variants of ‘set-up experiments’. It has tended to be Hamilton. For a while that was put down to him helping the team explore its troubled cars’ set-up windows in an attempt to unlock someth ..read more

Formula 1's Chinese Grand Prix had a clear winner, a surprise second-place finisher and a mixed bag of standout and forgettable weekend drives behind. Here's how Edd Straw rates the performances of the field during the Chinese GP weekend: How do the rankings work? The 20 drivers will be ranked in order of performance from best to worst on each grand prix weekend. This will be based on the full range of criteria, ranging from pace and racecraft to consistency and whether they made key mistakes. How close each driver got to delivering on the maximum performance potential of the car will be an e ..read more

Has Formula 1 missed Shanghai? Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm give their take on the first Chinese Grand Prix in five years in The Race F1 Podcast. Though it had a predictable winner, there was plenty to unravel in Max Verstappen's wake. How Lando Norris pulled his drive to second off what went wrong for Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton's miserable grand prix are among the topics tackled, and as ever there are plenty of questions from The Race Members' Club to get our panel thinking. What Fernando Alonso's Saturday penalty means for F1's racing rules and the fractious fallout of the ..read more