Monaco Baby, Penalties Baby

Monaco has always been Formula 1's annual exercise in controlled madness. The streets are narrow. The barriers are close. The yachts are expensive enough to fund several small countries. And every year we are told that qualifying is everything because overtaking is about as easy as parallel parking a cruise ship. Then Monaco 2026 arrived and decided that what the…

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Big Takeaways from the Chinese Grand Prix

The Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit delivered one of those Formula 1 weekends where the narrative changed faster than a Ferrari strategy call. What started as a fairly normal race weekend quickly turned into a historic afternoon, a technical flex from Mercedes, and a reminder that Formula 1 can still produce chaos when it feels like it.…

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Las Vegas: Case of the Vanishing McLaren Points

Las Vegas started off as much of a normal race as one can get, a few enthralling moments, but a relatively by-the-book race. The real fiasco only came after the race ended. Lap 1: Lando Norris Invents a New Form of Self-Sabotage We got to see the return of the reigning bottler champion in Lap 1. As always, Max went…

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Singapore: Death of Papaya Rules

If there was ever a way to spice up a title fight, McLaren delivered it in the first lap under the Singapore lights. Lando Norris, starting from P5, launched a daring move up the inside of Oscar Piastri around Turn 3. Trouble was, Max Verstappen was involved in the mix (yes, of course he was). In trying to dodge or…

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