Lando Norris on missed opportunity in Baku: "I don't really care how people look at it"

It's that time of year again. The F1 circus is off sunning itself on its mid-summer break, drivers and teams alike are taking a much-needed and well-deserved breather from the frenetic nature of one grand prix after another - and everybody seems to be talking about who will be driving where in 2010. Here at Crash.net there is no exception, so we have put together a list of likely options and moves between this season and next, who is in favour and who is likely heading out of the door. The drivers have been listed in order of present championship position.

Global music superstars Beyonce, The Black Eyed Peas, Simple Minds, ZZ Top and N.E.R.D have all been lined up by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to rock the weekend of the Singapore Grand Prix next month - though ticket sales for the island city-state's second race are still struggling to get off the starting grid.

BMW has dropped hints that it may be willing to follow fellow German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz in supplying 'customer' versions of its engines to other F1 teams - with suggestions the Bavarian marque has Red Bull Racing as its prime target.

Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally underlining that it will only be workable if it is embraced by all.

“For a P8 or a P9 it’s not going to be a big talking point.”

Lewis Hamilton left disappointed by Ferrari's poor performance in Baku.

Was the Azerbaijan Grand Prix a big missed opportunity for Lando Norris?

British Touring Car Championship leader Tom Ingram was invincible in the second race of the penultimate round at Silverstone.The 2022 champion started his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback from seventh on the grid, the only driver in the top 10 on the soft option Goodyear tyres, and also had a surfeit of TOCA Turbo Boost over the half-dozen in front of him on the grid.Ingram was ...Keep reading

Mercedes nearly had to call upon Valtteri Bottas in Baku.

Lando Norris has rubbished suggestions that he has missed an opportunity to significantly close down the gap to Formula 1 world hampionship leader Oscar Piastri in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Norris finished seventh in Baku meaning he is now 25 points behind McLaren team-mate and title rival Piastri, who crashed on the opening lap to cap off a mistake-riddled weekend. The Baku event ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton failed to follow a Ferrari team order to swap positions with Charles Leclerc in Baku.

Charles Leclerc was left frustrated after team-mate Lewis Hamilton failed to hand back a position at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, although slow communication by the Ferrari Formula 1 team appeared to be the main culprit.Leclerc was fighting Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda for fifth in the closing stages of the Baku street race until he was passed by McLaren's Lando Norris. With Leclerc ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen moves level with Lewis Hamilton in key F1 milestone after Baku win.

Charles Leclerc was left frustrated after team-mate Lewis Hamilton failed to hand back a position at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, although slow communication by the Ferrari Formula 1 team appeared to be the main culprit.Leclerc was fighting Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda for fifth in the closing stages of the Baku street race until he was passed by McLaren's Lando Norris. With Leclerc ...Keep reading

Few people would have had Max Verstappen, George Russell and Carlos Sainz on their bingo card for the podium positions in Azerbaijan.The strong winds blowing off the Caspian Sea had threatened to unsettle all the F1 cars during the weekend. But it was the winds of fortune that blew in on qualifying and race day to utterly disrupt McLaren. The team, so sure-footed throughout this dominant ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri will not carry his unserved jump start penalty into the next race in Singapore.

Oscar Piastri explains his error-strewn Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend

Oscar Piastri was left rueing a mistake-riddled Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend after the Formula 1 championship leader crashed out on the opening lap.Piastri locked up into the Turn 4 barrier after an already poor start, as the McLaren driver dropped from ninth to last having stopped at race start trying to rectify his jumping of the lights. But all weekend Piastri hasn’t had it easy. He ...Keep reading