F1 In Five

FIA President Mohamed ben Sulayem has confirmed that Formula 1 will have more than one Race Director for the 2025 season after the controversial sacking of Niels Wittich last season.

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Isack Hadjar will make his F1 debut for Racing Bulls in 2025 and has promised to not carry the radio outbursts from his 2024 Formula 2 campaign into the premier class of single-seater racing.

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Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen has explained that he'd love to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans driving alongside Fernando Alonso when he leaves Formula 1 one day. But will it happen?

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The FIA has confirmed that it is tightening the restrictions on "Flexi-wings" part-way through the 2025 Formula 1 season. Here's when this will take effect and who it could impact the most!

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Welcome to the F1 News Zone, the show where we round-up the biggest stories in Formula 1 right now. Formula 1 is officially in its off-season, but there’s plenty of stories going around away from the track that’s setting us up for a very exciting 2025 campaign.

This week, we question whether Formula 1 stewards should be paid after Johnny Herbert’s sacking, we question whether Adrian Newey’s 2026 engine regulation predictions will be correct and the potential cause of Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Testing crash in Barcelona has been revealed. All that, and a whole lot more is coming up in today’s show.

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Adrian Newey has revealed that Red Bull Racing wasn’t concerned about the team’s decining performance through the first half of the 2024 season. It took until the time they dropped to the third-fastest team on the grid for them to react and realise they’d made a mistake.

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Sir Lewis Hamilton crashed his Ferrari during a test in Barcelona on Wednesday and the potential cause of the incident has now been revealed by the team.

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Johnny Herbert has been sacked as an F1 Steward by the FIA before the start of the 2025 season. Herbert has been a controversial figure in F1 due to his alleged biases against certain drivers, most notably, Max Verstappen.

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Aston Martin F1's incoming design chief Adrian Newey predicts that one engine will likely dominate the new era of Formula 1 regulations from the 2026 season. Here are our thoughts.

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Former Ferrari Formula 1 driver Jacky Ickx has suggested that Scuderia Ferrari have signed Sir Lewis Hamilton for the 2025 at least in part for "Marketing Reasons" after it was estimated the first official photo of the seven-time champion in red overalls earned the team's sponsors over half a million dollars.

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