Juan Pablo Montoya has opened up on his relationship with Sky Sports F1 legend Martin Brundle, claiming the pair “do not like each other”.

The Colombian driver addressed their frosty dynamic following an awkward encounter during one of Brundle’s famous pre-race grid walks.

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Adrian Newey and F1 stars fund life-saving operation

Adrian Newey and McLaren CEO Zak Brown have shown their generosity by helping fund a life-saving operation for a fellow racing legend.

The actions of Newey, Brown, and other F1 figures including drivers Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez highlight the close-knit community which still exists within the sport.

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‘Horny’ fish cause chaos at McLaren factory

McLaren had to deal with an incredibly unique issue at their Woking headquarters after a carp breeding frenzy caused disruption.

The team’s famous Technology Centre, originally designed under the watchful eye of Ron Dennis, features a massive artificial lake.

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Brundle details brutal reality of Monaco as ‘blood pours’

The Monaco Grand Prix is famously one of the most glamorous events on the calendar, but Martin Brundle has revealed the terrifying physical reality of driving the circuit.

As the sport gears up for its return to the Principality next week, the 66-year-old former racer explained just how punishing the tight street track is inside the cockpit.

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Jos Verstappen takes down Steiner with mic drop post

Jos Verstappen launched a brutal attack on former Haas team principal Guenther Steiner.

Steiner had criticised four-time world champion Max Verstappen, but Jos responded with a withering takedown.

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An insider, who has spoken to Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff, has revealed just how long the chief has been hyping up Kimi Antonelli’s championship winning potential.

Antonelli was ushered into F1 quite suddenly for a junior driver, having bypassed Formula 3 entirely and finishing the 2024 Formula 2 championship in sixth.

Having endured a rocky European part of the 2025 campaign, there were question marks over whether Antonelli had been promoted too soon. But Wolff retained confidence in his young driver and the Italian’s performances began to improve by the close of the year.

Now, Antonelli sits 43 points ahead of team-mate George Russell, after claiming four consecutive victories in the past four rounds, with the Brit claiming it’s ‘his championship to lose’.

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Wolff: Antonelli will become a great champion

While Antonelli was certainly aided by Russell’s DNF to earn such a huge deficit in the drivers’ standings, the youngster has nonetheless started to live up to the hype surrounding him throughout his junior career.

In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italian entrepreneur Brunello Cucinelli talked all things sport, and revealed a conversation he had with Wolff about young Antonelli.

First, Cucinelli outlined Wolff’s difficulties with pasta, and explained: “I have a wonderful relationship with Toto Wolff: he loves pasta, but it’s bad for him, so I send him pasta made with more refined grains.”

He then added how long Wolff has been celebrating Antonelli as a future world champion, and added: “Already five or six years ago, he was telling me: ‘I have a little gem in my hands, he’ll become a great champion.’

“He [Wolff] has another great quality: he’s always joking and laughing. As long as they don’t make him angry.”

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Is it time McLaren F1 team invested in their own bug? Perhaps so after their recent tyre strategy disaster at the Canadian Grand Prix.

This was, somewhat, the topic on a recent episode of the High Performance Racing podcast, where Jake Humphrey, former F1 engineer Rob Smedley and ex F1 boss Otmar Szafnauer descended further into madness (in the best possible sense).

The trio were occupied with the fallout from last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, where wet conditions opened up a variety of tyre strategies for the race start. While teams like Mercedes and Ferrari opted for the slick tyres, McLaren made the bold choice to start on the intermediates.

This was in the event further rain would fall and, if proven correct, could have made the team look like heroes. What transpired, however, was a rapidly drying track and no further rain, a fact Oscar Piastri conveyed to his team on the formation lap.

It was a miserable outing for McLaren in the end, with Piastri finishing P11 after hitting Alex Albon and earning himself a 10-second time penalty, while Lando Norris retired with a gearbox failure.

What’s this all got to do with a bug? Let Otmar Szafnauer explain…

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How a bug was used to predict the weather

After discussing McLaren’s tyre strategy blunder, Szafnauer then revealed the unique way in which his former colleague and F1 designer Akio Haga predicted the weather.

Haga has worked in F1 for over two decades, beginning at Jordan in 1998 before it became Spyker and then Force India in 2008, where he was their chief designer.

He then moved to Aston Martin as their chief designer in 2021, later moving into the role of head of trackside liaison and eventually moving across to Aston Martin Performance Technologies as their chief designer.

Szafnauer himself joined Force India in 2009, where he worked alongside Haga, and asked Smedley whether he knew about his race strategy trick – which included a June bug, a matchbox and a weather forecast.

“Was Akio Haga at Jordan when you were there? Akio used to have this little June bug in an old matchbox. And if the June bug was on its back, that meant it was going to rain. And if it wasn’t, it wasn’t raining,” he explained.

Szafnauer then paused so Smedley could get his laughter out, before he asked Szafnauer if the story was real and then if the bug was alive.

To this both Szafnauer and Humphrey delivered a passionate ‘yes’, and the former team boss continued: “So you’d have Mediachance information and Akio Haga information. And then the two of them together.

When asked which was more accurate, Szafnauer said straight-faced: “Akio’s bug.”

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