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Every F1 companion app compared, including ours
Live timing, team radio, telemetry, widgets and fantasy, across the apps F1 fans actually use in 2026. What each one costs, which platforms it runs on, and what it genuinely does. We make one of them, and we say so.
We counted every word of F1 radio this season. "Box box" was said five times.
Every broadcast team radio line of 2026, counted. Thank you appears 121 times, well done 69, mate 67. The most famous phrase in Formula 1 radio was said five times all season.
F1 broadcast 636 radio messages this season. A quarter of them were Mercedes.
We counted every team radio message Formula 1 broadcast in 2026. Kimi Antonelli has been played 85 times, Yuki Tsunoda and Lance Stroll four each, and the gap tracks the championship more closely than it tracks anything else.
Baku's reputation is chaos. Five races of team radio disagree.
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix averages 89 broadcast radio messages a race against 112 across every circuit, 14th of 16. The chaos is real, but it sits almost entirely in two seasons.
F1's 2027 calendar has 10 sprints. We measured the overtaking at every one.
The full 2027 calendar, from Bahrain on 14 March to Abu Dhabi on 12 December, plus our own measurement of the ten sprint venues. Two of them are the hardest places to pass in Formula 1.
Madrid had 9 overtakes in 57 laps. We checked every one.
The first Madring race produced 9 on-track passes, the fewest of 2026 outside Monaco. Two came from Verstappen running off, three were on cars that retired soon afterwards. Every pass explained, the trains that never broke, and what changes for 2027.
Singapore GP 2026 preview: the first Marina Bay sprint and a pole forecast
Singapore hosts its first sprint on 9 to 11 October, the last sprint of 2026. Session times in Singapore time, our 1:31.8 to 1:32.1 pole forecast, the last three races and what the 2025 radio tells you to listen for.
Bahrain GP at Sepang preview: session times and a pole forecast from 2017
The 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix runs at Sepang in Malaysia on 4 October, as a day race. Session times in Malaysian time, and our forecast of a 1:31.6 pole from how 2026 cars compare with 2017 at unchanged circuits.
Azerbaijan GP preview: Baku's 2026 pole could be slower than its lap record
We forecast the 2026 Baku pole at 1:43.9 to 1:44.5, slower than the race lap record Leclerc set in 2019. Session times for the first Saturday race in Baku, the last three winners and what to watch.
Spanish GP team radio: Norris says McLaren should have won
Norris said McLaren deserved to win "quite easily", Hamilton lost his brakes on lap 6, Russell asked why Mercedes were not trying to win, and Ferrari kept Leclerc out hoping something would happen. Every radio message from the first Madrid race.
Spanish GP Results: Antonelli Wins the First Madring Race
Kimi Antonelli won the first Grand Prix at the Madring by 4.351 seconds from Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, after a Virtual Safety Car stop and 32 laps chasing Charles Leclerc. Full results, penalties and retirements.
Spanish GP Qualifying: Norris Takes the First Madring Pole by 0.011s
Norris beat Antonelli to the first Madring pole by 11 thousandths. We predicted the pole time from Friday practice and missed by 0.014 seconds. Full results, grid penalty and the radio.