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Max Verstappen's 2026 season, measured: no wins in fifteen rounds, then two in a row
Max Verstappen went fifteen rounds of 2026 without a win and retired four times, then won at Sepang and Singapore on consecutive weekends. Every race, every retirement, and what he said on the radio.
Lewis Hamilton's 2026 season, measured: the first Ferrari win, and points in 16 of 17 races
Lewis Hamilton won for Ferrari in Barcelona, 686 days after his previous victory, has scored in every race of 2026 but one, and gambled his way to a podium at Sepang. Every race, and what he said on the radio.
Kimi Antonelli's 2026 season, measured: eight wins, six poles and two races that got away
Kimi Antonelli has won eight of the seventeen Grands Prix of 2026 and leads the championship by 102 points at 20, with the title possible in Austin. Every race, where he started and finished, the two he lost, and what he said on the radio.
Every 2026 F1 circuit, drawn by the car itself
Fourteen maps of every Formula 1 track raced in 2026, each drawn from a real qualifying lap's position data rather than traced. Top speeds, slowest corners and the circuits that never drop below 100 km/h.
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.
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.