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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.
What does box box mean in F1? We counted every pit call in 37,359 radio messages
Everyone knows the phrase as box box box. The radio says otherwise: nearly three quarters of real pit calls say the word exactly once, and the busiest session for pit calls is not the race.
You can watch a race engineer change hands in the radio archive
Drivers address their race engineer by first name, so the archive quietly records who was in whose ear. Two of those pairings begin and end inside our data, and you can see both happen.
Every F1 circuit has its own vocabulary, and we measured it
Drivers at Monaco say tunnel twenty two times more often than drivers anywhere else. Shanghai says holes. Austria says deleted. Every circuit leaves a fingerprint in the radio.
Spanish GP preview: the first race at a circuit nobody has driven
We predicted the Madring pole time from Friday practice. It was 1:31.824, 0.014 seconds off. Here is the grid, the penalties and what to watch in the race.
What banking actually does to an F1 corner, measured
At Zandvoort's final corner an F1 car never lifts. At Monza's Parabolica, on identical machinery, the driver backs off to 68% throttle. The difference is 18 degrees of banking.
Which F1 driver swears the most on team radio? We counted 37,359 messages
One broadcast radio message in 53 contains something the transcript has to censor. Three in four of them come from the driver, and the sweariest session is not the race.