All you need to know about the teams and drivers in 2026. Pierre Gasly, 29, collected all 22 of Alpine's constructors' championship points in the 2025 season and he is paired once again with Franco Colapinto for what will be his fourth campaign with the French team.

Max Verstappen is reported to be the highest-paid driver in Formula 1 when bonuses are taken into account. His $76 million contract has him as the highest-paid driver, though Sportico rank him in second place behind Hamilton when it comes to the highest-earning F1 drivers of 2025.

Zhou Guanyu has joined Cadillac as its official reserve driver for the team’s 2026 F1 debut after parting ways with Ferrari. China’s first F1 racer spent 2025 in Ferrari’s simulator and TPC programmes after losing his racing seat with Sauber after 2024.

Lando Norris may be F1 champion on the track, but it’s a different story in the race to financial supremacy as the sport’s top ten earners revved up an estimated $363 million in salary and bonuses this year. The battle for the Formula 1 drivers ...

On Christmas Eve’s festive edition of PT, I asked you to vote on F1’s best drivers of 2025. And, unlike Luke and Madeline Coleman in our F1 top 10 drivers feature, you got to point out who did a bad job, too.

With a new era and new teams in Formula 1, we have compiled each driver’s height ahead of the F1 2026 season – given its long history as a talking point in the sport. Two returning favourites and one rookie enter the fray this time around,

Follow live text updates and listen to BBC Radio 5 Live commentary of the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The international Gold Coast 600 event encouraged a number of former F1 drivers to turn their hands to Supercars. Sebastien Bourdais won with Jamie Whincup in 2011 and 2012, with former Ferrari ace Mika Salo winning with Will Davison for Ford Performance Racing in 2012.