More issues revealed by Aston Martin have led to serious concerns over the team's participation in Formula 1's early races.

Ford is back on the F1 grid for the first time in over 20 years, and it's marking the return with a campaign built for the streaming era.

The cars are new, the engines are new, the rules are new, and the pecking order that Lando Norris mastered last season may already be obsolete. A season of unknowns embarks this weekend, March 8, at the Australian Grand Prix.

McLaren's Oscar Piastri finished the first day of the new Formula 1 season in first place after Friday practice at the Australian Grand Prix. The narrative of the weekend so far has been about Aston Martin's plight at the back of the field as much as the fight at the front, following the biggest regulation change in the sport's history.

F1’s presence in the Middle East has previously been affected by the security situation. In 2022, the Grand Prix in Jeddah went ahead despite missile attacks on a nearby oil facility by Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are allied with Iran. In 2011, the Bahrain Grand Prix was cancelled due to unrest during the Arab Spring.

The new F1 season is upon is, and it's a blank canvas in the paddock, where teams have been preparing for the new rulebook. So what has changed?

The Formula 1 movie, called F1 or F1 the Movie depending on the context and marketing, was an enormous success last year and nearly every driver in last year’s grid made an appearance, including seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. Now, it appears Hamilton is coming back for the sequel, probably not called F1 2.

Liberty Media Corp.’s Formula One has seen more than $2 billion wiped off its market value since the Iran war began, as concerns about races in the Middle East weigh on one of the world’s most popular sports.