McLaren boss praises Lando Norris' character after Austrian GP triumph.
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella praised Lando Norris’ character after the Briton bounced back from a collision and race retirement in Canada to lead a McLaren 1-2 at the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Jun 30, 2025
The Japan Times

The Italian said Norris still needed "to polish a few things" to become the finished article, however, in a Formula One season that is turning into a two-horse race between Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri for the drivers' title.

Norris had to fend off the Australian to set up Sunday's victory, which came two weeks after a clash with his teammate forced him out in Montreal.

‘Andrea Stella praised Lando Norris’ character’;

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/...praise-norris/


Mark Hughes: Norris bounce back in Austria was spectacular
June 30th 2025
Mark Hughes
Motor Sport Magazine

The McLaren was super-fast around the Red Bull Ring, even by the team’s 2025 standards. Lando Norris was also supremely well-tuned-in to one of his favourite tracks. Those two factors soared his confidence into an upward spiral. The new tweaked front suspension introduced in Montreal was giving him the feedback he felt he’d previously lacked in this car – and it was one of those weekends where no-one got close to him, not in qualifying at least when he was 0.5sec clear of the field.

Team-mate Oscar Piastri could point to not having got his final Q3 lap in because of unfortunately-timed yellow flags (for a spectacular 720-degree Pierre Gasly spin out of the final corner). But run for run, he was always a vital tenth or two behind Norris here.

‘One of those weekends’;

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/a.../?nowprocket=1


"We gave it everything," claims Leclerc after grabbing his fourth podium finish of the season
30 Jun 2025
Balazs Szabo
F1 Technical

Charles Leclerc stated: "I rate our weekend as a team really well. We brought some upgrades which helped us to take a step forward and start closing the gap to McLaren. Unfortunately, they were just faster today. In the first corner, I wanted to close in on Lando (Norris), but that left the door open for Oscar (Piastri) who was able to pass me for second place.”

"I pushed a lot on the first stint and had quite a bit of degradation, but that’s part of the game. We don’t have any regrets today. We gave it everything and extracted the maximum from our race. We will continue to work hard to make more progress with the aim of getting back onto the top step of the podium. That’s our main priority and the whole team deserves it."

"Gave it everything";

https://www.f1technical.net/news/27216


Bernie Ecclestone identifies Ferrari’s biggest ‘problem’ in F1 and makes worrying Lewis Hamilton prediction
29 Jun 2025
Ben Evans
F1 Oversteer

Hamilton has been struggling with bugbears in Ferrari’s 2025 F1 car, but Ecclestone thinks the team’s problems extend far further than that. “I think the problem there is what happened when we changed everything. All the people that are there are in charge. But there was nobody in charge, except everyone!"

"And I think it’s all sort of gone back a little bit that way. It needs one guy, really and truly, there to say, this is how it’s going to be. It’s finding the one guy; they should get Luca [De Montezemolo] back!” Ecclestone was then asked about Vasseur’s job being under threat and continued: “Well, I hope he gets a job done because it’s wrong to keep switching one guy out and another guy because the guy who comes in, he’s not going to be happy with the guy, what he’s been doing, the one that’s leaving. They want to change things, that’s the problem with changing people a little bit at the top.”

Although Hamilton’s initial deal runs until the end of next season, the former F1 supremo simply said, “No,” when asked if he’ll ever become an eight-time world champion. He then continued: “Well, I think, there are periods in everyone’s lives when everything’s going to work well or not work well, and I think he was fortunate enough to be around when, firstly, there wasn’t so much competition, so it was a bit easier. And now, he’s got competitors, which when he was winning everything, he didn’t have too many people at the top of the tree. But I hope, I mean, he still can get the job done, but whether he can win the world championship where he is, it’s a completely different story.”

“There was nobody in charge, except everyone!”;

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/ber...on-prediction/


What Max Verstappen told dad Jos over phone at the Austrian GP will terrify Red Bull after disastrous race
The four-time world champion has had a whirlwind week at the Red Bull ring in Austria.
30 Jun 2025
SPORTbible

Details of Max Verstappen's phone call with his dad Jos immediately after the Austrian Grand Prix have been revealed... ...Jos said: “I have seen a little bit of qualifying. I saw the last lap when he got the yellow flags, but it didn’t look fast enough. I already heard it on the phone, he said, ‘Yeah, it’s just not good enough.'"

Jos then went on to criticise the upgrades: “Ferrari has brought a good update, we know that McLaren are always at the front and who else is in between? Mercedes is kind of in between, and I think the update that Red Bull brought doesn’t make that much of a difference. You can see it in Tsunoda, too; he doesn’t even reach Q2. So yeah, the speed has fallen from there.”

‘Not good enough';

https://www.sportbible.com/f1/max-ve...32678-20250630


Red Bull need to understand cause of Tsunoda’s “horrible” race – Horner
29 Jun 2025
Keith Collantine
RaceFans

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said the team need to get to the bottom of what’s gone wrong for Yuki Tsunoda: “With Yuki, obviously it’s difficult to make progress from starting where he did on the grid and then picking up a penalty as well with Colapinto,” Horner told the official F1 website. “So a horrible race for him today as well. It’s frustrating but we’ll move on quickly to Silverstone. As has often been the case this year, Tsunoda’s lap times appeared to be more competitive earlier in the weekend during free practice. However he failed to make it beyond Q1 for the third time in five race weekends.

“We need to understand with Yuki what’s gone wrong because, certainly [in second and third practice] he was looking okay,” said Horner. “In qualifying, it seemed to fall apart for him. “Then when you’re out of position, you’re down the pack like that, when it’s so tight he’s struggling for confidence. But we’ll work with him, we’ll try and help him through it.”

‘Need to get to the bottom of what’s gone wrong’;

https://www.racefans.net/2025/06/29/...e-race-horner/


Horner after Austrian Grand Prix: 'A weekend to forget'
29 Jun 2025
Julien Lemmen
Verstappen.nl

Team principal Christian Horner reflects after the race: "It was a horrible race for us and desperately unlucky for Max to be taken out at turn 3 when he had done nothing wrong, he had a good start and made good progress. It’s a shame, I don’t think we would have been racing the McLarens today but we would have been racing the Ferraris pretty hard. Unfortunately for us it was a weekend to forget."

'A weekend to forget’;

https://news.verstappen.com/en/article/5870/


Toto Wolff reveals first reaction after costly Kimi Antonelli clash with Max Verstappen stuns Austrian GP
29 June 2025
John Smith
Total Motorsport

“These mistakes happen,” Toto Wolff told reporters, including Total-Motorsport.com, at the Red Bull Ring. “The rears locked on the car. I’m not entirely sure if it was his fault or a system, I didn’t look through the data nor did I hear because we were concentrating on the race but that happens. It’s unfortunate – unfortunate for Max and Red Bull that Kimi hit him. But it’s racing.”

“He came into the garage quickly and I said ‘well that wasn’t great’, which he obviously knew,” admitted Wolff. “But he said the tyres just locked and we need to analyse that. But again, there’s margin for error in our business.” He continued, “It’s a shame that we took another car out with us, but that can happen. It can happen to the great ones, to the inexperienced ones, to the experienced ones. It’s just part of Formula 1.”

“These mistakes happen”;

https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...trian-gp-2025/


'Can't be': Toto Wolff wants Mercedes engineers to stop using one ‘excuse’ after poor Austrian Grand Prix performance
30 June 2025
Rory Mitchell
F1 Oversteer

Wolff was scathing about their performance: “The pace we lacked overall is something you can only scratch your head and understand. There is no excuse for that, we won here last year. Before the two drove into the front of the car, we were 16 seconds behind, today a minute. We know we’ve done a few experiments, but you can’t be that far behind,” said Wolff.

“You can’t always rely on it, but Silverstone has always been a good place for us in recent years. At the moment, a bad performance here in Austria with these temperatures counts and the weather must not always be the excuse.”

'Can't be';

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/tot...x-performance/