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Round 18 · Austin

United States Grand Prix 2026

Apex against straight speed, Austin FP2: ANT 172.9 and 269.1 km/h, top right of the field.

Practice 2 · United States GP 2026

FP2 DRIVER STATS UNITED STATES

Four FP2 laps at Austin: speed, gap to LEC, pedals and gear; peak speeds are on the trace.

Practice 2 · United States GP 2026

FP2 TELEMETRY UNITED STATES

Ferrari declared 4 updates; Racing Bulls declared 4 updates, each beside its own drawing.

Event preview · FIA · United States GP 2026

FIA United States 26

United States 2026 preview: Circuit of the Americas, 5.513 km, 20 corners, 56 laps.

Event preview · United States GP 2026

Preview United States 26

Round 17 · Marina Bay

Singapore Grand Prix 2026

Eleven F1 pit crews, median and 90th-percentile stop, 2026: Audi 2nd on one, 6th on the other.

LinkedIn deep dive · Singapore GP 2026

The median hides the slow pit stops

The ten quickest stops of the season to Singapore; Lindblad's 1.99s at Hungary leads.

Race · Singapore GP 2026

SEASON PIT STOPS SINGAPORE

Race energy index, 16 circuits: Marina Bay 3rd easiest at 2.16, behind Monaco and Hungary.

Season · Singapore GP 2026

Energy index Singapore 26

Each team's qualifying gap to the quickest team, 17 rounds of 2026; Mercedes quickest on average.

Season · Singapore GP 2026

Quali pace Singapore 26

Heatmap of every driver's points at each of the 17 rounds of 2026, race and sprint together.

Season · Singapore GP 2026

Anatomy Singapore 26

Drivers' points by round to round 17: Antonelli 340, Russell 238, Hamilton 229, Verstappen 221.

Season · Singapore GP 2026

Championship Singapore

Race top speed in all 17 races of 2026: Singapore 316 km/h by Norris, season high 360 at Barcelona.

Race · Singapore GP 2026

SEASON TOP SPEED SINGAPORE

Average apex speed against average straight speed per driver, Singapore race.

Race · Singapore GP 2026

RACE DRIVER STATS SINGAPORE

Speed, gap, throttle, brake and gear for four drivers on their race average lap at Marina Bay.

Race · Singapore GP 2026

RACE TELEMETRY SINGAPORE

Race top speed per driver at Marina Bay: Russell highest mean, winner Verstappen 11th of 18

Race · Singapore GP 2026

RACE TOP SPEED SINGAPORE

Nineteen race launches from standstill to 200 km/h, split at 50 and 100 km/h

Race · Singapore GP 2026

RACE START SINGAPORE

Every driver's counted race laps at Marina Bay as a distribution, quickest mean first.

Race · Singapore GP 2026

RACE PACE SINGAPORE

Singapore 2026 race classification: Verstappen wins from pole, 7.335 s ahead of Leclerc.

Race · Singapore GP 2026

RACE RESULT SINGAPORE

Twenty-one Sprint launches on one clock, split at 50, 100 and 200 km/h

Sprint · Singapore GP 2026

SPRINT START SINGAPORE

Singapore Sprint 2026 result: Verstappen wins from pole, Hamilton 2nd, Leclerc 3rd; 9 retirements.

Sprint · Singapore GP 2026

SPRINT RESULT SINGAPORE

Every driver's counted Sprint laps at Marina Bay as a distribution, quickest mean first.

Sprint · Singapore GP 2026

SPRINT PACE SINGAPORE

Our model's five dry race strategies at Singapore: soft then hard, one stop, is quickest.

Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

RACE STRATEGY SINGAPORE

Each driver's Singapore qualifying lap coloured by gear; Norris spends most in eighth.

Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

QUALI GEAR & THROTTLE SINGAPORE

Three ranked bar charts of each driver's sectors on their fastest qualifying lap

Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

QUALI SECTORS SINGAPORE

Average apex speed against average straight speed per driver, Singapore qualifying.

Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

QUALI DRIVER STATS SINGAPORE

Speed, gap, throttle, brake and gear for VER, LEC, ANT and NOR on one Marina Bay lap.

Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

QUALI TELEMETRY SINGAPORE

Singapore 2026 qualifying: Verstappen on pole by 0.054s, every driver with Q1-Q3 times.

Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

QUALI RESULT SINGAPORE

Each driver's SQ lap at Marina Bay coloured by gear, with their share of the lap in each gear.

Sprint Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

SQ GEAR & THROTTLE SINGAPORE

Our model's five Sprint strategies at Singapore: no stop, soft just ahead of the hard.

Sprint Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

SPRINT STRATEGY SINGAPORE

Three ranked bar charts of each driver's sectors on their fastest sprint qualifying lap

Sprint Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

SQ SECTORS SINGAPORE

Average apex speed against average straight speed per driver, Singapore sprint qualifying.

Sprint Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

SQ DRIVER STATS SINGAPORE

Speed, gap to Verstappen, throttle, brake and gear for VER, RUS, LEC and PIA over one Marina Bay lap

Sprint Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

SQ TELEMETRY SINGAPORE

Singapore 2026 sprint qualifying: Verstappen on pole by 0.120s, every driver with SQ1-SQ3 times.

Sprint Qualifying · Singapore GP 2026

SQ RESULT SINGAPORE

FP1 Singapore: the three sectors of each driver's fastest lap, ranked sector by sector.

Practice 1 · Singapore GP 2026

FP1 SECTORS SINGAPORE

Marina Bay FP1: apex speed vs straight speed per driver; Russell and Piastri fast on both.

Practice 1 · Singapore GP 2026

FP1 DRIVER STATS SINGAPORE

Four FP1 laps at Marina Bay: speed, gap to RUS, pedals and gear; peak speeds are on the trace.

Practice 1 · Singapore GP 2026

FP1 TELEMETRY SINGAPORE

Mercedes declared 2 updates (front wing, endplate); Red Bull 2 (front wing, rear wheel bodywork).

Event preview · FIA · Singapore GP 2026

FIA Singapore 26

Marina Bay energy: 9 MJ race recharge, Alt 2 sectors and five straight mode zones.

Event preview — energy · Singapore GP 2026

Energy Singapore 26

Drivers' points over 16 rounds; Antonelli leads by 84 with 7 rounds left.

Event preview · news and the stat · Singapore GP 2026

Storylines Singapore 26

Singapore GP history cover: first run 2008, 16 editions, 2 seasons missed, 8 winners.

Event preview — historical · Singapore GP 2026

History Singapore 26

Singapore 2026 weather forecast: hourly air, modelled track and rain; each session's rain chance.

Event preview — weather · Singapore GP 2026

Weather Singapore 26

Singapore 2026 sprint weekend preview: F1's circuit map of Marina Bay, 4.927 km, 19 corners.

Event preview · Singapore GP 2026

Preview Singapore 26

Round 16 · Kuala Lumpur

Bahrain Grand Prix 2026

Speed-trap gain from running under 1 s behind another car, per driver and race, 2026 rounds 1-16.

LinkedIn deep dive · Bahrain GP 2026

Top speed measures the car ahead

Heatmap of every driver's points at each of the 16 rounds of 2026, race and sprint together.

Season · Bahrain GP 2026

Anatomy Malaysia 26

Drivers' points by round to round 16: Antonelli 320, Russell 236, Hamilton 214, Leclerc 191.

Season · Bahrain GP 2026

Championship Malaysia

Ten quickest DHL pit stops at Sepang: Verstappen 2.09s leads, the top ten spans 0.17s.

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE PIT STOPS MALAYSIA

Bar chart of places each driver took on track at Sepang 2026; Leclerc most with 15.

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE OVERTAKES MALAYSIA

Race classification at Sepang 2026: Verstappen wins from pole, 2.307 s ahead of Antonelli.

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE RESULT MALAYSIA

Race top speed in all 16 races of 2026: Sepang 351 km/h by Gasly, season high 360 at Barcelona.

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

SEASON TOP SPEED MALAYSIA

Every driver's counted race laps at Sepang as a distribution, quickest mean first.

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE PACE MALAYSIA

Race top speed per driver at Sepang: Norris highest mean, winner Verstappen lowest of 21

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE TOP SPEED MALAYSIA

Seventeen launches at Sepang ranked with their tyre, split at 50, 100 and 200 km/h

Race · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE START MALAYSIA

Every driver's tyre sets for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang, as published by F1, in provisional grid order, each bar split into soft, medium and hard, new and used: VER 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 1 new hard; HAM 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 1 used medium, 2 new hard; ANT 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; LEC 2 new soft, 2 used soft, 1 used medium, 1 new hard; NOR 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; PIA 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; RUS 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; HAD 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; GAS 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; BOR 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 1 used medium, 2 new hard; LAW 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; ALO 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; SAI 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; STR 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; HUL 3 new soft, 1 used soft, 1 used medium, 2 new hard; BEA 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; OCO 1 new soft, 3 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; ALB 2 new soft, 2 used soft, 1 new medium, 2 new hard; BOT 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 2 new medium, 2 new hard; PER 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 2 new medium, 2 new hard; COL 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 2 new medium, 2 new hard; LIN 1 new soft, 2 used soft, 2 new medium, 2 new hard.

Qualifying · Bahrain GP 2026

RACE STRATEGY MALAYSIA

Three ranked bar charts, one per sector, showing the sectors of each driver's own fastest qualifying lap at Sepang. Verstappen leads sector 1 with 24.609 and sector 3 with 39.016; Hamilton leads sector 2 with 31.201. Bars start from a baseline just under the field rather than at zero, and each sector is scaled on its own; a team's second driver is hatched.

Qualifying · Bahrain GP 2026

QUALI SECTORS MALAYSIA

A scatter plot of average apex speed against average straight speed in Sepang qualifying, one dot per driver in the team's colour with the driver code beside it, and a crosshair at the field mean of 148.7 km/h through the corners and 272.4 km/h down the straights. The two Red Bulls sit fast in a straight line and below the McLarens, Mercedes and Ferraris through the corners; Hamilton has the highest apex average, and the Aston Martins the lowest straight averages.

Qualifying · Bahrain GP 2026

QUALI DRIVER STATS MALAYSIA

Five stacked telemetry panels for Verstappen, Hamilton, Antonelli and Norris over one lap of Sepang: speed, the gap to Verstappen, throttle, brake and gear, with corner and sector markers running through all of them. Under the gap panel, each driver's gap at every timing loop is written out. The speed at every peak and valley is written on the speed trace, quickest driver first in km/h and the others as the difference to them.

Qualifying · Bahrain GP 2026

QUALI TELEMETRY MALAYSIA

Qualifying classification for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia at Sepang. Max Verstappen takes pole with 1:35.130, 0.298 seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton, with eight cars inside a second of pole. All 22 drivers are listed with their Q1, Q2 and Q3 times, their gap to pole, and how far each eliminated driver missed the cut; Colapinto and Lindblad reached Q2 but set no time there.

Qualifying · Bahrain GP 2026

QUALI RESULT MALAYSIA

Minisector dominance map of Sepang for third practice at the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, the quickest driver of each of the four quickest teams. The lap is cut into 25 minisectors and each is coloured and labelled for whoever was fastest through it: VER 10, ANT 9, LEC 5, NOR 1. ANT 1:36.302, VER 1:36.580 and LEC 1:37.016 on the soft, NOR 1:37.161 on the medium.

Practice 3 · Bahrain GP 2026

Practice 3 Dominance

Long run pace at Sepang FP2: a box plot per driver ranked by average, with every lap drawn as a dot in its tyre's colour and each stint's lap count and average beside it. Leclerc leads on 1:44.458 on the soft, Antonelli second on 1:44.480 over a soft and a medium stint.

Practice 2 · Bahrain GP 2026

Each driver's fastest lap in FP2 at Sepang against their ideal lap, their own three best sectors added up, for 22 drivers. Leclerc set the fastest lap, 1:37.528, and also the best ideal lap, 1:37.453. Hadjar was second at 1:37.627. Colapinto left the most on the table, 0.578 s. 8 of 22 drivers set all three of their best sectors on one lap, and 7 change rank between the two orders: Russell rises from 7th to 4th, Piastri drops from 6th to 8th.

Practice 2 · Bahrain GP 2026

The full driver stats table for Sepang FP2: lap time, top and minimum speed, start-to-end delta, full throttle share, corner count, average corner and straight speed, and the slow, medium and high-speed averages for all 22 drivers. Leclerc is quickest on 1:37.528.

Practice 2 · Bahrain GP 2026

Telemetry of the fastest lap of the quickest driver at each of the four quickest teams in second practice at Sepang: speed, the gap to LEC where a rising line means losing time, throttle, brake and gear, all against distance around the lap. The gap at each timing loop: End S1 HAD -0.29, NOR -0.26, RUS -0.16; End S2 HAD -0.53, NOR -0.15, RUS -0.02; Line HAD +0.10, NOR +0.14, RUS +0.49. The speed at every peak and valley is written on the speed trace, quickest driver first in km/h and the others as the difference to them.

Practice 2 · Bahrain GP 2026

Each driver's fastest lap in FP1 at Sepang against their ideal lap, their own three best sectors added up, for 22 drivers. Verstappen set the fastest lap, 1:37.520, and it was also his ideal lap and the best ideal of the session. Russell was second at 1:37.903. Colapinto left the most on the table, 0.153 s. 17 of 22 drivers set all three of their best sectors on one lap, and only 2 change rank between the two orders: Colapinto and Stroll swap 18th and 19th.

Practice 1 · Bahrain GP 2026

The full driver stats table for Sepang FP1: lap time, top and minimum speed, start-to-end delta, full throttle share, corner count, average corner and straight speed, and the slow, medium and high-speed averages for all 22 drivers. Verstappen is quickest on 1:37.520.

Practice 1 · Bahrain GP 2026

Minisector dominance map of Sepang for first practice at the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, the quickest driver of each of the four quickest teams. The lap is cut into 25 minisectors and each is coloured and labelled for whoever was fastest through it: VER 10, GAS 8, RUS 5, LEC 2. VER 1:37.520, RUS 1:37.903, LEC 1:38.367, GAS 1:38.715, all four on the soft.

Practice 1 · Bahrain GP 2026

Practice 1 Dominance

Power unit elements used by every driver up to the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, against the allowance for the season. Red cells are past the allowance, yellow cells are exactly on it. 29 counts across 8 drivers are past it; Hadjar is past it on all seven elements.

Event preview — FIA · Bahrain GP 2026

FIA Malaysia 26

Storylines cover for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang, Malaysia. Drivers' points through 15 rounds: Andrea Kimi Antonelli 302; George Russell 236; Lewis Hamilton 199; Lando Norris 186. Andrea Kimi Antonelli leads on 302 points with 8 wins, 66 clear, with 8 rounds left.

Event preview · news and the stat · Bahrain GP 2026

Storylines Malaysia 26

Energy carousel cover for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix, held at Sepang in Malaysia, round 16. The FIA recharge ceiling is 9 MJ per lap in the race with overtake active, 8.5 MJ without and 7.5 MJ in qualifying. A map of the circuit marks in red where the race runs the alternative power curve, Alt 1: T4-T7 and T9-T14, 1,950 m of the 5,543 m lap. The overtake detection line (5,110 m) and activation line (5,160 m) sit across the road at the exit of Turn 15. The round runs the FIA's standard format.

Event preview — energy · Bahrain GP 2026

Energy Malaysia 26

History carousel cover for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang, Malaysia, with F1's official circuit map. First run in 1999, 19 editions up to 2017, 8 seasons away since, and 11 different winners.

Event preview — historical · Bahrain GP 2026

History Malaysia 26

Weather cover for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang: forecast air temperature and rainfall hour by hour from Friday to Sunday with the session windows shaded, and the chance of rain for each session. No track temperature is shown because none can be modelled here.

Event preview — weather · Bahrain GP 2026

Weather Malaysia 26

Cover slide for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix preview, held at Sepang in Malaysia, round 16, 2 to 4 October 2026. F1's official circuit map, with the 15 numbered corners, the three sectors, the straight mode zones, the overtake detection and activation points and the speed trap. A 5.543 km lap, 56 race laps, 310.4 km race distance, 15 corners, medium-high downforce, and F1's last race here in 2017.

Event preview · Bahrain GP 2026

Preview Malaysia 26

Round 15 · Baku

Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2026

Scatter of all 11 teams after 15 rounds of 2026: race pace in seconds a lap off the quickest, pit-equated, against championship points. Mercedes 0.223 s and 538 points, Ferrari 0.477 s and 378, McLaren 0.665 s and 306, Red Bull 0.844 s and 263, then Alpine, Racing Bulls, Audi, Haas and Williams between 1.7 and 2.5 s with 12 to 83 points, and Aston Martin and Cadillac at about 3.6 s with 3 and 0. Between Mercedes and Ferrari each tenth of a second is worth about 63 points; between Alpine and Aston Martin, 3.4.

LinkedIn deep dive · Azerbaijan GP 2026

0.255 s a lap, 160 points

Drivers' championship points round by round through round 15 of 2026: Andrea Kimi Antonelli 302, George Russell 236, Lewis Hamilton 199, Lando Norris 186, Charles Leclerc 179. Antonelli leads by 66 with 208 points still to play for.

Season · Azerbaijan GP 2026

Championship Azerbaijan 26

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