Two different triumphs defined Mexico City: a Grand Prix victory for Max Verstappen and a career-changing championship for Kimi Antonelli. Max Verstappen won the Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday, ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli, who secured the drivers’ championship. Formula 1’s provisional classification put Hamilton 0.799 seconds behind Verstappen, with Antonelli 4.006 […]
By The TENS Magazine Editorial Staff Analysis — October 29, 2026 Cadillac has secured something it can carry from one car to the next: the driver who knows how the project began. Sergio Pérez’s new commitment through at least 2029 gives the team a chance to preserve that knowledge while much around him changes. The […]
By The TENS Magazine Editorial Staff Analysis — October 28, 2026 A ninth-place finish could give Kimi Antonelli the world championship in Mexico City. That makes ninth a useful number for the Mercedes pit wall to know. It would make a poor place to aim. The distinction matters as Formula 1 approaches the November 1 […]
By The TENS Magazine Editorial Staff TENS analysis Mexico City gives Formula 1 an awkward bargain: the air that lets a car fly down a straight also makes it harder to keep that car planted and cool. As the paddock heads from Austin to the October 30–November 1 race weekend, the useful question is how […]
By The TENS Magazine Editorial Staff TENS Analysis Mercedes left Austin with the winner’s trophy. Ferrari left with one more point. That small difference is the most useful way to read the Scuderia’s United States Grand Prix: a productive afternoon across both cars, without evidence that it had displaced Kimi Antonelli as the race’s benchmark. […]
By The TENS Magazine Editorial Staff Analysis McLaren is keeping the contest between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri alive. The harder question for Austin is how to keep that contest useful. Permission to race gives both drivers an opportunity; it also asks the pit wall to decide when an internal fight starts costing the team […]
By The TENS Magazine Editorial Staff Charles Leclerc owns the first official benchmark of the Austin weekend. Max Verstappen supplied the warning against treating that benchmark as a settled contest. The distinction between their Friday laps is where the United States Grand Prix becomes interesting: Ferrari has a time that counts, while Red Bull has […]