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Australian Jack Doohan has won praise from Alpine Formula One team boss Oliver Oakes for a 'punchy' pre-season response to speculation about his Formula One future. Doohan, 22, made his debut for the Renault-owned outfit in Abu Dhabi last December and is starting his first season on home soil in Melbourne on March 16.

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Lewis Hamilton said he was "really enjoying" driving his Ferrari after ending the second morning of Formula One's pre-season testing in Bahrain with his name on top of the timesheets.

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Ferrari win case to delay Cardile's start. Ferrari has secured a court order blocking its former technical director, Enrico Cardile, from starting work at Aston Martin until July 18. The ruling resolves a dispute between the two Formula 1 teams following Cardile's move to Aston Martin as chief technical officer.

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BMW has officially confirmed: it will not be fielding a third Hypercar to the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans. Instead, it will concentrate on its two existing entries. The decision was partially based on a dense racing calendar in June, Motorsport head Andreas Roos explained.

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McLaren's 2025 Formula One car feels like last year's championship winner and pre-season testing so far has been more about ticking boxes than absolute performance, Lando Norris said on Thursday.

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Carlos Sainz completed a double race distance for previously struggling Williams and pushed his Ferrari successor, Lewis Hamilton, off the top of the testing timesheets in Bahrain on Thursday. Seven-time champion Hamilton had been fastest in the morning session, but Sainz, doing a full day with a monster 127 laps, lapped the desert Sakhir circuit in one minute 29.348 seconds for the team that finished ninth of 10 last year.

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Lewis Hamilton (40) and Charles Leclerc (27) gave Ferrari's 2025 Formula 1 car its track debut on Wednesday, with the Monegasque going first before handing over to his new seven-time world champion teammate.