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With a recap of all the additional news and notes from Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

Sport as a whole may love a good narrative, the rise of the underdog is something we rarely see in Formula 1 nowadays. In a time where financial muscle and depth of resources seems to dictate the pecking order, it is very rare for us to be treated to a true upset.

After a month of speculation, the future of the racing team formerly known as Sahara Force India has been revealed. Points-less, and under a new name - but with the same bright pink livery - the Silverstone racers have been reborn as Racing Point Force India.

With a recap of all the additional news and notes from Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

The concept of a summer ‘break’ seemed lost on many in the Formula 1 paddock this year, as a number of big news stories emerged through the sport’s annual shutdown.

With a recap of all the additional news and notes from Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

If you kept up with Formula 1 over the summer break you’ll know some huge moves have been announced over the past three weeks making it one of the busier mid-season pauses in recent years.

  Leaving Budapest to start the summer break following the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, the Formula 1 driver market for 2019 seemed to have a handful of certainties.

With Formula 1’s summer break forecasting an expected calm, Daniel Ricciardo triggered the first major shock by calling time on his five-year tenure at Red Bull in favour of a move to Renault for next season.

There is no doubt that Alonso’s absence on the grid next year will represent a huge blow for F1, leaving McLaren with a gaping void to fill. But there is little time for the British squad to contemplate what it has lost, it must now look to the future. 

Following Tuesday’s news that double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will leave the sport at the end of the season, Crash.net rounds up how the world of motorsport reacted on social media…

After months and months of speculation, it's now official: Fernando Alonso will not be racing in Formula 1 next year.

Williams heads into the second half of the 2018 Formula 1 season staring down the barrel at the bleak and very real prospect of finishing rock-bottom of the constructors’ championship for the first time in the team’s history, with seemingly little hope of improving on its current position.

12 races in and the 2018 F1 season is already delivering a classic, with three different winning teams and four drivers standing on the top step of the podium.

It's that time of year again to take stock and evaluate who has performed and who is in need of improving, with F1 drivers and teams currently enjoying the annual summer break. 

It’s a shame that Formula 1 doesn’t have an IndyCar-style ‘Rookie of the Year’ award. In a championship where instant success for drivers is a rarity, it would be a good way to celebrate the success of each year’s new crop of talent.

Formula 1's summer break is a natural time to review the season so far and take stock of the performances we have seen across the course of the opening stint, stretching from Australia to Hungary.

Following a dramatic Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his weekend driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - 10

With a final round-up from the Hungaroring following Sunday's grand prix, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

When Lewis Hamilton knelt beside his stricken Mercedes following a hydraulic failure in Q1 at Hockenheim last Saturday, he was staring down the barrel of a sizeable points deficit heading into the summer break.

Recapping all of the additional news and notes from the Hungaroring on Saturday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

Having tasted so much success throughout his Formula 1 career, there would seem to be very little that Lewis Hamilton can do that one may consider a surprise.

2021 will represent a significant turning point in F1 history, as the sport will introduce a raft of new technical and sporting regulations.

Recapping all of the additional news and notes from the Hungaroring on Friday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.