Kimi’s 8th Win, Lando’s Heartbreak & Madrid’s Big Problem

Kimi Antonelli is the first Formula One winner at the Madring—and now has an extraordinary eight victories from only 38 starts. But even Kimi admitted this probably should have been Lando Norris’s race.

Elle breaks down Lando’s near-perfect qualifying lap, the badly timed Virtual Safety Car and seven-second pit stop that cost him victory, and why Madrid produced so little overtaking.

There are also plenty of red flags: 46 deleted lap times in FP2, Lance Stroll’s winless and pointless season, questions about whether the new circuit was truly ready and the bizarre reported theft of approximately 300 metres of electrical cable.

Then, in The Take: Fernando Alonso’s uncertain future, the delayed 2027 F1 calendar and whether influencers deserve access to Formula One races.