While the world may never know how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, we can figure out how much fuel a Formula 1 car burns in an average race fairly accurately.

Despite the move to sustainable fuel in F1 car racing, the fuel powering cars cannot be tracked easily, and only amounts to 1% of the energy cost in staging a race.

Formula 1 cars no longer run on pure petrol. In 2024, the sport mandated E10 fuel, a blend of roughly 90 per cent unleaded petrol and 10 per cent renewable ethanol. This change marked the first step ...

This meant that Mercedes, McLaren, Williams and Alpine were in danger arriving at the first race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix, without certification and therefore woul ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Takashi Ayoma / Getty, Antonio Calanni / AP Formula 1’s car design revolution for 2026 is the biggest in a generation. Not only are the chassis designs ...