About The Grid Scout

The Grid Scout is an independent Formula 1 news and opinion brand. F1 is too technical for most fans and too dumbed-down by most coverage; we sit in between. Every day we pick one story, find out what really happened, and say what we think about it, plainly, standing on the facts.

What you'll find here

• A story a day, with the short video we made for it, the sources it stands on, and the drivers and teams in it.
• A weekly feature: the week's stories told as one longer video and article.
• The calendar, results and standings, in UK time.
• Coming soon: the race hub, where registered fans can follow a session without a TV.

How we work

• Every fact in a story traces to a source we name at the bottom of the page, or to official timing data.
• Opinions are labelled as ours and argued from those facts. We don't do rage-bait, and we don't aim at people.
• We're independent: not on a team's payroll, not an official F1 product.

Who we are

The Grid Scout is an independent F1 site. It is unofficial: not associated with Formula 1, the FIA or any team. Race data comes from OpenF1 (opens in a new tab) and Jolpica (opens in a new tab).

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