The revised rules have been agreed with the teams and are set to be formally approved next week and then used in Azerbaijan, the venue for the first of this season’s six sprint events.Fridays will run to a familiar sprint pattern with FP1 followed by qualifying, but with the grid counting for Sunday’s main event.In place of FP2 a shorter version of qualifying will be run on Saturday to …Keep reading
McLaren has a long history of giving drivers a break into F1 – in recent years this includes Lewis Hamilton, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris, who this year was joined at the orange team by rookie Oscar Piastri.Its programme has been updated to now, per a McLaren team statement, “support young drivers in their development from karting to professional racing driver with …Keep reading
“We look like a bunch of wankers.”It’s fair to say that a star was born when Guenther Steiner uttered words to that effect on an early season of Drive to Survive. Just as much as the Netflix documentary has propelled Formula 1 into the limelight and helped it amass a new following, so too it has done the same for the Haas F1 team principal.T-shirts emblazoned with his face and …Keep reading
Several years ago, McLaren operated a three-person technical structure with Tim Goss, Matt Morris and Peter Prodromou working alongside each other.Goss and Morris later left the team, and in 2019 James Key joined as technical director with overall responsibility for the car.The latest structure has derived from a review commissioned by CEO Zak Brown and conducted by Stella over the latest …Keep reading
The FWA, which has been established by Frank’s daughter and former deputy team principal Claire, is aiming to raise £1.5 million to kickstart its work over three initial years.This will be aimed at improving the lives of people who have suffered a life-changing spinal cord injury and the organisation is being created in conjunction with the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA).The SIA …Keep reading
That possibility is one of the more intriguing stories to have emerged during the April break, and while it may sound a little far-fetched, history has shown that anything can happen in F1, especially when it comes to juggling team identities and power unit suppliers.The 2026 season will see a reshuffle of engine partners with Sauber leaving Ferrari to become the works Audi outfit, and Red …Keep reading
New Williams boss Vowles has readily acknowledged the team must overcome years of underinvestment, which has previously led it to recruit the well-funded Nicholas Latifi, Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin.Given F1’s popularity surge in the United States, some have labelled the signing of Sargeant – the first full-time American race driver in the series since Alexander Rossi’s four-race …Keep reading
It’s moments before Kevin Magnussen clonks the wall to rip off a tyre on lap 54 of 58 in the 2023 Australian Grand Prix. The shredded rubber will shortly result in a second red flag to cause the contest to descend into chaos. Anyhow, at this point, Max Verstappen leads Lewis Hamilton by almost 8.5 seconds. That margin pushes Red Bull more than a lap of its home race ahead of any rival Formula 1 Read more…
Alpine overtook McLaren to finish fourth in 2022 and for this year its target was to be closer to third place than to fifth.That goal took an unexpected hit due to Aston Martin’s giant leap forward, with the Silverstone team second behind Red Bull after three grands prix as it demoted Alpine to sixth, currently behind Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren.While Aston looks too far ahead …Keep reading
Ferrari chose to highlight a rare example of a driving penalty that was challenged by a right of review process, ironically by the very team that Fernando Alonso – the “victim” of the Melbourne incident – currently drives for.It stemmed from a spectacular crash on the final lap of the 2014 Canadian GP that saw Force India’s Sergio Perez and Felipe Massa of Williams make contact while …Keep reading