Bottas joined Alfa Romeo at the beginning of the season following a five-year stint with Mercedes that saw him score 10 grand prix victories and twice finish as runner-up in the drivers’ championship to team-mate Lewis Hamilton.While the Finn has taken a step back from the regular front-running form he Read more…
Following Sebastian Vettel’s announcement that he’ll retire from F1 at the end of 2022, it will leave just Hamilton and Fernando Alonso as the older generation of drivers on the grid next season.Hamilton, whose current Mercedes F1 contract expires at the end of 2023, has repeatedly stated he has no intention to Read more…
According to Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine’s F1 team principal and the former Honda F1 director of strategy and business planning, there was a two-week window where Vettel was available to sign back in his junior days.Szafnauer has always enjoyed a good relationship with Vettel, and played a key role in the German driver signing for Aston Read more…
F1 in recent years has enjoyed a boom in popularity thanks largely to Netflix’s fly-on-the-wall docuseries Drive to Survive, which has ushered in a legion of new fans to the racing series.As a result, numerous Hollywood films about F1 are said to be in development, while the series now has Read more…
US racing stalwart Michael Andretti’s bid to expand his multi-series operation to F1 has been met by fierce resistance from most of the discipline’s current 10 entrants.Concerned teams are weary of having to share F1’s prize money with an additional competitor and feel the current $200 million dilution fund is Read more…
Both seasons saw seven grands prix held during the April-June period, allowing for a useful comparison as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic fell away. The number of races is significant as F1 divides up its revenue across the year depending on how many events are held in each quarter.In Read more…
Fernando Alonso saw no need for talks with Alpine Formula 1 team-mate Esteban Ocon over his “extreme” defence in Hungary, but admitted he was “surprised” by the moves.Ocon appeared to squeeze Alonso twice on the run to the first corner on the opening lap in Hungary, prompting the Spaniard – Read more…
There have been some stupendous performances over the years and, in this episode of Autosport’s “Short View Back to the Past” series, Chief Editor Kevin Turner picks out F1’s greatest qualifying laps.Please let us know in the comments about any laps we’ve missed and any other topics you’d like us Read more…
The two parties are set to enter a partnership under the next generation of power unit rules after the Volkswagen Group advisory board gave the nod for Porsche and its sister brand, Audi, to explore entering F1 earlier this year.The deal will see Porsche take a 50% stake in Red Read more…
The AlphaTauri driver was left stranded in 19th on the grid after losing a lap that would have got him through to Q2.The offence took place at Turn 5, where officials were using CCTV for monitoring purposes.Sergio Perez also lost a lap time at the same corner in Q2, but Read more…