Max Verstappen took his 10th win in a row in Monza last weekend, which was the 15th consecutive victory for Red Bull.Extending its clean sweep of 2023 race wins, the Milton Keynes team is another step closer to winning all 22 races this year, which would be unprecedented in the world championship.Insight: 10 things we learned from the 2023 F1 Italian Grand PrixMcLaren won 15 out of 16 races in …Keep reading
As the last European round of the 2023 season, the Italian Grand Prix paddock was heaving with VIPs and paddock guests throughout the weekend.The number of paddock guests, part of the 304,000 fans attending the Monza weekend, is an indication of how popular F1 has become.But on the other hand, it has also made it much harder for drivers and teams to move around their workplace, with Autosport …Keep reading
Motor racing’s governing body is currently hard at work putting in place outline chassis regulations for the next rules era that will kick off in 2026.As well as a planned shift towards active aero to help reduce drag on the straights, the FIA has offered some more details about what else could be changing.Speaking in an exclusive interview with Autosport’s Italian language sister site …Keep reading
Race: 1973 Italian Grand Prix, MonzaCar: Tyrrell 006″We’d had a very good season at Tyrrell and I was leading the world championship going into Monza, which was the last grand prix in Europe. I knew I could secure the title before flying away, but then one of the rear tyres began to deflate during the race…”Although I didn’t win the race it meant something to me that was more than just winning …Keep reading
Button praised Verstappen for his ability to adapt his driving style to the car he’s given, suggesting that not all drivers can cope in the same way.The 2009 world champion, who drove alongside Hamilton at McLaren in 2010-’12, said he would be “more fearful” going up against Verstappen.In recent weeks, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has suggested that Red Bull cars are designed around …Keep reading
In the wake of a season where Red Bull driver Perez has failed to match the performances of team-mate Max Verstappen, Marko has not held back in his criticisms at times of the Mexican.But in remarks he made to Red Bull’s own channel ServusTV earlier this week, he stepped up the rhetoric when he suggested that Perez’s nationality was to blame for some of his woes.“We know that he has problems …Keep reading
In fact, one of the chief challenges that remains for the squad is in improving the aero-efficiency of its MCL60, which has manifested itself in the car being too draggy for some circuits.In that respect, last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix offered a very different challenge, as the Monza track is all about straightline speed.And, with an apparent disadvantage in terms of straightline speed when …Keep reading
The current deal that runs from 2021 and 2025 was negotiated by former F1 CEO Chase Carey in what was regarded as a new spirit of cooperation compared to the often confrontational debates of the earlier Bernie Ecclestone era.Preliminary discussions have already begun over the next Concorde, the first on Stefano Domenicali’s watch as F1 CEO, even though it won’t come into force until 2026.Maffei …Keep reading
In the wake of complaints from a number of drivers that the current generation of cars is getting as difficult to race as close to each other as the previous rules set, it has emerged that the FIA has already been alerted to the situation.Its analysis of the performance of the current ground-effect machinery is that the 2023 cars have given away 50% of the gains that were achieved for 2022 in …Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou, who won his second IndyCar title for the team at Portland last weekend, had been driving TPC (testing previous cars) machinery as reserve driver for McLaren’s F1 team ahead of his expected switch to Arrow McLaren’s IndyCar squad next year.This was understood to be part of an evaluation phase of his potential to join McLaren’s F1 driver line-up in the future.But …Keep reading