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Cadillac board director Mario Andretti vows Formula 1’s 11th team will be ready for its 2026 entry into the series, even if it will have to take more risks to get there.After a long-winded saga the Andretti effort to enter F 1 finally succeeded when the team secured a deal around November’s Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend. At the time Michael Andretti stepped back from a rebranded Cadillac team …Keep reading

A race engineer has one of the most important roles in any Formula 1 team. It is their job to optimise the performance of the driver-and-car combination. Throughout the race weekend, they translate the feedback coming from the driver into set-up decisions to achieve the best possible result. And, except in rare cases, they are the only ones who communicate directly with drivers via team …Keep reading

Red Bull has taken the covers off the RB21, the car with which Max Verstappen aims to conquer his fifth straight Formula 1 drivers’ title.Ahead of F1’s three-day winter test in Bahrain, which kicks off on Wednesday, Red Bull was the last team to unveil its updated car design for the upcoming season, the final one under the current ground-effect based regulations cycle that will be driven by …Keep reading

Of all the development curves taken across 2024’s Formula 1 season, Alpine’s was arguably the steepest – and it needed to, given that its A524 was overweight, light on downforce and planted at the back of the field when the campaign started. That it finished the year sixth in the championship was helped by a colossal dose of good fortune in Brazil’s sopping wet grand prix, but the Enstone team’s …Keep reading

Alpine’s new A525 Formula 1 car was revealed on Monday ahead of the 2025 season with the team conducting a shakedown at Bahrain International Circuit.Officially a filming day, the test was run over a maximum of 200km (124 miles) with demonstration tyres, as per the regulations.Both Pierre Gasly and his new, rookie team-mate Jack Doohan got a first taste of their new machinery, with the …Keep reading

The moving goalposts, when it comes to allegories and idioms about luck, sidestep from “third time’s the charm” to “bad luck comes in threes”. And, when it comes to Formula 1’s current technical regulations, Mercedes’ own expectations may make a similar step as its third car in this ruleset – the W15 – could not bring an end to the difficulties it has faced with building a consistent race …Keep reading

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has taken the covers off its 2025 car, the W16.Like its rival teams Mercedes had already revealed the 2025 livery at last week’s F175 launch event in London, using an older model. Now it has unveiled the launch spec of the W16 car that its drivers George Russell and debutant Andrea Kimi Antonelli will contest the 2025 season with.With the W16, Mercedes is aiming …Keep reading

Aston Martin used to be pretty reliable when it came to launching new cars. When it unveiled its 2022 machine, one of the first cars to court the public’s gaze since ground effect-style aerodynamics were reintroduced, the Silverstone squad let it be known that it was unveiling a ‘proper’ car instead of relying on the usual glut of render trickery.It’s 2025, and Aston Martin has opted for …Keep reading

Aston Martin has revealed the first images of its 2025 Formula 1 car – the AMR25.The car features much changed sidepods compared to its predecessor the AMR24, while unlike Ferrari Aston Martin has stuck with a pushrod front suspension and the British squad has also applied this arrangement at the rear of its machines. The AMR25 features a largely unchanged livery from 2024, having been …Keep reading

Formula 1 mechanics are often described as the championship’s unsung heroes. But what does it really take to be part of the pitlane action at the highest level of motorsport?Calum Nicholas, Senior Power Unit Assembly Technician for Red Bull and author of the book Life in the Pitlane, has opened up on this subject and how he dovetails his individual role with the team effort in the pitstops …Keep reading