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Red Bull recently brought negotiations with Porsche over cooperation on its 2026 power unit project to an end, leaving Audi as the only Volkswagen Group brand on the grid when the new regulations come into force.Red Bull Powertrains is to press on with the project independently while remaining open to a future partnership with a third party.Team principal Christian Horner has indicated …Keep reading

Four-time world champion Vettel announced at the end of July he would be quitting F1 at the end of the season, calling time on a grand prix career stretching back to 2007. Vettel joined Aston Martin in 2021 following his exit from Ferrari, scoring the team’s first – and to date only – podium since rebranding under the name of the British manufacturer in last year’s Azerbaijan Grand …Keep reading

Under a rule introduced for 2022, both race drivers have to give up a free practice session for a driver who has made two or fewer starts.Early in the season, most teams were in no hurry to field rookies as they felt their race drivers needed all the mileage they could get in the new cars. Latterly some have maintained that focus as they are in tight battles in the constructors’ …Keep reading

Mercedes is yet to win a race in 2022 after struggling to compete with Red Bull and Ferrari since the overhaul of the car designs for this season.But after combatting a porpoising problem on its W13 car through the early part of the year, Mercedes has been getting closer to the front, recording a podium finish in eight of the last nine races.Russell managed to finish third last time out at …Keep reading

Herta, who has scored seven wins in his first four seasons of IndyCar racing and finished third and fifth in the 2020 and ’21 championships, has only 32 of the required 40 points to be granted a superlicence.Thus he would have been relying on the FIA making him a special case in order to land a race sat in F1 for 2023.“I can understand the FIA’s position,” Herta told Autosport at the …Keep reading

Max Verstappen looks almost certain to wrap up the F1 drivers’ championship in the next few races, with his first opportunity coming at the Singapore Grand Prix if he wins and title rivals Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez do not score heavily.Verstappen has won 11 races this season so far, including the last five in a row, and only needs three more victories from the remaining six races to …Keep reading

F1’s TV department is always looking for new angles and fresh shots. This year has seen the return of the pedal cam two decades after the last experiment, while the Dutch GP opened up an opportunity to try something different in order to give a better impression of how steep the banked corners really are.The shot was only seen briefly on Saturday and Sunday at Zandvoort, and only on the …Keep reading

In the wake of his F1 debut at Monza the Dutchman has potential opportunities with Alpine and Williams as well as the chance to join the Red Bull camp, but he insists that he is not in a position to choose where he goes.If he does join AlphaTauri then Pierre Gasly will be released to go to Alpine. If Gasly stays put then De Vries is high on Alpine’s list of possible replacements for Fernando Read more…

Each F1 driver is limited to using no more than three engines per season without taking a penalty, although it is rare for anyone to get through an entire campaign on that allocation.Many teams opted to use both Spa and Monza to take additional power unit elements, but it led to confusion over how the grid would line up due to the number of penalties that had to be …Keep reading

Fans and some teams were left in a state of confusion for nearly four hours after qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix when nobody was sure how the FIA would implement a spate of grid penalties and settle on the final line-up.The uncertainty about the grid, and the length of time it took to be confirmed, prompted suggestions that a better system should be implemented – especially as the FIA …Keep reading