F1 introduced all-new rules for 2022, aimed at both improving the racing and giving more teams a chance of success through closing the gap between the front and the back of the grid.This is being helped by a combination of a cost cap plus an aerodynamic handicap system that allows more windtunnel Read more…
2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri will make his F1 debut with McLaren next year after finding himself at the heart of a contract saga in recent weeks involving both McLaren and Alpine.Piastri rose through the junior ranks as part of Alpine’s academy, but the team was found not to have Read more…
The Brackley-based squad is still hunting for its first F1 victory this season, with it having been on the back foot against Red Bull and Ferrari throughout much of the 2022 campaign.The design of its current challenger has proved to be not ideal for the new ground effect regulations, with Read more…
Although Szafnauer has endured some difficult weeks, after finding himself at the centre of F1’s driver market silly season when Alpine lost Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin and Oscar Piastri to McLaren, Rossi has nothing but praise for him.Rossi says that despite what happened on the driver front, with the Read more…
Following months of uncertainty about the future of the event, amid differences of opinion over the race hosting fee, TV rights, trackside sponsorship and infrastructure, a deal has finally been put together for another three years.The news came as F1 confirmed its 24-race 2023 calendar, which begins in Bahrain in March Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…