Red Bull has utterly dominated so far with an unbeaten start to the 2023 season, but behind them the battle between Mercedes, Aston Martin, Ferrari and McLaren was tighter than ever.Alpine has also featured on the F1 podium this year amid a turbulent time within the team, and behind them Haas, Williams Read more
The phenomenon that dominated the team’s 2022 season has largely disappeared with this year’s W14, helped by regulation tweaks over the winter.But both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell reported the problem at Spa, with the latter noting that he experienced a “huge amount”.Elliott says the team will have to determine Read more
Between 2014-21 the Brackley team won the constructors’ title eight times and took seven drivers’ titles between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.Its form took a dive with the W13 under the new aerodynamic regulations last year, and it has only scored one win over the last two seasons.A series of Read more
It was the Belgian’s first running in an F1 car since he tested for Mercedes in Abu Dhabi at the end of 2021.The two-day session, which was also attended by McLaren, featured rainy conditions throughout and only wet and intermediate tyres were used.The poor weather meant that Pirelli didn’t conduct Read more
Hulkenberg has shown good pace on his return to a full-time drive in 2023, regularly making Q3 and qualifying as high as second in Canada, before he took a penalty hit in Montreal.However, the car has inevitably fallen off the pace in races and used its tyres too hard.In the Read more
For the first 10 rounds of the season, attention at AlphaTauri was biased towards full-time rookie Nyck de Vries and his struggles to step up to F1 as he drew criticism from Red Bull bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko.The FIA Formula 2 and Formula E champion was sacked after Read more
Ricciardo’s second outing with AlphaTauri was a tough ask as he was thrown into a sprint weekend that was impacted by rain, and with only the FP1 session in which to hone the set-up.He made his life more difficult by losing his best time in Q1 to a track limits Read more
Spa was seen by the Williams team as a track that would favour the low-drag characteristics of the FW45 and give Albon a chance to repeat the points-scoring form that he’s previously shown this year at Sakhir, Montreal and Silverstone.He jumped up from 15th to 10th with a strong first Read more
Ahead of last week’s Belgian Grand Prix Alpine dismissed team boss Szafnauer and long-time sporting manager Alan Permane, just a week on from Renault CEO Luca de Meo replacing Laurent Rossi with Philippe Krief as the Alpine brand’s CEO.This move was explained by incoming interim team principal Bruno Famin as Read more
Ahead of a landmark moment for the team, as it prepares to put its 2024 car in its new wind tunnel for the first time, the squad still wants to eke out one final effort for its current MCL60.For beyond bespoke low-drag solutions that will be needed for high-speed tracks Read more