Bottas is the subject of an exclusive no-holds-barred interview (and an unusual photoshoot) in GP Racing this month. Now free of the corporate leash he’s enjoying life – and racing – once again. He explains why he rejected advice to ‘be more evil’ while at Mercedes and why he’s taking Read more
The team is currently evaluating a change of direction for its W14 car after realising that its ‘zeropod’ idea is not going to deliver the performance levels hoped for.Having settled on a change of path, Mercedes has talked of there already being promising results from its CFD and wind tunnel Read more
Off the back of a disappointing start to the 2023 campaign, with the squad having yet to score a point in the opening two grands prix of the season, McLaren has revealed a revamp of its technical department.As Key, who joined the team in early 2019, departs the outfit with Read more
It often happens in F1 that lacklustre performance from a new car triggers the departure of the senior technical figures that pulled it together.But in McLaren’s case, the exit of technical director James Key and the appointment of a new technical executive team has been a long time coming, and Read more
From the February launch of the MCL60 car, which is an evolution of the 2022 design that Stella said McLaren was “not entirely happy with”, the prevailing sentiment has been that the team must be “realistic” in the early races.While Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both hit reliability problems in Read more
Ocon and team-mate Pierre Gasly were both left asking for more performance after they finished eighth and ninth in the Saudi Arabian GP.The two cars ran a few seconds apart for much of the race, with the drivers enjoying a brief fight after the safety car restart.The A523’s pace clearly Read more
This growth can be attributed to several factors, including the impact of the Netflix series Drive to Survive and the expansion of the US Grands Prix to include a second race in Miami and a third race in Las Vegas. In 2023, it also has the added value of an Read more
After the Bahrain Grand Prix team boss Toto Wolff made it clear that it was time to look at a change of direction, and that there would be “no holy cows” in terms of sticking to established ideas.The definition of exactly what the concept of an F1 car entails has Read more
In Bahrain’s season opening race, Alpine driver Ocon was penalised for incorrectly positioning his car in his grid slot.The same thing happened to Aston Martin’s Alonso in Saudi Arabia, as the Spaniard was given a five-second time penalty for starting too far to the left of his box. However, Alonso Read more
Speaking on F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast, Stoddart reflected on Alonso’s rookie season as the Spaniard joined Minardi at the age of 19.Alonso joined a team that was close to going out of business before Stoddart’s European charter airline company bought it in December 2000, and turned up for his Read more