A story by Bloomberg last week suggested that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund had been interested in purchasing F1 from current owner Liberty Media for a $20 billion price tag, but the proposal was rejected.While sources suggest that the report was not totally accurate in that discussions never opened seriously Read more
After starting his F1 career at Williams during its rebuild from its results nadir of 2018-2019, Russell’s move to Mercedes meant he slotted into an operation that had won the previous eight world constructors’ titles and produced the engines that power the works squad and its three customer teams.But as Read more
Some areas of the cars required a deeper analysis to understand their implications – with perhaps one of the biggest being the shift in size of wheel rims from 13 to 18-inches.This change created a knock-on effect to the design of several other components, with the FIA making efforts to clamp Read more
Only four of the 10 teams have an unchanged driver line-up – Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo – meaning the remaining six will have spent much of this winter getting their new signing up to speed, learning the ropes and embedded within their team.But it will also leave Read more
McLaren failed to win at the start of the second ground-effects F1 era last year, with Norris achieving a sole team podium in the Emilia Romagna GP.The struggles with its MCL36 left the Woking outfit to take its first major competitive backwards step since the start of its Andreas Seidl-led recovery Read more
Russell and Hamilton are set to embark on their second season as Mercedes team-mates in the 2023 campaign, which will follow the difficult 2022 season where Mercedes’ W13 challenger was initially badly off the pace and impacted severely by porpoising. Although Hamilton was known to prefer Mercedes possibly keeping Valtteri Bottas across Read more
Williams junior Sargeant will make his F1 debut in Bahrain after being handed a seat for 2023 alongside Alex Albon, becoming the first full-time American on the grid since Scott Speed in 2007.Sargeant was drafted in to replace Nicholas Latifi – who left Williams after three years – following an impressive rookie year Read more
Saudi Arabia hosted its first F1 race in 2021 at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which was intended to be a temporary home for the grand prix before moving to the new-build city of Qiddiya on the outskirts of Riyadh.But as work continues on the state-of-the-art facility, Jeddah is now expected Read more
The Silverstone squad is gearing up for the launch of its AMR23 car at its factory on 13 February, with interest surrounding the team heightened with it having signed Fernando Alonso to partner Lance Stroll for the 2023 season.Although it remains coy about the details of the design of its Read more
Six drivers’ and five constructors’ titles headline a CV that includes 92 world championship grand prix wins, enough for sixth on the all-time list behind Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Williams and Lotus.For this list of top 10 F1 drivers, we’ve taken into account the amount of success the racers scored with Read more