Williams go the ball rolling on Monday evening when it announced team principal Jost Capito was leaving his role at the end of the year.Read Also: Ferrari announces Vasseur as new Formula 1 bossWhy Vasseur is the right man to lead Ferrari’s F1 revivalSeidl joins Sauber Group as new CEO Read more
Just look at how Sebastian Vettel’s decision to retire before F1’s summer break set off a chain of events that ended up with Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin, Pierre Gasly at Alpine and Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri (and that’s ignoring the Oscar Piastri to McLaren shenanigans).What is much rarer Read more
The Woking-based squad announced on Tuesday that it was appointing Andrea Stella as its new team principal to replace Seidl.As part of a team boss merry-go-round, Seidl has been lured away to join Sauber as its new CEO, in the wake of the Swiss-based outfit losing Fred Vasseur to Ferrari.It Read more
However, he will not have the team principal title, and will instead help Sauber to appoint someone to take up the role.Fred Vasseur, whose departure to Ferrari was confirmed on Tuesday, held both the CEO and team principal jobs at the Hinwil outfit.ANALYSIS: Why Vasseur is the right man to Read more
Want to become a Formula 1 team principal? Well, current evidence would suggest that if you’re white, male, somewhere between 50 and 70 and German is your home language, you’ll walk straight into a job.Okay, so perhaps it’s not the most diverse group of individuals heading up the 10 teams Read more
In a statement issued by the team on Monday, it was confirmed that Capito had stepped down as team principal and CEO, with technical director FX Demaison also leaving his post.Williams said it would announce its new team principal and technical director “in due course.”“It has been a huge privilege Read more
The decision by team principal Mattia Binotto to resign after the disappointments of the 2022 campaign has left the squad facing a more difficult winter than anticipated.For whatever the qualities that Binotto’s likely successor Fred Vasseur will bring with him, it is going to take time for him to understand Read more
But while there was no doubt big progress was made in improving the ability of cars to follow each other closer, the season just gone was not without its faults.Red Bull’s dominance meant the championship battle was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the summer break and, while some of Read more
Perez made a strong start to his second season with Red Bull in 2022, taking pole in Saudi Arabia and victory in Monaco to leave him 15 points off Verstappen after the opening seven races.But the Mexican’s form took a dip ahead of the summer break as he conceded the Read more
The Japanese manufacturer pulled out of F1 at the end of the 2021 season, with it clear that its focus on its electric road car business meant it could no longer justify a programme in the series.But it still kept its toe in the water as it leased the IP Read more