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
Max Verstappen looks almost certain to wrap up the F1 drivers’ championship in the next few races, with his first opportunity coming at the Singapore Grand Prix if he wins and title rivals Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez do not score heavily.Verstappen has won 11 races this season so far, Read more
In the wake of his F1 debut at Monza the Dutchman has potential opportunities with Alpine and Williams as well as the chance to join the Red Bull camp, but he insists that he is not in a position to choose where he goes.If he does join AlphaTauri then Pierre Read more
F1’s TV department is always looking for new angles and fresh shots. This year has seen the return of the pedal cam two decades after the last experiment, while the Dutch GP opened up an opportunity to try something different in order to give a better impression of how steep Read more
Each F1 driver is limited to using no more than three engines per season without taking a penalty, although it is rare for anyone to get through an entire campaign on that allocation.Many teams opted to use both Spa and Monza to take additional power unit elements, but it led Read more
The 23-year-old, who is now running under his Israeli passport and licence in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will undertake the two mandatory FP1 rookie sessions for Ferrari at the US and Abu Dhabi GPs.Shwartzman won the 2019 FIA Formula 3 title before spending two seasons in Read more