Reflecting on his 2022 progress in an interview given ahead of the French Grand Prix before F1’s summer break, Tsunoda rated himself higher than the five or a six at the same point in his rookie season, putting the uptick down to the confidence that comes with experience.“I think I’ve Read more
At last year’s F1 season finale, Lewis Hamilton had looked set to grab his eighth world championship title after dominating most of the Yas Marina race.However, things were turned on their head when a late safety car was triggered after Nicholas Latifi crashed his Williams.During the restart, then F1 race Read more
During the Hungarian Grand Prix race weekend, Hamilton took time to visit the W Series paddock and speak with a number of the women who are racing in the championship that is currently in its third season.Hamilton felt more had to be done to try and help the drivers in Read more
F1 is currently enjoying a boom of interest in the USA that has resulted in an expansion to three American races from 2023.In addition to the United States Grand Prix at COTA, which has been on the calendar since 2012, F1 added the Miami Grand Prix this year and will Read more
In a move to restrict excessive car bouncing, the FIA will introduce measures aimed to halt the phenomenon by enforcing an Aerodynamic Oscillation Metric (AOM) that teams cannot exceed from the Spa-Francorchamps race.It is also understood that the FIA is installing measures to outlaw tricks some teams are believed to Read more
Bottas joined Alfa Romeo at the beginning of the season following a five-year stint with Mercedes that saw him score 10 grand prix victories and twice finish as runner-up in the drivers’ championship to team-mate Lewis Hamilton.While the Finn has taken a step back from the regular front-running form he Read more
Following Sebastian Vettel’s announcement that he’ll retire from F1 at the end of 2022, it will leave just Hamilton and Fernando Alonso as the older generation of drivers on the grid next season.Hamilton, whose current Mercedes F1 contract expires at the end of 2023, has repeatedly stated he has no intention to Read more
According to Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine’s F1 team principal and the former Honda F1 director of strategy and business planning, there was a two-week window where Vettel was available to sign back in his junior days.Szafnauer has always enjoyed a good relationship with Vettel, and played a key role in the German driver signing for Aston Read more
F1 in recent years has enjoyed a boom in popularity thanks largely to Netflix’s fly-on-the-wall docuseries Drive to Survive, which has ushered in a legion of new fans to the racing series.As a result, numerous Hollywood films about F1 are said to be in development, while the series now has Read more
US racing stalwart Michael Andretti’s bid to expand his multi-series operation to F1 has been met by fierce resistance from most of the discipline’s current 10 entrants.Concerned teams are weary of having to share F1’s prize money with an additional competitor and feel the current $200 million dilution fund is Read more