The McLaren driver was shaken up after thieves pounced on him following the Italy v England game on Sunday night. The thugs, who pounced on him as he returned to his car after the match, stole his £40,000 Richard Mille watch amid the chaos surrounding Wembley stadium. It was the first football game that Norris […]
The specially commissioned design was unveiled at Silverstone on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix. While teams are already working hard on their 2022 challengers, F1 has itself pulled together its interpretation of what a car built to the new rules will look like. The most striking characteristics are the flat nose, the… […]
Though Marc Marquez did score Honda’s first win since 2019 with a sensational comeback victory in Germany, Honda has struggled to get close to the podium this season with its problematic 2021 RC213V. Honda currently sits fifth in the constructors’ standings, just 24 clear of Aprilia and 98 adrift of Yamaha following the first nine […]
Having already been through somewhat of a lean spell over the last few years in its fight to move off the bottom of the standings, its drivers were well aware of a wind sensitivity issue that made their car difficult to drive at times. However, with fresh impetus and without the burden of designing an […]
Gasly made his F1 debut with Red Bull’s junior team, Toro Rosso, back in 2017 before being promoted to its senior squad as Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement for 2019. But a difficult start to the year saw Gasly fail to match team-mate Max Verstappen’s form, and resulted in him being sent back to Toro Rosso after […]
In April a Saudi company known as Tanal Entertainment issued a press release announcing VR46 would come to MotoGP in 2022 with Aramco as its title sponsor, with VR46 confirming the news last month alongside a three-year deal with Ducati. However, the title sponsorship deal between Aramco and VR46 doesn’t actually exist, despite insistence from […]
F1 will stage its first sprint race on Saturday at Silverstone as part of a shake-up of the weekend format that will take place at three grands prix this year. Qualifying will move to Friday and set the starting order for the 17-lap sprint race on Saturday afternoon, the result of which will then define […]
The arrangement began as straight title sponsorship in 2018, and for the last three years the team has been badged as Alfa Romeo. Negotiations regarding a renewal of the deal had been ongoing for several months, and the new regulations that come into force next season helped to encourage Alfa to remain in the sport. […]
After the 2020 British GP and the following 70th Anniversary GP were held behind closed doors when large-scale public events could not be held during the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic, this weekend’s race is expected to be a sell-out, with up to 140,000 fans attending on race day alone. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton […]
As his relationship with Yamaha deteriorated over a tough 2021 season, the Japanese marque announced on 28 June that Vinales – upon his request – had terminated his two-year contract a season early and will leave the squad he has raced with since 2017 at the end of 2021. As speculation over the Assen weekend […]