Speaking at length recently on Red Bull’s ‘Talking Bull’ podcast, the team’s chief technical officer explained there was a weakness in its 2020 challenger that needed to be set straight for this season. So if teams had not been able to make any revisions over the winter, then it would have left it a little […]
Norris made his F1 debut in 2019 with McLaren and immediately stood out for fans with his entertaining social media channels, regularly posting memes and fun content. But Norris said ahead of last season that he wanted to try and become a bit more serious after worrying that making light of bad weekends could be […]
The nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion announced earlier this month that he will be retiring from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season. With a legendary career spanning 26 seasons in grand prix racing, Rossi has been a key figure in boosting the popularity of MotoGP and bringing it to mainstream attention through […]
For all of Argentina’s remarkable history in Formula 1, it has now been 20 years since the country was last represented on the grid courtesy of unremarkable ex-Minardi and Prost driver Gaston Mazzacane. But had the ambitious USF1 team got off the ground in 2010, the baton would have been taken up by Toyota’s newly-minted […]
F1 has been exploring a number of options to bolster the second half of the season as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact a number of races. The Japanese Grand Prix became the latest race to get cancelled last week, joining Canada, Singapore and Australia as events that have been formally scrapped. F1 officials […]
The summer break provides a useful opportunity to take stock and make a comparison with how things stood after 11 races in 2020. That means looking at the standings after last year’s Eifel GP, held on 11 October during what was a very different looking schedule to this year’s. Of course, the current championship table […]
Both Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi have Alfa Romeo deals until the end of the current season, and the Finn is believed to be unlikely to be retained for next year as the Italian squad targets Valtteri Bottas should he not be retained by Mercedes. Vasseur said earlier this year the team was not ruling out replacing both […]
The six-time MotoGP world champion badly broke his right arm in a crash during last year’s Spanish Grand Prix, which ruled him out of the 2020 season and led to a nine-month injury lay-off as he recovered from three operations. In his absence, Honda endured its first winless season since it returned to MotoGP full-time […]
It might seem opportunistic and short-sighted to write this piece off the back of Esteban Ocon’s shock win at the Hungarian Grand Prix, but in fact it would have been valid regardless of recent events in Budapest. If anything, Ocon’s maiden win and Alonso’s tenacious, defensive masterclass just underline that Alpine has a driver line-up […]
With F1 teams preparing for a rules revolution next year, a number of outfits – including Mercedes – elected to freeze their current designs early in the campaign to focus more on their new cars. But Red Bull has bucked the trend and been aggressive in bringing a series of upgrades to its RB16B in its […]