Following Ferrari’s failure to win the world championship this year, Binotto offered his resignation after feeling he did not have the full support of the Italian manufacturer’s senior management team. Ferrari accepted his decision to quit and is currently finalising a replacement, with Alfa Romeo team boss Frederic Vasseur favourite to take the job. Binotto’s […]
The windtunnel is part of the new factory project currently underway at Silverstone, but while the main facility is scheduled to be occupied by next May, the adjacent tunnel won’t be in use until the following year. The team currently uses the Mercedes tunnel in Brackley, and will do the initial work on the AMR25 […]
The prize giving saw Verstappen, F1 runner-up Charles Leclerc, third-place driver Sergio Perez and Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, collecting the F1 constructors’ championship, pick up the biggest prizes of the night. During a week of World Motor Sport Council and FIA General Assembly meetings, the prize giving culminated in Verstappen being presented the […]
Norris claimed third place for McLaren at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in April, benefitting from a late error by Charles Leclerc that dropped the Ferrari driver back to sixth place. Norris said ahead of the summer break that it “blows my mind” McLaren managed to score a podium given its early-season car struggles, the team having […]
With all the commotion about a certain Netflix release that hit the screens recently, docuseries are quite the thing at the moment. So it’s timely that the latest offering from BAFTA-winning “Senna” writer and producer Manish Pandey should drop at Christmas on Discovery+ and other platforms internationally. Having dominated F1 for over 40 years, Bernie […]
Verstappen swept to his second world title in dominant fashion this year, scoring a record 15 wins through the season behind the wheel of the Red Bull RB18 car, while Red Bull also clinched its first constructors’ title since 2013. The dominance of the RB18 came despite an extended development cycle for the RB16B in […]
The team announced recently that current incumbent Mattia Binotto has resigned and will leave at the end of December, with his replacement yet to be confirmed. Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur, who has worked extensively with Leclerc in the past at both ART and Sauber, is widely regarded as a favourite to get the job. […]
Gasly heads to Alpine in 2023 after a difficult final year with the Faenza team, which struggled to find form for much of the season. The Frenchman says that his former colleagues are confident that the new AT04 will be the best car they have built to date. He admits that with all teams developing […]
Morbidelli has endured a tough two years in the premier class after finishing runner-up in the standings in 2020 with three race wins. The Italian was hit by a knee injury in the first half of 2021 having struggled for form on his 2019-spec Yamaha at Petronas SRT, before a mid-season move to the factory […]
Ocon finished the 2022 season in eighth in the drivers’ standings, 11 points clear of teammate Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard rather bearing the brunt of Alpine’s reliability issues. But while an absolute highlight, such as his shock win in the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, was missing from Ocon’s year, the Frenchman says 2022 felt like his most […]