The FIA confirmed in the days following Max Verstappen’s last-lap title win over Lewis Hamilton that it would be launching a full investigation into the race restart, which was subject to protests by Mercedes. Mercedes opted to end its pursuit of action after the FIA announced its plans to analyse what happened in Abu Dhabi, […]
Late last season Budkowski was linked with a possible role at Aston Martin, and the recent departure of team principal Otmar Szafnauer has opened up a potential opportunity at the Silverstone outfit. Szafnauer’s name has also been mentioned in connection with Alpine in what would be a straight swap of two of F1’s key figures. […]
It was the kind of information that fans had been eagerly waiting for, and while it did not offer any concrete answers, it at least outlined the state of play and the possible timeline for any decisions and, more importantly, action. Newly-appointed FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem spoke earlier this month of the need to […]
Honda announced in October 2020 that it would pull out of F1 after the 2021 season, with partner team Red Bull moving the engine production in-house at its Milton Keynes campus for the power units used by both Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri. While Honda will aid Red Bull with its power unit, Honda’s F1 […]
Ross Brawn, together with F1’s technical working group, immediately singled out the complex aerodynamic solution as one of the changes required in order to reduce the aerodynamic wake created by the cars and help produce closer racing in future. In recent years, driven by the openness of the regulations in that region, the bargeboards had […]
F1 will introduce a new technical ruleset for this year, featuring an overhaul of the aerodynamic regulations that could shake up the pecking order. The goal of the new regulations is to make the field more competitive and allow drivers to race wheel-to-wheel more without losing as much downforce due to dirty air coming off […]
Bottas has joined Alfa Romeo for the 2022 season after a five-year stint with Mercedes that yielded five constructors’ championship wins and saw him finish as runner-up in the drivers’ standings in 2019 and 2020. The move to Alfa Romeo came following Mercedes’ decision to sign junior driver George Russell to its team for this […]
Mazepin and Schumacher were plucked out of Formula 2 to replace Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen at the underperforming Haas outfit, which had severely compromised the 2021 season to focus on the new 2022 car. While Schumacher and Mazepin generally brought up the rear of the field in a car that was barely developed from […]
F1 debuted its new sprint race weekend format at three events in 2021, holding 100km races on Saturdays that offered points to the top three and set the grid for the race on Sunday. The trial of the format last year has led to plans being formulated to expand it to six events next year […]
Ricciardo endured a difficult first half to the 2021 season after joining McLaren as Lando Norris scored more than twice as many points than his more seasoned team-mate before the summer break. Ricciardo has since labelled his first half of the year as being “nearly laughable” before he bounced back with a dominant victory in […]