The Spaniard had hoped to hit the ground running this year after a strong first season with Ferrari in 2021, in which he had few problems adapting to his new surroundings. However, Sainz found himself on the back foot in the early stages of this campaign. He could not get as comfortable with the F1-75 […]
Year: 2022
Former Champ Car drivers set for Mexican GP support race
The race is intended to celebrate the Champ Car events that ran at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track between 2002 and 2007. The drivers will use equally prepared 500hp V8-powered cars that usually take part in the Gran Turismo Mexico Series. The entry is led by five Mexican drivers who raced during the Champ Car […]
Jan and Kevin Magnussen to share car in this year’s Gulf 12 Hours
The father-son duo will drive a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo entered by the MDK Motorsports team at the Yas Marina Circuit on 9-11 December, just three weeks after the F1 finale at the same venue in Abu Dhabi. They will be joined in the final round of the 2022 Intercontinental GT Challenge by team owner […]
Alpine is “significantly up” with its 2023 F1 car development
The Enstone-based squad has had the fourth-quickest car for much of the 2022 campaign, and is favourite to secure that best-of-the-rest slot in the constructors’ championship behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes. One of the key elements to its season has been an aggressive update programme which has helped it push ever close to the […]
Phillip Island MotoGP set to continue in late-season date
Earlier this year the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, which runs both the Australian F1 and MotoGP events, inked a new deal with F1 that runs until 2035. As part of the deal the Albert Park race is set to be one of the first three races of the season including a minimum of five season-opener […]
How brake designs could explain the Red Bull/Ferrari tyre differences
However, rival Red Bull quickly hit its stride and since the summer break has stepped even further clear, especially in race pace, as the RB18 appears to have a clear edge with its tyre management characteristics. A lot of the focus for the swing in performance has inevitably been around aero development, as that’s an […]
Losing Australia MotoGP win by 0.8s is “killing me”
The Spaniard started on pole for last Sunday’s 27-lap Phillip Island race and led for the first 13 tours before being shuffled out of the podium battle. Martin admits he struggled under braking once he began to fight other riders, which led to him taking the chequered flag in seventh. “Well, I was first [for […]
2022 F1 United States GP – How to watch, session timings and more
Max Verstappen may have wrapped up the F1 drivers’ world championship last time out at the Japanese GP, but there is plenty still to fight for including the constructors’ crown which mathematically Red Bull can seal this weekend at COTA. But all eyes will be on Red Bull for a different reason, as the F1 […]
Haas needs to stabilise current “bumpy road” of F1 form
Haas has had a very competitive car for much of the season, but it hasn’t scored points since Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen finished sixth and eighth in the Austrian GP in July. The US-owned outfit currently lies eighth in the constructors’ championship. Steiner believes that one of the issues is that having run at […]
Ferrari’s top 10 F1 drivers of all time
That means picking out the top 10 Ferrari F1 drivers is incredibly difficult, with some top drivers and world champions missing the cut. But we’ve given it a go. For this list, Autosport’s chief editor Kevin Turner assessed the amount of success the drivers scored with Ferrari, the impact they had on the team and […]