Month: April 2023

14 Apr 2023

Brad Pitt F1 movie will be “quite invasive”

The as yet unnamed film is being made by the team behind Top Gun: Maverick, with Lewis Hamilton serving as a producer and consultant. It is set to start production in the coming weeks from a base at Silverstone, with some of the action to be shot around real race events with the filming fitted […]

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14 Apr 2023

The Ferrari optimism over its “worst-ever” start to an F1 season

At this point last year, Charles Leclerc had two wins under his belt to lead Ferrari’s blossoming title challenge, its most credible since 2018. Twelve months on, he has only finished one race of three to call it the “worst-ever start of the season”. Meanwhile, a distant sixth in Saudi Arabia left team-mate Carlos Sainz […]

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14 Apr 2023

The facts behind Hamilton’s F1 cockpit complaints

Mercedes has openly admitted that its 2023 W14 has failed to live up to expectations, prompting a course change on its development programme to recoup some of the performance that it had expected to make up on its rivals this season. However, it has become clear that the car also harbours some fundamental design flaws […]

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13 Apr 2023

Early F1 floor upgrade the first of “five or six” steps

The revised floor and diffuser package was used by Nyck de Vries from FP2 onwards in Melbourne, while Yuki Tsunoda had to revert to the original version after damaging his new parts in an off in FP1. Tsunoda’s switch inadvertently gave the Italian team an unplanned back-to-back comparison between the two specs over the full weekend, […]

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13 Apr 2023

Honda granted stay of execution on Marquez MotoGP penalty

Marquez collided with RNF Aprilia rider Oliveira on the third lap of the Portuguese GP last month. The FIM stewards issued Marquez a double long lap penalty to be served at the Argentina GP, though was later reissued to state the punishment would carry over to the next round the Honda rider would be present […]

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13 Apr 2023

Billionaire Lo looking at investment in new F1 team

Lo emerged last year as a potential investor in the sport, although initially he was coy on whether he wanted to join forces with an existing team or become involved in a new project. He now seems to prefer the route of joining forces with one of the potential new teams looking to join the […]

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