The new format will be used for the first time this weekend in Azerbaijan, the first of the six sprint weekends on the 2023 schedule, with the Austrian, Belgian, Qatar, USA and Sao Paulo events to follow. The changes have been designed to create a standalone Saturday event that doesn’t impact the grid for Sunday’s […]
Mercedes’ ongoing troubles in F1’s new ground-effect era are the subject of GP Racing’s cover story this month, written by Pat Symonds – formerly Michael Schumacher’s race engineer and one of the consultants responsible for F1’s new ruleset. When Mercedes talks about its development direction being “a dead end” and that “a new concept” is […]
The change, which comes part way into a record-breaking season of 23 races, is set to reduce the number of grid penalties applied for the use of extra PU elements in the latter part of the campaign. With immediate effect, each driver is allowed to use four rather than three examples of the internal combustion […]
In what has been a difficult start to the 2023 season for Honda, Rins ended the Japanese marque’s victory drought when he won last week’s Americas Grand Prix. It capped off a weekend in which Rins was also second in the sprint contest, and has vaulted him to third in the standings – 40 points […]
Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly made heavy contact with the wall after they touched following the final grid restart in Melbourne. The incident caused extensive damage to both cars, but the Alpine factory started immediately replenishing its stock of spares, taking advantage of the three-week break between races. Szafnauer admits that there was a risk […]
Whether you want to call McLaren a fallen giant or a just sleeping one, it has to be said CEO Zak Brown and new team principal Andrea Stella are leaving no stone unturned to wake it back up. After noticing his team was falling behind on development through 2022, Brown gave Stella the remit to come up […]
Last week, the magazine Die Aktuelle featured a story claiming to be Schumacher’s first interview since his 2013 skiing accident. The magazine’s front cover featured a picture of a smiling Schumacher promising a “first interview”. Inside it went on to present a story with mock quotes generated by AI technology, with the tagline “it sounded […]
F1 sparks back into life after a month-long break due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix. The Baku event begins a run of five races across six weeks, while the majority of teams are expected to deliver a raft of upgrades in the coming rounds which may shake-up the pecking order. During the […]
Baku is the first F1 sprint event to be held on a street circuit, and the chances of accidents occurring have been ramped up by the decision to make the sprint a standalone event. That is being done largely to encourage drivers to take more risks and produce a better show on Saturday because there […]
As revealed by Autosport earlier this month, Massa has been spurred into action by comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone suggesting that knowledge of the controversial ‘crashgate’ moment at the 2008 Singapore GP came early enough for action to be taken that season. However, by the time that Nelson Piquet Jr.’s deliberate crash that […]