Fernando Alonso has starred to take a hat-trick of podiums – even if sometimes they’re belated – while Lance Stroll has raced well despite carrying an injury. It’s been a remarkable turnaround since the green team’s travails only 12 months ago, and it’s a story into which Alex Kalinauckas delves. Team chief Mike Krack is […]
The switch, which forms part of a raft of changes the team is making to help it return to the front of the F1 grid, will see Allison return to the role of technical director, while Elliott is to take up the position of Chief Technical Officer. The bold change, which comes 20 months after […]
For two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner and long-time Formula 1 tester Alex Wurz, the question of choosing a favourite racing car isn’t dictated by whether he raced or tested it. Instead, it’s something rather more simple that is behind the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association president’s pick of the McLaren MP4-17D, a machine that narrowly […]
After finishing seventh in 2022, Aston Martin has made a major leap forward, holding second in the constructors’ standings after three races by virtue of Fernando Alonso’s three consecutive podiums. It is the most significant year-on-year improvement for an F1 team in many seasons, but Stroll’s ambitions reach much further. The Canadian billionaire has been […]
Having returned to MotoGP full-time in 2015 and won the championship with Joan in 2020, Suzuki made the shock announcement part way through the 2022 season that it would be ending its involvement at the end of the campaign. Suzuki cited financial reasons as well as changing market trends as its primary reason, with the […]
On Friday morning, Autosport revealed that Allison is going back to the previous position he held at the team, with his successor Mike Elliott swapping roles in the other direction and becoming the team’s chief technical officer. In several ways, this is starkly new ground for the modern Mercedes squad, i that it finds itself […]
Six members of the environmental activist group broke onto the circuit during the opening lap of last year’s F1 race but a red flag owing to the crash for Alfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu meant the cars had slowed significantly when they passed the demonstrators on-track on the Wellington Straight. Three of the protestors were […]
Several years ago, McLaren operated a three-person technical structure with Tim Goss, Matt Morris and Peter Prodromou working alongside each other. Goss and Morris later left the team, and in 2019 James Key joined as technical director with overall responsibility for the car. The latest structure has derived from a review commissioned by CEO Zak […]
“We look like a bunch of wankers.” It’s fair to say that a star was born when Guenther Steiner uttered words to that effect on an early season of Drive to Survive. Just as much as the Netflix documentary has propelled Formula 1 into the limelight and helped it amass a new following, so too […]
The revised rules have been agreed with the teams and are set to be formally approved next week and then used in Azerbaijan, the venue for the first of this season’s six sprint events. Fridays will run to a familiar sprint pattern with FP1 followed by qualifying, but with the grid counting for Sunday’s main […]