Williams has only scored one point this season, courtesy of a 10th-place finish for Albon in the Bahrain season opener. At this point in 2022, it had three of its eventual eight points. Despite the downturn in the constructors’ standings, the ‘supertimes’ metric that records each team’s fastest lap during a race weekend indicates that […]
I wouldn’t say there are any rude riders in the MotoGP paddock. But there are definitely those who treat media duties as part of the job description. Franco Morbidelli is always the opposite. As he rocks up to the Yamaha hospitality at Le Mans, Morbidelli is keen to chat about life and his time off […]
The team delivered its best result of the 2023 season last weekend as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished second and third behind runaway race-winner Max Verstappen. The result, allied to the strong pace of the W14 throughout the race, has suggested that Mercedes’ revamp of its car has delivered a significant leap forward in […]
The Silverstone-based team endured a challenging Spanish GP last weekend as Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll ended up finishing behind both Mercedes and Ferrari in the fight to be Red Bull’s closest challenger. With its rivals having introduced major upgrades to their cars over the past two races, Aston Martin’s lack of performance could suggest […]
At the Spanish Grand Prix, Red Bull appeared with changes to the floor’s edge wing and the diffuser, using features widely seen on competitors’ machinery. These were most likely spotted by Adrian Newey on his regular grid walks before the Milton Keynes-based squad applied its own twist on a couple of solutions others have used […]
To underline its status as a world championship, F1 has coveted a race in Africa. A return to the famed Kyalami circuit, which last hosted a GP in 1993, has long been the frontrunner. F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali has held meetings with circuit officials and other South African GP stakeholders over the past […]
F1 decided to bypass the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya tight chicane and instead restore its original final sector, with two fast right-handers leading onto the main straight, in a bid to improve the show. It was a popular decision among the drivers, with Mercedes’ George Russell saying it “turned one of the worst corners in F1 […]
Leclerc started from the pitlane in Barcelona after he qualified only 19th and the team opted to make changes to his car for the race. However he was only able to rise to 11th place after his SF-23 again performed inconsistently across stints, even when running the same tyre compound. Team-mate Carlos Sainz also struggled […]
Behind runaway race winner Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton led team-mate George Russell to bag a double podium for Mercedes to jump Aston Martin in the constructors’ standings. This came as Stroll classified in sixth ahead of home favourite Fernando Alonso in seventh. Since the AMR23 has often been the second-quickest machine behind the Red Bull […]
For the return of ground-effects at the start of 2022, Red Bull (downwash), Ferrari (in-wash) and Mercedes (size-zero) all developed radically different sidepod designs. With Red Bull emerging as the dominant force, it left many to suppose that sidepods are the determining factor in car performance. As such, questions were asked of Mercedes for it […]