The ATA rules are designed to improve F1’s sustainability credentials by reducing the number of sets that Pirelli has to bring to each weekend while also potentially creating some strategic variety on race day. The format will also be trialled at the Italian GP before its impact is assessed by the FIA and a more […]
Rins has been out of action since badly breaking his right leg in a crash during the sprint race at the Italian Grand Prix. The five-time MotoGP race winner has since undergone two operations on his broken tibia and fibula, and will not return to racing until the Austrian GP in mid-August at the earliest. […]
The American had a difficult start to a schedule dominated by unfamiliar venues and tricky street and temporary tracks that saw him involved in a string of incidents as he struggled to keep up with team-mate Alex Albon. However, in Austria he had a strong run to 13th in a race of low attrition, while […]
The headlines have been dominated by a driver change at AlphaTauri, as rookie Nyck de Vries has been axed after just 10 races and replaced by Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian, who raced for the Italian team in 2012-13 under its Toro Rosso guise, will be the central focus going into the race weekend because if […]
The FIA is currently working through the submissions for the 2022 season that have been handed to it by teams, and has increased its analysis of competitor spending in a bid to stamp out any clever workarounds. As reported by Autosport last month, this has also included a deep dive in to team’s non-F1 activities […]
The shape of teams’ sidepod designs has been thrust into the spotlight in F1’s latest ground effect era as initially there was a fascinating variety of different concepts at play. However, the advantage that Red Bull appears to have gotten from its downwash concept appears to have won out as many of its rivals have […]
The Canadian, who started 61 F1 races for Williams with a career-best result of seventh in the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, has stayed away from the spotlight since losing his seat at the end of last year. Having decided that he did not want to switch to other racing categories in the short term, he […]
Norris and Piastri took second and fourth respectively in the recent British Grand Prix. It was a breakthrough result for McLaren and its upgrade package after struggling through the first half of the season, but it was also big boost for rookie Piastri, who took his best result in F1 by some margin. The highly […]
As Ricciardo prepares for his F1 comeback at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, the Australian is well aware that he is going to face a pretty challenging time in an AlphaTauri car that has left the team at the bottom of the constructors’ championship standings. But reflecting on the reasons why Ricciardo has elected to […]
The planned increase in electrification, with a 50-50 power split from the battery and combustion engine, has prompted concerns about drivers running out of energy on the straights and needing to change down gears to recharge. There has also been some scepticism about whether or not the need for less draggy F1 cars can be […]