Norris generally races with his long-time race engineer Will Joseph manning the radio, but on occasion, Joseph has been swapping roles with Norris’ performance engineer Jose Manuel Lopez, including in various sessions over the last couple of race weekends. When asked about the plan behind rotating race engineers, which is not that common across the […]
Last season, the French rider narrowly missed out on the world title despite making up for the shortcomings of his Yamaha, losing out to Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia at the final round in Valencia. It took until Bagnaia and Ducati’s engineers unlocked the full potential of the Desmosedici GP22 to turn it into the almost perfect […]
Former Mercedes head of strategy Vowles took control of the Grove outfit in February as the replacement for ex-Volkswagen motorsport boss Jost Capito, who left after two years. He is trying to gather voting support for future F1 Commission meetings to allow Williams more capacity within the capital expenditure spending limitations to upgrade its factory. […]
As Autosport revealed last week, the FIA tabled discussions at this weekend’s F1 Commission meeting to evaluate whether action needed to be taken in balancing the performance of engines to help out Alpine supplier Renault. It is understood that the Renault engine could be as much as 30hp down on the best of the opposition, […]
With Fernando Alonso having helped breathe some excitement into the early races, as he emerged as the shock main challenger to Red Bull, the squad even came close to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix. But after an impressive six podium finishes out of the first eight races, including seconds in Monaco and Canada, things […]
From testing in 2022 until May’s Monaco Grand Prix, Mercedes pioneered the use of its ‘zeropod’ car architecture. It then switched the W14 to run a downwash philosophy, as favoured by Red Bull, but with the addition of a ‘waterslide’ akin to that of McLaren and Aston Martin. With the upgrade fitted, Hamilton led a 2-3 result […]
Off the back of a successful first two events for the Miami Grand Prix, the Hard Rock Stadium event is expanding capacity next year, which includes extra grandstands on the start/finish straight. But despite feeling that the demand is there to attract more fans, race organisers are not resting on their laurels. Instead, they are […]
The Spaniard joined Honda’s factory team for 2023 alongside Marc Marquez after Suzuki’s shock exit from the series at the end of last season. The 2020 world champion has only finished one grand prix, the season opener in Portugal, where he took all five of the points he has scored so far this season. Mir […]
After an uneven rookie season, Zhou was afforded the room to grow at the Hinwil squad for a second year. The Chinese driver has rewarded that faith with more consistent and confident performances across the first half of the 2023 season. Even if Alfa’s disappointing car performance meant it has been tough for Zhou to stand out, he hopes […]
The Tech3 GasGas rider had been out of action since suffering multiple back and jaw fractures in a crash during FP2 for the Portuguese GP and made his return at Silverstone last weekend. At the end of a mentally and physically draining weekend, Espargaro finished both races and scored points in the grand prix and […]