Aside from the catastrophe caused by his crash and injury at Jerez in July 2020, for Marc Marquez the first part of the 2023 season has undoubtedly been one of the most unrecognisable moments of his career. “Injury aside, this is the worst moment of my sporting life,” he said after crossing the finish line […]
Hulkenberg has shown good pace on his return to a full-time drive in 2023, regularly making Q3 and qualifying as high as second in Canada, before he took a penalty hit in Montreal. However, the car has inevitably fallen off the pace in races and used its tyres too hard. In the first half of […]
On Wednesday morning ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, Yamaha announced it would be parting ways with Morbidelli at the end of the 2023 season. Morbidelli has been a Yamaha-backed rider since 2019 and was runner-up in the championship the following year, but has struggled for form since stepping up to the factory squad […]
The seven-time world champion is currently waiting for his lawyers and Mercedes representatives to clarify the final elements of a new deal that will commit him to F1 for the next few years. Delays in getting the contract across the line have triggered speculation that there are aspects of the deal that have not been […]
As its first of two mandatory rookie runs in Friday first practice sessions, Mercedes has handed the 21-year-old Dane a run in the team’s Mercedes W14 at the Mexico City race at the end of October. “I’m incredibly proud to be doing the FP1 session in Mexico City with the Team, it’s a dream come […]
Ahead of a landmark moment for the team, as it prepares to put its 2024 car in its new wind tunnel for the first time, the squad still wants to eke out one final effort for its current MCL60. For beyond bespoke low-drag solutions that will be needed for high-speed tracks like Monza and Las […]
Ricciardo’s second outing with AlphaTauri was a tough ask as he was thrown into a sprint weekend that was impacted by rain, and with only the FP1 session in which to hone the set-up. He made his life more difficult by losing his best time in Q1 to a track limits offence at Eau Rouge, […]
Spa was seen by the Williams team as a track that would favour the low-drag characteristics of the FW45 and give Albon a chance to repeat the points-scoring form that he’s previously shown this year at Sakhir, Montreal and Silverstone. He jumped up from 15th to 10th with a strong first lap and ran as […]
Ahead of last week’s Belgian Grand Prix Alpine dismissed team boss Szafnauer and long-time sporting manager Alan Permane, just a week on from Renault CEO Luca de Meo replacing Laurent Rossi with Philippe Krief as the Alpine brand’s CEO. This move was explained by incoming interim team principal Bruno Famin as Szafnauer “not being on […]
The two-day test is the latest step in Pirelli’s programme of no-blanket slick running, although it is set to be compromised by rain. Pirelli’s hope was to introduce the new tyres in 2024, but at last Friday’s F1 Commission it was agreed to postpone the move to remove blankets, and then have another look for […]