It’s a challenge that many teams have either faced in recent years or are currently tackling head-on. At one extreme there’s Aston Martin, whose Silverstone factory – created for the birth of the original Jordan outfit in 1991 – had long ago outlived its useful life. Owner Lawrence Stroll had the funding and commitment required […]
This weekend’s 10th round of the 2023 season at the Red Bull Ring is sponsored by CryptoDATA, which is RNF’s title partner and part-owner. As a result, RNF is running a striking one-off light blue and pink livery for the RS-GPs of Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez. The livery, according to the team’s social media channels, […]
Following three weeks off, F1 picks up the pace once again by starting a run of 10 races in 14 weeks to round out the season. The main focus will be on if any of the teams can halt Red Bull’s unbeaten 2023 campaign so far, while Max Verstappen goes into his home round off […]
The KTM rider celebrated a brace of second-place finishes at the team’s home round at the Red Bull Ring last weekend, after following Francesco Bagnaia home in both the sprint and the grand prix. Binder ran Bagnaia close in the early stages of both contests but was quickly dropped by the Ducati rider, with the […]
Aston Martin began the season as the surprise second-best team to Red Bull with Alonso scoring six podium finishes across the opening eight weekends of the year, including second-place results in Monaco and Canada. However, as rival teams have introduced upgrades at recent grands prix, Aston Martin has fallen down the pecking order, with Mercedes and McLaren leapfrogging […]
Francesco Bagnaia’s total dominance of the Austrian Grand Prix was just one storyline in an eventful weekend for MotoGP. The Ducati rider now leads the championship by 62 points after registering his third sprint/grand prix double of the 2023 season. A decent challenge from KTM and Brad Binder wasn’t enough to throw Bagnaia off his […]
Haas’s 2023 challenger showed flashes of pace in qualifying, particularly in the hands of the returning Nico Hulkenberg. But problems with the VF-23’s excessive tyre overheating, especially on more demanding circuits and in warmer conditions, have prevented the team from converting its one-lap pace into decent results over a race distance. Hulkenberg and team-mate Kevin […]
The eight-time world champion had not seen the chequered flag on a Sunday in MotoGP prior to Austria since the 2022 Malaysian GP, marking a near-year stint of 301 days without a grand prix finish. At all of the grands prix Marquez started in 2023 prior to Austria he had crashed out, with all of […]
Former Mercedes man Vowles took over the reins of Williams at the start of this year, having been appointed by owners Dorilton Capital to oversee a complete overhaul of the historic Grove squad. He found a previously cash-strapped team that had been focused on short-term survival until Dorilton took over its ownership in 2020 and […]
Once again he nailed his start from pole position – just as he did in the sprint – in Sunday’s full-length race at the Red Bull Ring to keep the fast-launching KTMs behind him into Turn 1. Despite an early threat from Brad Binder, Bagnaia was never headed in Austria and stormed to the chequered […]