The number of fans and VIPs in the paddock in last year’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez led to security issues, with spectators crowding hospitality units and accosting drivers. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly noticed somebody had opened his backpack, while some of his peers had also flagged that the number of paddock dwellers had been […]
With exactly one month to go until the end of the 2023 season, the Repsol Honda team is the only one on the MotoGP grid that has not completed its line-up of riders for next year. This is an absolutely anomalous situation, but one that the Japanese manufacturer has been forced into as a result […]
He’s expecting to take further steps in front of his home crowd in Mexico City this weekend. Perez and his engineers dug deep in the sim running as they tried to get him back to the sort of pace he showed earlier in the season after a run of frustrating weekends. The sprint race format at […]
In an interview Italian outlet moto.it, Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti said it was his understanding that Marquez would be “racing on practically zero contract”, which is to say without a salary. Marquez announced after the Japanese Grand Prix that he would be breaking his current contract with Honda a year early, with his move […]
Dennis will make his first official grand prix weekend appearance for Red Bull when he drives the team’s RB19 in FP1 at the Abu Dhabi season finale next month. The 28-year-old, who won the Formula E title last season with Andretti Global, has been a Red Bull simulator driver since 2018 and completed two test […]
The GPDA director said that one possible solution is to give those who transgress a penalty that involves positions rather than time. Russell has been guilty on several occasions of making a move that involves going off the circuit but which gains a crucial track position, and opens up the possibility of negating the five-second […]
What does the Andretti news mean for Formula 1? After a seven-month process of due diligence, Andretti Cadillac has been given the green light by the FIA to enter Formula 1. That makes Andretti the only one of the seven entities to throw its hat into the ring to have been accepted by F1’s governing […]
In a bid to add performance and finally cure an in-race tyre wear problem that has hobbled its whole season, Haas brought a key update – new floor, sidepods, engine cover – to Austin to become the last team to converge around the downwash sidepod design pioneered by Red Bull. But drivers Kevin Magnussen and […]
Hamilton was disqualified from second place at last weekend’s race at the Circuit of the Americas after post-race inspections found it had worn more than the 1mm that is allowed in the regulations. The team was open that it had made an error in running Hamilton too low to the ground, with the bumpy track […]
Slow-starting McLaren dramatically slashed the gap to Aston Martin since the summer break thanks to an impressive string of podiums over the past four races, while the Silverstone-based squad has generally struggled since the summer. Norris’ latest runner-up spot in last weekend’s US Grand Prix was enough for McLaren to leapfrog Aston Martin and hold […]