Rins moved to LCR Honda in 2023 after Suzuki, with whom he raced from his debut season in 2017, elected to quit MotoGP at the end of last year. Despite winning Honda’s only grand prix in 2023 in Austin, Rins felt undervalued by the Japanese marque and decided to break a two-year deal to join […]
Month: December 2023
Haas weakness disguised by F1 rivals’ early struggles
Haas scored all but one of its 12 points in the first five races of the year, with a best of seventh place earned by Hulkenberg in the high-attrition Australian GP. The German said that once rivals began to develop their cars Haas slipped back and its issues – notably with overheating tyres in races […]
Hamilton admits to self-doubt and how Abu Dhabi 2021 did prompt retirement thoughts
The seven-time champion has undergone a challenging two years with the Mercedes squad, which has found itself unable to regularly match the pace of the dominant Red Bull outfit. Those competitive struggles have also come straight off the back of the controversy from the end of 2021, where the FIA’s mishandling of a safety car […]
Wolff praises Leclerc for not ‘pulling the handbrake’ in F1 Abu Dhabi GP
The fight for second in the constructors’ championship between Mercedes and Ferrari went down to the wire in the season finale. In a late but ultimately unsuccessful bid to thwart Mercedes, Leclerc allowed a penalised Sergio Perez to overtake in a bid to prevent George Russell landing a podium. Leclerc wanted Perez, handicapped by five […]
Stephanie Carlin joins McLaren F1 as business operations director
Carlin, who was team principal of Rodin Carlin’s Formula 3 and F1 Academy Teams as well as fulfilling a similar role at Team X44 in Extreme E, will oversee a range of activities in support of McLaren’s F1 operations. Her position will also include involvement in McLaren’s participation in the 2024 F1 Academy season. She […]