Revealed last year during the Austrian Grand Prix, MotoGP is making the most radical format shake-up to a race weekend for decades in 2023. On the Saturday of all 21 rounds this season, a sprint race running to half the distance of the main grand prix will take place. It is a format tweak that […]
The seven-time world champion has had a difficult start to the campaign, with Mercedes not delivering the step forward it hoped to be able to challenge Red Bull this year. However, his situation has been further hampered by the fact that he does not appear as settled with the handling of the W14 as team-mate […]
A driveshaft failure in qualifying at Jeddah meant Verstappen had to start the race from 15th place. He used Red Bull’s impressive pace advantage to finish second behind team-mate Sergio Perez, beating the Mexican to the fastest lap to lead the 2023 drivers’ championship by a single point. PLUS: How Perez kept Verstappen’s Saudi GP […]
Piastri damaged the right side of his wing when he touched Gasly’s Alpine at the exit of Turn 2, and just a few hundred metres later debris flew off the Australian’s car. In a bizarre coincidence, his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris hit the debris from Piastri’s car and also had to make an early stop. […]
F1 is back in Sin City! After an absence of 41 years, grand prix cars will roar up and down the dazzling streets of Las Vegas. VISTA Las Vegas in association with McLaren offers guests a chance to overlook the track from the rooftop of the Cromwell. This exclusive party will be attended by F1 […]
Pirelli has been the sole provider of tyres to the series since 2011. This followed on from a one-make deal with Bridgestone, which also featured alongside Michelin in the last tyre war that ran through the mid-2000s. While the Italian manufacturer is fully expected to apply once again and then retain the rights, the motorsport […]
The Razlan Razali-owned squad was formed out of the Petronas Sepang Racing Team, which pulled out of MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season. PLUS: How one MotoGP team went from title fights to losing it all in four years RNF continued on as a Yamaha customer for 2022, but the outfit who took Franco […]
For the second race in a row, Formula 1 witnessed a Red Bull domination, as Sergio Perez led home Max Verstappen in the third Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. But, it was a somewhat different story from Bahrain, as – for the first time in their time as team-mate’s – Perez took the top spot with […]
MIPS, which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System, is a technology developed in 1996 by specialists from the Royal Institute of Technology and brain surgeon Hans von Holst. Helmets fitted with MIPS help to reduce the rotational motion placed on the brain during an incident where the head comes to a sudden stop. It does […]
The Italian squad had hoped that the layout and different demands of the Jeddah circuit would allow it to pose a bigger threat to Red Bull than it was able to at F1’s season opener in Bahrain. However, despite Charles Leclerc managing to deliver a qualifying time good enough for the front row, the Scuderia’s […]