Stella says the team will try not to focus initially on direct comparisons with Lando Norris, who is heading into his fifth year of F1. Instead the team will concentrate on ensuring Piastri is as prepared as possible for the challenge of his first season at the top level. “Let’s say the way we set […]
Although the tyre compounds remaining unchanged from 2022 – other than the addition of a new C1, with the previous tyre of that specification becoming a new C0 to close the performance gap between the harder rubber types and those typically used as mediums – Pirelli has changed the construction of all its tyres. The […]
Spanish oil giant Repsol has been the factory Honda squad’s title sponsor since 1995 and continues its partnership into 2023, despite rumours in recent years of the tie-up ending. Honda comes into 2023 off the back of its second winless campaign in three years as it looks to turn around its troubled RC213V and challenge […]
F1 testing was reduced from six to three days for 2021, with just three test days in Bahrain instead of two three-day tests in Barcelona. For 2022, winter testing expanded to six days again, a one-off concession so teams could get more time to trial their brand-new machinery following a major rule change. But this […]
F1’s team boss merry-go-round started with Mattia Binotto leaving Ferrari at the end of November to be replaced by Alfa Romeo’s Fred Vasseur. Andreas Seidl left McLaren to become Alfa’s CEO, with Andrea Stella replacing him at the Woking squad while Alessandro Alunni Bravi was appointed Alfa’s team representative on F1 weekends. In January, Mercedes […]
Seidl’s move to Sauber was announced late last year, and Stella was immediately named as his successor as team principal. Stella joined McLaren from Ferrari in 2015 and has had various job titles, latterly serving as racing director. Brown says that Stella’s knowledge of the team made the transition much easier than if an outsider […]
Following the first year of the new generation of cars, it was widely accepted that at some venues DRS passes had been too easy, while at others the zones were too short. Having looked closely at the data of last season, the FIA has now revealed that tweaks will be made at the Bahrain, Jeddah, […]
The change of specification was formally approved at today’s meeting of the F1 Commission, which was held at the F1 organisation’s HQ in London. An F1/FIA statement said that “following successful testing by Pirelli, with the support of teams, Pirelli have arrived at a wet weather tyre which is much more performant than the previous […]
Yamaha will be the only manufacturer on the grid in 2023 to field just its two factory team bikes, after losing its satellite tie-up with RNF Racing – who has joined forces with Aprilia for the next two seasons. The role of satellite teams has changed considerably in MotoGP in recent years, with them very […]
For the upcoming campaign, Mercedes has gone back to using the colour scheme it ran during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, when the W11s and W12s were painted black at Hamilton’s behest to highlight motorsport’s diversity issues, as well as the problem of global racial inequality. This time, however, while Mercedes is pleased its livery […]