Ferrari and its customer teams Alfa Romeo and Haas suffered regular problems over the course of last year. Under the current engine freeze, manufacturers are only allowed to work on reliability updates, although it’s been rumoured that Ferrari has also found extra performance. Such a gain would be perfectly legal if better reliability meant that […]
Alpine will continue racing with a French racing blue and BWT pink livery on the A523, although it too follows the recent trend of leaving parts of its car in unpainted carbon fibre to save weight. As in 2022, the team also presented a second, predominantly pink livery which will be used in the opening […]
Its well-managed art of keeping a check on expectations means it has typically never been too bullish about its prospects, even when it has had by far the best car on the grid. But the tone surrounding the launch of its new W14 seemed a departure from the past, as there was a greater sense […]
After three operations allowed him to return to action for the 2021 campaign, it became clear that his arm still wasn’t right and he was being severely limited on the bike. Something that prompted thoughts of retirement – as an emotional Marquez lays bare in Amazon’s docuseries Marc Marquez: All In, which release on 20 […]
Mercedes made a bold statement about its quest for improvement by revealing its black and raw carbon fibre skin on the new W14 Formula 1 car on Wednesday. While that move triggered a lot of interest, there were actually a lot of other detailed areas of the car that deserve as much attention. PLUS: Can […]
McLaren, Ferrari and Williams are three of the biggest Formula 1 names, and all had milestone moments in their 2023 campaigns as this week began. McLaren and Ferrari both launched their new machines, while the Williams FW45 hit the track for the first time. We take a look at all of them in this week’s […]
The German manufacturer launched its new W14 at Silverstone on Wednesday, with the car featuring a more aggressive version of the ‘zero-pod’ concept that it ran with last season. But with Mercedes now alone in its sidepod design, as most rivals have copied Red Bull’s idea, it has emerged that it too is also readying […]
Green worked alongside Gary Anderson as one of the designers of the original Jordan 191 in 1991, before leaving to join the then new BAR outfit in 1998. He subsequently had a spell at Red Bull before returning to the Silverstone team, by then known as Force India, in 2010. He served as technical director […]
That’s because the team’s rebuilding plan, formulated mainly by Stella’s predecessor Andreas Seidl and technical director James Key, is focused on infrastructure upgrades, and in particular the new windtunnel. McLaren has for many years rented time in the Toyota facility in Cologne, with all the obvious logistical issues inherent in having staff travelling back and […]
In the biggest shake-up to the grand prix format for decades, MotoGP will introduce half-distance sprint races on the Saturday of every round in 2023. The sprint is an independent race and will not count as a qualifying for the main grand prix, which will continue to take place on Sundays. The introduction of the […]