Albon will enter his second season with Williams in 2023 looking to build on an impressive campaign last year that saw him spearhead the team’s efforts, scoring four of its eight points. Albon’s efforts were rewarded with a new long-term contract, but some figures within the team said they wanted to see him be a […]
Perez joined Red Bull for the 2021 season to replace Alex Albon, but like Albon and Pierre Gasly before him the Mexican found it tough to get close to team-mate Max Verstappen and get on top of Red Bull’s machinery. With the onset of new ground effect regulations for 2022, Perez made a strong start relative […]
Like in recent years, there will be just two pre-season tests prior to the start of the 2023 season: one in Malaysia on 10-12 February, and one in Portugal on 11-12 March.As has been the case since 2021, there are just five days of official pre-season running permitted before the new campaign gets underway.The Sepang […]
The Red Bull driver is well known for preferring a pointier front end, as he has no concerns about his cars being more nervous at the rear. This trait was the opposite of what he started the 2022 campaign with, thanks to the combination of an overweight Red Bull car and the understeer characteristics of […]
Hamilton’s tallies of 82 victories and six world titles with Mercedes, scored in 200 starts, are world championship records for a driver at one team. Before Hamilton starts his 11th Mercedes campaign, we’ve decided to rank his 10 seasons at the Silver (and Black) Arrows. PLUS: Assessing Hamilton’s remarkable decade as a Mercedes F1 driver We’ve […]
Ben Sulayem was elected the president of F1’s governing body in December 2021, and quickly outlined a plan to restructure the FIA’s F1 operations. This included an overhaul of race control, sparked by the controversial end to the 2021 season in Abu Dhabi, as well as changes to the senior FIA management such as appointing […]
The Grove-based squad is chasing improved fortunes in 2023 after it finished bottom of the constructors’ championship last season. It has also undergone further management upheaval over the winter, with team principal Jost Capito and technical director Francois-Xavier Demaison departing. While the timing of the change was not ideal, the team’s designers have been able […]
As the rider considered by many to be the most influential in the history of the brand, along with Valentino Rossi and Mick Doohan, it’s logical that most of the elements in the Honda revival equation revolve around Marc Marquez. The Spaniard, who will be back on the RC213V after spending the winter preparing physically to […]
Yet his stint at Renault was just one chapter in a long and varied motorsport career that included the design of the chassis in which he took the title at the end of a hard-fought campaign in the 1976 European Formula 2 Championship. Jabouille, who has died aged 80 after a long illness, was an […]
The study, conducted by Epsilon Technologies and Far Consulting, tracks the impact of 30,000 social media posts made by riders in MotoGP and the teams from the beginning of January last year until 6 November, when the championship drew to a close in Valencia.In total, the MotoGP spectrum generated more than 378 million impressions, 150 […]