Year: 2023

24 Oct 2023

AMABA winner Browning completes Aston Martin F1 prize test at Silverstone

Browning won the Award, which also includes a prize of £200,000, after impressing in MotorSport Vision Formula 2, United Autosports Ligier LMP3 and Beechdean Motorsport Aston Martin GT3 machinery last year. The F3 driver completed a day of testing at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in one of Aston Martin’s AMR21 cars on Tuesday. The […]

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24 Oct 2023

Marc Marquez opens up on his Ducati MotoGP switch

The eight-time world champion announced after the Japanese GP that he would be leaving Honda with a year left on his contract, before Gresini confirmed his appointment during the Indonesian GP for 2024. In an exclusive interview with Autosport, Marquez opens up on his emotions at leaving Honda and what he is looking for with […]

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24 Oct 2023

2022 Belgian GP, 2017 Malaysian GP and more

In claiming F1 win number 50 at the 2023 United States Grand Prix, Verstappen does so as the driver to hit that figure the second quickest in 181 races compared to Hamilton’s 50 in 185. Michael Schumacher holds the record in taking 50 wins from just 153 races. With all that in mind, and as […]

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24 Oct 2023

10 things we learned from the 2023 F1 United States Grand Prix

Everything’s bigger in Texas, according to popular belief and brass-plated belt buckles. While the on-track spectacle across Formula 1’s sprint and grand prix races at the Circuit of the Americas largely did not deliver on such hyperbole, the post-race ramifications certainly did as the theatre ensued in the stewards’ room. PLUS: Why Mercedes could have […]

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24 Oct 2023

How did Mercedes and Ferrari fall foul of F1’s plank rules?

In fact, there have been remarkably few times in F1’s history that planks have been found to have worn down too much – with the most famous still being Michael Schumacher’s disqualification from the 1994 Belgian Grand Prix.  This makes it even more intriguing that, in an area of the car that teams are very […]

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23 Oct 2023

New location but no big delay for Red Bull F1 wind tunnel

The world champion squad had originally planned to build a brand new facility at its base, which it felt was needed to keep the team at the cutting edge of F1 car development over the long term. A site near its technology campus had been sorted and the team had formally applied for planning permission […]

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23 Oct 2023

Yamaha needs ‘15 winters’ to catch Ducati in MotoGP, fears Quartararo

The French rider was speaking after last Saturday’s Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island, which yielded a disappointing run to 14th place. Quartararo was asked about Yamaha chief Massimo Meregalli’s admission that the Iwata marque will not be ready to take on the likes of Ducati as early as next season, which follows a disappointing […]

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23 Oct 2023

2023 F1 Mexican GP – How to watch, session timings and more

The campaign keeps up its relentless pace by heading straight from the Circuit of the Americas to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez for the Mexican round. Despite brake concerns with his Red Bull F1 car in Austin, Max Verstappen remains in dominant form having won both the sprint race and the grand prix last time out […]

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