Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz set the fastest time across the day, but only after team-mate Charles Leclerc dislodged a drain cover which took time to fix. The loss of running, though, allowed for even more time to spy on the new 2024 cars in the pitlane and garages. INSIGHT: What we learned on day two of 2024 […]
Are drainage covers becoming a problem in the Venturi-tunnel ground effect era of Formula 1? Has Red Bull found some mechanical issues with their RB20? And which teams are looking short on form as testing develops? Steph Wentworth chats with Autosport’s Alex Kalinauckas in the Bahrain media centre and Haydn Cobb to answer all these […]
Red Bull’s substantial step for this season has caught rivals by surprise after most of them focussed on trying to work out what made last year’s RB19 so competitive, and inevitably ended up with cars that owe much to the title winner. Red Bull itself has now gone in a different direction, adopting a ‘zeropod’ […]
Honda is looking to snap a barren period that has seen it score one race win in two years and go without a title since 2019. While HRC made big gains with its 2024 RC213 compared to its predecessor, Honda is still lagging behind its rivals as the new season approaches. “We tried everything we […]
The close alliance between the Red Bull squad and its sister RB operation has come under the spotlight recently, amid calls from McLaren boss Zak Brown for F1 to re-evaluate the regulations regarding co-operation between competitors. Brown believes that in the budget cap era, the time has come for F1 to ensure that all squads […]
Just a few months after CEO Markus Duesmann, regarded as the key advocate for its F1 project, left the company, it now appears that one of its other architects, chief development officer Oliver Hoffmann, is also set to move on. Hoffmann’s long-term contract as CDO had been extended as recently as last year, but according […]
Wednesday was our first chance to see all the cars together with nowhere to hide their latest design developments and secrets ahead of the new season. Red Bull Racing RB20 detail Photo by: Giorgio Piola Red Bull has not only changed the sidepod inlet arrangement on the RB20 but also completely overhauled the internal makeup […]
Providing behind-the-scenes access to one of the world’s most restricted championships has done wonders for F1’s booming popularity and expanded demographic, so the docuseries made by Box to Box Films has stuck to its guns for season six, half of which we have had early access to. Once again all 10 episodes are each built […]
Having won all but one race in 2023, Red Bull comes into the 2024 season as overwhelming favourite to win the championship again. And it made the best start possible the new year, as Verstappen guided the RB20 – complete with its new design concept – to a dominant 1.14-second advantage over the filed on […]
Verstappen set the pace at Bahrain International Circuit in the first of three days of testing, ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz of Ferrari. 2024 Bahrain F1 test, Day 1 results: What happened in Bahrain F1 testing, Day 1? Running the C3 tyre in the Pirelli range, which will be the soft compound […]