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With the Italian company electing to stick with its current tyre specification for next year, teams are already well-versed on their behaviour. So, with little more to understand about the different tyres, Pirelli has already committed to its compound choices for the opening three grands prix of next season. Having decided against having a sixth […]
Rins moved to LCR Honda in 2023 after Suzuki, with whom he raced from his debut season in 2017, elected to quit MotoGP at the end of last year. Despite winning Honda’s only grand prix in 2023 in Austin, Rins felt undervalued by the Japanese marque and decided to break a two-year deal to join […]
Haas scored all but one of its 12 points in the first five races of the year, with a best of seventh place earned by Hulkenberg in the high-attrition Australian GP. The German said that once rivals began to develop their cars Haas slipped back and its issues – notably with overheating tyres in races […]
The seven-time champion has undergone a challenging two years with the Mercedes squad, which has found itself unable to regularly match the pace of the dominant Red Bull outfit. Those competitive struggles have also come straight off the back of the controversy from the end of 2021, where the FIA’s mishandling of a safety car […]
The fight for second in the constructors’ championship between Mercedes and Ferrari went down to the wire in the season finale. In a late but ultimately unsuccessful bid to thwart Mercedes, Leclerc allowed a penalised Sergio Perez to overtake in a bid to prevent George Russell landing a podium. Leclerc wanted Perez, handicapped by five […]
Carlin, who was team principal of Rodin Carlin’s Formula 3 and F1 Academy Teams as well as fulfilling a similar role at Team X44 in Extreme E, will oversee a range of activities in support of McLaren’s F1 operations. Her position will also include involvement in McLaren’s participation in the 2024 F1 Academy season. She […]
The Anglo-Italian squad grabbed attention with its raft of steady floor upgrades in recent months, that according to McLaren team boss Andrea Stella had made the AT04 the best car in low-speed corners by the season finale in Abu Dhabi. It allowed the team to have a late go at Williams for seventh in the […]
After a difficult start with a car that wasn’t competitive, he took advantage of the team’s mid-season upgrades to make a strong impression in the second half of the year. He twice made the podium in grands prix, finishing runner-up in Qatar and third in Japan, while also logging a memorable victory in the sprint […]
Marini stepped up to the premier class in 2021 with the VR46-backed side of the Avintia squad, ahead of Valentino Rossi’s team’s takeover of the latter’s grid slots for 2022. Over the last two years with VR46, Marini has scored two grand prix podiums – both of which in 2023, with the first coming in […]
Not only was the race saved at its traditional venue, albeit with the new name of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, it has now had its future secured until at least 2030. The man responsible is promoter Alan Adler, who was unknown in racing circles until 2020. He brought with him vast experience of running […]