The French manufacturer has shown some encouraging pace throughout the start of the 2022 F1 campaign, but a run of reliability problems and bad luck has hurt its points-scoring opportunities. The team is confident however that it has a package capable of regularly fighting towards the front of the midfield pack. With a lot of […]
Verstappen has appeared to be quite agitated at times this season as the battle with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has been pretty intense throughout. Things have not been ideal on the reliability front, with Verstappen losing podium finishes and valuable points with failures in both the Bahrain and Australian Grands Prix. He also said the team […]
Reigning Formula E champion de Vries, part of Mercedes’ F1 reserve roster in addition to his duties with the German manufacturer’s FE squad, has earned a call-up to drive in FP1 at Barcelona – his first outing in an official F1 session. This was helped in part due to new rules mandating teams to run […]
The decision creates a gap of two free weekends between the end of the European season at Monza on 11 September, and the start of the run of six flyaway races in Singapore on 2 October. The Sochi event was cancelled, along with the event’s ongoing contract, shortly after the Russian attack on Ukraine began. […]
Andretti is currently pushing to establish an F1 operation that would join the grid from 2024 as an 11th team after seeing his bid to acquire Sauber, which operates the Alfa Romeo squad, fall apart late last year. Although the FIA is yet to open up the official process for new teams to join F1, […]
It was perhaps inevitable therefore that with the implementation of the FIA financial regulations the focus would move towards how closely those new rules are being followed. The top teams are all well aware how tight their own budgets are this year, and they know how carefully they have to control funds spent on development. […]
Perez joined Red Bull for the 2021 season and, while he was able to score a victory in Azerbaijan, he made no secret of his struggles to adjust to the car philosophy that was designed to suit team-mate Max Verstappen. Red Bull anticipated many of the traits of the RB16B car that made the adjustment […]
For F1’s owner Liberty Media it was a delight to see, as it delivered further proof that its bid to break the American market is paying off. Off the back of it, there were also several comments about how the razzmatazz of it all would act as a wake-up call for other circuits to need to lift their […]
At the last race in Miami, Alex Albon featured in the top 10 in practice but a problem with tyre temperatures in qualifying – specifically balancing the front and rear axles – consigned him to 18th on the grid. From there, the former Red Bull driver recovered to 10th, before gaining another position through a […]
Red Bull has so far appeared to favour a lower downforce approach to each track, maximising top speed at the expense of performance through corners. Ferrari, on the other hand, has until now opted for a higher downforce solution that means it loses out in the speed traps but is better in the turns and […]