Ferrari has enjoyed a relationship with tobacco giant Philip Morris dating back to the 1980s, with PMI brand Marlboro serving as the team’s title sponsor from 1997 until early 2008. A clampdown on tobacco advertising meant Marlboro branding had to be dropped from the car, but PMI revised its title sponsorship of the team through […]
UK specialists Apex Circuit Design laid out the 5.41-kilometre anticlockwise circuit, which hosts its first Formula 1 Grand Prix next weekend, around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. Its most sinuous section is through Turns 13-16, which wind around the entrance and exit ramps and beneath the flyover sections of the Florida Turnpike, the main […]
Following opening practice for the fourth round of the 2022 IndyCar season at Barber Motorsports Park, Rossi said F1’s arrival in Miami is “going to be awesome” and said that adding a Las Vegas race in 2023 was justified, which will see F1 expand to having three races in the US, plus the Canadian GP […]
Magnussen and team-mate Romain Grosjean were replaced by rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for 2021, largely for financial reasons. But after Haas terminated Mazepin’s contract in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, due to the Mazepin family’s links with the Russian Kremlin, Magnussen was brought back and given a second chance alongside Schumacher. […]
Valtteri Bottas has shone after his switch from Mercedes and put pressure on new Silver Arrows signing George Russell on his way to fifth at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The result puts Alfa fifth in the constructors’ championship after four races, with Bottas only four points behind Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship. […]
Most won multiple races, but one of Mercedes’ finest achievements came with a car that competed only once. The W165 was created in secret thanks to a controversial rule change and was only finished just in time. In the latest of our new “A Short View Back to the Past” series, and with the help […]
Ferrari announced at Imola last week that Sainz had agreed a new two-year F1 deal running to the end of the 2024 season following a successful start to life at Maranello. It ensures Ferrari will run an unchanged driver line-up with Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc until at least the start of 2025, giving the […]
He’s so far been overshadowed by new team-mate Alex Albon, having found it harder to adapt to the new car than the former Red Bull man, and also endured a series of accidents that have obliged the team to focus as much on replenishing spares as on readying updated parts. It was all looking so […]
Along with engine partner Mercedes, Aston Martin is among the teams most impacted by porpoising. While some rivals have dialled it out, and Ferrari appears to be able to deal with the problem without compromising performance, Aston has been obliged to raise the ride height of its car which has had a disastrous impact on […]
Questions about whether or not the Mercedes power unit has fallen back have, for example, been clouded by its underperforming chassis and the drag levels of its high-downforce wing. At the opposite end of the debate, at Alpine it has been hard to split how much of its progress have come from aero and how much from its engine. What isn’t […]