The Ferrari reserve driver will take the wheel of the VF-22 at both Monza and the Circuit of the Americas, with current drivers Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen taking it in turns to hand over their cars to the Italian. Giovinazzi last competed in F1 in 2021 before making the move to Formula E with Dragon […]
Albon was promoted from Toro Rosso to Red Bull halfway through the 2019 season at the expense of Pierre Gasly, but just like the Frenchman he struggled to make an immediate impact alongside team leader Max Verstappen. At the end of the 2020 season Albon was pushed aside in favour of Sergio Perez and spent […]
Ricciardo looks set to leave McLaren at the end of the 2022 season as the team looks to agree terms to end his contract early, having swooped to sign Oscar Piastri to partner Lando Norris. It will bring to an end two difficult seasons for Ricciardo at McLaren, where despite scoring the team’s first victory […]
The team founded by Jack Brabham won back-to-back drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 1966 and 1967, with Brabham himself and Denny Hulme delivering the goods, before adding further drivers titles courtesy of Nelson Piquet in 1981 and 1983 following the team’s sale to future F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone. With 35 victories split between nine drivers […]
Norris made his F1 debut with McLaren in 2019 after rising through the single-seater ranks, but he sampled sportscar racing with an appearance at the Daytona 24 Hours in 2018 when he raced for the United Autosports LMP2 squad co-owned by his McLaren F1 boss Zak Brown . But Norris is now eager to give […]
The frequency of changes is always heightened around the introduction of a major regulation shift, such as the one we’ve just had for 2022, which often results in amendments throughout the course of the year and for the following season. The main changes for 2023 have centered on the floor of the cars, owing to […]
The BT3 was genesis, Brabham’s first Formula 1 car. But a delayed birth was compounded by unsteady first steps. After the team was supplied with the wrong exhaust, Ron Tauranac’s design wouldn’t replace the stopgap Lotus 24 as Jack Brabham’s steer until the 1962 German Grand Prix. Engine failure during practice at the Nurburgring forced […]
Tsunoda made his F1 debut with AlphaTauri in 2021 alongside Gasly, but endured an up-and-down rookie season featuring a smattering of crashes and incidents. The Japanese driver admitted earlier this year that he “didn’t know what I was doing” through much of his rookie season as he got his head around certain aspects of F1. […]
But as the 2022 season prepares to roar back into life, who stacks up as the top of the class, and who must do better? It’s not the halfway point of the F1 season – that came with the chequered flag for the Austrian Grand Prix back in early July. But with the summer break […]
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation confirmed today that next year’s event will run from 30 March – 2 April, with Formula 1 on track from 31 March. That will make the race the third round of the Formula 1 world championship for the second year running. While having traditionally been the opening round throughout the […]