According to Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine’s F1 team principal and the former Honda F1 director of strategy and business planning, there was a two-week window where Vettel was available to sign back in his junior days. Szafnauer has always enjoyed a good relationship with Vettel, and played a key role in the German driver signing for Aston Martin last year after […]
As its 2021 midfield rival Ferrari competes for wins again, McLaren has taken a step backwards in 2022, heading into the summer break in fifth position in the constructors’ championship behind Alpine. The Enstone squad, with which McLaren is now also involved in an off-track tussle over Oscar Piastri’s services, has generally had the measure of its Woking rivals […]
Anthony was sufficiently wound up about the situation at McLaren that he felt the need to express his thoughts to this writer. The gist of it was that he and his son were frustrated by a lack of information from McLaren about the future. Naturally, Hamilton Sr felt that his son was more than ready […]
Szafnauer says that the Frenchman’s only weakness is that he can take too long to find the limits at the start of the race weekend. Aston Martin announced last week that it had signed Alonso for 2023, and it’s not yet clear who will replace him at the Enstone outfit. The team had hoped to […]
Perez scored his second victory for Red Bull in May’s Monaco Grand Prix to move to within 15 points of team-mate Max Verstappen at the top of the championship, only for their fortunes to since take different directions. While Verstappen has won four of the six races since Monaco, Perez has just two runner-up finishes to show for […]
While his sensational Monza victory, McLaren’s first for nearly nine years, was a reminder of his undeniable talent, it will stand as an outlier result from his time at Woking, bar any shock heroics in the second half of the season. Few thought things would end like this. Ricciardo’s arrival for 2021 was seen as a […]
F1 in recent years has enjoyed a boom in popularity thanks largely to Netflix’s fly-on-the-wall docuseries Drive to Survive, which has ushered in a legion of new fans to the racing series. As a result, numerous Hollywood films about F1 are said to be in development, while the series now has a wider mainstream platform. […]
F1 pulled off a major coup earlier this year by getting all the agreements and permissions necessary to use the Las Vegas city streets and run its cars past some of the city’s major casinos. A letter of intent from Liberty Dice, a new entity created by the championship’s owner Liberty Media, lays out the […]
Heading into the summer break the team lies ninth in the world championship, ahead of only Williams. Apart from a high of a sixth place for Sebastian Vettel in Azerbaijan, the team has logged an eighth, a ninth and six 10th places in the first part of the season. Krack says the main issue is […]
The team has been struggling all season to fully understand the car built to F1’s latest regulations. Occasional signs of promise have encouraged it to stick with the narrow sidepod concept, while others have been gravitating in a common direction. George Russell’s pole in Hungary followed by a second consecutive two-three finish for Lewis Hamilton […]