Under the new technical regulations for the 2022 season, teams encountered a porpoising phenomenon with their cars due to the return of ground effect, which some raised as being a safety issue. The FIA began to take action to address the matter on safety grounds over the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, but a number of […]
McLaren has found itself fighting to lead the midfield teams so far this season despite its form tending to fluctuate from track to track. It currently sits fourth in the constructors’ championship, tied on points with Alpine in fifth. The team opted to debut its first major upgrade package of the season at the Spanish […]
Mercedes has made good progress with the difficult W13 in recent weeks, and Russell now feels the team can start to think about challenging for race wins. Over the longer term, he thinks Mercedes’ hard work will ultimately prove beneficial, as the team has already faced development trouble that rival teams may suffer with “later […]
Verstappen enters this weekend’s French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard leading the F1 drivers’ championship by 38 points from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, and has six race wins to his name. But the Dutchman has seen his points advantage reduce in the past two races as Ferrari scored back-to-back wins at Silverstone and the Red Bull […]
Spotted in the Paul Ricard pitlane on Thursday, Charles Leclerc’s F1-75 has been fitted with the new design in preparation for evaluation during Friday afternoon’s opening free practice session. Meanwhile, Carlos Sainz’s car has the old design mounted (inset), with it likely Ferrari will look to gather back-to-back data in order to validate real world […]
The 43 track limits infractions that occurred over the recent Austrian GP led drivers to suggest that more leniency was needed at certain corners to avoid repeat dramas in the future. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner feared that track limits would be a bigger controversy in France than it had been in Austria, so […]
Sainz’s race last time out at the Red Bull Ring was ended when his engine spectacularly expired just as he was set to attack Red Bull driver Max Verstappen approaching the closing stages. The problem was so severe it led to a dramatic fire aboard Sainz’s F1-75, which was eventually brought under control despite complications […]
Zhou stepped up from FIA Formula 2 this season to become China’s first full-time F1 driver in a move welcomed by the series’ bosses, who are hoping to increase its popularity in the country. Alfa Romeo was quite open when it signed him that part of the attraction of taking Zhou was that it could […]
Ever since it first teamed up for a partnership with the Sauber team in 2018, Alfa Romeo has always been adamant that its ongoing relationship would be decided with yearly assessments. In spite of the value and interest around Alfa Romeo and F1 being greater than ever, and other manufacturers knocking on the door to […]
While all teams have experienced it to a greater or lesser extent, driver complaints about the safety implications of some of the worst bouncing eventually triggered the FIA into action. In a move that has proved controversial with teams, the FIA is introducing an Aerodynamic Oscillation Metric (AOM) from the Belgian Grand Prix that will […]