The rookie, who became the first full-time Chinese F1 driver when he joined the grid alongside Valtteri Bottas this season, admits his season has been “quite up and down.” But says he feels “quite confident that we can still do the job this season” and isn’t “too worried about what’s coming up in next year’s […]
At the 2022 season start in Bahrain all attention were on Mercedes’ struggles, while Ferrari caught the eye with an impressive all-round package that somehow managed to get around the 2022 cars’ trademark porpoising without sacrificing too much performance. Behind the biggest teams, it seemed like Haas and Alfa Romeo had stolen a march on […]
F1 overhauled its technical rulebook for the 2022 season, placing a heavy focus on aerodynamics in a bid to make the cars easier to follow and allow for more on-track action. The regulations also saw a clampdown on technical freedoms in a bid to help the field converge, with a view to creating closer competition […]
F1 overhauled its technical regulations for this season to use cars that generate much more downforce from the floor and therefore rely less on undisturbed air flowing over the wings. This season’s races have shown that the rules have succeeded in allowing cars to follow each other much closer in faster corners, but that hasn’t […]
One-time grand prix winner Gasly has a deal with AlphaTauri until the end of 2023, and said earlier this year that 2022 was probably his final chance to show he deserved to be promoted back to Red Bull, having been dropped to AlphaTauri during the 2019 season. Since returning to AlphaTauri, Gasly has grown as […]
The FIA said Williams had failed to submit its complete full year reporting documentation from 2021 by the 31 March 2022 deadline, as required by article 5.1 of the sport’s financial regulations introduced in 2021. Williams was notified of the breach in April by the FIA’s Cost Cap Administration, and the Grove team dully collaborated […]
Latifi struggled to match the Mercedes bound George Russell during his first two seasons in F1, but in the first seven races of 2022 the Canadian also looked out of sorts compared to his new teammate Alex Albon, who joined the team after a year out of the category. Latifi has yet to outqualify or […]
F1 is currently enjoying a boom in the United States that has seen the series expand to a second American race this year, debuting the Miami Grand Prix. A third US event is planned for 2023 in Las Vegas. The growth for F1 in the United States comes after decades of struggling to crack the […]
F1 launched its first team budget cap in 2021 after a big push by the FIA and the commercial rights holder to make the series more financially sustainable. Teams were limited to spending $145 million under the budget cap last year before the figure was cut to $140m for the current season. It will fall […]
Liberty’s arrival marked a significant break from the past, replacing Bernie Ecclestone’s wheeler-dealer and profit-focused approach with a broader view to growing the series. Greg Maffei, the CEO of Liberty Media, made an interesting point to highlight F1’s growth over the past five years when speaking at the Business of F1 Forum held by the […]