After switching from multiple title winner Mercedes, Vowles has admitted some surprise regarding facilities that he said in certain areas were 20 years out of date. It was why he pushed hard, and achieved some success, in changing F1’s capital expenditure limits to free up the possibility for much-needed investment to help address Williams’ shortfalls. […]
The Woking-based squad was one of the surprises of 2023, as a mid-season revamp of its MCL-60 helped catapult Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri near the front of the field as they regularly battled for podium finishes. The leap came off the back of a management overhaul from the previous winter, with Andrea Stella taking […]
Resta, who has long worked at Ferrari, had originally joined Haas in 2021 as part of an ongoing arrangement deal between the Italian manufacturer and its American-owned customer team. It came with Ferrari wanting to capitalise on stronger technical ties between the two organisations that have worked closely together ever since Haas entered F1 in […]
The shock news was announced by the US-owned outfit on Wednesday in the wake of a poor 2023 season that saw it finish 10th and last in the constructors’ world championship. Steiner’s contract was up for renewal at the end of the year, and team owner Gene Haas opted not to extend it. As previously reported, […]
Over the past two seasons Verstappen was able to get the most of out his Red Bull machinery, dominating the 2022 and 2023 seasons with 34 wins, while team-mate Sergio Perez struggled to keep up with the development of the car and its ideal set-ups. It led to suggestions the Red Bulls are built around […]
Luminar has already been working with Mercedes-Benz and other car manufacturers including Volvo and Nissan on honing its products for road use. The Florida-based company’s light, detection and ranging – or LiDAR – system uses lasers to create a 3D map of the environment around a vehicle, enabling accurate detection of objects ahead in bad […]
McLaren missed its winter development targets and failed to score a point in the opening two rounds of the 2023 season. This came as rookie Piastri acclimatised to life in the championship. Piastri settled and found his form while the MCL60 was heavily upgraded. He then ultimately beat Norris to winning his first F1 race […]
Since the current regulations were introduced in 2022, teams have gravitated towards the downwashing concept, following the lead of pacesetters Red Bull. However, Egginton says that taking that route comes with no guarantees and that teams have to understand how to fully exploit it. “People do converge in any regulation,” he told Autosport. “And Red […]
The word champagne had always been synonymous with the sport, and in the Bernie Ecclestone era that extended to one producer securing the rights to be an official partner of F1. Moet et Chandon had the deal for many years, and subsequently, Mumm took over. In 2016 there was a brief move to sparkling wine […]
But with the countdown now well under way to the unveiling of the 2024 cars, it is a good moment to reflect on that moment 10 years ago when F1’s regulations opened the door for perhaps the ugliest cars we had ever seen. It was the start of the much vaunted hybrid engine era, where […]