The arrival of the Miami International Autodrome means that the 2022 season will be the first F1 campaign to have two races in North America since 1984. Adding to that, next year welcomes a third stateside race with the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Michael Andretti also hopes to enter F1 with his own American team, […]
Two-time F1 world champion Alonso made his return to the series last year with Alpine after spending two seasons away from it to explore other racing categories. Alonso scored his first podium since Hungary 2014 at last year’s Qatar Grand Prix, and has been left frustrated by poor luck so far this year, believing he […]
Ferrari has enjoyed a relationship with tobacco giant Philip Morris dating back to the 1980s, with PMI brand Marlboro serving as the team’s title sponsor from 1997 until early 2008. A clampdown on tobacco advertising meant Marlboro branding had to be dropped from the car, but PMI revised its title sponsorship of the team through […]
UK specialists Apex Circuit Design laid out the 5.41-kilometre anticlockwise circuit, which hosts its first Formula 1 Grand Prix next weekend, around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. Its most sinuous section is through Turns 13-16, which wind around the entrance and exit ramps and beneath the flyover sections of the Florida Turnpike, the main […]
Following opening practice for the fourth round of the 2022 IndyCar season at Barber Motorsports Park, Rossi said F1’s arrival in Miami is “going to be awesome” and said that adding a Las Vegas race in 2023 was justified, which will see F1 expand to having three races in the US, plus the Canadian GP […]
Magnussen and team-mate Romain Grosjean were replaced by rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for 2021, largely for financial reasons. But after Haas terminated Mazepin’s contract in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, due to the Mazepin family’s links with the Russian Kremlin, Magnussen was brought back and given a second chance alongside Schumacher. […]
Valtteri Bottas has shone after his switch from Mercedes and put pressure on new Silver Arrows signing George Russell on his way to fifth at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The result puts Alfa fifth in the constructors’ championship after four races, with Bottas only four points behind Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship. […]
Most won multiple races, but one of Mercedes’ finest achievements came with a car that competed only once. The W165 was created in secret thanks to a controversial rule change and was only finished just in time. In the latest of our new “A Short View Back to the Past” series, and with the help […]
Ferrari announced at Imola last week that Sainz had agreed a new two-year F1 deal running to the end of the 2024 season following a successful start to life at Maranello. It ensures Ferrari will run an unchanged driver line-up with Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc until at least the start of 2025, giving the […]
He’s so far been overshadowed by new team-mate Alex Albon, having found it harder to adapt to the new car than the former Red Bull man, and also endured a series of accidents that have obliged the team to focus as much on replenishing spares as on readying updated parts. It was all looking so […]