Bottas joined Alfa Romeo for this year following a five-season stint at Mercedes, where he scored 10 race wins and helped the team win the constructors’ championship every year. Mercedes opted to promote junior driver George Russell into the seat alongside Lewis Hamilton for 2022, leaving Bottas to agree on a multi-year deal with Alfa Romeo. Alfa Romeo […]
All teams experienced the effect on the Spanish track’s main straight to a greater or lesser degree and a lot of focus centred on Leclerc after a video clip posted by F1 caught his Ferrari F1-75 suffering extreme levels of porpoising. In Barcelona teams were able to dial it out with rideheight and aero adjustments but […]
Albon lost his Red Bull drive at the end of the 2020 F1 season and rather than being picked up by sister team AlphaTauri, the Anglo-Thai driver instead spent a year outside the category, racing an AF Corse Ferrari in the DTM. This year Albon makes his F1 comeback with Williams, which drafted him in to […]
The F1 field got a first chance to properly sample the new cars over three days in Barcelona last week following the overhaul of the technical regulations. The revised aerodynamic designs are set to make it easier for cars to follow each other closely, leading to more on-track action and overtaking. Initial feedback from drivers […]
The Formula 1: Drive to Survive docu-series has proven to be one of Netflix’s biggest hits in recent years, taking fans behind-the-scenes and revealing the personalities behind one of the fastest and most political sports in the world. Season 4 of Drive to Survive is set for release later this month, just before the start […]
Hamilton took a break from any public appearances or duties over the winter after his controversial F1 title defeat to Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi. The Mercedes driver was left disillusioned by F1 due to the fashion of his loss after former race director Michael Masi failed to implement two articles of the sporting regulations. But Hamilton said […]
F1 squads were caught on the hop in the first pre-season test at Barcelona in Spain last week with the way the new ground-effect cars bounced down the straights. It was caused by a return of the ‘porpoising’ phenomenon that was experienced in the early 1980s ground-effect era. The cycle is triggered at high speed […]
On Saturday morning, Haas announced it had terminated its title sponsorship with Russian chemical giant Uralkali and Mazepin – whose father owns Uralkali – also losing his drive for the 2022 season. This came as a response to Russia’s widely condemned invasion of Ukraine last week, with countries worldwide imposing sanctions on Russia. […]
On 24 February, Russian forces ordered by president Vladimir Putin began an invasion on neighbouring Ukraine, which has so far spanned a week . The invasion has been condemned by Western nations, with sanctions being imposed from countries worldwide on Russia. Sporting authorities have also moved in recent days to ban Russian athletes and sporting […]
Ferrari enjoyed a solid start to F1’s pre-season running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya last week, completing more laps than any other team. Drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr both featured towards the top of the timesheets throughout the test, prompting Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell to talk up Ferrari’s performance and […]