Steiner served as Haas team chief from its inception in 2016 until last winter, when his contract wasn’t renewed after the struggling outfit finished last in the 2023 constructors’ championship.Exclusive: Steiner opens up on what really happened at the Haas F1 teamBut the 58-year-old Italian went straight back into theContinue Reading
There is a hard cap on the amount of private testing allowed in the DTM this year, with teams not permitted to freely run their GT3 cars outside of race weekends from the beginning of this month.Although the exact details about the restrictions imposed by the ADAC have not beenContinue Reading
Rins finished 13th in Sunday’s Portuguese Grand Prix, six places behind team-mate Quartararo, in what was his second competitive weekend for Yamaha following his off-season switch from LCR Honda.Although this was a massive improvement from his point-less 16th-place result in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix, where the Yamaha package wasContinue Reading
The Mercedes 2022 challenger was plagued by porpoising and bouncing while its W14 successor drew complaints from drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell over rear-end handling instability.That prompted Mercedes to change concept for 2024, fully abandoning a size-zero sidepod architecture in the hope of developing a platform that was moreContinue Reading
Vettel, the 53-time Formula 1 race winner, had previously driven PPM’s simulator in Flacht in Germany before a brief run at Porsche’s fabled Weissach test track on 21 March.In fair weather conditions at Aragon in Spain today, the 36-year-old completed 118 laps over four stints behind the wheel.”Of course, IContinue Reading
Last weekend’s non-points exhibition at the 3.067-mile, 17-turn circuit featured nine hours of testing ahead of qualifying to set the field for two heat races, with the top six advancing into a 20-lap, two-segment main event.The on-track product saw zero lead changes in either the heats or the final, withContinue Reading
The Melbourne race turned out to a huge chance for F1’s bottom five teams, who would normally be finishing 11th at best on pace.Between the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia only Haas had managed to score a single point in Jeddah.But after the retirements for Red Bull’s Max VerstappenContinue Reading
Lundqvist was the best-placed rookie in the non-championship round on Sunday, finishing sixth in the two-segment main event that had a $500,000 prize on the line after a straightforward drive – starting and finishing fourth – in the second heat race.The 2022 Indy NXT champion finished directly behind Ganassi team-mateContinue Reading
Dan Cammish’s loss of his Team Dynamics drive on the eve of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship campaign, amid Honda and other team sponsors withdrawing, was one of the shocks of that off-season. Yet it set in motion a sequence of events that has led one seasoned Formula FordContinue Reading
Komatsu admitted that the team had called Magnussen into the pits at the wrong time, losing the Dane two places in the process.Like in Saudi Arabia, Haas split the strategies of the two drivers, with Nico Hulkenberg running a long opening stint on the hard tyre before pitting for mediums underContinue Reading