Red Bull has commenced its incremental upgrade push to try and close the gap with the leading McLaren cars, starting with a revised floor design for the Miami sprint weekend, which Verstappen will trial.Teams are generally reluctant to bring substantial floor changes to a sprint weekend, with just one practiceContinue Reading
Austin may have hosted Formula 1 since 2012, but the real test for if the championship could finally break into American culture came a decade later when the decision was taken to race in Miami.The Circuit of the Americas stages the de facto United States Grand Prix and is oftenContinue Reading
McLaren’s championship leader Oscar Piastri has set the fastest time in practice for the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, which was red-flagged for the stricken Haas of Oliver Bearman.The sprint weekend’s sole practice session got off to a false start for last year’s maiden winner Lando Norris, who reported someContinue Reading
Haas driver Oliver Bearman has led calls for FIA to fine-tune its regulations around the new cooling vests drivers have at their disposal for hot Formula 1 races.In the wake of an extremely hot 2023 Qatar Grand Prix in which several drivers struggled with varying heat exhaustion symptoms, the FIAContinue Reading
Garrett Mitchell, better known as the YouTuber Cleetus McFarland, took Daytona by storm earlier this year, even after wrecking out of the ARCA season-opener when he joined the broadcast booth. With over four million subscribers on YouTube, the colorful internet personality returned for more superspeedway action at Talladega in April.AtContinue Reading
Formula 1 has announced it has signed a new 10-year contract extension with the organisers of the Miami Grand Prix, keeping the race on the calendar until at least 2041.The new deal was announced on Friday ahead of this weekend’s running by F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and Tom Garfinkel, managingContinue Reading
British Touring Car Championship star Tom Ingram reckons the pace of the series’ top two teams has made the task of winning a second title even harder. Ingram claimed his sole BTCC title in 2022, his second season since joining the Excelr8 Motorsport team to spearhead its line-up of Hyundai i30Continue Reading
The boom in Formula 1’s popularity in recent years is so often credited to the Netflix series ‘Drive to Survive’, that its success spawned several other attempts to capture the inner workings of a sporting championship.Few have succeeded, and fewer still if you look at the other motorsports series outContinue Reading
Red Bull has continued its efforts to claw back performance versus McLaren with a revised Formula 1 floor design for this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.Although the RB21 has shown glimmers of competitiveness over the opening five rounds, the car’s weaknesses have largely manifested in its handling characteristics and greater tyreContinue Reading
“Our tyre plan was f***ed up by the crash”So spoke Gresini Ducati team manager Michele Masini following Alex Marquez’s rollercoaster Friday at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. That’s nothing particularly unusual in motorsport, of course. But these words weren’t muttered under Masini’s breath at the back of his team’s sky blueContinue Reading