Maybe not the ace in the pack of the Porsche Penske Motorsport World Endurance Championship squad in year one of the 963 LMDh race programme, Kevin Estre came of age in 2024 when he had the car under him to do the business – and also, perhaps, when he didn’t!TheContinue Reading
Pascal Wehrlein merited his world title after making no season-defining errors. He only non-scored twice due to collisions that weren’t his fault.Vastly improved qualifying was key; three poles meant nine bonus points, three more than his title-winning margin. His campaign began with victory in Mexico and at Misano he benefitedContinue Reading
A classy year for Carlos Sainz in difficult circumstances, in knowing that first, his Ferrari seat was going to Lewis Hamilton in 2025 and second, in losing a race to appendicitis. The Spaniard bounced back from the illness with a fine victory in Melbourne, and his victory in Mexico was perhapsContinue Reading
Undoubtedly, his best Formula 1 season to date – with the statistics proving so. In 2024, Lando Norris finished as championship runner-up (his previous best finishing position was sixth in 2021 and 2023), he took four wins in breaking his GP victory duck (along with a sprint win too) andContinue Reading
If 2024 was a year when Ferrari made it clear exactly how much Charles Leclerc means to the team – signing him to a new contract and leaving Carlos Sainz exposed when Lewis Hamilton became available – then he too showed how much the Prancing Horse means to him.The disappointmentContinue Reading
“A Schrodinger’s season for Max Verstappen. Concurrently his best and not his best.” That’s how we’ve described the world champion’s campaign in our Formula 1 driver rankings. And that’s because there are two ways of looking at Verstappen’s performance over the past months.One is that his success in winning theContinue Reading
Let’s recap the saga of Red Bull’s second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It’s a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a ‘normal’ approach to the driver market.Carlos Sainz became unexpectedly available forContinue Reading
Josh McErlean will graduate to the World Rally Championship’s top tier in 2025 after securing a deal to join M-Sport-Ford. The 25-year-old will pilot M-Sport’s second Ford Puma Rally1 in a full 14-round WRC campaign next year, joining Gregoire Munster, who was announced as the British squad’s team leader on Wednesday.McErleanContinue Reading
It’s somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don’t necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team’s driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they cameContinue Reading
Liam Lawson will step up to Red Bull as Max Verstappen’s team-mate in Formula 1 next year, it was announced on Thursday.Just a day after the Milton Keynes-based squad revealed that a deal had been reached to part ways with Sergio Perez, it confirmed that it had elected to promoteContinue Reading