Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has insisted 2025 rookie Jack Doohan will get a “fair chance” to impress despite the team signing the more experienced Franco Colapinto as a reserve driver. Over the summer Doohan was announced as Esteban Ocon’s replacement for the 2025 season, with the Australian handed an earlyContinue Reading
Red Bull’s floor update for the 2024 United States Grand Prix came at the expense of ultimate car “potential” but removed many of the correlation and balance issues that affected its RB20, according to technical director Pierre Wache.The development direction of the RB20 hit a problematic streak at the tail end ofContinue Reading
Oliver Turvey has been signed to Williams’ Formula 1 team as a test and development driver to assist with the Grove squad’s progress on its new simulator package.The Briton switches to Williams after holding a similar role for McLaren for over 15 years, and had tested multiple times over thatContinue Reading
The McLaren M23 should be regarded as one of the all-time great Formula 1 cars. It has to be with three world titles – two drivers’ and one constructors’ — and 16 grand prix victories over a world championship career spanning a remarkable six seasons. That longevity makes it aContinue Reading
IndyCar Series stalwart Will Power believes the American open-wheel championship has “restricted testing too much”, having done much less for 2025 than in previous years.The two-time champion, who claimed his titles in 2014 and 2022, has undertaken just one day of on-track testing ahead of the upcoming campaign forcing himContinue Reading
Three-cylinder engines are on their way to European single-seaters for 2025, and it looks as though there is every chance that they will revitalise a much-loved category.Since the demise of the FIA’s old Formula 3 European Championship at the end of 2018, when the ‘F3’ title was given by theContinue Reading
“I’ve always been passionate about engineering, always loved the smell of engineering” – that, in a nutshell, is at the heart of why Andrew Denford launched a not-for-profit STEM competition for students that has now flourished into a worldwide programme and retains the support of Formula 1.2024 was a bigContinue Reading
The fans outside Ferrari’s test track in Fiorano had been there long before dawn. Some had scaled the security fencing, others had brought stepladders and pulled away at the green netting that had been installed to keep out prying eyes and camera lenses.At one point, the growing throng of TifosiContinue Reading
The fans outside Ferrari’s test track in Fiorano had been there long before dawn. Some had scaled the security fencing, others had brought stepladders and pulled away at the green netting that had been installed to keep out prying eyes and camera lenses.At one point, the growing throng of TifosiContinue Reading
Marc Marquez feels it’s only “logical” that Francesco Bagnaia will have first say in matters at Ducati, but is confident the Borgo Panigale marque will give him equal treatment in MotoGP this year.Marquez is joining a Ducati team where team-mate Bagnaia is already the top dog, with the double championContinue Reading