This week we are doing something a little different. We explore how F1 teams make key decisions on areas like driver recruitment, development and race strategy and compare it with how things are done at a top Premier League football club. F1 is a sport built around technology, whereas in footballContinue Reading
With the bombshell announcement at the start of this year that Lewis Hamilton would be moving to Ferrari for 2025, it was revealed that Carlos Sainz would be losing his seat at the Maranello-based team. Much speculation surrounded where he would go, and there was talk of him signing forContinue Reading
The Monaco Grand Prix’s position on the Formula 1 calendar remains intact, bar a minor date tweak, as a new deal has been signed to run until 2031.But given the iconic race’s place in F1 has come under question in recent years, is this the right move for the series?Continue Reading
Ferrari has admitted it was late to the party in exploiting the benefits of Formula 1’s flexi wing tricks because it was convinced the FIA would clamp down on the practice.F1 teams have found that exploiting aero elasticity on front wings with the current generation of cars can be aContinue Reading
Raffaele Marciello’s victory in the 2023 FIA GT World Cup was his final act as a Mercedes driver before joining BMW. The only two-time winner of the single-driver GT3 event since it gained FIA status in 2015 will return this weekend for his maiden Macau appearance aboard an M4 andContinue Reading
As Franco Colapinto has impressed the Formula 1 paddock at Williams as a mid-season replacement for Logan Sargeant, there has been plenty of calls to keep him on the grid for 2025.But with no room at the Grove-based squad, as Carlos Sainz comes in alongside Alex Albon, the team hasContinue Reading
As Franco Colapinto has impressed the Formula 1 paddock at Williams as a mid-season replacement for Logan Sargeant, there has been plenty of calls to keep him on the grid for 2025.But with no room at the Grove-based squad, as Carlos Sainz comes in alongside Alex Albon, the team hasContinue Reading
One of the crown jewels of F1’s calendar, Monaco’s contract was up for renewal after the 2025 edition.There had been doubts about Monaco’s long-term future of the race given its notorious struggles to provide an entertaining race on the narrows streets of the principality, but F1 and Monaco have nowContinue Reading
Marc Marquez is set to ride Ducati’s current-spec GP24 as well as a GP25 prototype in next week’s Barcelona MotoGP test, according to the marque’s test rider Michele Pirro.Marquez will get his first opportunity to work with the factory Ducati team in the official pre-season test on 19 November, havingContinue Reading
There are a surprising number of similarities between Freddie Slater and Alex Dunne, who will be Theodore Prema Racing team-mates for this weekend’s Macau Grand Prix and are among two of the drivers to watch out for.Both have enjoyed dominant campaigns on British shores in the past; Slater rewrote theContinue Reading