Max Verstappen says it is unrealistic to expect Red Bull to close its race pace deficit with McLaren in the short-term despite a range of upgrades coming to the 2025 Formula 1 car.Verstappen finished 40 seconds behind McLaren’s race winner Oscar Piastri at the most recent Miami Grand Prix, havingContinue Reading
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen provoked rampant intrigue in the motorsport community last weekend when he drove a Ferrari – of all things – in a test at the Nurburgring Norschleife. Now, Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu has put his foot down and says his team’s driver’s won’t be followingContinue Reading
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen provoked rampant intrigue in the motorsport community last weekend when he drove a Ferrari – of all things – in a test at the Nurburgring Norschleife. Now, Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu has put his foot down and says his team’s driver’s won’t be followingContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton has piled into the FIA president’s decision to row back on his swearing ban – saying the whole “ridiculous” situation is “a mess”.Meanwhile, George Russell said Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s plans to climb down on its previous stance on punishing drivers seemed “all a bit suspect”.It comes after FormulaContinue Reading
Max Verstappen revealed further details of his GT3 test at Nurburgring’s Nordschleife, in which he competed under the pseudonym of “Franz Hermann” during an official Nurburgring Endurance Series test.The four-time Formula 1 champion drove Emil Frey Racing’s Ferrari 296 GT3, which the Swiss outfit usually races in DTM. Verstappen’s protege,Continue Reading
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he “didn’t know how tough it was going to be” to adapt to life at Ferrari during the 2025 Formula 1 campaign.The seven-time world champion made a surprise, blockbuster move to the Scuderia over the winter after 12 successful seasons with Mercedes, where he wonContinue Reading
“If your 100% is just to perform at a very high level in Formula 1, which is where I want to get to as soon as possible, that for me should take less than half a year; five to 10 races.”One of the recurring narratives over the first quarter ofContinue Reading
Monoposto ace George Line is the highest-placed improver in the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings this week after scoring a hat-trick of wins at Anglesey.Line was outside of the top 50 of last week’s table, but his Welsh treble at the wheel of a Dallara F308 has taken hisContinue Reading
New Sauber team principal Jonathan Wheatley has appeared to have brought some of his Red Bull secrets to his new squad and the effects are already being felt by its drivers.Both Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg believe Sauber is “making progress” now that the former Red Bull sporting director isContinue Reading
Just a quarter of the way into the 2025 Formula 1 season, one of the six ‘rookies’ making their full-season debut has already been benched in favour of another.Last week, Alpine announced it was replacing Jack Doohan with Franco Colapinto – a manoeuvre which had seemed virtually inevitable since theContinue Reading