Continuing our festive top 50 drivers theme, we thought we’d weigh up the best female challengers from the 2023 season across the wider world of motorsport.Women have been successful in single-seaters, sports-prototypes, GTs and touring cars. Here are the standout 10, in alphabetical order.Lena Buhler2nd in F1 Academy Photo by:Continue Reading
Despite a one-off clash in the Italian Grand Prix, Norris and Piastri enjoyed a harmonious relationship in 2023, with Norris the de facto team leader in his fifth year with the Woking squad while Piastri came in as a rookie. The scoreline reflected their different experience levels, with Norris scoring overContinue Reading
Following the collapse of RNF Racing at the end of the 2023 MotoGP season, NASCAR outfit Trackhouse – owned by Marks and the musician Pitbull – has taken over the grid slots vacated by the Malaysian squad.Trackhouse’s arrival in MotoGP comes as the series looks to expand its presence inContinue Reading
While the Spaniard logged eight podiums, Stroll’s best result was a fourth in the high-attrition Australian Grand Prix.However, after struggling to come to terms with the AMR23 for much of the year, Stroll finished the season on a high with solid fifth places in Brazil and Las Vegas.Stroll says thoseContinue Reading
Fernandez was promoted to MotoGP as the reigning Moto2 champion, moving to the KTM-backed Tech3 squad alongside Pol Espargaro.The Spaniard endured a largely difficult maiden season, but showed flashes of speed, taking a best result of fourth at the French Grand Prix to finish 17th in the standings.From the off, however,Continue Reading
Vasseur arrived at Ferrari last winter to replace Mattia Binotto and while he arrived too late to have a significant effect on the 2023 car project, his reorganisation efforts did start showing promise across the second half of 2023.While the team struggled to make big upgrades to its SF-23, partlyContinue Reading
The ranking is sure to cause the usual controversy and debate, amongst fans and those featured in the list alike, but we do our best each year to assess which drivers excelled given various factors such as the series they race in, the competition and the machinery at their disposal.YouContinue Reading
The first thing to remember is that it is not who we think the 50 best drivers are on the planet. It’s the 50 we think have performed best in a particular season, our effort to highlight the standout drivers each year. We’ve done other articles on the greatest ever…PLUS:Continue Reading
One of this year’s biggest questions in deciding the top 50 was whether Perez deserves to be on the list. He’d started 2023 well, with two wins and two second places in the opening four races to hint at giving Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen more than a notional titleContinue Reading
If there was a sportscar driver you wanted in your car for a 24-hour race this year, it was Nicky Catsburg. Victories at the Nurburgring (outright), Le Mans (GTE Am) and Spa (Pro-Am), each in different cars, underlined that the versatile Dutchman is operating at the top of his game.HeContinue Reading