Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes race engineer Pete Bonnington has been promoted to head of race engineering and will stay with the Formula 1 team in 2025.Bonnington will dovetail his new role with his existing race engineering duties for Hamilton until the end of the season.A Mercedes spokesperson has confirmed the 49-year-oldContinue Reading
Anyone getting a sense of deja vu? Does the governing body launching a consultation on clumsy proposals without a proper explanation of the reasoning behind them sound familiar?But, no, I’m not talking about the controversial changes to track-limits rules launched at the start of last year. Instead, I’m referring toContinue Reading
MotoGP has announced that Thailand will take over Qatar’s spot as the opening round of the 2025 season on 2 March.Usually scheduled at the latter end of the campaign in October along with the bulk of flyaway races in Asia and Oceania, Buriram has now been granted a new dateContinue Reading
When the Toro Rosso team renamed itself to AlphaTauri, it pledged to become a “sister team” to Formula 1’s championship-winning Red Bull team – and this path has progressed with its RB rebrand.RB has always used transferrable components developed by the lead Red Bull team, but took on the rearContinue Reading
Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache has conceded that the team may have hit the ceiling with the development of its F1 car, though suggested the overall limit of the regulations has not been reached.The Milton Keynes-based outfit has established itself as the benchmark in the latest technical era, withContinue Reading
Maverick Vinales believes improving the braking performance will be “key” in catapulting Aprilia near the front of the MotoGP grid.Americas GP winner Vinales made that comment after the start/stop nature of the Red Bull Ring exposed a major weakness of the RS-GP, with both him and team-mate Aleix Espargaro strugglingContinue Reading
Formula 1’s shutdown is over, with teams heading to Zandvoort for the first of 2024’s 10 remaining rounds. As F1 wakes up from its summertime siesta, here is a refresher of some key storylines you may have missed, and some lingering questions seeking an answer in the Dutch dunes andContinue Reading
Speculation in Formula 1 got intense during the summer break in the wake of a change the FIA made to the technical regulations outlawing asymmetrical braking systems.Off the back of the most recent FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting that ratified a host of revised and future rules, an addedContinue Reading
One of the British Touring Car Championship’s best-known driver-engineer double acts might not have happened if it hadn’t been for a seemingly random Facebook friend request.“I got one from Shaun Hollamby,” recounts Craig Porley, the brains behind Jake Hill’s BTCC title-contending form with West Surrey Racing. “I didn’t know himContinue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia is on a roll in the 2024 MotoGP season. Despite making some mistakes in the sprint races this year, the two-time champion has been a class apart on Sundays, where most of the points are awarded.His victory in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix was his seventh of 2024, puttingContinue Reading