Red Bull’s substantial step for this season has caught rivals by surprise after most of them focussed on trying to work out what made last year’s RB19 so competitive, and inevitably ended up with cars that owe much to the title winner.Red Bull itself has now gone in a differentContinue Reading
Audi and Ford/Red Bull Powertrains are both currently developing new power units for the first year of the new rules in 2026, while Cadillac intends to enter as a manufacturer in 2028 with the mooted Andretti team.The change to the new rules is a tricky one, even for the establishedContinue Reading
The new SF-24 has looked good from the start of testing in Bahrain, and crucially its on-track behaviour has mirrored that seen in the Maranello simulator.Team-mate Carlos Sainz led the second day of testing outright, while Leclerc was fastest in the truncated morning running.Leclerc says that the team is inContinue Reading
Sainz set the pace at Bahrain International Circuit in the second of three days of testing, ahead of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.The afternoon session was pulled forward by an hour, which meant ran for five hours rather than four, after two hours were lost inContinue Reading
Sainz’s team-mate Charles Leclerc topped a curtailed morning session, which was halted with 1h38m on the clock after he hit a loose drain cover and forced Ferrari to change the floor on its SF-24.The session wasn’t restarted but an extra hour was added to the afternoon session instead, meaning someContinue Reading
The Losail International Circuit in Doha is due to host the official pre-season test of 2024 on 24-25 February, a week before the opening round of the year on 2 March.However, the two-day test may have to be pushed back as some teams wait for their cars and equipment toContinue Reading
The FW45 from 2023 – which Albon guided to eight points finishes as the team climbed from last to seventh in the constructors’ championship – proved particularly weak through low-speed changes of direction, under braking and through longer-duration fast corners.But speaking on the second day of pre-season running in Bahrain,Continue Reading
The close alliance between the Red Bull squad and its sister RB operation has come under the spotlight recently, amid calls from McLaren boss Zak Brown for F1 to re-evaluate the regulations regarding co-operation between competitors.Brown believes that in the budget cap era, the time has come for F1 toContinue Reading
Russell had a full day in the car in Bahrain on Wednesday, before Hamilton took over on Thursday.While the team’s programme meant that Russell’s headline times were modest relative to those of rivals, he says that it was already clear that the car is an improvement.Russell and Hamilton both lackedContinue Reading
Honda is looking to snap a barren period that has seen it score one race win in two years and go without a title since 2019.While HRC made big gains with its 2024 RC213 compared to its predecessor, Honda is still lagging behind its rivals as the new season approaches.“WeContinue Reading