This week as we digest the F175 launch and head off for pre-season testing, we speak to one of F1’s top race promoters to find out what goes on behind the scenes to stage an event for almost 300,000 people.This year is Miami’s fourth as an F1 host venue, partContinue Reading
Cadillac board director Mario Andretti vows Formula 1’s 11th team will be ready for its 2026 entry into the series, even if it will have to take more risks to get there.After a long-winded saga the Andretti effort to enter F 1 finally succeeded when the team secured a dealContinue Reading
A race engineer has one of the most important roles in any Formula 1 team. It is their job to optimise the performance of the driver-and-car combination. Throughout the race weekend, they translate the feedback coming from the driver into set-up decisions to achieve the best possible result. And, exceptContinue Reading
Red Bull has taken the covers off the RB21, the car with which Max Verstappen aims to conquer his fifth straight Formula 1 drivers’ title.Ahead of F1’s three-day winter test in Bahrain, which kicks off on Wednesday, Red Bull was the last team to unveil its updated car design forContinue Reading
Of all the development curves taken across 2024’s Formula 1 season, Alpine’s was arguably the steepest – and it needed to, given that its A524 was overweight, light on downforce and planted at the back of the field when the campaign started. That it finished the year sixth in theContinue Reading
Alpine’s new A525 Formula 1 car was revealed on Monday ahead of the 2025 season with the team conducting a shakedown at Bahrain International Circuit.Officially a filming day, the test was run over a maximum of 200km (124 miles) with demonstration tyres, as per the regulations.Both Pierre Gasly and hisContinue Reading
The moving goalposts, when it comes to allegories and idioms about luck, sidestep from “third time’s the charm” to “bad luck comes in threes”. And, when it comes to Formula 1’s current technical regulations, Mercedes’ own expectations may make a similar step as its third car in this ruleset –Continue Reading
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has taken the covers off its 2025 car, the W16.Like its rival teams Mercedes had already revealed the 2025 livery at last week’s F175 launch event in London, using an older model. Now it has unveiled the launch spec of the W16 car that itsContinue Reading
Aston Martin used to be pretty reliable when it came to launching new cars. When it unveiled its 2022 machine, one of the first cars to court the public’s gaze since ground effect-style aerodynamics were reintroduced, the Silverstone squad let it be known that it was unveiling a ‘proper’ carContinue Reading
New Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has insisted he does not view himself as filling in for Lewis Hamilton and he is keen to write his own story in Formula 1.After the seven-time world champion decided he would join Ferrari at the completion of his 12th season at Mercedes, theContinue Reading