While Europe’s motorsport scene is still hibernating, Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad has taken an important next step on his path towards a Formula 1 career.With Red Bull moving on from veterans Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez in 2025, the brand’s junior programme has recently delivered its latest batch ofContinue Reading
Williams has signed 1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve as an ambassador for the 2025 season.Villeneuve, who remains the most recent driver to win a title for Williams, will join Jenson Button and Jamie Chadwick in helping “strengthen the connection between the team’s celebrated history and its ambitious future”.The BritishContinue Reading
Fairytales do happen, if you look hard enough. From Junior Saloons in a humble Citroen Saxo in 2016, no one could have guessed that, come December 2024, Luke Browning would be behind the wheel of a Williams Formula 1 car in free practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.He hasContinue Reading
Gulf Air has extended its record-setting title partnership of the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix ahead of the new season.The airline has signed a new deal until 2027, continuing its run of sponsoring the race since its first running in 2004.No other partner has been attached as to a raceContinue Reading
This is just the start. Only in theaters SUMMER 2025. From Apple Original Films and the filmmakers from Top Gun: Maverick comes F1®, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, famed Formula 1® driver Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede GardnerContinue Reading
In one very small way, pairing Alex Albon with Carlos Sainz is a gift from Williams team principal James Vowles to the designers of his squad’s 2025 Formula 1 car.Both appendix-less these days, that’s a rough 9g saving per car no other team can make. Handy, given car weight problemContinue Reading
While it’s easy to be cynical about the up-or-out nature of Red Bull’s young driver programme and the scars its abruptness has often left, no other enterprise has done more to promote young talent in motorsport.To assemble an exhaustive where-are-they now on paper of everyone who has been through theContinue Reading
France, birthplace of motor racing 130 years ago and a patriotic bastion of style, elegance and avant garde design, is the perfect home of Retromobile, arguably the world’s greatest car show.Staged in Paris since 1976 and with Europe’s best museums, motor manufacturers selling historical soul, leading collectors of reassuringly pricelessContinue Reading
News that Netflix could be entering the race to bid for Formula 1 rights in the US is not unexpected, however, it could have massive repercussions on how the series is broadcast in the UK and elsewhere.The current platform sees F1’s rights holder, Liberty Media, sell TV contracts across theContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton’s move from Mercedes to Ferrari wouldn’t be described as “shocking” or “historic” if such transfers happened every year, and F1 is unlikely to see anything like it anytime soon. Not only has the most successful driver in history joined the most iconic team in the championship, but theContinue Reading