The Maranello squad has generally been the stronger team in the first five races of the 2024 season, being the only non-Red Bull winner in the Australian GP thanks to Carlos Sainz’s victory.But McLaren’s Lando Norris had the upper hand in the last race in China, where he was MaxContinue Reading
Haas has made considerable progress on the issue that blighted its F1 campaign last year, which was caused by a fundamental aerodynamic imbalance that meant the VF-23 could get its tyres working well for qualifying, but would then chew through them in races.In preparing its VF-24 2024 challenger in pre-seasonContinue Reading
Red Bull crushed the 2023 season by winning 21 out of 22 grands prix, with its early dominance allowing the team to hold off on producing many in-season car upgrades.Instead, the team focused most of its resources on 2024, producing a car that looks substantially different despite its predecessor’s successes.ItsContinue Reading
The Shanghai round was the first event where F1’s latest sprint format has been deployed –with the parc ferme restrictions on car adjustments relaxed between the two Saturday sessions.This opened the possibility for teams to run very experimental set-ups in the shorter races – especially for cars starting outside theContinue Reading
The Faenza-based squad has found itself locked in an intense fight with Haas for supremacy of the five-squad chasing pack that is behind F1’s top teams of Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Aston Martin.The current competitiveness of the F1 grid means that there are scant few points on offerContinue Reading
Alonso’s recent Aston Martin contract extension means he will carry on racing until at least the end of the 2026 F1 campaign, by which time he will be 45.That would make him the oldest F1 driver to compete since Graham Hill in 1975.Alonso already holds the record for the mostContinue Reading
The Milton Keynes-based team will produce its own power unit for the first time in 2026, when its new Red Bull Powertrains division ties up with Ford.Although Red Bull is under no illusions about the challenge that lies ahead as it takes on the might of manufacturers like Mercedes, FerrariContinue Reading
Sponsored by Monaco is considered home for almost half of the 20 drivers on the current F1 grid as well as Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff but there are more reasons than just the huge tax-free benefits that draw them there.One of the world’s smallest nations, Monaco has a total areaContinue Reading
Aston Martin protested against the qualifying result in Shanghai after Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz rejoined Q2 after spinning off the track.Sainz was stationary for 77 seconds after tapping the wall coming out of the final corner, but the Spaniard managed to get going again and advanced to Q3 at the expenseContinue Reading
Andretti recently opened a new headquarters in Silverstone and has now started a recruiting spree to populate its European base with F1 staff, despite having been told by the series it will not be allowed to enter in the 2026 season.The 60 vacancies include senior F1 roles such as headContinue Reading