It was one of the more bewildering sights of the 2014 Formula 1 season, as Finbarr O’Connell took his place in the FIA team principals’ press conference at the Abu Dhabi GP. O’Connell was working for insolvency firm Smith & Williamson, who in turn had taken on the administration ofContinue Reading
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur says his team will have to improve “every single pillar of performance” to catch McLaren in 2025.Ferrari just fell short of beating McLaren after an up-and-down campaign in which the Scuderia returned to the championship fight and its drivers, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, registeredContinue Reading
Who will win the 2025 F1 Drivers’ Championship? Will Lewis Hamilton score more points than Charles Leclerc? What impact will the struggles of car manufacturers, especially Europeans, have on F1 next year? How might geopolitics impact on F1, for example in the Middle East and Asia?For our final podcast ofContinue Reading
McLaren believes that the reduction in wind tunnel time that it faces as a result of winning the Formula 1 constructors’ championship will not be as big a handicap as some think.The Woking-based outfit’s triumph in last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix helped to secure its first teams’ title sinceContinue Reading
Changes to the FIA statutes have been granted at the General Assembly in Rwanda, affecting the roles of the ethics and audit committees at motorsport’s governing body.Under new plans, the responsibilities of the compliance officer would mean that power would be handed over to the FIA president and the presidentContinue Reading
Rwanda has formally announced its bid to hold a Formula 1 race at a new track close to the planned Bugesera airport near Kigali.The spectacular circuit, which will make full use of the hilly terrain where it is to be constructed, is being designed by former F1 driver Alexander Wurz.AutosportContinue Reading
RB introduced a new nose and front wing assembly at the last Formula 1 race of the season in Abu Dhabi last weekend.But while the team did briefly use the latest design during practice on Friday, the team quickly reverted to its regular specification for the rest of the weekend.TheContinue Reading
Perhaps in one way the punishment serves the ridiculous nature of the crime. The inconvenience of an eight-and-a-half-hour flight each way to Rwanda to “undertake some work” with the Rwanda Automobile Club as retribution for swearing during a press conference.Coming at the end of the longest-ever season in Formula 1’sContinue Reading
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will discover today if changes to the motorsport federation’s statutes will be approved.The FIA General Assembly will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the prize-giving ceremony where members will vote on the proposals.Alterations would restrict the ethics and audit committees’ control and reduce the responsibilitiesContinue Reading
The FIA has unveiled a series of tweaks to the 2025 Formula 1 regulations governing driver cooling and the application of DRS, and has also revealed revised regulations for 2026.Following the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council in Rwanda, the expected inclusion of driver cooling – denoted by new “heat hazard”Continue Reading