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
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu will clarify “rules of engagement” for new drivers Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman to follow in the 2025 Formula 1 season.The American squad has a history of flashpoints between team-mates – with former drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean colliding several times in 2019, whileContinue Reading
Netflix is emerging as the potential new home for Formula 1 in the US as a bidding process for the live broadcast rights from the 2026 season onwards is due to begin.The streaming service already plays a key role in growing the championship, with its seventh series of the Drive toContinue Reading
Pirelli has entered the next stage of preparing its smaller tyres for the 2026 Formula 1 season, with Ferrari and McLaren testing its harder compounds in Barcelona this week.A lot of attention has gone to Lewis Hamilton continuing his preparations with his new Italian employer alongside team-mate Charles Leclerc and McLaren’sContinue Reading
The first Mercedes team wear designed by adidas has been unveiled, while fans of the squad can now also get hold of the latest merchandise.It is the first time adidas has entered F1 and the company has claimed its involvement will “break new ground” by designing each piece of teamContinue Reading
Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has responded to comments from Otmar Szafnauer hitting out at the Renault leadership, asserting his Formula 1 team is “very lucky to have that support”.Szafnauer was Alpine’s team principal from February 2022 to July 2023. They subsequently parted ways due to the American and RenaultContinue Reading
Aston Martin will unveil its AMR25 car on 23 February in an online launch, a day before it gets its first on-track run at Bahrain.This will follow the team’s livery reveal at F1’s 75th anniversary launch event at London’s O2 Arena on 18 February, and imagery will be released acrossContinue Reading