Valtteri Bottas has been re-signed by Mercedes to be its reserve driver for the 2025 Formula 1 season, after he missed out on keeping his seat at Sauber.The Finnish racer scored 10 grand prix wins for the Silver Arrows squad in a 100-race stint between 2017 and 2021 when heContinue Reading
On the face of it, Esteban Ocon’s second-place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix might be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but it’s easy to overlook a handful of other impressive moments in a difficult final season with Alpine.Ocon led a decent portion of that Interlagos race, andContinue Reading
George Russell has implored FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to “express what his goal is” with motorsport’s governing body, amid the ongoing tension between the Emirati former rally driver and Formula 1 racers. The 2024 F1 season finished with the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association still awaiting a formal response to itsContinue Reading
Despite continuing to be overlooked by Red Bull’s lead Formula 1 team, Yuki Tsunoda showed great maturity over 2024, with three seventh places the highlights of his year in Australia, Miami and Brazil.He also managed his best F1 qualifying result to date with third on the grid in slippery conditionsContinue Reading
“Messy” is how Alex Albon sums up his third season with Williams.Problems came from both sides; his crashes in Melbourne and Brazil were awkward since they led to missed races (in Australia for Logan Sargeant), but Williams’s car-build issues also meant he was competing with a long-hidden weight penalty andContinue Reading
Aston Martin regressed over 2024 as upgrades did little to improve its competitiveness in Formula 1, but the evergreen Fernando Alonso still squeezed every drop from his car.The Spanish veteran’s consistent points-scoring exploits in the opening rounds of the season, spearheaded by fifth in Jeddah, laid the foundations for Aston’sContinue Reading
Back to winning ways in 2024 after 946 days without gracing an F1 podium’s top step – Lewis Hamilton’s emotional Silverstone victory was the highlight of his season, but he was excellent in qualifying and on the orthodox two-stop strategy at Spa too.Hamilton’s in-race tyre management remains top class, asContinue Reading
Nico Hulkenberg led the line admirably for Haas as the American team stepped up its performance for 2024.Brilliantly consistent in the first 10 races, all but one of his finishes in those were inside of the ninth/10th/11th bracket, then he took advantage of Haas upgrades to finish sixth in theContinue Reading
Alpine’s struggles with an overweight and undercooked car at the start of 2024 hurt Pierre Gasly but, when the A524 started to improve, the Frenchman shone. A stretch of four points-scoring finishes from Monaco to Austria gave Alpine hope that it could reverse the arrears, but it was in aContinue Reading
Oscar Piastri enjoyed a great second F1 season and made a valuable contribution to the end of McLaren’s long wait for a constructors’ title.With a slight race pace disadvantage to Lando Norris last year, Piastri picked up his game and claimed his first grand prix victory in Hungary – albeitContinue Reading