Fernando Alonso says it “doesn’t matter” if Aston Martin finishes in lower points-paying places in the upcoming 2024 Formula 1 races, as he would rather it prioritised 2025 car improvement.Aston has not finished higher than fifth in the 2024 season so far – which it has only done once, atContinue Reading
Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says Liam Lawson will race for either the company’s main Formula 1 team in 2025 or its sister squad RB.Lawson, a Red Bull junior who last raced full-time in Super Formula in 2023, has been on the sidelines this season while acting as reserveContinue Reading
A triple whammy of worst-case scenarios has emerged as the cause of George Russell’s car being underweight in Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix.Russell was disqualified following his victory at Spa-Francorchamps last month after his Mercedes W15 was found to be 1.5 kilogrammes under the minimum weight limit in post-race scrutineering.MercedesContinue Reading
Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache says the team’s organisation hasn’t changed following Adrian Newey’s withdrawal from all Formula 1 technical matters.Newey has still been seen on the team’s pit wall as a strategist and has focused on his RB17 hypercar project in recent months, but his days of consultingContinue Reading
As Formula 1’s schedule has grown to 24 races, coming up with a sensible calendar has become an increasingly complex puzzle.Under its recent popularity boom, the Liberty Media-owned series hasn’t been short of candidates to organise a grand prix, with the likes of Miami, Qatar and Las Vegas joining inContinue Reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli is set to be handed his first FP1 outing with Mercedes at the Italian Grand Prix as preparations for his potential promotion to its Formula 1 line-up from 2025 intensify.The Italian, who turns 18 on Sunday, is strongly tipped to be named as replacement for Ferrari-bound LewisContinue Reading
Joseph Loake claimed his Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year prize on Wednesday, completing 25 timed laps as he got behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car for the first time.The 19-year-old, who currently competes in Formula 3 for Rodin, was announced as the AMABA winnerContinue Reading
After a month-long Summer Break, Formula 1 returns this week for the first of the final 10 races to close out the 2024 season. Round 15 of the Championship sees the sport head to the Dutch GP at Zandvoort, a tight, technical circuit with banking up to 19 degrees high.Continue Reading
Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes race engineer Pete Bonnington has been promoted to head of race engineering and will stay with the Formula 1 team in 2025.Bonnington will dovetail his new role with his existing race engineering duties for Hamilton until the end of the season.A Mercedes spokesperson has confirmed the 49-year-oldContinue Reading
When the Toro Rosso team renamed itself to AlphaTauri, it pledged to become a “sister team” to Formula 1’s championship-winning Red Bull team – and this path has progressed with its RB rebrand.RB has always used transferrable components developed by the lead Red Bull team, but took on the rearContinue Reading