The company that runs the squad, Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd., declared a turnover for 2023 of £546.5 million, which covers the year that ended December 31.This figure represents an increase of £71.9 million over the 2022 figure of £474.6 million.As a comparison, Red Bull Technology, the company behind Red Bull’sContinue Reading
McLaren started off 2024 in good shape, heading into the fifth round of the season as the third team in the pecking order, ahead of Mercedes.But while it remains strong on high-downforce circuits, the team admitted at the start of the year that its persistent low-speed weakness still hadn’t beenContinue Reading
Formula 1 returns to Shanghai after a 5-year hiatus for the Chinese Grand Prix. Following a dominant 1-2 in Japan, Red Bull and Max Verstappen will be hoping to continue their form in China. Additionally, this weekend marks the first of the 6 sprint races held this season, limiting theContinue Reading
After four podium-less seasons during which Haas scored just 52 points in total, team principal Guenther Steiner and technical director Simone Resta left the squad last winter.The former was replaced by ex-trackside engineering director Komatsu while the latter’s position was taken over by Andrea de Zordo, who used to beContinue Reading
China last hosted an F1 race in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic derailed its grand prix.F1 now returns to the demanding Shanghai International Circuit after four seasons in which it didn’t appear on the calendar, with teams facing several unknowns on how this generation of cars will perform there.Furthermore, theContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton’s decision to join Ferrari for next year means that Mercedes is on the hunt for a new team-mate for George Russell.There are two different paths that the team can go down: hunting out the best experienced driver it can to help its push to the front, or throwingContinue Reading
Having read Autosport almost all my life, I’m chuffed to have been given a regular column in a magazine/website that I respect. I am sure that I will return to what I know best before too long – running race teams – but for the moment, while I recharge myContinue Reading
Throughout his career we have seen plenty of ideas for his ultimate F1 machine – which famously included his Red Bull X2010 created for Gran Turismo. It was a 1400bhp fan car that smashed the track record at Suzuka by 20 seconds during simulator runs.But delivering the perfect F1 carContinue Reading
Last year there were talks between Yoshihisa Ueno, the president of Super Formula promoter JRP, and the Suzuka race organisers to bring Japan’s leading domestic single-seater series to the event.Super Formula left a two-month gap between its first round in March and its second event in May for the F1Continue Reading
What is perhaps most interesting about Ferrari’s performance, however, is that it has come without it bringing any significant upgrades to its car.While work is under way on what is understood to be a pretty major development step for the start of the European season at the Emilia Romagna GrandContinue Reading