Williams may as well “go home” if spares situation changes its F1 approach, says Albon
The Thai driver and team-mate Logan Sargeant have faced a challenging start to the season with Williams having been without a spare chassis and not being flush with replacement parts.With Sargeant having been forced to sit out the Australian Grand Prix because of the need for his team-mate to takeContinue Reading
Aston Martin ‘not convinced’ Alonso would definitely want to stay in F1
The Silverstone-based squad last week announced a new long-term deal with Alonso that will carry their partnership into the new rules era in F1 from 2026.But despite the contract talks being straightforward between both parties once they began, team principal Mike Krack has revealed to some private concerns that F1’sContinue Reading
Porsche lodges appeal over da Costa’s Misano Formula E disqualification
Da Costa claimed his first win of the season on Formula E’s inaugural visit to the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli last weekend.The Portuguese driver scored his first victory since the Cape Town E-Prix last season having passed Nissan’s Oliver Rowland three laps from the end of a chaotic raceContinue Reading
2024 MotoGP world championship standings after the Americas GP
The Pramac Racing rider stood on the podium in the opening two grands prix including a victory in Portugal as well as the Qatar sprint race.He claimed another sprint podium at Circuit of The Americas, while fourth in that weekend’s grand prix helped Martin to keep his championship lead asContinue Reading
What Aston Martin’s curfew burn told us about its F1 upgrade trajectory
Although there is no downside to using them up if needed, teams also know that if they are not in their back pocket for the end of the season, then that carries big risks.For if the points battle is tight, the last thing a team would want would be someContinue Reading
Tank Slappers Podcast: MotoGP Americas GP review
Thrown a career lifeline by Aprilia after his acrimonious split with Yamaha midway through 2021, Vinales had so far failed to deliver the kind of results expected of him.But in America, having taken a breakthrough sprint win in Portugal, Vinales put together a perfect weekend where he took pole, sprintContinue Reading
Why F1 teams are racing into the unknown in China
Five years is an awful long time in Formula 1 and it feels even longer given the global pandemic that interrupted F1’s visits to Shanghai.The last time F1 travelled to China, Max Verstappen had only won five races and RB was still racing as Toro Rosso rather than its previousContinue Reading
Ducati: COTA MotoGP podium “essential step” for Bastianini
Bastianini is in the final year of his two-season contract with the factory Ducati squad and was spared demotion for 2024 by Pramac’s Jorge Martin not winning the title in 2023.Four times a grand prix winner in 2022 on the Gresini Ducati, Bastianini struggled for form in an injury-plagued campaign in 2023.But theContinue Reading
What could have been: When Villeneuve’s shock return thwarted an F1 rookie
Jacques Villeneuve’s return to Formula 1 at Renault for the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix in 2004 was a seminal moment in Franck Montagny’s career. Then a test driver for Renault, he had been the logical choice for the seat vacated by Toyota-bound Jarno Trulli. But instead it was 1997 worldContinue Reading
Three-time F1 world champion Verstappen named in 2024 Time 100 list
Verstappen won 19 of the 22 races on the F1 calendar in 2023, and secured last year’s drivers’ championship in early October after finishing second in the Qatar sprint race.His achievements over the past three seasons in F1 have thus ensured his place on this year’s Time 100 list, whichContinue Reading