Hamilton: Horner investigation “a really important moment for F1”
The Mercedes driver was speaking in the pre-event press conference for the 2024 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, where Horner is understood to currently be travelling to with the outcome of Red Bull GmbH’s investigation still outstanding.Several F1 stakeholders – including the championship’s commercial rights holder and motorsport’s governing body –Continue Reading
Ricciardo: 2025 Red Bull F1 seat a goal, not a focus
With Sergio Perez’s Red Bull contract expiring at the end of the year, the Mexican’s highly-coveted seat for 2025 remains up for grabs as part of an intriguing driver market.Unless Red Bull decides to poach a driver from a rival outfit, Ricciardo and Tsunoda are set to be Perez’s mainContinue Reading
Leclerc hails “step forward” on Ferrari’s F1 wind sensitivity woes
This has in turn contributed to much-improved consistency over a stint, which was the key weakness that hampered the team in races in 2023.Leclerc and team-mate Carlos Sainz struggled for much of the year to maintain consistent form, even with different sets of the same tyre compound.While the situation was improvedContinue Reading
Ocon admits a “possibility” Alpine could be at back of F1 grid
The French manufacturer is coming off the back of a challenging first test in Bahrain last week where the new A524 showed itself to be lacking in both handling and pace terms against the opposition.While the team has been open about bracing itself for a tough start, some analysis fromContinue Reading
Ferrari starts 2024 WEC campaign with no performance upgrades to its Hypercar
The Italian manufacturer has confirmed that it has not taken any of the so-called evo jokers allowed to manufacturers competing in the Hypercar class ahead of this weekend’s WEC curtain-raiser in Qatar.Ferrari sportscar technical director Ferdinando Cannizzo said: “At the moment we have not used any jokers; we want toContinue Reading
Porsche ace Smalley to make British GT debut with Garage 59 McLaren
The 23-year-old, who also won the 2018 Ginetta Junior and 2021 GT4 Supercup titles with Elite Motorsport, will partner Shaun Balfe after the Am driver moved across from Barwell Motorsport.Smalley was selected as Porsche’s junior driver for the 2022-23 season as he went on to finish runner-up in the CarreraContinue Reading
FIA Insights – GT3: The World’s Biggest Racing Platform
00:00 – World’s biggest racing platform02:15 – The home of BoP03:18 – Tailor made for gentleman drivers04:05 – GT3 joins FIA WEC05:05 – GTE vs GT305:51 – Drivers’ perspective Judging by the number of manufacturers involved, and the number of homologated cars, GT3 is the FIA’s most successful customer racingContinue Reading
Ferrari junior Beganovic identifies areas to “fix” for 2024 F3 title bid
Ferrari junior driver Beganovic is the highest-placed returning driver in F3 this year after ending 2023 in sixth place and has therefore been earmarked as one of the early title favourites.But his rookie campaign ended on somewhat of a sour note as he picked up just two points from theContinue Reading
Rovanpera adds Safari Rally Kenya to WRC part-time programme
Toyota has today announced that Rovanpera will pilot one of the three factory Toyota GR Yaris entries at the famous gravel rally next month (28-31 March). Rovanpera will join full-time Toyota team-mates Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta.Inclusion on the Kenya entry list means Rovanpera will compete in two consecutive WRCContinue Reading
F3 star Browning eyeing Williams F1 opportunity in 2024
More often than not, drivers progress to F1 via the established path of F3 and Formula 2, but occasionally there are exceptions.The most notable example in recent years is three-time world champion Max Verstappen, who graduated to the top tier directly from European F3 in 2015 with Toro Rosso.FEATURE: AContinue Reading