Dall’Igna: MotoGP concessions allow rivals to make mistakes Ducati can’t make
On the 10th anniversary of his arrival at the Bolognese company, the engineer has been accumulating influence, in his team and in the championship, to the point of being seen by many as the Adrian Newey of the competition.After breaking most records last season, Ducati will face 2024 in fullContinue Reading
Dall’Igna: MotoGP concessions allow rivals to make mistakes Ducati can’t
On the 10th anniversary of his arrival at the Bolognese company, the engineer has been accumulating influence, in his team and in the championship, to the point of being seen by many as the Adrian Newey of MotoGP.After breaking most records last season, Ducati will face 2024 in full strengthContinue Reading
Zhou confident Sauber F1 team can return to 2022 level
Zhou scored just six points in his second season in F1 in 2023, equalling his debut season tally, as the then-named Alfa Romeo team struggled for competitiveness with its C43 amid a close midfield battle.The Hinwil squad finished ninth, down from sixth in 2022 when Zhou’s team-mate Valtteri Bottas scoredContinue Reading
Hyundai reveals upgraded 2024 WRC challenger
The upgraded i20 N has been unveiled sporting a new livery design featuring the South Korean manufacturer’s familiar sky blue and orange factory colours.Hyundai has elected to use homologation jokers to develop its i20N in the off- season, focussing on weight saving to enhance its performance and finding solutions toContinue Reading
Testing AVL’s Groundbreaking Hydrogen Race Engine
We keep hearing about how Hydrogen could possibly be the future of modern race engines, but AVL Racetech is pushing its engineering expertise by building its own H2 Hydrogen Race Engine. We took a trip to their HQ in Graz, Austria, to test their engine on the dyno to seeContinue Reading
Luxembourg’s Gil Linster chasing “big dream” of NASCAR career
Linster, who competes full-time in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Elite 2 division, made his first laps around the iconic speedway during last weekend’s ARCA Menards Series preseason test.Driving an entry for Kimmel Racing, he performed well enough to earn his superspeedway license, which leaves him approved to compete onContinue Reading
Mercedes W15 ‘feels like a car for the first time in two years’ in F1 sim
Mercedes doubled down on its failed 2022 concept in 2023, which left it unable to bridge the gap with the dominant Red Bull squad as it beat Ferrari to a distant second place in the constructors’ standings.Under technical director James Allison, who returned to the position after taking over fromContinue Reading
Red Bull reveals F1 2024 launch date
Red Bull’s launch date is the latest of the dates teams have announced thus far, taking place just six days before winter testing gets underway in Bahrain.It is not yet known whether Red Bull will reveal its actual RB20 car for the 2024 season or whether it will stick toContinue Reading
M-Sport outlines 2024 Puma WRC development plan
The British squad took the covers off its 2024 Puma at last week’s Autosport International before embarking on its first pre-event test of the season ahead of the Monte Carlo curtain raiser (25-28 January) last weekend.M-Sport scored two wins last year, matching rivals Hyundai, after Ott Tanak triumphed in SwedenContinue Reading
Inside the latest Corvette challenger ready to go global
The Daytona 24 Hours later this month will herald the global competition debut for the latest GM sportscar to follow in the long line of successful Corvette Racing machines dating back to the C5-R from the last millennium.Following the demise of the GTE rules, the Corvette C8.R that debuted inContinue Reading