Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #6 Carlos Sainz
A classy year for Carlos Sainz in difficult circumstances, in knowing that first, his Ferrari seat was going to Lewis Hamilton in 2025 and second, in losing a race to appendicitis. The Spaniard bounced back from the illness with a fine victory in Melbourne, and his victory in Mexico was perhapsContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #3 Lando Norris
Undoubtedly, his best Formula 1 season to date – with the statistics proving so. In 2024, Lando Norris finished as championship runner-up (his previous best finishing position was sixth in 2021 and 2023), he took four wins in breaking his GP victory duck (along with a sprint win too) andContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #2 Charles Leclerc
If 2024 was a year when Ferrari made it clear exactly how much Charles Leclerc means to the team – signing him to a new contract and leaving Carlos Sainz exposed when Lewis Hamilton became available – then he too showed how much the Prancing Horse means to him.The disappointmentContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #1 Max Verstappen
“A Schrodinger’s season for Max Verstappen. Concurrently his best and not his best.” That’s how we’ve described the world champion’s campaign in our Formula 1 driver rankings. And that’s because there are two ways of looking at Verstappen’s performance over the past months.One is that his success in winning theContinue Reading
Why Red Bull’s Lawson pick renders its Ricciardo experiment a waste of time
Let’s recap the saga of Red Bull’s second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It’s a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a ‘normal’ approach to the driver market.Carlos Sainz became unexpectedly available forContinue Reading
McErlean lands dream WRC Rally1 graduation with M-Sport
Josh McErlean will graduate to the World Rally Championship’s top tier in 2025 after securing a deal to join M-Sport-Ford. The 25-year-old will pilot M-Sport’s second Ford Puma Rally1 in a full 14-round WRC campaign next year, joining Gregoire Munster, who was announced as the British squad’s team leader on Wednesday.McErleanContinue Reading
A hope and a prayer: Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson’s Red Bull deal?
It’s somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don’t necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team’s driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they cameContinue Reading
Lawson promoted to replace Perez at Red Bull
Liam Lawson will step up to Red Bull as Max Verstappen’s team-mate in Formula 1 next year, it was announced on Thursday.Just a day after the Milton Keynes-based squad revealed that a deal had been reached to part ways with Sergio Perez, it confirmed that it had elected to promoteContinue Reading
Ferrari first to reveal 2025 F1 car launch date
Ferrari has become the first Formula 1 team to reveal the date of its 2025 car launch.The Italian outfit posted on social media a teaser image above the 19 February date, with the message “Get ready to meet our 2025 challenger”. While no further details were offered, the outfit has traditionallyContinue Reading
Fred Lorenzen, NASCAR Hall of Famer and Daytona 500 winner, passes away
‘Fast Freddie’ Lorenzen was just a couple weeks shy of his 90th birthday when he passed away on Wednesday. The Elmhurst, Illinois native was an early star of the sport of NASCAR, competing from 1956 to 1972. He had many nicknames including ‘Golden Boy,’ ‘Fearless Freddie,’ the ‘Elmhurst Express’ and wasContinue Reading