WRC Monte Carlo: Tanak fastest as 2025 WRC cars make competitive debut
Hyundai’s Ott Tanak drew first blood as the 2025 non-hybrid World Rally Championship Rally1 cars and new tyre supplier Hankook made their competitive debut in Monte Carlo.The 3.28km Route de la Garde stage offered the first opportunity for the crews to compete against each other in the less powerful butContinue Reading
Hamilton: Driving a Ferrari one of the best feelings of my life
Lewis Hamilton has labelled his Ferrari Formula 1 testing debut “one of the best feelings of my life” after completing 30 laps at Fiorano.Having spent two days getting up to speed with his new team in Maranello, Hamilton boarded the 2023 Ferrari SF-23 on a cold and foggy morning atContinue Reading
Alpine: Doohan will get fair chance despite Colapinto signing
Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has insisted 2025 rookie Jack Doohan will get a “fair chance” to impress despite the team signing the more experienced Franco Colapinto as a reserve driver. Over the summer Doohan was announced as Esteban Ocon’s replacement for the 2025 season, with the Australian handed an earlyContinue Reading
Red Bull’s Austin F1 update reversed balance issues at cost of ‘overall potential’
Red Bull’s floor update for the 2024 United States Grand Prix came at the expense of ultimate car “potential” but removed many of the correlation and balance issues that affected its RB20, according to technical director Pierre Wache.The development direction of the RB20 hit a problematic streak at the tail end ofContinue Reading
Williams signs Turvey as development and test driver for F1 2025
Oliver Turvey has been signed to Williams’ Formula 1 team as a test and development driver to assist with the Grove squad’s progress on its new simulator package.The Briton switches to Williams after holding a similar role for McLaren for over 15 years, and had tested multiple times over thatContinue Reading
End of an era: When a departing F1 legend introduced a new one
The McLaren M23 should be regarded as one of the all-time great Formula 1 cars. It has to be with three world titles – two drivers’ and one constructors’ — and 16 grand prix victories over a world championship career spanning a remarkable six seasons. That longevity makes it aContinue Reading
Power laments IndyCar for restricting “testing too much” for 2025
IndyCar Series stalwart Will Power believes the American open-wheel championship has “restricted testing too much”, having done much less for 2025 than in previous years.The two-time champion, who claimed his titles in 2014 and 2022, has undertaken just one day of on-track testing ahead of the upcoming campaign forcing himContinue Reading
Will a new three-cylinder engine revive traditional F3 in Europe?
Three-cylinder engines are on their way to European single-seaters for 2025, and it looks as though there is every chance that they will revitalise a much-loved category.Since the demise of the FIA’s old Formula 3 European Championship at the end of 2018, when the ‘F3’ title was given by theContinue Reading
A golden ticket – how STEM Racing continues to prepare students for a career in engineering
“I’ve always been passionate about engineering, always loved the smell of engineering” – that, in a nutshell, is at the heart of why Andrew Denford launched a not-for-profit STEM competition for students that has now flourished into a worldwide programme and retains the support of Formula 1.2024 was a bigContinue Reading
Ben Hunt: Fans clamour as Hamilton steps “into a new era” with Ferrari
The fans outside Ferrari’s test track in Fiorano had been there long before dawn. Some had scaled the security fencing, others had brought stepladders and pulled away at the green netting that had been installed to keep out prying eyes and camera lenses.At one point, the growing throng of TifosiContinue Reading