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
23XI and FRM will keep NASCAR charters in legal win
23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been granted the preliminary injunction to keep their charters for the 2025 season while the antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and the France family continues.The ruling is just for next year and states that the disputed sections of the 2025 Charter Agreement that causedContinue Reading
The complications and negotiations behind Perez’s Red Bull exit
It had been pretty clear for a while that Sergio Perez would not be a part of Red Bull’s future in Formula 1 off the back of his troubled 2024 campaign.However, what was not so obvious was exactly how the parting of ways would play out because of the complicationsContinue Reading
23XI and FRM will keep NASCAR charters in huge legal win
23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been granted the preliminary injunction to keep their charters for the 2025 season while the antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and the France family continues. The ruling is just for next year and states that the disputed sections of the 2025 Charter Agreement thatContinue Reading
Autosport Podcast Q+A: Perez leaves Red Bull and the Tsunoda-Lawson conundrum
On this week’s episode, we react to the news that Sergio Perez is leaving Red Bull after a very disappointing campaign for the 34-year-old.The Mexican finished eighth in the Formula 1 drivers’ standings, while team-mate Max Verstappen clinched a fourth, consecutive crown and finished 285 points ahead of Perez.So with thatContinue Reading