Pirelli wins Autosport’s Pioneering and Innovation Award
Pirelli has won the Pioneering and Innovation Award at the 2025 Autosport Awards after introducing FSC-certified tyres into Formula 1 for the first time.All of the tyres supplied in the championship – a total of 8,016 to teams last year – were stamped with the FSC-certified logo, meaning every singleContinue Reading
F1 Las Vegas GP picks up Autosport’s Promoter of the Year award
The first award to be announced at the ceremony at London’s Roundhouse on Wednesday evening, Las Vegas came out on top of a strong shortlist of candidates.Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE), promoters of the Mexico City Grand Prix and South Florida Motorsports, who stage the Miami Grand Prix were theContinue Reading
Hamilton shunt causes Leclerc’s Ferrari run to be scrapped
Ferrari’s second Formula 1 test day in Barcelona has been cut short, with Lewis Hamilton’s early shunt bringing the running to a premature end.The Scuderia has been running in Catalunya to make the most of the new, more restrictive regulations surrounding ‘Testing of Previous Cars’ for current Formula 1 racers.Continue Reading
Race-winning outfit poised for British GT return in 2025
Fox Motorsport is planning a return to British GT in 2025 yet is struggling to find a co-driver for its star youngster Mckenzie Douglass, who dominated Ginetta GT last season.The 17-year-old claimed 12 wins from 21 races clinching the crown at the penultimate weekend and has been rewarded with aContinue Reading
How “crazy” F1 test brought back the love for Award winner Loake
With the usual chill in the characteristically breezy Silverstone air, Joseph Loake arrives at the home of the British Grand Prix ready to fulfil a childhood dream: finally, he is going to get behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car, with Aston Martin.Following in the footsteps of drivers whoContinue Reading
Dovizioso to join Yamaha for Sepang shakedown test
Yamaha will be able to count on the experience of 15-time MotoGP race winner Andrea Dovizioso in this week’s shakedown test at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia.Concession manufacturers Yamaha and Honda, plus MotoGP rookies Ai Ogura, Somkiat Chantra and Fermin Aldeguer, will take to the Malaysian track on 31 JanContinue Reading
Zak Brown calls for Formula 1 steward system shake-up
Zak Brown says he would welcome full-time FIA race stewards and would accept McLaren paying a percentage towards their wages.Currently, F1 stewards are unpaid volunteers and are only offered travel expenses to preside over races.It has led to calls for F1’s governing body to employ ‘professional’ stewards to help improveContinue Reading
Why dropping Herbert from the F1 stewarding roster doesn’t solve a fundamental problem
Won’t somebody think of the poor volunteers?Nobody has chafed so publicly about the absurdity and iniquity of relying on unpaid officials to do the FIA’s heavy lifting than its president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Indeed, last year he announced the formation of a new ‘officials department’ to instill professionalism in theContinue Reading
Hamilton crashes on second day of private Ferrari Barcelona F1 test
Lewis Hamilton has crashed on the second of his three days of private Formula 1 testing with his new Ferrari squad, which is taking place at the Barcelona circuit this week, Autosport understands.Hamilton is understood to be unharmed in the incident, which occurred as he was traversing the third sectorContinue Reading
Porsche tweaks Imola WEC driver line-up to prepare for Le Mans 24 Hours
Porsche will run three drivers per car rather than two at the Imola World Endurance Championship round in April as part of its preparations for the Le Mans 24 Hours.The Porsche Penske Motorsport squad will delay its plan to field just two drivers in the six-hour WEC races until afterContinue Reading