Rabat secures full-season WSBK seat with Puccetti Kawasaki
Rabat, who made sporadic appearances with Manuel Puccetti’s eponymous squad between 2021-23, will step up to ride the outfit’s sole Kawasaki Ninza ZX-10RR next year.As part of the programme, the Spaniard will get to take part in two pre-season tests at Jerez and Portimao in January before the championship getsContinue Reading
Piastri expects McLaren to be “fighting for more” in F1 2024
Following a difficult start with the MCL60 the Woking outfit introduced a successful series of updates from mid-season onwards that moved the car up the pecking order.Rookie Piastri logged two podium finishes in grands prix plus a sprint race victory, while his team-mate Lando Norris made the top three onContinue Reading
Dall’Igna: Martin “deserves” factory Ducati MotoGP team promotion
Martin fought Francesco Bagnaia all the way to the final race of the 2023 season on his Pramac Ducati, but ended up 39 points short after a crash in the Valencia Grand Prix handed the title to the ltalian.Had Martin won the championship, he would have been automatically promoted toContinue Reading
FIA seeks zero notice F1 factory inspections
As F1’s regulations have got ever more complicated, there are now a number of restrictions that teams face in terms of the way they can operate things at their own bases. There are limits on wind tunnel and CFD testing, how much information can be shared between collaborating squads, plus elementsContinue Reading
Aston Martin reveals expanded factory driver roster for 2024
Nurburgring 24 Hours winner David Pittard, GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup champion Mattia Drudi and Henrique Chaves, a class winner at the Le Mans 24 Hours, have been added to the Aston Martin Racing roster for 2024. They join stalwart AMR drivers Marco Sorensen and Nicki Thiim, who have beenContinue Reading
Alpine F1 team completes €200 million stake sale to US investors
In June it was announced that Otro Capital had acquired a 24% share in Alpine Racing Limited for €200 million, a deal that valued the Enstone company at around $900 million.That transaction has now been completed, and as part of the arrangement Otro co-founder Alex Scheiner recently became a directorContinue Reading
Ye joins Ferrari as factory driver ahead of expected AF WEC drive
The news follows last week’s announcement that he has left Porsche’s stable, having previously been nominated as a ‘Selected Driver’ by its Asia Pacific motorsport arm.He most recently drove a Porsche 963 LMDh entered by the German marque’s customer team Jota in WEC’s Hypercar class this year, but wasn’t includedContinue Reading
Horner: Red Bull surprised Mercedes stuck to F1 car concept that “clearly failed”
After the two squads that fought for the 2021 world titles ended up racing in very different parts of the F1 pecking order at the start of the new ground-effect era, there was much expectation that Mercedes – along with Ferrari – might be able to close the gap toContinue Reading
A Christmas wish list for NASCAR 2024
1. An improved short track packageI think we all want this. NASCAR recently held a test at Phoenix in yet another attempt to find ways to produce better racing at oval tracks of one-mile in length or shorter. While the Next Gen car was an obvious success in improving theContinue Reading
Brown: “Empowering” Stella leads by example at McLaren F1 team
Stella took over as McLaren’s F1 team principal after Andres Seidl left late last year to join Sauber and manage its transition to becoming the Audi works team in 2026.In 2023, Stella oversaw McLaren’s considerable gains up the F1 pecking order, while also substantially changing the structure of its carContinue Reading