A close associate of Vijay Mallya, Fernley held the role at the Silverstone team from its first season under the Force India name in 2008 until the summer of 2018, when Lawrence Stroll bought the assets of the company and relaunched it as Racing Point. A native of Stockport, Fernley had an initial involvement with […]
F1 has turned its sprint race into a standalone Saturday event, with sprint qualifying deciding the starting grid in the morning followed by the sprint race in the afternoon. Here’s how the latest sprint race format changes work. Qualifying for Sunday’s grand prix was held on Friday, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen taking pole position […]
Yamaha’s 2023 season has been disappointing, with the Japanese marque bottom of the manufacturers’ table having scored just one grand prix podium and one sprint rostrum courtesy of 2021 world champion Quartararo. The Frenchman has complained numerous times this season that everything Yamaha tried with the new bike in the winter never worked, with Quartararo […]
Ricciardo is currently serving as reserve driver for Red Bull and AlphaTauri, and inevitably he has been mentioned in connection with a seat at the latter in 2024. However, the team has always been seen in the Red Bull camp as a training ground for young drivers, and Tost says that won’t change unless it’s […]
McLaren realised even before the season started that it had dropped the ball on its MCL60 concept and changed its floor philosophy for April’s Baku round, which set a new development baseline rather than delivering an immediate performance improvement. The raft of upgrades McLaren is introducing over the three July rounds represents the first true […]
Hill got a taste of motorsport’s potential future at Daytona’s Sandown circuit, when he became the first person to drive a kart powered by fully synthetic fuel, produced by former F1 technical chief Paddy Lowe’s company Zero. The carbon neutral fuel, which Zero makes from air and water using renewable energy, can be dropped directly into […]
There has been intense speculation about Leclerc’s Ferrari future after his and the team’s title challenge in 2022 fell apart. The Scuderia’s SF-23 package this year has been running well adrift of Red Bull’s class leading RB19. During the early rounds of the season, Leclerc was linked with Mercedes as the German manufacturer is yet […]
Hamilton is part of a Mercedes team that dominated the series and won seven drivers’ titles from 2014-2020. He admits that such a position gives teams the option to stop developing their current car and make an early move to the next model – thus helping to perpetuate their level of success and creating periods […]
The Red Bull Ring lap is the fifth shortest on the 2023 calendar at 2.68 miles. However, its high-speed nature means that in a dry session, it is likely to produce the quickest time. Max Verstappen claimed pole at the circuit last season in 1m04.984s. The next-fastest was his 1m10.342s run at Zandvoort. In previous […]
Ocon has already made contact with the Hollywood star and is planning to visit him on the set of the next Deadpool 3 film in London. Reynolds and his colleagues Rob McElhenney and Michael B. Jordan are part of a consortium of three US-based entities that have combined to acquire a 24% stake of the Alpine […]