As part of an effort to reduce the number of tyres that are brought to grands prix, at two races this year an experiment will take place for a new qualifying format. The number of tyre sets available to each driver for the weekend will be reduced from 13 to 11, and there will be […]
In the later FP2 session, which best replicates qualifying conditions, Leclerc was fourth fastest as his Scuderia team-mate Carlos Sainz ran to 14th. Leclerc was 0.46s adrift of Aston Martin pacesetter Fernando Alonso and 0.3s in arrears of 2022 title rival Max Verstappen before the shift to focus on race stint simulations. While Leclerc expected […]
Onboard TV footage showed the Aston Martin driver apparently resting his right hand at times and focusing on using his left to push the top of the steering wheel into the tight right-hander at Turn 1. He was also seen using assistance from his mechanics to get out of the car during second practice. Stroll […]
Alfa Romeo C43 technical detail Photo by: Giorgio Piola Alfa Romeo is the first team to apply a solution that was pioneered by Mercedes in 2022, with the Swiss-based outfit looking to refine the flow structures at the front of the car, to improve performance downstream. Mercedes introduced its widebody chassis blister solution as part […]
Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin backed up their promising Formula 1 2023 testing form with the quickest time in the opening practice running for the Bahrain Grand Prix, but pre-season favourites Max Verstappen and Red Bull are lurking close behind. In fact, judging by the times logged in the late-FP2 race data gathering exercises and […]
His comments suggest that while the team is planning to move away from the “size-zero” design introduced in Bahrain a year ago on the W13, it won’t necessarily be following the trend towards the concept used so successfully by Red Bull last year, and since copied by others. Team boss Toto Wolff flagged an in-season […]
Pirelli has revamped its rubber for 2023 in a bid to make the fronts stronger, which is aimed at dialling out the understeer that became a common factor throughout last season. But following the first proper test with the new tyres in Bahrain last week, world champion Max Verstappen said his impression was that the […]
As well as last year’s W13 suffering from porpoising and a lack of useable downforce, it also left Lewis Hamilton and George Russell facing a deficit on the straights. The team was keen to address its aero efficiency for this year, but one of the notable factors in last week’s Bahrain test was that it […]
His comments echo those the seven-time world champion made after his first run in the troubled W13 last season in what turned out to be his first winless campaign in F1. However Hamilton says that the team is in much better shape as the porpoising that afflicted the old car is now absent, making it […]
Relative to the size of the actual logos of the car, the deal received a lot of media coverage thanks to the familiarity of the brand across motorsport, and the perceived iconic status of its orange and blue colours. At a time when so many relatively obscure tech or crypto companies are coming into F1 […]