Ahead of the new F1 season, motor racing’s governing body is mindful teams could try to make the most of bendy wings or floors to give themselves a performance advantage. Getting wings to flex down on the straights can bring a reduction in drag to improve straightline speed, while the new ground effect cars means […]
The French manufacturer has changed colour schemes for this season, off the back of a new title sponsorship with water company BWT, whose branding and iconic pink corporate colour features on the front wing, sidepods and rear wing. The A522 features a pushrod suspension at the front, with pullrod at the rear. The nose is […]
Alpine announced earlier this month that Austrian water technology company BWT had joined as its new title sponsor for this year, having previously been a partner of Aston Martin, Racing Point and Force India. The French team unveiled the livery for its new car, the A522, in a launch event on Monday before its on-track […]
The Italian finished runner-up in the 2021 season after winning four races, and comes into the new campaign as one of the favourites for the championship. Bagnaia has been a long-term project for Ducati, who signed him to ride for Pramac in 2019 at the start of 2018 before he’d won that year’s Moto2 crown. […]
The American owned outfit never tried to hide the fact that the livery renders it released were anything other than from an early stage of development, so it was no surprise that what appeared at its Barcelona filming day is very different. The front wing and nose are a more developed variant of the one […]
After decades when former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone famously opted for an understated motorhome and awning, current F1 owners Liberty Media have stepped things up with a new mega-structure. As teams get ready for this week’s first pre-season test at Barcelona, F1’s two-storey motorhome has been a surprise addition to the paddock, with its size […]
Bagnaia has been with Ducati for the entirety of his MotoGP career thus far, having been signed by the Italian marque to join Pramac in 2019 at the start of 2018 before the Valentino Rossi protege had even won that year’s Moto2 crown. Though his first two seasons with Pramac and Ducati in MotoGP were […]
When Olivier Panis left his role as test driver for McLaren to get back into a Formula 1 race seat at British American Racing for 2001, he knew what he was letting himself in for. His new team-mate Jacques Villeneuve had made a point of psychologically destroying his previous two stablemates in Heinz-Harald Frentzen and […]
Speaking in public for the first time since the controversial Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi where he lost the world title after a late race safety car call by race director Michael Masi, Hamilton spoke about how his love of the sport had been hurt by the events. And although he denied that […]
COTA has been a mainstay on the F1 calendar since F1 returned to the United States in 2012, and has enjoyed a surge in interest lately thanks to the growth in the American fanbase. F1 reported a crowd of 400,000 for October’s race weekend at COTA, which was the last race under the previous contract. […]