The Scuderia emerged as the nearest challenger to Red Bull at the start of the second ground-effects F1 era and finished 2022 as the championship runner-up. But it has now dropped behind Mercedes and Aston Martin to fourth in the 2023 constructors’ standings ahead of the second part of the campaign. Alongside this performance drop-off, […]
And there are many good reasons why it has quickly become a must-see event for fans. Propelled by the success of local hero Max Verstappen, the event features a highly charged atmosphere, with every seat filled and music pumping through the speakers in between the racing action. Fans are looked after and kept entertained throughout […]
A multinational business dealing in money transfers, MoneyGram became Haas’s title sponsor for the 2023 season and beyond on a multi-year deal. The deal emerged after the team had ended its deal with previous title sponsor Uralkali – a Russian chemicals giant owned by Dmitry Mazepin, father of former driver Nikita – ahead of the […]
The Swiss outfit has managed just nine points over the opening 12 races of the season, having managed 51 points at the same interval last season. Bottas’s eighth place at the season opener in Bahrain remains the high water mark this year. Explaining where the team has fallen short, Bottas felt that the team started […]
And he reckons as much despite the “visceral unpleasantness” that it can entail, especially during a spell of ground-effects grief for the Silver Arrows. The former Lotus and Ferrari engineer first punched in at Brackley in early 2017, meaning he was on board for five of the eight consecutive constructors’ championship crowns. But in April […]
Over the winter, newly promoted team principal Andrea Stella led a thorough review of the Woking design department. It subsequently let go of technical chief James Key, restructured its leadership, and hired David Sanchez from Ferrari and Red Bull veteran engineer Rob Marshall. With elements of that revised set-up in place, McLaren upgraded its current […]
The ballooning weight of current-era F1 cars has become increasingly unpopular with drivers and teams, with this year’s minimum weight of 798kg well over 200kg higher compared to cars from 15 years ago. It is one of the key aspects FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem wants to tackle for the next 2026 regulations cycle, even though […]
The FIA rules specify that every race driver has to give up an FP1 session for a rookie who has started no more than two grands prix. However, a race driver who is a rookie at the start of the season is deemed to qualify, which means that Oscar Piastri with McLaren, Logan Sargeant with […]
It’s a challenge that many teams have either faced in recent years or are currently tackling head-on. At one extreme there’s Aston Martin, whose Silverstone factory – created for the birth of the original Jordan outfit in 1991 – had long ago outlived its useful life. Owner Lawrence Stroll had the funding and commitment required […]
Following three weeks off, F1 picks up the pace once again by starting a run of 10 races in 14 weeks to round out the season. The main focus will be on if any of the teams can halt Red Bull’s unbeaten 2023 campaign so far, while Max Verstappen goes into his home round off […]