Alfa Romeo is ending its current title arrangement with Sauber at the end of this season and has not yet finalised whether or not it will continue any involvement in F1. At the Monaco Grand Prix, a meeting between Haas team boss Guenther Steiner and Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato prompted suggestions that the team […]
During a dry first stint of a mixed-weather Monaco race, Sainz was wedged in between third-placed Esteban Ocon and Lewis Hamilton when the latter was called into the pits by Mercedes on lap 33. Ferrari opted to respond by bringing Sainz in on the next lap to avoid an undercut by Hamilton. But in doing […]
Mercedes’ long-awaited developments to the sidepods of its W14 challenger – plus new suspension arrangement, tweaked floor, rear wing and rear brake winglets – finally appeared at last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, having initially been expected to run at Imola before that race was cancelled. Evaluating upgrades at Monaco is notoriously difficult given the track’s […]
As reported by Autosport earlier, Ferrari is abandoning its long-running in-wash style sidepod concept for a Red Bull-style downwash design. As our exclusive images show, the new Ferrari sidepods are a total revamp of what the SF-23 has run with so far. The new version does away with the bathtub central section that has been […]
The Italian outfit is bidding to turn around a disappointing start to the campaign where it has especially struggled with the race pace of its new SF-23. But as it gets ready to introduce a raft of updates for this weekend’s race at Barcelona, sources have revealed that one key area of change will be […]
The new tyres are a response by Pirelli to increasing downforce levels and cornering loads, and represent a fast-tracking of a construction that was originally intended for 2024. Some teams have already tried the new spec in “blind” 2024 testing, but Barcelona will be an opportunity for everyone to run the definitive versions, with each […]
Leclerc overcame a three-place grid penalty for blocking Lando Norris in qualifying to score sixth in his home race last weekend but made the SF-23 out to be “very difficult to drive in traffic”. Team-mate Carlos Sainz notably tagged Esteban Ocon and ran off at Mirabeau corner on his way to eighth. Meanwhile, an upgraded […]
The way that stranded cars are retrieved by marshals in Monaco, by being lifted high on cranes rather than on the back of low loaders, meant several stricken machines had their undersides revealed in all their glory after incidents. Just hours after the Mercedes W14 floor was shown off following Lewis Hamilton’s crash in final […]
The chicane before the last corner has been removed from the layout creating a high-speed run through what are now Turns 13 and 14 that puts extra stress on the tyres. Tyre management has been a key issue in F1 this season, with some teams struggling more than others, and Red Bull showing clear superiority […]
Last weekend the team had its best weekend of the year as Esteban Ocon qualified third and Pierre Gasly seventh, and subsequently finished in the same positions. Permane insisted the latest updates have helped to find performance and that Ocon’s result was achieved on merit, albeit helped by a grid penalty for Charles Leclerc that handed […]