In stark contrast to last year’s final lap thriller in Abu Dhabi, Max Verstappen clinched the 2022 world championship at Suzuka with four rounds still to run, while his Red Bull team secured the constructors’ version at the next race in the USA. Domenicali says that there’s still plenty of interest in the remaining races of […]
Ahead of the United Sates Grand Prix, Norris revealed in an interview with German publication Auto Motor und Sport that he had spoken to Red Bull ahead of signing his latest McLaren deal. Back in February, Norris put pen to paper on a new long-term contract with McLaren that will keep him with the team […]
Red Bull reached a settlement with the FIA over its £1.8 million breach of last year’s budget cap ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix, arguing that it misinterpreted some of the permitted exclusions. The team was hit with a $7m fine and a 10% reduction in its permitted aerodynamic development for the next 12 months, […]
Hamilton has often joked that he does not want to be the oldest driver on the grid, embracing the continued contract extensions for Fernando Alonso, who at 41 is preparing to keep on racing for at least a few more years. More seriously, Hamilton has always vowed that he would not want to keep on racing until he […]
You won’t need reminding what happened at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Max Verstappen claimed his first world drivers’ championship. But it’s not the first year the title has been decided at Yas Marina. Sebastian Vettel has clinched one of his four world championships in Abu Dhabi, with Mercedes drivers Hamilton and Rosberg […]
While the Italian squad started the 2022 season as the team to beat, it eventually lost out to the fast-recovering Red Bull team, which has claimed both the drivers’ and constructors’ championship titles. More recently, Mercedes has emerged as Red Bull’s main threat at some races, with Ferrari’s F1-75 particularly lacking performance last time out […]
Haas is currently weighing up its driver options for the second seat in 2023, with it believed to be a straight call between retaining Mick Schumacher or going for the more experienced Hulkenberg. The choice of Hulkenberg is intriguing because he and Magnussen, who is under contract for 2023, have had their moments of controversy […]
Over the United States Grand Prix weekend last month, it emerged that F1 was planning to launch its own all-female racing series as early as next year, serving as a potential feeder series into Formula 3 and Formula 2. It came just weeks after W Series was forced to call off the final three rounds […]
Just a fortnight after Mateschitz passed away, Red Bull has settled on how the company will be controlled going forward. It has been decided that strategic-operational responsibility at Red Bull will no longer be executed by a single CEO, as it did under Mateschitz, and will instead be divided among three people. In a letter […]
The Spaniard struggled to come to terms with the Ferrari F1-75 in the first part of the year and had to adjust his driving style to suit it. However, while his personal form has improved relative to team-mate Charles Leclerc, the car has latterly not been as consistently competitive as it was earlier in the […]