Under a rule introduced for 2022, both race drivers have to give up a free practice session for a driver who has made two or fewer starts. Early in the season, most teams were in no hurry to field rookies as they felt their race drivers needed all the mileage they could get in the […]
Herta, who has scored seven wins in his first four seasons of IndyCar racing and finished third and fifth in the 2020 and ’21 championships, has only 32 of the required 40 points to be granted a superlicence. Thus he would have been relying on the FIA making him a special case in order to […]
Shwartzman will take over one of the F1-75 cars of either Charles Leclerc or Carlos Sainz in Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas as part of the team’s obligation to have two FP1 sessions run by rookies. Ferrari’s race director Laurent Mekies earlier revealed Shwartzman, who turns 23 on Friday, would be at […]
The 23-year-old, who is now running under his Israeli passport and licence in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will undertake the two mandatory FP1 rookie sessions for Ferrari at the US and Abu Dhabi GPs. Shwartzman won the 2019 FIA Formula 3 title before spending two seasons in Formula 2, finishing fourth […]
Fans and some teams were left in a state of confusion for nearly four hours after qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix when nobody was sure how the FIA would implement a spate of grid penalties and settle on the final line-up. The uncertainty about the grid, and the length of time it took to […]
Each F1 driver is limited to using no more than three engines per season without taking a penalty, although it is rare for anyone to get through an entire campaign on that allocation. Many teams opted to use both Spa and Monza to take additional power unit elements, but it led to confusion over how […]
F1’s TV department is always looking for new angles and fresh shots. This year has seen the return of the pedal cam two decades after the last experiment, while the Dutch GP opened up an opportunity to try something different in order to give a better impression of how steep the banked corners really are. […]
In the wake of his F1 debut at Monza the Dutchman has potential opportunities with Alpine and Williams as well as the chance to join the Red Bull camp, but he insists that he is not in a position to choose where he goes. If he does join AlphaTauri then Pierre Gasly will be released […]
The Enstone-based squad has had the fourth quickest car for much of the season, and in the constructors’ championship is currently 18 points ahead of McLaren in the fight to be best-of-the-rest behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes. While the team missed out on the points in Italy last weekend, as McLaren’s Lando Norris took […]
In the wake of Alpine’s driver drama, Red Bull was willing to release Pierre Gasly from his 2023 contract to join the Enstone team, but only if it could get multiple IndyCar race winner Herta to replace him at AlphaTauri. But with Herta on just 32 superlicence points out of the 40 needed to be […]