Mercedes has endured a challenging campaign, the progress it had hoped to make with its W14 failing to materialise as it embarked on a ‘painful’ change in car concept. The team recognised it had aimed to run its aero platform too high, giving away too much performance compared to rivals running much closer to the […]
Despite Zhou being the first full-time Chinese F1 racer, there has been speculation he does not come with major financial banking to incentivise Alfa Romeo to agree new terms. Speaking ahead of the summer break, Alfa Romeo F1 managing director Alessandro Alunni Bravi reckoned his squad wanted to retain its line-up of Zhou and Valtteri […]
At two races this year – Hungary and Monza after the initial trial set for Imola had to be abandoned amid that race’s cancellation – Pirelli has experimented with shipping fewer tyre sets, with adapted rules implemented for qualifying. By mandating drivers run hards in Q1, mediums in Q2 and softs in Q3, Pirelli is […]
Prompted by an interview with ex-F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone earlier this year, plus archive footage of late FIA race director Charlie Whiting, Massa believes F1 and the governing body were aware of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix ‘crashgate’ scandal in time to take action before the championship was decided. Former Ferrari and Williams racer Massa […]
Stevenson, 55, is a stalwart of the Silverstone squad. He joined the team in its first guise as Jordan in the early 1990s and climbed the ranks to become chief mechanic before moving into his current role in 2005. As sporting director, he leads Aston Martin’s dealings with the FIA. This year, he compiled successful […]
From this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, the FIA has got tougher on the design of front and rear wings in a bid to stop teams from playing games with flexible parts. As first revealed by Autosport, the FIA has demanded to see all design drawings of wings ahead of the Marina Bay race to check […]
At two races this year – Hungary and Monza after the initial trial set for Imola had to be abandoned amid that race’s cancellation – Pirelli has experimented with shipping fewer tyre sets, with adapted rules implemented for qualifying. By mandating drivers run hards in Q1, mediums in Q2 and softs in Q3, Pirelli is […]
Although ultimately Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc could do little to stop Red Bull roaring to another 1-2 finish, that they were at least able to battle wheel-to-wheel with F1’s current benchmark squad was something to be proud of after a 2023 campaign that has had its fair share of frustrations. PLUS: Why Sainz was able […]
In a sport where numbers are everything, there has been ever less room for sentiment. But when Ferrari headed to Monza, it couldn’t help but pull out all the stops. Over 304,000 disciples headed to the temple of speed across the Italian Grand Prix weekend. While the wait for a first constructors’ title in 15 years […]
After the flag in Italy, Vowles came on to the radio to tell Albon that he “made it look easy” while his engineer acknowledged that it was the Thai/British driver’s best race yet with the team. In achieving both of his 2023 seventh-place finishes, Albon made good use of the strong straightline performance of the […]