McLaren has been slipping backwards in recent years, which led to wholesale changes to the technical structure and to its Woking infrastructure, projects overseen by incoming team boss Andrea Stella and by CEO Zak Brown. While the benefits from its new wind tunnel and other facilities won’t be tangible until next year, McLaren has already […]
In fact, providing Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez aren’t derailed by a dose of bad luck over the second half of the season, it could become the first F1 challenger ever to deliver a season clean-sweep. But while the RB19 is leaving others in its wake, Red Bull’s own perception of the car is markedly […]
“It all started with a problem.“ This is how track manager Niek Oude Luttikhuis describes the first talks with Formula 1 about a possible return to Zandvoort. And that is the story of this problem, an extraordinary idea and its implementation. Or in a nutshell: How the F1 track in Zandvoort got its steep curves. […]
The pair have not always seen eye-to-eye this season, and there have been a number of times when radio messages have highlighted disagreements about their approach. In Australia, Leclerc was unhappy that he did not get the tow that he had been expecting to get from Sainz in qualifying. At the Austrian GP, Sainz came […]
2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri came into McLaren this season following a protracted transfer saga involving Alpine, with the battle between the two teams indicative of how much was expected of the Australian rookie. Piastri’s debut season was starting to be overshadowed by an underperforming car until a comprehensive summer upgrade package gave McLaren’s MCL60 […]
Alpine owners Renault want to see the team achieve success sooner rather later, despite the stated 100-race plan that Szafnauer and his colleagues had put in place. It’s no secret that Enstone fell back during the Lotus/Genii period, and even in the early days of Renault’s second spell of ownership there was not enough investment. […]
Hulkenberg has started 193 F1 races – not including the 2013 Melbourne, 2015 Spa and 2020 Silverstone races he failed to start – with a best result of fourth. He achieved that result three times for what was then called Force India and Sauber between 2012 and 2016, but had several other podium near misses. […]
The Maranello squad has endured a difficult 2023 campaign where its hopes of challenging for the championship quickly evaporated off the back of race struggles with its SF-23 car. But, under new team boss Vasseur, the squad has made a number of infrastructure changes and car tweaks that appear to have helped turn things around […]
However, despite some clearly more prescriptive regulations, there were distinct differences between each machine, with the sidepods, in particular, offering a wide variety of design solutions. Now, a year and a half into this regulatory era, we have started to see a wholesale shift towards one of these concepts – the downwash solution – as […]
Ricciardo’s three-year McLaren contract was ended one year early last winter after the Australian struggled to get on with the team’s F1 cars. In the difficult-to-handle McLaren, Ricciardo was consistently behind team-mate Lando Norris during his two seasons in Woking, despite taking a shock win at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix. Ricciardo was then snapped […]