For the first 10 rounds of the season, attention at AlphaTauri was biased towards full-time rookie Nyck de Vries and his struggles to step up to F1 as he drew criticism from Red Bull bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko. The FIA Formula 2 and Formula E champion was sacked after Silverstone to be replaced […]
The phenomenon that dominated the team’s 2022 season has largely disappeared with this year’s W14, helped by regulation tweaks over the winter. But both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell reported the problem at Spa, with the latter noting that he experienced a “huge amount”. Elliott says the team will have to determine whether it was […]
Between 2014-21 the Brackley team won the constructors’ title eight times and took seven drivers’ titles between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Its form took a dive with the W13 under the new aerodynamic regulations last year, and it has only scored one win over the last two seasons. A series of updates has improved […]
It was the Belgian’s first running in an F1 car since he tested for Mercedes in Abu Dhabi at the end of 2021. The two-day session, which was also attended by McLaren, featured rainy conditions throughout and only wet and intermediate tyres were used. The poor weather meant that Pirelli didn’t conduct any running with […]
Hulkenberg has shown good pace on his return to a full-time drive in 2023, regularly making Q3 and qualifying as high as second in Canada, before he took a penalty hit in Montreal. However, the car has inevitably fallen off the pace in races and used its tyres too hard. In the first half of […]
The seven-time world champion is currently waiting for his lawyers and Mercedes representatives to clarify the final elements of a new deal that will commit him to F1 for the next few years. Delays in getting the contract across the line have triggered speculation that there are aspects of the deal that have not been […]
As its first of two mandatory rookie runs in Friday first practice sessions, Mercedes has handed the 21-year-old Dane a run in the team’s Mercedes W14 at the Mexico City race at the end of October. “I’m incredibly proud to be doing the FP1 session in Mexico City with the Team, it’s a dream come […]
Ahead of a landmark moment for the team, as it prepares to put its 2024 car in its new wind tunnel for the first time, the squad still wants to eke out one final effort for its current MCL60. For beyond bespoke low-drag solutions that will be needed for high-speed tracks like Monza and Las […]
Ricciardo’s second outing with AlphaTauri was a tough ask as he was thrown into a sprint weekend that was impacted by rain, and with only the FP1 session in which to hone the set-up. He made his life more difficult by losing his best time in Q1 to a track limits offence at Eau Rouge, […]
Spa was seen by the Williams team as a track that would favour the low-drag characteristics of the FW45 and give Albon a chance to repeat the points-scoring form that he’s previously shown this year at Sakhir, Montreal and Silverstone. He jumped up from 15th to 10th with a strong first lap and ran as […]