During Valtteri Bottas’s mixed five-year spell at Mercedes he tended to show why the team kept him for so long, as often as he justified why Mercedes finally got rid of him. The headline statistics mark Bottas out as one … Read More
While the watching world focused on the racing on track in 2021, the design and development war that will shape the coming season was silently raging in parallel. All 10 F1 teams biased their resources more towards the 2022 cars … Read More
Aston Martin has a new Formula 1 team boss, and it’s someone you might not be all that familiar with. Former BMW Motorsport chief Mike Krack has been recruited to replace Otmar Szafnauer, with Aston Martin opting to look outside … Read More
The Alpine Formula 1 team is looking for its fourth team boss in six years following the news Marcin Budkowski has left with immediate effect, with Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi taking day-to-day control on an interim basis pending the appointment … Read More
The Volkswagen Group appears closer than ever to committing to an F1 engine programme when new rules come in for 2026, with the possibility that it could tie up with Red Bull’s new powertrains division, and bring Porsche and Audi … Read More
The problems lingering from Formula 1’s controversial 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi may finally be resolved in the coming weeks, following the start of the FIA’s long-awaited review. The governing body has started its investigation into the process behind … Read More
The silence on Lewis Hamilton’s Formula 1 future has been deafening since Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff described him as “disillusioned” in the wake of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix controversy. It appears Hamilton is genuinely yet to make a … Read More
The first big news story of F1 2022 has come from Aston Martin, where team boss Otmar Szafnauer has left with immediate effect. In this video Scott Mitchell explores what Szafnauer did for the team during his long spell there … Read More
Formula 1 is preparing for a new season with brand new cars built to a new set of rules. While we wait to see what the latest generation of F1 machinery will look like, we’ve stripped away the impact of … Read More
Sometimes, mistakes are made that nonetheless produce glorious results. That’s exactly what the last generation of Formula 1 cars, the wider, high-dowforce machines of 2017 to 2021, were. They were monsters, the fastest F1 cars ever, yet they not only … Read More