Brawn: F1 won’t “sell out” over sprint race future

This weekend’s British Grand Prix will pay host to F1’s first sprint event, with a 100km race on Saturday deciding the grid for Sunday’s main event.
F1 chiefs are confident that the shake up to the weekend timetable will prove a hit with fans, and pave the way for it to look at hosting around six sprint events from 2022.
But Ross Brawn, F1’s managing director of motorsport, says that …Keep reading

Russell: “Nothing will be announced” about F1 future at Silverstone

Current Williams driver Russell is in contention to join Mercedes for next year as Lewis Hamilton’s teammate, having been part of the team’s junior programme since 2017.
Mercedes has said that it will decide between Russell and current driver Valtteri Bottas at some point over the summer, with both drivers’ existing contracts due to expire at the end of the season.
But Russell has revealed …Keep reading

F1 drivers need to sort gentleman’s agreement themselves – Masi

It’s understood amongst the drivers that they retain their places to make life easier as they each back off and try to make a gap before starting their qualifying laps.
However, this season there have been repeated instances of drivers passing rivals and in effect jumping the queue.
It became a particular issue at the Austrian GP when, after drivers were seen queuing at the last corner in …Keep reading

How Ferrari’s floor experiments have finally paid off

But even though it appeared it was making strides in practice sessions, it wasn’t until the Austrian Grand Prix that both drivers took advantage of the solution under race conditions – and that appears to have helped it make solid pace gains.
With that journey in mind, let’s take a look at Ferrari’s floor development during the course of the opening nine races…
Ferrari began the season …Keep reading

F1 sprint timetable opens door for set-up “mess”, says Ferrari

This weekend’s GP at Silverstone will be the first in F1 history that features a 100km sprint race on the Saturday to decide the grid for Sunday’s main event.
But the arrival of the sprint race has had wider implications for the entire weekend timetable, with there now being much less practice time for teams to hone their race set-ups.
There will now just be a single practice session …Keep reading