Aston Martin starting “too far to the back” to score strong F1 results

Heading into the summer break the team lies ninth in the world championship, ahead of only Williams.
Apart from a high of a sixth place for Sebastian Vettel in Azerbaijan, the team has logged an eighth, a ninth and six 10th places in the first part of the season.
Krack says the main issue is simply a lack of qualifying pace that has obliged Vettel and his teammate Lance Stroll to come …Keep reading

Mercedes: Flashes of F1 form are “annoying” trait of W13

The team has been struggling all season to fully understand the car built to F1’s latest regulations. Occasional signs of promise have encouraged it to stick with the narrow sidepod concept, while others have been gravitating in a common direction.
George Russell’s pole in Hungary followed by a second consecutive two-three finish for Lewis Hamilton and his younger teammate in the race have …Keep reading

Las Vegas GP date leaked, F1 race could be paired with Abu Dhabi

F1 pulled off a major coup earlier this year by getting all the agreements and permissions necessary to use the Las Vegas city streets and run its cars past some of the city’s major casinos.
A letter of intent from Liberty Dice, a new entity created by the championship’s owner Liberty Media, lays out the terms of the five-year deal for the F1 race on a track that includes a section on …Keep reading

Hamilton hopes “rare” Vettel shows young drivers F1 is “about something far bigger”

Four-time F1 world champion Vettel announced ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix that he will retire at the end of the 2022 season, bringing to an end his 15-year stint on the grid. 
Along with Hamilton, Vettel has been a leading voice for issues outside of F1 in recent years, placing particular focus on the climate crisis and environmental issues facing the world currently, as well as …Keep reading

Singapore F1 track to be playable map in new Call of Duty game

F1 in recent years has enjoyed a boom in popularity thanks largely to Netflix’s fly-on-the-wall docuseries Drive to Survive, which has ushered in a legion of new fans to the racing series.
As a result, numerous Hollywood films about F1 are said to be in development, while the series now has a wider mainstream platform.
This popularity has also filtered through to F1’s Esports platforms …Keep reading

The reasons behind Ricciardo’s McLaren Formula 1 struggles

While his sensational Monza victory, McLaren’s first for nearly nine years, was a reminder of his undeniable talent, it will stand as an outlier result from his time at Woking, bar any shock heroics in the second half of the season.
Few thought things would end like this. Ricciardo’s arrival for 2021 was seen as a coup for McLaren, snaring the Australian away from Enstone – an act it …Keep reading