日: 2022年8月25日

Leclerc comes into this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix 80 points down on leader Max Verstappen following a DNF in France while he was leading, and then a questionable strategy from Ferrari in Hungary, dropping him to sixth while Verstappen won both of those races.
Ahead of the resumption of the F1 season, Leclerc admitted he was worn out by an “accumulation of emotions” in the first half of …Keep reading

Less than four days after Sebastian Vettel announced his plan to retire from F1 at the end of the season, Aston Martin confirmed it had signed two-time F1 world champion Alonso as his replacement on a multi-year deal from 2023.
It came as a shock to Alpine, who had expected to retain Alonso for next year, and blew the driver market wide open with repercussions for a number of other teams …Keep reading

The F1 driver market for 2023 has moved quickly over the summer break following confirmation of Fernando Alonso’s shock switch to Aston Martin, Daniel Ricciardo’s exit from McLaren and Alex Albon’s extended Williams deal.
AlphaTauri is one of the few teams with a free seat for next year, but team principal Franz Tost previously indicated Tsunoda had a “good chance” for keeping his …Keep reading

The Silverstone-based squad pulled off a surprise before F1’s summer break when it announced that it had lured Alonso away from Alpine for 2023.
It was helped in doing so because Alpine had not been willing to offer Alonso a firm multi-year commitment, as it wanted options to replace him if he could not maintain his current pace now he had hit 41. The two-time world champion had preferred a …Keep reading

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen sits 80 points clear at the top of the drivers’ standings ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix after winning eight of the 13 races before the summer break.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has lost ground on Verstappen due to reliability issues that caused him to retire while leading in both Spain and Azerbaijan, as well as spinning out from the lead in …Keep reading

McLaren announced on Wednesday that it had come to an agreement for Ricciardo to leave at the end of this season, a year before the scheduled end of his contract.
While acknowledging that performance on track was the deciding factor in the decision to part company with the 33-year-old, Brown made it clear that Ricciardo had been a “positive influence” in several ways.
“I think there’s a lot …Keep reading

With the new floor and diffuser of the ground-effect generation of cars offering very different design challenges compared to the past, the learning curve is still pretty steep.
Alongside the sidepods, these two areas offer the most design freedom and this is the primary reason as to why we’re seeing such variation up and down the grid.
However, as time moves on, it’s understandable that …Keep reading

Andretti has made clear his frustration at the apparent slow progress regarding his attempt to join the series with a brand new team, having failed in his efforts to buy the Sauber organisation.
Domenicali suggested that he’s happy with the current figure of 10 entrants and that a newcomer isn’t required to add value to the sport. He also stressed that, along with Andretti, other parties have …Keep reading

For there are many who believe that Ricciardo, who had a firm contract for 2023, should have been given more time to unlock the speed that everyone knows is within him.
But F1 is not a championship where being nice offers guarantee rewards. It is a brutal arena where success and failure is measured in tenths of a second – and if any element of your package is not performing then it needs …Keep reading