日: 2022年9月8日

After being a match for Red Bull in the first part of the season, Ferrari has fallen behind the Milton Keynes outfit, and runaway championship leader Max Verstappen in particular, since the summer break.
With Verstappen dominating at high-speed Spa and also winning at Zandvoort, a track which should have suited Ferrari more, Leclerc fears this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix could be a repeat of …Keep reading

At Zandvoort, Tsunoda reported that his AlphaTauri AT03 felt as if one of the wheels was not attached properly, and pulled over – unfastening his seatbelts as he was ready to retire.
But the Japanese driver was given the call to keep going and trundled back to the pits.
There, he took on a different set of tyres and was seen having his seatbelts buckled up again before returning to the …Keep reading

Sordo, who has over 20 years of engineering experience in Formula 1, will join the team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan on 1 October.
Sordo spent the past six seasons with McLaren Racing F1 as head and director of vehicle performance and, prior to that, spent 10 seasons with Red Bull Racing as an aero performance team leader, then head of aero performance.
Before …Keep reading

The seven-time world champion will have fourth power unit at the Monza race as a consequence of the damage that his third engine picked up in his clash with Fernando Alonso on the opening lap at Spa-Francorchamps.
That power unit, which took at 45G impact in the first lap crash and lost fluids on the opening lap, was flown back to Mercedes’ Brixworth factory for evaluation to work out if it …Keep reading

Albon grabbed 10th at Spa-Francorchamps as his Williams car’s low drag and impressive top speeds allowed him to fend off inherently faster cars.
It was only the Thai driver’s third top 10 of 2022 as Williams has generally fallen to last in the pecking order.
Albon headed the speed trap classifications during qualifying too, reaching 314.4km/h (195.4mph) at the speed trap after …Keep reading

The Faenza-based Formula 1 team today called AlphaTauri started life as Minardi, an underdog effort run on a fraction of its rivals’ budgets that gave opportunities to several future stars.
Giancarlo Minardi’s eponymous squad was a fixture on the grid between 1985 and 2005, when it was sold to Dietrich Mateschitz and rebranded as Toro Rosso for 2006.
Minardi will shortly be usurped by …Keep reading

The Enstone-based squad has unleashed an intense development push on its A522 that has allowed it to pull clear in the battle for best-of-the-rest behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.
It is currently 24 points clear of McLaren in the fight for fourth place in the constructors’ championship, and is still eying further aero upgrades over the remainder of the campaign.
Alpine technical …Keep reading

The Alfa Romeo driver parked at the end of the pit straight as he started lap 54 at the Dutch Grand Prix, triggering a safety car period.
Bottas still has two useable Ferrari engines in his pool, but the Swiss team now knows that he’ll need another example and doesn’t want to risk having to fit a fresh one at either of the upcoming events in Singapore and Suzuka, where overtaking is difficult …Keep reading

IndyCar front-runner Herta has emerged as a contender for a seat at AlphaTauri for next season, with Red Bull eager to tap in to the impact his switch to F1 could have on the American market.
But with Herta not having enough superlicence points to automatically receive an entry, this comes with efforts from the Red Bull camp to get Herta an exemption under force majeure circumstances.
Motor …Keep reading

The Austrian, who is currently guiding the career of his son and F4 racer Charlie, has made the suggestion to F1 stakeholders in the wake of the Oscar Piastri controversy.
Currently only F1 race driver and reserve driver contracts are registered with the CRB.
However junior programme and driver academy contracts that often reference future F1 roles are not registered, potentially weakening …Keep reading