日: 2023年3月1日

While there was a full 22-race calendar in 2021 there were still some restrictions on attendance in place. But last year, with those finally gone and F1 continuing to benefit worldwide from the Drive to Survive boost, the numbers rose significantly.
The increasing interest in the world championship was reflected in a claimed overall fan attendance of 5.7 million, which represents a rise of 36% …Keep reading

A decision on next year will be made in July, and in the interim Pirelli has to develop and test tyres that the drivers, teams and the FIA are satisfied with. It’s not only a race against the clock, but it will have to be done with limited track running.
Pirelli has just three slick test sessions with which to meet its target. A selection of teams will run for two days in Bahrain next week …Keep reading

Ex-Williams F1 test driver and DTM racer Wolff more recently served as the team principal and latterly CEO for the Venturi Formula E squad, positions she occupied between 2018 and 2022.
Founder of the Dare To Be Different initiative, a programme conceived to boost female participation in motorsport, the Scot has since been a keynote speaker at major conferences such as the 2023 Pendulum Summit …Keep reading

During pre-season testing in Bahrain last week, German publication Auto Motor und Sport reported that a Red Bull management structure – rejigged following the death of company founder Dietrich Mateschitz last year – was considering a sale of AlphaTauri.
This was supposedly related to dissatisfaction with the team’s new identity, the squad having been rebranded from Toro Rosso for 2020 …Keep reading

Haas went through several lean years leading up to 2021, and decided to focus fully on exploiting the following year’s rules reset. It signed the well-funded but inexperienced duo of Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher to get it through a compromised 2021 season.
While Mazepin was replaced by Magnussen on the eve of the 2022 campaign due to the Russian invasion of …Keep reading

Rivals and pundits who crunched the numbers after the three days of running at Sakhir reckon it might be so.
The car looked good from the start, but it was a race distance undertaken by Fernando Alonso late on the final day that caught the eye. The Spaniard was running a medium/hard/medium tyre combination that saw him get faster and faster.
It was a strong conclusion to a test that began …Keep reading

Vasseur joined the Italian squad earlier this year in the wake of the resignation of former team principal Mattia Binotto. 
It is widely perceived outside of Ferrari that the politics within the walls of the Maranello factory can be quite intense, which is why there has been such a high turnover of team bosses in recent years. 
However, ahead of his first race in charge of the …Keep reading

Last year, many F1 teams struggled with excessive bouncing on the new ground effect cars, which led to lobbying to tweak the regulations for 2023 on safety grounds.
For 2023 the floor edges were raised by 15mm to prevent teams running their challengers as closely to the ground as last year and reduce the bouncing effect.
Few cars appeared to experience porpoising during the three-day test …Keep reading