F1 drivers back move to standalone sprints

The revised rules have been agreed with the teams and are set to be formally approved next week and then used in Azerbaijan, the venue for the first of this season’s six sprint events.
Fridays will run to a familiar sprint pattern with FP1 followed by qualifying, but with the grid counting for Sunday’s main event.
In place of FP2 a shorter version of qualifying will be run on Saturday to …Keep reading
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Pirro to lead updated McLaren F1 young driver programme

McLaren has a long history of giving drivers a break into F1 – in recent years this includes Lewis Hamilton, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris, who this year was joined at the orange team by rookie Oscar Piastri.
Its programme has been updated to now, per a McLaren team statement, “support young drivers in their development from karting to professional racing driver with …Keep reading
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Book review: Guenther Steiner’s Surviving to Drive

“We look like a bunch of wankers.”
It’s fair to say that a star was born when Guenther Steiner uttered words to that effect on an early season of Drive to Survive. Just as much as the Netflix documentary has propelled Formula 1 into the limelight and helped it amass a new following, so too it has done the same for the Haas F1 team principal.
T-shirts emblazoned with his face and …Keep reading
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Stella: McLaren structure “completely different” from confusing 2015 F1 era

Several years ago, McLaren operated a three-person technical structure with Tim Goss, Matt Morris and Peter Prodromou working alongside each other.
Goss and Morris later left the team, and in 2019 James Key joined as technical director with overall responsibility for the car.
The latest structure has derived from a review commissioned by CEO Zak Brown and conducted by Stella over the latest …Keep reading
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Magazine: How Aston Martin became F1 frontrunners

Fernando Alonso has starred to take a hat-trick of podiums – even if sometimes they’re belated – while Lance Stroll has raced well despite carrying an injury. It’s been a remarkable turnaround since the green team’s travails only 12 months ago, and it’s a story into which Alex Kalinauckas delves. Team chief Mike Krack is particularly interesting and – who knows? – perhaps Aston …Keep reading
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Why F1 hopes what happens in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas

What makes it unique is that it is being promoted by Liberty Media and F1 and not by a local third party. The city and the casinos that own the land are partners, but the commercial rights holder is taking the big risks and stands to win or lose depending on how the weekend pans out.
F1’s role as a promoter is a fascinating development for the series and one that established race organisers …Keep reading
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