日: 2023年7月27日

The Frenchman has invited all F1, F2 and F3 personnel to take part in a special ‘Run for Anthoine’ around Spa on Thursday night in honour of the late Hubert, who was killed in an F2 crash over the 2019 GP weekend.The event has added poignancy following the recent death of Dilano van ‘t Hoff in a Formula Regional European Championship race at Spa earlier this month, with a moment being set …Keep reading

After grabbing pole position from Max Verstappen by just 0.003 seconds, Hamilton was eager to point out that the DRS edge that Red Bull had earlier in the campaign was gone.“I mean, they’ve still got the DRS, but they don’t have the DRS advantage all of a sudden that they used to have. Where did that go?” the Mercedes driver told Sky Sports F1.“They’ve just had an upgrade, so we …Keep reading

The Australian, who signed for Red Bull for this season on a one-year deal in a third driver role, was parachuted in to replace sacked AlphaTauri racer Nyck de Vries after 10 races.He was trailed by a Netflix ‘Drive To Survive’ camera crew for the Thursday media day in Budapest and his sessions with journalists in Red Bull hospitality were rammed.His roundtable interview session in Spa also …Keep reading

In April AlphaTauri announced that Mekies would replace its long-time team boss Franz Tost, who is stepping down at the end of the season. It also appointed former FIA man Peter Bayer to become the team’s first bespoke CEO, overseeing a wide range of organisational changes.After the switch was announced Mekies continued in his sporting director role, while Ferrari and Red Bull worked out the …Keep reading

The Silverstone-based squad started the 2023 campaign as Red Bull’s closest challenger, scoring six podiums in eight rounds.But since Fernando Alonso’s second in Canada, it has dropped back in to the chasing pack as others like McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari have made rapid progress.There has also been a fascinating change in its performance profile as an early season strength in low-speed …Keep reading

Qualifying gave the impression that the race could be close, but there was only ever going to be one winner last weekend. Once he had overcome polesitter Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen was in total control at the Hungaroring.While all but the most hardcore of Red Bull fans would surely like to see more F1 competition at the front of the field, Red Bull deserves its new world championship record of 12 …Keep reading

The first and second stages of a three-step upgrade to change “pretty much every single aerodynamic part on the car” appears to have turned around McLaren’s poor start to the season.Since the first updates arrived in Austria, Lando Norris has qualified inside the top four for the three GPs and finished runner-up to Max Verstappen at Silverstone and last weekend at the Hungaroring.But team …Keep reading

Ferrari has slipped back in the last two events, with the two cars finishing ninth and 10th at Silverstone, and seventh and eighth in Hungary last weekend.However, Vasseur says the Italian outfit should just focus on its own performance and not get too hung up about the pacesetters.”Red Bull are in front but I think the feeling was quite the same when Mercedes was in front a few years ago,” he …Keep reading

As the FIA continues its probing of the team submissions from the 2022 campaign, it emerged over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend that a further round of questions have gone back to some of the leading outfits as part of a push for further clarifications.This comes on top of one of the current big talking points being how much teams are benefitting from using non-F1 parts of their business to help …Keep reading