日: 2024年12月19日

While Formula 1 continues to make good gains in improving its sustainability, one of the most obvious areas of wastage clearly still needs addressing.
With the quest to reduce environmental impact being all about marginal gains rather than delivering a silver bullet solution, it is quite remarkable that F1 finds itself left with so many unused tyres over the course of a season.
The reality …Keep reading

Valtteri Bottas has been re-signed by Mercedes to be its reserve driver for the 2025 Formula 1 season, after he missed out on keeping his seat at Sauber.
The Finnish racer scored 10 grand prix wins for the Silver Arrows squad in a 100-race stint between 2017 and 2021 when he was partnered with Lewis Hamilton.
He was dropped from the team ahead of 2022 as team boss Toto Wolff opted to promote …Keep reading

On the face of it, Esteban Ocon’s second-place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix might be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but it’s easy to overlook a handful of other impressive moments in a difficult final season with Alpine.
Ocon led a decent portion of that Interlagos race, and this performance was supplemented with 10th in Miami – with a still-awful car – and ninth at the …Keep reading

George Russell has implored FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to “express what his goal is” with motorsport’s governing body, amid the ongoing tension between the Emirati former rally driver and Formula 1 racers. 
The 2024 F1 season finished with the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association still awaiting a formal response to its request for its members to be treated as “adults” in a …Keep reading

Despite continuing to be overlooked by Red Bull’s lead Formula 1 team, Yuki Tsunoda showed great maturity over 2024, with three seventh places the highlights of his year in Australia, Miami and Brazil.
He also managed his best F1 qualifying result to date with third on the grid in slippery conditions at Interlagos, and over the season outscored both Daniel Ricciardo and Liam Lawson to assert …Keep reading

“Messy” is how Alex Albon sums up his third season with Williams.
Problems came from both sides; his crashes in Melbourne and Brazil were awkward since they led to missed races (in Australia for Logan Sargeant), but Williams’s car-build issues also meant he was competing with a long-hidden weight penalty and reliability kept undoing him too.
Albon was excellent in qualifying, reaching …Keep reading

Aston Martin regressed over 2024 as upgrades did little to improve its competitiveness in Formula 1, but the evergreen Fernando Alonso still squeezed every drop from his car.
The Spanish veteran’s consistent points-scoring exploits in the opening rounds of the season, spearheaded by fifth in Jeddah, laid the foundations for Aston’s run to fifth place in the constructors’ championship, and …Keep reading

Back to winning ways in 2024 after 946 days without gracing an F1 podium’s top step – Lewis Hamilton’s emotional Silverstone victory was the highlight of his season, but he was excellent in qualifying and on the orthodox two-stop strategy at Spa too.
Hamilton’s in-race tyre management remains top class, as his pace while rising in Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi showed, plus how he held off Max …Keep reading

Nico Hulkenberg led the line admirably for Haas as the American team stepped up its performance for 2024.
Brilliantly consistent in the first 10 races, all but one of his finishes in those were inside of the ninth/10th/11th bracket, then he took advantage of Haas upgrades to finish sixth in the Austrian and British Grands Prix.
The German scored points in all but one of the last seven rounds …Keep reading