日: 2025年4月17日

Aston Martin’s new managing technical partner, Adrian Newey, has hit the ground running, but he’s laser-focused on the 2026 car despite the team’s current on-track struggles, according to team boss Andy Cowell.
“100% of Adrian’s designing time is focused on 2026,” Cowell told reporters in Jeddah on Thursday, with new Formula 1 regulations coming up next year.
“He joined in …Keep reading

Reflecting on his return to Racing Bulls, Liam Lawson denies that his confidence took any knocks after his two Formula 1 races with Red Bull, and contends that he hadn’t driven enough to determine if he was truly struggling.
The Kiwi reunited with the Italian squad after just a brace of grand prix weekends with the lead Red Bull team, where his results and gap to Max Verstappen were considered …Keep reading

Last week, former rally co-driver and FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid publicly announced his resignation – in an election year, the equivalent of rolling a grenade under the door.
Now he has taken to Substack to clarify his reasons for quitting the post. In the published statement he thanked those within motorsport and the FIA member clubs who had sent him messages of support – …Keep reading

Almost seven years ago, Charles Leclerc clinched his first Formula 1 points driving for Sauber after keeping his head above water in a wild Azerbaijan Grand Prix – one turned on its head by Max Verstappen’s collision with Daniel Ricciardo – to finish sixth.
Until that point, it had been a tepid start to Leclerc’s F1 career despite the acclaim he’d earned in his relatively uncontested run to the …Keep reading

‘Failure is not an option’ is the tagline of 1995 film Apollo 13, as NASA flight director Gene Kranz, portrayed by Ed Harris, attempts to save three astronauts in peril aboard a malfunctioning Apollo spacecraft.
That mantra also permeates the nascent Cadillac Formula 1 team’s offices as the US-owned team enters a crucial phase of its grand prix trajectory.
Around its many worldwide outposts …Keep reading

Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali explained the championship’s current position on hosting a race in Africa, stating that the efforts to put on a grand prix are not on hold but still missing certain guarantees.
Efforts to restore F1’s place in Africa, to race in all six permanently inhabited continents for the first time since 1993, have been ongoing over the past couple of years. Rwanda has …Keep reading

“Not super fun so far” – either a pithy scrawled note penned by the late Roger Ebert part-way through a tepid, multi-million dollar blockbuster (Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, perhaps?) or Liam Lawson’s assessment of his opening four races in 2025. As we’re not Empire Magazine, you know it’s probably the latter point.
This was supposed to be Lawson’s big break. Parachuted into the second Red …Keep reading