McLaren is banking on a significant Barcelona upgrade package to boost its performance, but racing director Eric Boullier is also expecting rival teams to move forward next week. The Woking-based outfit’s relative performance has been a disappointment so far this season, its first with engine partner Renault. While the team’s resurgence has perhaps fallen short…
It’s hardly surprising that Charles Leclerc would choose Monaco as his favourite track, but the Red Bull Ring in Austria is a very close second in the Sauber driver’s list. The massively talented Sauber rookie heads to Austria with another impressive points-scoring race in his wake following his tenth-place finish at Paul Ricard last weekend….
Williams reserve and development driver Robert Kubica is the latest name to be linked to a possible race seat at Toro Rosso. Brendon Hartley’s position with the team looks increasingly at risk. The Kiwi joined the squad for last year’s United States Grand Prix and has now completed ten outings in Formula 1. Hartley’s best…
Formula 1’s director of motorsport Ross Brawn says it’s important for the sport to keep drivers like Fernando Alonso on the grid. Alonso has been growing unhappy with F1 in recent years due to the lack of competitiveness of his current team McLaren. He’s been finding fulfilment elsewhere with his pursuit of motor sport’s Triple…
Marcus Ericsson will play no part in second practice for the French Grand Prix on Friday afternoon. The Swede crashed out in the final minutes of FP1 when he lost the rear-end of the Sauber on entry to turn 11 at Beausset, immediately after the fast Signes corner. The car snapped around and ran backwards…
Sergey Sirotkin has unquestionably undergone a baptism by fire in his maiden rookie outings in Formula 1 in 2018. With the Williams FW41 not performing as well as hoped, Sirotkin finds himself one of only two drivers yet to score a championship point in the opening seven races of the season. His best result so…
Mercedes’ Toto Wolff insists the team orders that governed the closing stages of Sunday’s German Grand Prix will not become the norm at the Silver Arrows outfit for the remainder of the season. Lewis Hamilton executed a stunning recovery drive at Hockenheim, inheriting the lead of the race after arch-rival Sebastian Vettel’s demise, but with…
If Formula 1 ever decides to let multiple tyre suppliers compete against each other, Pirelli would be ready to engage says F1 boss Mario Isola. The Italian company has been the sport’s exclusive supplier since 2011,but five years earlier, Michelin and Bridgestone were pitted against each other during F1’s last season of open competition between…
Daniel Ricciardo admits that frustrations of late have induced a sense of fatigue of Formula 1, insisting the summer break is coming at the right time for the Red Bull driver. The Aussie’s latest disappointment materialized in Hungary on Saturday when a botched qualifying session led to a lowly start on the grid of a…
Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people. In Washington state’s Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory. London reached…