It’s been a busy few days for Red Bull’s F1 teams, with Red Bull Racing having shaken down their new RB16B at Silverstone on Wednesday – while on the same day, some 1,000 miles away in northern Italy, sister squad AlphaTauri were running their 2021 challenger, the AT02, at Imola. The team’s drivers Pierre Gasly…
Several MotoGP riders were busy testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya yesterday and had the chance to ride through the redesigned turn 10. The corner has been modified following safety concerns raised in recent years, with riders concerned about the sharp, dangerous braking point. In the 2019 race Jorge Lorenzo missed his braking point and…
Haas did not have an easy year in 2020. After constantly falling back during a race in 2019, the American stable’s car did not progress in qualifying in 2020 either. Gene Haas, the owner of Haas F1 Team however, points to Mercedes as a major problem. While Haas’ debut in Formula 1 was all well…
The Hass F1 Team will showcase online the livery of its 2021 VF-21 next week on March 4, while the team will pull the covers off its actual car in the pitlane in Bahrain ahead of the start of pre-season testing. Due to current travel restrictions and quarantine requirements in the UK, Haas has been…
Aston Martin has opted for a complete renaming of its Formula 1 car for this year, on the back of its rebranding of Racing Point. Although the team is carrying over the RP20 chassis from last year, which helped it to fourth place in the constructors’ championship, it will change the chassis designation of its…
Aston Martin will retain BWT as a sponsor for 2021, continuing the agreement after the team’s rebrand from Racing Point. BWT’s sponsorship of the Racing Point team resulted in one of the most visually distinctive aesthetics in Formula 1, with the team’s cars dubbed the ‘Pink Panthers’ due to their striking colour scheme. Having signed…
It was a sad day at Williams after losing Matt King OBE who was an inspirational team member and Williams’ Legal Counsel. The 33-year-old passed away on Tuesday (23rd February) following a prolonged stay in hospital. Matt was a talented rugby player as a youngster but suffered a serious spinal injury playing for London Broncos…
Alpine, the team formerly known as Renault, head into the 2021 campaign with no partnerships with other teams on the grid following McLaren’s decision to use Mercedes engines. This means that, unlike Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari, they don’t have a team that they can put their academy drivers – Oscar Piastri, Guanyu Zhou and…
NASCAR suspended team owner Chip Ganassi for a violation of COVID-19 protocols at Daytona International Speedway last weekend. He also was fined $30,000. NASCAR said Ganassi, 62, was penalized for allowing a “non-essential individual” into a restricted area. Pending an appeal, Ganassi will serve his suspension this upcoming weekend at the NASCAR Cup Series event…
On occasion, people forget themselves and what they are doing in front of a camera, & certainly this is something that occurred recently with former F1 and Ferrari driver Mika Salo, and current FIA steward, during a Twitch stream interview where Salo accidentally reveals part of Ferrari’s 2020 punishment. The interview is in Finnish, recorded…
Romain Grosjean completed his first ever IndyCar test session at Barber Motorsports Park, recovering from a spin in the morning to get in a full day of practice in his new car. The session marks the first time the French racing driver has been back behind the wheel of any race car since suffering a…
Sergio Perez has finally gotten his hands on a Red Bull Formula 1 car after he got the chance to take the RB16B out for a spin at a wet Silverstone earlier this week. “It’s been amazing”, Perez revealed in a press release from his team. “To look at my name on the car is…
SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, has been named the official cybersecurity partner of Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team as Aston Martin makes its return to Formula One™ racing in 2021. The partnership with Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team follows SentinelOne’s ongoing partnership with Aston Martin Lagonda. In 2018, the storied high-performance automotive…
Red Bull has unveiled its 2021 car ahead of the new Formula 1 season, releasing the first images of the RB16B. The Milton Keynes-based team finished runner-up to runaway champions Mercedes in 2020, claiming two victories over the 17-race campaign. Ambitions are high for this year having ended 2020 on a high with a win…
Double 125cc world champion and veteran MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini has died at the age of 60 in hospital in Italy after a two-month battle with COVID-19. The Italian was taken ill with the virus just before Christmas and was hospitalised on 27 December in Imola. As his condition worsened, he was transferred to…
Gresini Racing has moved to reassure MotoGP fans that COVID-infected team owner Fausto Gresini has not died, contrary to reporting from Italy. A report had emerged in recent hours that the two-time 125cc world champion, who has been hospitalised since December, had finally succumbed to the coronavirus. Gresini Racing tweeted a short time ago, however,…
