Pierre Gasly has shed some light on his brief time with Red Bull Racing and why he believes it didn’t work out, resulting in his demotion back to Toro Rosso. The Frenchman was called up to the premier team for the start of the 2019 season, however after just 12 races, he was dropped in…
Mercedes is trying to “push” Red Bull into the role of title favourite for 2021. That is the view of Max Verstappen, who others think is genuinely most likely to win this season given Mercedes’ high-profile testing problems. But the Dutchman thinks Mercedes still shone. “You can see what Mercedes did from the data,” Verstappen…
Daniel Ricciardo had a light-hearted jab at Valtteri Bottas following Netflix’s latest season of Drive to Survive when the Formula 1 world got to see a lot more of the Mercedes driver than they were prepared for. Episode three of the series, Nobody’s Fool, focused on Bottas’ rivalry with teammate Lewis Hamilton but it was…
Ralf Schumacher, former F1 driver and brother of Michael who is now a TV commentator, has expressed his opinion on the difficulties shown by Mercedes in the tests in Bahrain, in essence – the car is a handful for the drivers compared to the other teams. On German Sky Sports, the TV pundit reveals his…
NASCUP Series winner Martin Truex Jr. dominated in his first Xfinity Series race in over a decade but his hopes for a win were cut short after a late speeding penalty which gave a chance to Xfinity Series regular Justin Allgaier to win his first race of the season. This was however not the biggest…
Max Verstappen thinks he knows what Mercedes were up to in pre-season testing – and has not been lulled into a false sense of security. Mercedes’ difficult three days in Bahrain was unexpected considering the ruthless efficiency with which they have won the Drivers and Constructors’ World Championships for the last seven years. But they…
Lewis Hamilton has described a Vatican ban on priests blessing same-sex unions as “unacceptable”. On Monday (15 March), the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith responded to the question of blessing same-sex unions on behalf of the Vatican, and insisted that God “does not bless sin”. Hamilton, who is Catholic, took to Instagram to express…
Honda’s head of engine development, Yasuaki Asaki, has criticised McLaren and the “cheating team” as he reflects on Honda’s latest journey in Formula 1. As Honda embark on what will be their final season in Formula 1 at least in the short term, the head of their engine development Yasuaki Asaki looks back on the…
Honda’s technical head Toyoharu Tanabe believes the Japanese brand’s 2021 Formula 1 engine has surpassed the levels reached by Mercedes in the previous year. With Red Bull and AlphaTauri topping the timesheets during the recently concluded pre-season F1 test, Toyoharu Tanabe, the technical of Honda says the performance of the Japanase manufacturer’s power-unit has eclipsed…
MotoGP rookie Luca Marini says he is finding it difficult to imitate the “strange” style with which pre-season pace-setter Jack Miller rides the Ducati. The five days of official testing in Qatar represented the first time that all seven Ducati riders, including test pilot Michele Pirro, were on track together on Desmosedicis. The sextet of…
Silverstone has announced it is giving away 10,000 tickets to its three main events this summer, including Formula 1 and MotoGP’s British Grand Prix, to NHS key workers in recognition of their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets will be given away for F1 and MotoGP’s British GP and the Silverstone Classic. Silverstone is teaming…
Drive to Survive season three is now available on Netflix. The camera crews have had the chance to go behind the scenes of Formula 1 for another year, and the result is some great footage. The first two seasons of Drive to Survive gave Formula 1 fans their first look behind the scenes of the…
Toto Wolff has argued that Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner is often vocal about his opinions, but they are not big fans of that at Mercedes. Wolff said this in the third season of Netflix’s Drive to Survive. The German racing team says it has a different approach. “Christian likes to rumble around…
The Ferrari SF90, created to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Scuderia designed and built by Enzo Ferrari, was the Prancing Horse’s last competitive car in Formula 1, winning a few races with Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel before its decline with the 2020 car, the SF1000. Now, the SF21, the car created to redeem…
Haas F1 driver Mick Schumacher recollects an incident that occurred in the pitlane, where the German driver drove out of his pit box with one of the jacks still on his car. Mick Schumacher had a largely low-key preseason test in Bahrain with the German completing 181 laps and setting the 19th quickest lap time….
F1 and Saudi Arabia have revealed the layout of the Jeddah Street Circuit, which will be the second longest track on the 2021 calendar and among the fastest. The circuit has been designed with close collaboration with Tilke GmbH & Co. KG and the Formula 1 Motorsport team under Ross Brawn to “ensure exciting racing…
