June 2021

French driver Esteban Ocon will stay with Alpine until 2024, the Renault-owned Formula One team said on Wednesday ahead of his home grand prix at Le Castellet. The announcement rules out Ocon as a potential Mercedes driver, with the reigning world champions having him under contract as a youngster and reserve before his move to…

Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko believes Valtteri Bottas has no option but to swap seats with George Russell for the 2022 F1 season. Both drivers are out of contract at the end of this year and the growing feeling is the duo will trade places for next season. That will see Bottas returning to…

The British Grand Prix is close to a 120,000 sell-out but major doubt has been cast on running the event at full capacity following the confirmation of delaying ‘freedom day’ in the United Kingdom. The country was due to remove all COVID-19 induced restrictions on June 21st, but on Monday evening Prime Minister Boris Johnson…

Williams Grand Prix Engineering is in rough shape. Despite having scored nearly as many points as McLaren in F1’s hybrid era, the two British racing concerns have been on opposite trajectories with Williams trending significantly downward from 2016 to today. Continuing on the 2020 theme with a few flashes of brilliance thus far this year…

McLaren is “observing” and “monitoring” the premier electric series Formula E. The Woking based Formula 1 outfit, already now in Indycar, surprised the motor racing world last Friday by revealing it is entering Extreme E – the off-road offshoot of Alejandro Agag’s Formula E concept. McLaren supremo Zak Brown admits he is also considering entering…

According to reports, Toto Wolff has informed George Russell’s management that the Brit will replace Valtteri Bottas next season. There has been speculation about the Brit replacing Bottas ever since he impressed when standing in for Lewis Hamilton at last season’s Sakhir Grand Prix. That speculation has only ramped up this season as the Mercedes…

Aston Martin Racing team boss Otmar Szafnauer says that Aston Martin’s goal is to win a World Championship by 2026 at the latest and compete for them sooner. The British company returned to the world of Formula 1 this season with the team formerly known as Racing Point undergoing a rebrand. They’re very much a…

Marcus Ericsson and Kevin Magnussen are the latest ex-Formula 1 drivers to experience success whilst competing Stateside in Detroit. Over two years on from making his IndyCar debut, former Caterham and Sauber/Alfa Romeo driver Ericsson can now call himself an IndyCar race winner after winning a chaotic first race as part of a weekend double-header…

Scuderia AlphaTauri has announced a new partnership with ICM.com, a UK-based global multi-regulated financial service provider and confirmed Fantom – a leading smart contract platform – as an Official Team Partner. ICM.com is an international online Foreign Exchange (FOREX) and CFD trading firm that operates globally. The new relationship, which began at the iconic Monaco…

Mclaren driver Daniel Ricciardo has sent some encouraging words to a young F1 fan who has been a victim of bullying. A message was posted on Twitter by the youngster’s parent explaining that bullies had stolen his McLaren cap and stomped on it, leaving the boy with marks on his face. This came to the…

The puncture and subsequent crash of Max Verstappen at the Baku Grand Prix will be fresh in the minds of many Formula 1 fans. Despite the speed of the car when the Dutchman lost control and the ferocity of the crash, the damage to the Red Bull car is not too bad, Motorsport reported earlier…

McLaren will race off the beaten tracks next year, with the papaya squad entering the second season of the Extreme E all-electric series. The Woking-based outfit’s commitment to Extreme E is a major coup for the adventurous climate-aware off-road racing series that takes its competitors to remote parts of the world. McLaren’s presence as the…