four-time Champion Sebastian Vettel has been revealed by new team Aston Martin (formerly Racing Point / Force India) on social media, entering the building. Not much of a news piece, but interesting to see the ex Ferrari and Red Bull driver now wearing green, the colours of the British marque. Aston Martin, who competed as…
Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT) has joined forces with ORECA to design the prototype chassis for the Le Mans Hydrogen class prototype. The joint project will form the exclusive chassis design for all cars in the Hydrogen class at Le Mans set to launch in 2024. ORECA already has a wealth of experience to draw…
The new dirt-track race at Bristol Motor Speedway will feature two 75-lap stages before a 100-lap final stage, NASCAR announced Monday. The circuit released the stage lengths for almost all of the schedule, leaving off only the May 23 event at Circuit of the Americas and the June 13 non-points All-Star Race at Texas Motor…
There will be a new movie on Netflix showcasing the world of Formula One. It isn’t a documentary in any way, but rather a fictional film about a young and talented American F1 driver who becomes involved with the mafia and is forced to serve as a getaway driver to save his family. No release…
Daniil Kvyat will no longer drive for AlphaTauri in 2021, having been replaced by Yuki Tsunoda. The Japanese driver will sit alongside Pierre Gasly and has already clocked up his first metres. He did so during the test session after the last Grand Prix of 2020 in Abu Dhabi. AlphaTauri have shared a new video…
AlphaTauri Formula 1 technical chief Jody Egginton felt disappointed that the team failed to beat Ferrari in 2020, believing it had a faster car. In the first season since its rebrand from Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri picked up a record number of points for the team, surpassing the 100-point mark for the first time in its…
Daniel Ricciardo is the new face of McLaren and the team is making immediate use of it. The Australian went to America, to record a video about the cooperation with the fashion brand: RHUDE. Ricciardo had been on McLaren’s list to bring in as a driver for a long time. When it became clear that…
Lewis Hamilton will sign a new contract with Mercedes this week, former Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan has said. Hamilton’s previous £40million-a-year deal with the sport’s all-conquering team expired on the final day of December. And Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff recently indicated that a resolution is not forthcoming, admitting to arguing with his…
Formula E is set to reinstate the Santiago E-Prix for early June, according to a letter sent out by the president of the Chilean motorsport federation. The FIA and FE issued a provisional draft of the 2020-21 season calendar last June. A single race in Santiago originally occupied a 16 January date and was set…
Toto Wolff has been infected with the coronavirus. After several Formula One drivers have already been infected with the virus, this is the first time a team boss in F1 has contracted COVID-19. Toto Wolff sat down for an interview with ORF on Sunday evening. The Austrian had to admit that he too was infected…
Jenson Button will be taking part in the series, which is run by Formula E founder Alejandro Agag, scheduled to begin in April after its opening race in Saudi Arabia was pushed back by two weeks. Rounds will also be held in Senegal, Greenland, the Brazilian rainforest and Argentine glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Former…
Formula 1 team Haas has received a torrent of vile abuse after posting a clip of Nikita Mazepin winning in F2. After being announced as a Haas driver for the coming season at the start of December, Mazepin then became the villain of F1 days later after the Russian posted on social media a video…
Mick Schumacher, who will race for Haas in the 2021 F1 season, is among the seven drivers taking part in the Ferrari 2018 car test this week. Ferrari have announced they will be at Fiorano from Monday to Friday with the SF71H, giving a variety of drivers track time to prepare them for the new…
Dutch driver Maya Weug is to become the first female driver to join the Ferrari Driver Academy after outshining her competitors at the evaluation camp which took place at Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, as part of the final stage of the FIA “Girls on Track-Rising Stars” programme. The initiative was set up by the FIA…
Sebastian Vettel is not drawing too many parallels between starting life with Aston Martin and the time when he joined Red Bull in 2009 – because he is now much older. On the face of it, there are some similarities to the two jobs the German began 12 years apart. Not least is the geography,…
Antonio Giovinazzi admits he did not take the decision by Scuderia Ferrari to overlook him for a drive in the 2021 Formula 1 season very well, although he has not given up on his dream to race for the Maranello-based outfit in the future. Giovinazzi has been racing for Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN for the…
