Fernando Alonso will not be present at the unveiling of the Alpine A521 Formula 1 car when its presented next week. The Spaniard will return to F1 this year following a two-year break which saw him compete at Le Mans, in the World Endurance Championship, Dakar and at the Indy 500. However his pre-season training…
Alfa Romeo sent their 2021 challenger, the C41, into action for the first time in a filming day at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. After officially launching the C41 in Warsaw, Alfa Romeo’s next stop was the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, home of the Spanish Grand Prix, to put together some much-needed data on their new challenger…
Mercedes EQ driver Nyck De Vries delivered an assured lights-to-flag drive to win the season-opening Diriyah E-Prix and take his first Formula E victory.Starting on pole after a dominant qualifying performance, the Dutchman earned Mercedes a second consecutive win after they won the final race of the 2019-20 season in Berlin. De Vries was fastest…
Petronas Yamaha offers a sneak preview of Monday’s 2021 online presentation with its revised MotoGP line-up of Valentino Rossi and Franco Morbidelli. Monday, March 1, will see nine-time champion Valentino Rossi officially unveiled as a Petronas Yamaha MotoGP rider, alongside countryman and VR46 protegee Franco Morbidelli. Ahead of the event, which will also feature the…
Nyck De Vries has ended the first practice session of the season fastest for Mercedes in Diriyah after setting 1.08.693 six-tenths clear of Andre Lotterer in the Porsche. The practice session was moved to Thursday to allow the teams and drivers to get some practice laps under the floodlights ahead of the first night race…
Mika Salo has hit reverse gear after revealing details of Ferrari’s secret engine legality agreement with the FIA. However, the news has long since returned and after a dramatic 2020, Ferrari seem to have been punished enough in principle. The news all came up again though, through a Twitch Livestream in which Mika Salo along…
Gene Haas says he reversed his decision to sponsor Romain Grosjean in IndyCar this year after the latter’s dramatic crash in the Bahrain Grand Prix. Grosjean miraculously escaped the jaws of death last November when he ploughed into the barrier on the opening lap of the race at Sakhir and managed to free himself from…
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…
