While not exactly a newsflash, a top Renault official admits the team is nowhere near ready to challenge for the Formula 1 world title. However, not even the team’s new executive director Marcin Budkowski thinks Renault has a chance at catching the big dogs in the sport anytime soon. Budkowski, a former leading FIA official […]
Formula E has quickly become a haven for ex-Formula 1 drivers. So, former F1 driver and inaugural champion Nelson Piquet Jr says that Alonso would enjoy it.
Hopes of Kevin Magnussen driving his Haas on the streets of Copenhagen in a home Grand Prix in Denmark, have ended with the news that plans to hold such an event have dropped. The idea of a race in Copenhagen was first mooted last July, with a consortium led by Danish business magnate Lars Seier Christensen seeking to run […]
Ferrari might not have won the Singapore Grand Prix, but it arrived with another significant Formula 1 update. This update is slated to make sure its car was suited to the low-speed street circuit. At the rear of the car, Ferrari introduced a new rear wing solution, pioneered by McLaren and previously seen on the […]
Mercedes will not buy Formula 1 drives for Esteban Ocon and George Russell because commercial factors outweigh its emotional attachment to those proteges, who risk being sidelined in 2019. Ocon has lost options at Renault and McLaren and Lawrence Stroll’s investment in Racing Point Force India means Lance Stroll is poised to take Ocon’s seat […]
The Haas F1 team wouldn’t agree to the proposal of running third cars in Formula 1 as it could “distort” the championship and “confuse” fans, according to team boss Guenther Steiner. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff raised the idea of third cars recently. This was after he questioned the need for a junior programme when […]
Sebastian Vettel has said that the Ferrari SF71-H is strong enough to not have to fear any of the remaining circuits on this year’s calendar. With F1 heading into the final crunch races of the 2018 season, Ferrari & Vettel have faltered in recent rounds. After returning from the summer break with victory at Spa, […]
Valtteri Bottas has admitted his disappointing 2018 Formula 1 season is now starting to take its toll on his confidence. Bottas took three grand prix wins, 10 other podium finishes and four poles in his first campaign with Mercedes last year. He expected 2018 to be a step forward, given the short-notice nature of his […]
In the last couple of years, there has been a lot of interest in F1 hosting night races. Now, Russia is not ruling out making its grand prix a night race in future. Although Sochi has been on the calendar since 2014, the organisation of the event has been taken over by a company called […]
