Formula 1

Read Also: The confirmation on Friday of F1’s 2022 schedule means the series is heading for its biggest ever season next year with 23 races crammed in between the middle of March and the middle of November. The stresses and strains that the schedule is putting on staff has already been highlighted by several teams,

However, it has now transformed into a very complex role. It requires an individual to not only deal with the driver aspect, but be at the top of a communication chain that includes the pit-wall, garage and remote factory operations to offer analysis in real time. In simple language, a race engineer is now a

The McLaren driver has confessed to facing some troubled times during his early F1 career, as he struggled coping with the pressure to perform at such a young age. But after working with both a good external support team, and his own McLaren squad, the young Briton has got himself in to a happy place

With the fight for the front in qualifying being a pretty fraught affair, it’s no surprise that the driver who comes out on top wants to feel rewarded. In Turkey, for example, Lewis Hamilton was a little bit disappointed that an engine grid penalty meant his supreme Q3 effort will never be recorded in the history books. PLUS: F1’s

But how unlucky has he really been in 2021? At Istanbul Park Alonso excelled in qualifying and managed to start in fifth, but during a wet start he was spun around at Turn 1 by AlphaTauri‘s Pierre Gasly, who was sandwiched in between Alonso and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez. Trying to claw his way back,

Following a meeting of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Friday, a draft schedule for next season was released. The calendar, which stretches from the season opener in Bahrain on 20 March and finishes with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on 20 November, has been put together as the sport hopes for a more

After joining McLaren at the start of the season, Ricciardo accepted a wager with Brown over him scoring his first podium for the team. With memories still fresh of Ricciardo’s famous tattoo bet with his former Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul, Brown was eager to avoid any physical discomfort from needles so opted for a racing

Masi visited the regular MotoGP venue this summer immediately after the Hungarian GP, in company with F1 sporting director Steve Nielsen, while negotiations to hold a race were still under way. Although the track has an FIA Grade 1 licence for car racing and was used for a GP2 Asia event in 2009, Masi’s inspection

F1’s recent addition of races in Saudi Arabia and Qatar has prompted renewed concerns about regimes with poor human rights records using grand prix racing as a sportswashing exercise. However, F1 chiefs and the FIA have long argued that sports should remain neutral, and that racing in such places can have a positive effect by

Ricciardo arrived in Turkey off the back of consecutive top-five finishes, winning the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and finishing fourth in Russia following the late rain shower. But Turkey proved to be a more challenging weekend for Ricciardo as McLaren struggled for pace, resulting in him dropping out in Q1. The team opted to

F1 teams have had to balance work on this year’s cars against the efforts needed to maximise the potential of next season’s challengers. And while Red Bull pushed on until well in to the season with upgrades to its RB16B, Mercedes decided to wind down work on its W12 quite early to focus on its

The German was running in 10th place when he was told there was a pit stop window as other drivers were stopping for a second set of intermediates. Asked on lap 36 if he might want to try soft tyres should slicks become an option Vettel responded, “Medium, medium, let’s go for it. These inters

Capito was speaking on Wednesday as the Grove team launched its own sustainability programme, with a clear target of becoming climate positive by 2030. The Williams Racing Sustainability Strategy has been put together with the support of outside specialists. The team intends to tackle a wide range of areas, including cutting carbon emissions from transport

Russell made his life harder in Sunday race with a mistake at the last corner of his final run in Q2, an error that left him only 13th on the grid when he had the pace to make the top 10. He then lost two places in the early laps of the damp race and

With little separating Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen in the drivers’ standings, and a more varied selection of winning drivers this year, there have been some suggestions that F1’s current rules deliver everything the sport needs. Furthermore, there are concerns that such is the overhaul triggered by the new 2022 cars, that the grid will

But it was a more difficult weekend for Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton started 11th after an engine penalty, and although he fought his way back up as high as third in the race, he ended up fifth after frustration over Mercedes’ strategy, leading to some tense moments on the radio. So why did Mercedes

With the Istanbul Park race being hit by tricky conditions, as race-long drizzle and low cloud meant the circuit never fully dried, drivers had a challenging time managing their tyres. And for Norris, one thing that stood out as he bid to move up the order, was the limited visibility early on. “The laps to

Formula 1’s return to Istanbul Park for 2021 may have lacked the slipping and sliding of last year, yet it provided another intriguing, strategy-filled race. Valtteri Bottas scored his first win in over a year with a controlled display at the front of the pack in damp conditions, ensuring Max Verstappen never had a sniff

On a wet track Hamilton was trying to carve his way back through the field after a grid penalty made him start in 11th. By Lap 35 Hamilton had moved up to fifth and launched an attack on Red Bull’s Perez on Istanbul Park’s back straight. After the pair went wheel-to-wheel through the final corner

Hamilton had staged a recovery from 11th on the grid to challenge for a podium finish in the wet Istanbul race, when his main rivals elected to stop for fresh intermediate rubber. With the older tyres holding up well at that point, Hamilton elected to push on and ignore a call from his Mercedes pits

With track conditions at Istanbul not drying up enough to be suitable for slicks, leaders Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen elected to pit around lap 36 for fresh inters to see them through to the end. But Leclerc, who had been shadowing Verstappen prior to the pitstops, chose to stay out and initially it appeared

Gasly touched Alonso’s rear-left wheel at Turn 1 on the first lap, sending the Alpine driver into a spin and tumbling down the running order. Moments later Alonso was involved in a second clash, this time sending Mick Schumacher into a spin and he picked up a five-second penalty for causing the collision. Often first-lap

The Woking-based team is coming off the back of two of its strongest weekends in recent F1 history, having finished 1-2 in Italy and taking pole and coming close to a win for Norris in Russia a fortnight ago. But the MCL35M has not been as competitive around Istanbul Park this weekend, with Norris lining

Alonso was called to the stewards after qualifying following an incident right at the start of his first flying lap in Q1, when he came across yellow flags at Turn 1. As he set his fastest sector time up to the point he automatically triggered an investigation, but the stewards quickly realised that it made

Lewis Hamilton topped Q3 on Saturday at Istanbul Park, but will drop to 11th on the grid thanks to a penalty for an engine change prior to the race weekend. It means Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas will start from pole on Sunday ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who doubted he could challenge Mercedes for

F1 chiefs are set to reveal a draft 2022 calendar next week for grand prix racing’s biggest ever season, which will run from the middle of March to the middle of November. The high number of races crammed into the time frame means the return of the disliked triple headers, and there have been concerns

Ferrari announced ahead of the race weekend at Istanbul Park that Sainz would be starting at the back of the grid on Sunday after the team took an all-new power unit, giving him the upgraded hybrid system. It meant Sainz focused his Friday running on race pace to prepare for Sunday’s grand prix, but Leclerc

After drivers struggled to find grip on the newly-resurfaced track last season, Pirelli went one step softer for this year’s race, switching from the C1, C2, C3 combination to the C2, C3 and C4. However, having made that choice, Pirelli learned that the characteristics of the track had been changed after the race promoter decided

With the world champion team concerned about the risk of a reliability failure in the closing stages of the championship, it has opted to fit Hamilton with a fresh internal combustion engine for this weekend’s Turkish Grand Prix. The choice to change just a single component means Hamilton will get a 10-place grid penalty rather

More than a quarter of a century since the original Team Lotus closed its doors, the legendary British constructor is still one of the most successful in Formula 1 history. The 79 world championship F1 wins scored by the firm founded by Colin Chapman puts Lotus fifth in the table, behind Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and