Norris can beat Verstappen in straight fight but 'many races ending in tears' - Brown
Norris led home Verstappen in F1's most recent race in Miami – the Briton gaining from a mid-race safety car just as he appeared to be growing into a victory threat and with Verstappen having damaged his Red Bull.The result has raised hopes of further battles between the pair now McLaren has made a step forward with its upgraded 2024 car, as occurred for much of the second half of the 2023 ...Keep reading
Ferrari confirms arrival of ex-Mercedes F1 men D'Ambrosio, Serra
Serra, formerly the performance director at Mercedes, will take on the head of chassis performance engineering role at Ferrari on 1 October and will report to technical chief Enrico Cardile. The news of Serra's move was revealed by Motorsport.com last year.The Frenchman entered F1 as an engineer for Michelin, before joining the BMW Sauber operation when the tyre company left the championship at ...Keep reading
Why Ford feels Red Bull has ace up its sleeve with F1 2026 engine project
The American car giant is teaming up with Red Bull Powertrains to help develop an engine for the new 2026 regulations.The ambitious plans, which will see Red Bull produce its own power unit for the first time in its history, have led to suggestions that it could be a step too far and risk the world champion squad falling down the order if it does not hit the ground running.Recently, Red Bull team ...Keep reading
Haas suing Steiner over alleged “Surviving to Drive” infringements
Just a few days after it emerged that Steiner was taking Haas to court in North Carolina for non-payment of commissions he says he is owed, it has become known that Haas has launched its own legal action in California.In court papers lodged in the Central District of California, Western Division, Haas argues that Steiner and his publisher Ten Speed Press acted unlawfully in publishing images that ...Keep reading
Sauber to add 'important' Imola upgrades to cure F1 pitstop woes
The Hinwil-based outfit has yet to score points this season with the pack seemingly split between the top five and bottom five teams, though Haas and RB have breached the top 10.Whilst Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas have shown glimpses of form behind the wheel, their efforts have largely been hampered by persistent issues at pitstops linked to new equipment introduced over the winter.With ...Keep reading
Miami needs bigger DRS to make racing more exciting, says Stella
Drivers appeared to favour making overtakes into Turn 11 during this year's race, with surprisingly few efforts made into the tight Turn 17 at the end of the lengthy, 1.3km back straight.This straight is preceded by a tight, fiddly section on the motorway underpass, which appeared to space out the cars by the exit of Turn 16 and thus made it difficult for drivers to make ground with DRS into the ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg: Komatsu "fought", "gave everything" to keep me at Haas in F1 2025
At the end of last month, Hulkenberg inked a new deal with Sauber to join the Swiss-based outfit next year ahead of its takeover by Audi, becoming the German manufacturer’s first factory signing for 2026.This means his term with Haas will come to a close at the end of the current season, leaving the squad to look for a replacement, who will likely not have the same experience as the veteran ...Keep reading
Tsunoda made a "huge step" in F1 2024, says RB
Tsunoda scored seventh in last weekend's Miami Grand Prix, cementing RB's sixth position in the constructors' table after team-mate Daniel Ricciardo scored fourth in Saturday's sprint.While Ricciardo had been struggling to get up to speed this year in the VCARB01, Tsunoda picked up the baton as the team's lead driver over the first five races of the season, grabbing six points in Australia and a ...Keep reading
Verstappen not a fan of F1 superlicence points system blocking Antonelli
A driver aiming to compete in an F1 race has to accumulate a total of 40 points to be granted a superlicence, a system that was introduced for 2016.The FIA, Formula 1's ruling body, decided to introduce the points system after Verstappen made his grand prix debut at the age of 17 years and 166 days at the start of the 2015 season, jumping into F1 straight from European Formula 3.Some of the ...Keep reading
McLaren: Piastri "more conscious of his strengths" after Miami F1 race
Piastri had the better start of the two McLaren drivers in Miami, muscling his way past Norris, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez after the latter went straight on in the first corner.In a McLaren that didn't receive all the upgrades that Norris' MCL38 had equipped, Piastri nevertheless showed great pace early on and passed the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc to move up to second behind Max Verstappen.But ...Keep reading
How best-ever Miami GP defied fears over a Vegas F1 hangover
Just over five months on from a frantic – but highly successful – inaugural Vegas street race, a third Miami GP might have felt a little old hat for America's recently acquired passion for F1. Had Miami been trumped?But fears that Sin City had stolen all the limelight were allayed by a sell-out 275,000 Miami GP weekend crowd and a plethora of global celebrities, musicians and sports stars and ...Keep reading
McLaren: Norris' 'haunting' Russia 2021 F1 defeat can be "put behind us now"
The British driver had looked on course for his first F1 victory in Sochi in 2021 having secured his first pole position and led from the front, only to make a critical strategy error and stay out on slicks as a deluge of rain hit the circuit in the dying laps.That error of judgement has stuck with Norris, Joseph and the McLaren team, not least with taunts over social media - though Norris himself ...Keep reading
Ex-Red Bull F1 drivers pay tribute to "unique genius" Newey
Newey has agreed a long-rumoured exit from Red Bull in early 2025, resulting in speculation over his next destination should the 65-year-old wish to remain in F1.The Briton joined Red Bull in 2006 after championship wins with Williams and McLaren, and his influence helped Red Bull climb out of F1's midfield and into the thick of title battles in the succeeding years.He will continue in his role as ...Keep reading
Sargeant not distracted by Antonelli rumours after F1 future talks with Vowles
Antonelli is currently competing in his first season of F2 as his racing education as part of the Mercedes development programme and, with Lewis Hamilton leaving at the end of the season and heading to Ferrari, the Italian has been one of the drivers linked to the vacant seat alongside George Russell.But speculation that Antonelli could replace Sargeant this season gathered pace during the Miami ...Keep reading
Tsunoda: RB could catch top five F1 teams on current trajectory
The Faenza-based team enjoyed its most competitive outing of the year in Miami last weekend, with Tsunoda scoring twice thanks to an eighth-place finish in Saturday's sprint followed by a strong drive to seventh in Sunday's race.Team-mate Daniel Ricciardo had a strong Saturday as well, qualifying and finishing fourth, before a rather anonymous grand prix in which he crossed the finish line in ...Keep reading
McLaren won't get carried away given Red Bull's F1 Miami struggles
Lando Norris took his maiden win in Miami as McLaren rolled out a significant 10-part upgrade package.While Red Bull's polesitter Max Verstappen struggled with floor damage, Norris was handed a free pitstop as he had stayed out until a mid-race safety car was called.But even before his lucky break Norris displayed searing pace on the medium tyres, and on the hard-tyred restart he comfortably held ...Keep reading
Ferrari's major F1 upgrade package revealed in Fiorano test
Centred around a change in philosophy for the sidepod and engine cover bodywork, the rest of the SF-24 will also undergo a transformation, as the team looks for ways to apply pressure on Red Bull and stem the flow of the threat now posed by a resurgent McLaren package.Ferrari, having moved to the underbite sidepod inlet at the start of the season, is now sporting an overbite arrangement, similar ...Keep reading
Sauber: Bottas F1 race engineer switch down to Audi "anticipating" changes
Former Ferrari performance engineer Steven Petrik was installed as a replacement for Bottas' engineer Alex Chan, whom the Finn had worked with since joining the team in 2022.Bottas noted that the decision was "not in my hands", suggesting that this was part of Audi's "reconstruction" of the Sauber team ahead of the German brand's entry as a full works outfit in 2026.Sauber representative Alunni ...Keep reading
Vasseur: Miami F1 shows Red Bull is 'no longer in its comfort zone'
Last year Red Bull won all but one of the season's 22 grands prix, and at the start of this year, there was scant evidence to suggest the team and its dominant driver Max Verstappen could be prevented from repeating its walkover.But while it still has the fastest car in F1, Red Bull first slipped up in Australia due to reliability issues, and it was beaten again in Miami by Lando Norris, whose ...Keep reading
Mercedes faces "very difficult" F1 recovery after taking "wrong turns" - Lowe
Mercedes dominated the series during the previous rules era, winning both the drivers' and the constructors' titles every year from 2014 to 2020.But the rules overhaul in 2022 left the team on the back foot and has so far been unable to recover to mount a challenge for race wins on a regular basis.A change to its car concept for 2024 appears to also have failed to help Mercedes lift its form, with ...Keep reading
Leclerc set for new Ferrari F1 race engineer as Xavi Marcos moves role
Marcos has been Leclerc's race engineer since he joined from Sauber at the start of 2019, getting the role after his working as a factory-based engineer when Carlo Santi had been race engineer for Leclerc's predecessor Kimi Raikkonen in 2018.This followed long-time Ferrari driver coach and esteemed race engineer Jock Clear working to implement Leclerc's engineering team for his first season with ...Keep reading
Sainz: Norris "deserved a little bit of luck" for first F1 win
After 110 grand prix starts and 16 podium finishes, McLaren driver Norris won his maiden F1 race on Sunday after he benefitted from a safety car period following a collision between Haas' Kevin Magnussen and Williams driver Logan Sargeant.Norris was running fourth when his main rivals began to make their first and only pitstops, which they made before the safety car was deployed.The McLaren ...Keep reading
Why Miami isn’t feeling any heat from Las Vegas F1 competition
Speaking exclusively to Motorsport.com during last weekend’s third Miami GP at the Hard Rock Stadium, Epp said that the advent of a third grand prix in America – last November’s Las Vegas GP – expands the scope to distinguish them from one another.As a result, this means they can differentiate themselves – rather than be in competition with each other – and pursue their own types of ...Keep reading
RB: Ricciardo performance in Miami F1 sprint "had been coming"
Ricciardo endured a tough start to the 2024 season, being outperformed by team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in the opening race while struggling to get comfortable aboard the VCARB01.The Australian's difficulties dashed the momentum of him being considered for a 2025 Red Bull seat, but in recent races, he has been working his way back to competitiveness.In China, following a requested chassis change ...Keep reading
Verstappen: Brown trying to "stir things up" with Newey/Red Bull F1 comment
Brown stated that he had seen an increase in applications from those currently employed by Red Bull in the wake of the allegations and power struggle surrounding both team principal Christian Horner, and between the Austrian and Thai shareholders of the parent Red Bull companyHorner refuted those comments, stating that it was "inevitable" that other teams wished to capitalise on the ...Keep reading
Red Bull to reveal RB17 hypercar at Goodwood Festival of Speed
In June 2022, the Advanced Technologies arm of Red Bull's Formula 1 team revealed plans to launch its own £5 million hypercar, penned by Newey.The car will feature a two-seat carbon fibre monocoque chassis with a V10 engine and a carbon fibre gearbox. The car has been produced entirely inhouse by Red Bull and only 50 will be manufactured.The RB17 will be presented on Friday 12 July in the ...Keep reading
Ferrari trials more aggressive F1 spray guards in Fiorano FIA test
Photos from the test showed Charles Leclerc's brother Arthur driving the 2023 Ferrari SF-75 with fully covered front and rear full-wet tyres. The guards include two holes in front but are fully covered at the back.Later on the day, the team tried another version of the guards with spoke-like sides. The Italian squad's reserve driver Oliver Bearman ran behind Leclerc in a 2024 car to check the ...Keep reading
How the mutual faith between Norris and McLaren F1 is finally paying off
Norris' journey with McLaren goes back way further than that, with CEO Zak Brown taking a personal interest in the Briton's career even before he joined the Woking squad's young driver programme in 2017, aged 16."I regard Lando as a fabulous prospect," Brown said at the time. "He blew the doors off his rivals in not one but three highly competitive race series last year, then capped that by ...Keep reading
Russell: Mercedes can take inspiration from first Norris F1 win
Lando Norris scored his maiden F1 victory on Sunday for McLaren, the team's first since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.The turnaround from the team's position last year has been heralded, with developments allowing McLaren to leap ahead of Aston Martin and Mercedes in the pecking order and, on occasion, challenge Red Bull and Ferrari at the front.Pointing to this as a source of inspiration for ...Keep reading
First FIA CEO Natalie Robyn announces departure
Robyn was appointed to her role in November 2022 as part of a bid by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to reform the management structure of the organisation.She was chosen after more than 15 years of experience in the automotive industry, having previously served as the CEO of Volvo in Switzerland since 2017, as well as holding management positions at Nissan and DaimlerChrysler.Since her ...Keep reading
Ocon: Alpine should "not celebrate too hard" after Miami GP F1 point
Ocon registered the first point-scoring finish of the year for the French squad after finishing 10th in last Sunday's race.The result marked the end of a point-less run that stretched to the 2023 Las Vegas GP for Alpine, which has struggled this year as a result of an overweight car that has failed to be competitive.Miami was the first grand prix where the team finally met the minimum weight limit ...Keep reading
F1 champions remember Stirling Moss at London's Westminster Abbey
Around 2000 guests, ranging from drivers from all categories to family and friends - including F1 team boss Christian Horner, comedian Rowan Atkinson plus a host of fans who had been lucky to secure tickets - joined the ceremony at Westminster Abbey to pay tribute to Moss who died in April 2020.His Majesty the King was represented by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, with Prince Michael of Kent ...Keep reading
Ferrari prepares for F1 Imola upgrades with Fiorano filming days
Ferrari's SF-24 will receive the first of three planned upgrade packages next week, when F1 heads to Italian soil for the first time in 2024.It has deployed its second and last filming session on its own Fiorano test track to give its comprehensive upgrades package a first run-in and reduce the calibration work needed in Imola.While filming days are limited to 200km and conducted on special ...Keep reading
Why Aston Martin abandoned low-drag F1 rear wing update in Miami
The Silverstone-based squad brought a new lower drag rear wing to Miami in the hope that a better straightline speed would help it in the fight against its rivals.However, despite running it in practice, Aston Martin went back to its more usual configuration – which inevitably made things harder for its drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll when it came to racing.Speaking about why the ...Keep reading
The real game-changing aspect of McLaren’s Miami F1 upgrades
As the official submission to the FIA about its developments revealed, almost no aerodynamic surface had been left untouched with the full package of changes that had been fitted to Lando Norris's car.While the Woking-based squad had teased beforehand about the revisions being part of efforts to address a weakness in low speed, the true motive of these latest developments was obvious: pure ...Keep reading
US House Judiciary Committee chairman opens probe into F1’s Andretti rejection
Just days after Mario Andretti appeared on Capitol Hill, Republican Jim Jordan has written to F1’s owners demanding explanations for the decision-making process that has blocked Andretti’s hopes.American television and radio network NBC published a letter it had obtained from Jordan outlining a request for documents and information relating to F1’s call on denying Andretti a spot on the ...Keep reading
Miami GP grabs biggest ever live F1 US TV audience
ABC's broadcast of Lando Norris's maiden F1 victory attracted an average audience of 3.1 million viewers, which beats the previous record of 2.6 million that watched the inaugural Miami event in 2022.It also marks a 48% uptick in viewership compared to last year, when the audience had dropped to 2.1 million for Miami's second event.Although the late afternoon timing of the Miami event pitches it ...Keep reading
Alonso says FIA “on board” with new F1 driving standards guidelines on the way
The Aston Martin driver thrust the issue of penalties into the spotlight at the Miami Grand Prix when he suggested some drivers got away unpunished in incidents because they were "not Spanish."It came off the back of him earning penalties in the Australian Grand Prix and China sprint race for driving that he thought was within the boundaries of what is allowed, while he was annoyed that Lewis ...Keep reading
F1 Miami GP boss says $280 lobster rolls price was posted out of context
Garfinkel, who is the managing partner of the Formula 1 event and also the boss of the Miami Dolphins NFL team, spoke to selected media including Motorsport.com ahead of the third race weekend held at his venue.He said that the concession prices reflected the highly varied levels of disposable income of racegoers, from regular fans to wealthy business people and celebrity VIP guests across the ...Keep reading
Horner: Wolff should be more worried than me after losing 220 F1 staff to Red Bull
Over the Miami Grand Prix weekend, it emerged several key Red Bull staff members, including long-time sporting manager Jonathan Wheatley, have been the subject of interest from Red Bull's competitors.McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown said his outfit had seen "an increase in CVs coming our way from the team", suspecting that legendary designer Adrian Newey won't be the last domino to fall in the wake of Red ...Keep reading
Chris Harris on F1: All Hail Kevin Magnussen, the Chaos King of Miami
The perennial fascination with Formula One is that even seasoned fans cannot predict the heroes and zeroes of a race weekend. Here we are locked in the doldrums of another Red Bull demonstration season, with news that its genius designer Adrian Newey would rather head to the south of France in a camper van than further endure the seedy goings-on at Milton Keynes (don’t blame him), and who ...Keep reading
How Mercedes is going "all in" as first F1 upgrade steps appears in Miami
After a bunch of experiments over the first races of the campaign, the team thinks it finally has a direction it needs to pursue in a bid to deliver a package that is both quick in high-speed corners but then not sacrificing performance in the slow sections too.Team boss Toto Wolff has called recent months a "painful learning curve", but senses that things are on the up as he says the factory is ...Keep reading
What Newey expected when he first joined Red Bull
Who’d have thought – just a year ago, when they were still suffering a ‘Jag Rac’ hangover – that early in 2007 Red Bull Racing would be fighting against the notion that they’re going to do rather well this season? For all that the creation of a modern F1 car is a team process, there are still those who believe that one person can make a difference.Has the hiring of Adrian Newey made ...Keep reading
Sainz singled out by Sauber as top target for Audi F1 era
Sauber already made one of the first moves of the 2025 driver market by signing Nico Hulkenberg from Haas on a multi-year deal, which takes the German into its first year as the Audi factory team in 2026.With Lewis Hamilton moving from Mercedes to take his Ferrari seat next year, Sainz is the hottest property who's currently not under contract for 2025. The 29-year-old already has links to Audi ...Keep reading
Why Magnussen is racing rest of 2024 season under threat of F1 race ban
The Dane had an incident-filled time in Miami last weekend as he got involved in skirmishes in both the sprint and the grand prix.But it was the two penalty points he was given for colliding with Logan Sargeant in the race that has left him with a total of 10 on his licence, meaning he is just two away from an automatic race ban.Should he hit the mark and earn any more points over the remainder ...Keep reading
Norris pleased to prove doubters wrong after maiden F1 win
Norris beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen in Sunday's Miami Grand Prix after a mid-race safety car allowed him to take the restart in the lead, but the Briton still managed to drive away from Verstappen's Red Bull to take a convincing maiden win.After 109 races without finding the top step of the podium, Norris' breakthrough win was long overdue, but the 24-year-old says he never doubted his day would ...Keep reading
Who is Lando Norris, F1's newest grand prix winner?
The McLaren driver crossed the line 7.6 seconds clear of the all-conquering Max Verstappen, converting a strategy in which he went long on the medium-compound tyres and pouncing on a safety car to cycle out ahead of the three-time world champion.Dispelling the disappointment of his 2021 near-miss at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi, Norris' victory appeared to be a popular one among the rest of the ...Keep reading
Wolff sees “no relevance” to Mintzlaff’s Verstappen pursuit criticisms
The Mercedes boss found himself on the receiving end of scathing remarks from Mintzlaff over the Miami Grand Prix weekend, with the energy drinks company's managing director not happy about Mercedes trying to lure Verstappen away from his current squad.Mintzlaff told Bild Am Sonntag: "I understand the pressure that Toto Wolff and perhaps other teams have after years of being behind. But I think ...Keep reading
How many penalty points do F1 drivers have in 2024 and when do they expire?
Kevin Magnussen is just two points away from a race ban after being awarded five points on his superlicence at the Miami Grand Prix. The Haas driver pulled off a number of controversial moves on other drivers, including an intense battle with Lewis Hamilton during the Sprint race.The five points, in addition to his five he had before the weekend started, have put Magnussen at the top of the ...Keep reading
Perez averted "disaster" with Verstappen in "optimistic" Miami GP F1 start
Having made a brilliant initial launch from fourth on the grid, Perez was able to draw alongside the two Ferraris ahead of him and make a lunge to grab second place behind polesitter Verstappen.But the Mexican was unable to get his car slowed down on time as he hit the brakes approaching Turn 1, nearly hitting the back of Verstappen's similar RB20 as they navigated the tight right-hander.Perez ...Keep reading