Ferrari and Red Bull have gone for very different tyre choices for the United States Grand Prix in Austin. The race at the Circuit of the Americas takes place from October 21-23, with the medium, soft and supersoft compound tyres nominated by Pirelli. The selections made ahead of the race in Austin have seen big differences […]
Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne has “agonised” over entering Formula E with the Scuderia but wants the technology to improve first. Renault currently has a presence in the electric racing series, while Audi is stepping up its involvement and Mercedes has secured an entry for 2018/19 should it decide to commit. At present, while teams can […]
Click:Modern Chandeliers Pat Symonds doubts 2017-spec Formula One cars will lap five seconds faster as originally intended, but thinks “the four-second mark” can be reached at some venues. Next year will see the introduction of more-agressive looking machines, after the FIA issued a blueprint to make the cars more challenging to drive. However, Symonds is not […]
An FIA World Motor Sport Council in Geneva ratified the decision to rebrand the GP2 Series as the FIA Formula 2 Championship. The designation change is a result of FIA president Jean Todt’s will to homogenize the motorsport ladder, starting with Formula 4 and evolving to Formulla 3, F2 and Formula 1. “Completing this process […]
Ross Brawn insists his current connection to Liberty Media narrows down to “doing a little consulting” in order to help the new Formula One owners “better understand” the sport. Rumours about the former Ferrari technical director landing a senior role within the future F1 management have been gaining steam recently. A report in German-language publication Auto Bild Motorsport […]
It was another wasted day at the races for Fernando Alonso yesterday in Sochi, with the Spanish driver pulling out of the Russian Grand Prix before he even reached the grid. Alonso’s McLaren failed on the warm-up lap, the victim of a suspected Honda ERS issue, leaving the two-time world champion to watch the race […]
Jolyon Palmer will be competing in his very first Mexican Grand Prix next weekend, and hoping it won’t be his last given the uncertainty surrounding the British drivers’ future. Renault have yet to decide which man shall reside on the opposite side of its garage and Nico Hulkenberg next year, with Palmer, Kevin Magnussen and […]
Williams has confirmed chief technical officer Pat Symonds will leave the team at the end of the year. Symonds joined in 2013 and helped lead the team to consecutive third-place finishes in the constructors’ championship before it slipped to fifth place this year. Coming to the end of his three-year contract, Williams has now confirmed the […]
Former F1 driver Robert Kubica has announced that he will race in the Dubai 24-hour event next week with a Porsche 911 GT3. The Polish driver who raced in F1 from 2006 to 2010 was forced to end his career in Grand Prix racing after sustaining a severe right hand injury in an off-season rally […]
Pascal Wehrlein has been tipped to move across from Manor to Sauber from the 2017 Formula One season. The Swiss outfit still has one seat available after confirming Marcus Ericsson for a third year earlier this week. While current team-mate Felipe Nasr had been expected to stay as well, the Brazilian’s main backer Banco do […]