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Mercedes, Toto Wolff, Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes puts down speculation over Hamilton deal; adds on prep

Mercedes puts down the speculative contract talks of Lewis Hamilton, while they add more on other things including F1 2023 prep. The 2022 F1 season is now a distant memory as all teams and drivers...
Aston Martin, F1, Eric Blandin

Aston Martin expands on mostly-new AMR23, loopholes & more

Technical director Eric Blandin has opened up on how the Aston Martin team is gearing up for the 2023 F1 season. Having moved on from Mercedes to Aston Martin over the course of the 2022...
Victor Martins. F2

Martins graduates to complete ART’s F2 line-up for 2023 season

Victor Martins will step up to compete in the FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship as he completes ART Grand Prix's 2023 line-up. After Theo Pourchaire extended his stay in F2 with ART in 2023, the...
Ferrari, F1

Ferrari shares pool of reserve and development drivers for F1 2023

Ferrari has revealed its pool of reserve and development drivers for the 2023 F1 season and their race plans too. While it was not unknown about Antonio Giovinazzi and Robert Shwartzman taking up the reserve...
Theo Pourchaire, F2, ART

Sauber F1 reserve Pourchaire stays in F2 with ART for 2023

Sauber F1 reserve Theo Pourchaire will continue to compete in FIA Formula 2 (F2) with ART Grand Prix for the 2023 season. After speculation of Pourchaire maybe racing in Japan in Super Formula, those were...
Nyck de Vries, F1

De Vries involved in court case over money lent in 2018

Nyck de Vries is currently involved in a court case with former lender ahead of his full-time F1 debut this year with AlphaTauri. The Dutch media is covering a court case involving de Vries and...
F1, Miami GP

Miami GP reveals upgrades for fan experience; track re-pavement

The Miami GP organisers have come up with an upgrade plan to improve fan experience for the 2023 F1 race, with re-pavement to be also done. The 2022 season saw the debut of the Miami...
Jamie Chadwick, F1, Williams

Chadwick sticks with Williams academy despite racing in Indy NXT

Jamie Chadwick will continue to be part of Williams F1 academy in 2023 despite her racing in the US in Indy NXT series. Having joined the Williams family in 2019 under former owners, Chadwick has...
Red Bull, F1

Red Bull completes its 2023 F1 junior line-up with 12 drivers

Red Bull has confirmed its Junior Team line-up for the 2023 season with 12 drivers on the list where five are new entrants. After Ferrari revealed their junior line-up on Tuesday, Red Bull confirmed theirs...
FIA, F1

FIA shares details of the now completed F1 structure ahead of 2023

The FIA has shared details of the now completed F1 structure ahead of the 2023 season after review under Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Following the 2021 season when Sulayem took over as the FIA President, he...
Ferrari, F1

Ferrari firms up 2023 F1 academy drivers as they start training

Ferrari has firmed up its 2023 F1 academy drivers as they start their week-long training programme at Maranello. Having already started out as the team principal more than a week ago, Frederic Vasseur was also...
F1, China

F1 confirms no replacement of Chinese GP for 2023 season

F1 has confirmed that there will be no replacement of the cancelled Chinese GP for the 2023 season. After the cancellation of the Chinese GP due to their existing COVID-19 restrictions, there were speculation about...
Christian Horner, Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez

Horner says communication key for Verstappen/Perez to thrive

Christian Horner stresses that communication is key for his drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez to continue working well together. F1 like other occupations in life is no different and not immune to grievances occurring...
F1

F1 teams discuss if drivers need to be penalised for yellow/red flag

F1 team bosses are not clear if drivers need to be penalised when they end up causing a yellow or red flag during any competitive session. While nothing was certain but there was talks around...
WRC, M-Sport

Photo: M-Sport unveils its Red Bull livery for 2023 WRC season

M-Sport has unveiled its livery for the 2023 FIA WRC season as the team adopts Red Bull colours aboard its Ford Puma Rally1. M-Sport has finally unveiled its 2023-specification Ford Puma Rally1 ahead of this...
Toto Wolff, James Vowles, F1

Wolff talks Vowles building team of F1 strategists at Mercedes

Toto Wolff talks about not replacing James Vowles with a team of F1 strategists already being set-up by him at Mercedes for future. The big news in the last few days was the move of...
Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris

Piastri expects good working relation with Norris at McLaren

Oscar Piastri talks about partnering with Lando Norris for McLaren in 2023 F1 season as he feels confident of working well. Piastri will be Norris' third F1 teammate at McLaren after Carlos Sainz and Daniel...
Paul Monaghan, mAX vERSTAPPEN, f1

Monaghan says Verstappen is a technically gifted driver

Paul Monaghan defends Max Verstappen to be technically gifted after discussions about him not being so for Red Bull F1 team. Verstappen is a two time world champion and his driving ability cannot be questioned...
Sebastian Vettel, F1

Krack, Horner reckon Vettel has the ability to be a F1 team boss

F1 bosses - Mike Krack and Christian Horner - reckon Sebastian Vettel has the ability to be a team manager but it is not something he would do. With nearly two months now since Vettel...
F1

F1 shares ’23 changes as ‘Revised Qualifying Format’ is explained

F1 has shared some of the changes to be seen in the 2023 season, including few things that will be trialed at selected grands prix. Some of the changes are known from discussions last year,...
James Vowles, F1

Vowles opens up about Williams move; Wolff adds his thoughts

James Vowles opens up on Williams F1 move, moving on from Mercedes, taking a leap, b-team and more as Toto Wolff adds his views. After Williams surprised with the news of the departure of Jost...
Kevin Magnussen, F1, Haas

Haas aware of minor hand surgery requirement for Magnussen

Haas is aware of the minor hand surgery requirements for Kevin Magnussen and expects him to be fully fit for the F1 2023 start. Having compete in the Gulf 24 Hours in December, Magnussen was...
James Vowles, Mercedes

Vowles leaves Mercedes to be new Williams F1 team principal

James Vowles has left his Mercedes role to become the new team principal of Williams F1 Team from the 2023 season onward. Having been part of the Mercedes family for 20 years and most recently...
Mercedes, F1

Mercedes trio discuss power unit/chassis, porpoising & more

Mercedes trio have a long discussion looking back at the 2022 F1 season and forward to 2023 with power unit as center point and tackling issues. In second part of a round table discussion involving...
WRC, Cyril Abiteboul

Abiteboul returns to racing as Hyundai WRC team principal

Former Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul makes his return to racing scene as the new Hyundai team principal in FIA WRC. We have announced the appointment of Cyril Abiteboul to the role of Team Principal...
Paul Monaghan, Red Bull

Monaghan says ’22 was more satisfying than being Red Bull’s best previously

Paul Monaghan talks about 2022 dominance of Red Bull against the previous times when they won F1 title and operational teamwork. Red Bull dominated the 2022 after a titanic struggle and fight with Mercedes in...
McLaren, F1

McLaren will have a hard time but expects to work around in 2023

Former boss Andreas Seidl talks of expectations from 2023 for McLaren amid infrastructure situation as he praises pit stop step in 2022. Although former McLaren team chief Seidl expressed satisfaction with the development of the...
Roman Stanek, F2

Stanek remains at Trident but graduates to F2 for 2023 season

Roman Stanek will remain at Trident for the 2023 season but is graduating to compete in FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship. Trident Motorsport is proud to announce that 18-year-old racer Roman Stanek will enter the...
WEC

WEC releases 38-car entry list for 2023 season across categories

The FIA WEC has released the entry list for the 2023 season with 38 entries across the three categories of Hypercar, LMP2 and LMGTE AM. The 11th season of the FIA World Endurance Championship will...
F1, FIA

F1 team bosses discuss delay in signing 2026 power unit regulation

F1 team bosses speak on the deadline delay to signing of 2026 power unit regulation, Porsche rumour, Aston Martin standalone idea. The 2026 season will see new regulation for power unit and a new supplier...