The Mexican endured a rollercoaster campaign this season, starting the season strongly but fading away before bouncing back in the final races. Red Bull is committed to Perez for the start of the 2024 campaign but has been clear that it wants him to battle more consistently nearer the front if it is to consider … Read more
Piastri delivered one of the most impressive debut seasons in recent years, taking two podiums and a pole-to-flag win in Qatar’s sprint as his McLaren team hit a purple patch of form after the summer break. While still some way off the race performances of his more experienced team-mate Lando Norris, who grabbed six podiums … Read more
Photo: Andrew Ferraro / Extreme E Extreme E, the all-electric off-road racing series, is set to transition to hydrogen power in 2024 — but before it does, it’ll bid adieu to its electric powertrains with its first-ever race in America. Unfortunately, the Phoenix, AZ season finale will conflict with Formula 1’s sophomore Las Vegas Grand … Read more
The Dutchman won 19 of the 22 races, with only one victory escaping Red Bull and going instead to Ferrari.Meanwhile, Mercedes finished a distant second in the constructors’ championship after failing to win a race.Wolff says that despite Red Bull’s success, interest in F1 is still high and that Red Bull’s rivals simply have to … Read more
As F1’s regulations have got ever more complicated, there are now a number of restrictions that teams face in terms of the way they can operate things at their own bases. There are limits on wind tunnel and CFD testing, how much information can be shared between collaborating squads, plus elements of the cost cap … Read more
Last week the FIA announced its compliance department was looking into a potential conflict interest between a team principal and FOM employee, amid dubious allegations that Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and his wife Susie, who runs the F1 Academy for FOM, had exchanged confidential information. Less than 48 hours later the matter was dropped as … Read more
Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in news. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived Watch Even More Cars Launch Off The Fresno Speed Bump Duo If you’re anything like me, then you enjoy watching people do dumb … Read more
Brivio joined Alpine at the start of the 2021 season as its racing director in F1, having the previous year guided Suzuki to its first MotoGP world championship in 20 years with Joan Mir. The Italian was moved out of the F1 team for the 2022 season, however, to head its young driver programme as … Read more
While Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to go EV-only where markets allow by 2030, with a growing lineup of electric vehicles already on sale, it isn’t giving up on internal combustion engines just yet – especially when it comes to the AMG performance division, which is using electrification to extract massive power from gas motors. The … Read more
Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton had to settle for third place in the championship in 2023, but he managed to put disappointment aside while heaping praise upon the Red Bull Racing team and its drivers. The Mercedes star had a lot of nice words to say about the Austrian outfit, particularly his once … Read more
