December 19, 2024

An insolvency administrator has put KTM’s shares in MV Agusta up for sale, as the Austrian auto giant continues to reel in from a financial crisis.KTM’s parent company Pierer Mobility AG had acquired a 25.1 per cent stake in MV Agusta in November 2022, before taking over the majority of the company in March of this year.Now, its entire 50.1% stake in the Italian motorcycle company is being …Keep reading

Liam Lawson will step up to Red Bull as Max Verstappen’s team-mate in Formula 1 next year, it was announced on Thursday.Just a day after the Milton Keynes-based squad revealed that a deal had been reached to part ways with Sergio Perez, it confirmed that it had elected to promote RB youngster Lawson.Read Also:Formula 1The 10 F1 2024 moments that cost Perez his Red Bull …Keep reading

Josh McErlean will graduate to the World Rally Championship’s top tier in 2025 after securing a deal to join M-Sport-Ford. The 25-year-old will pilot M-Sport’s second Ford Puma Rally1 in a full 14-round WRC campaign next year, joining Gregoire Munster, who was announced as the British squad’s team leader on Wednesday.McErlean will be joined by fellow Irish co-driver Eoin Treacy next …Keep reading

It’s somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don’t necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team’s driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they came to the point where they had to replace Sergio Perez with Liam Lawson.It’s fairly easy to say now that it was a …Keep reading

Let’s recap the saga of Red Bull’s second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It’s a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a ‘normal’ approach to the driver market.Carlos Sainz became unexpectedly available for 2025 when his Ferrari seat went to Lewis Hamilton. The Verstappens did not want Sainz in the …Keep reading

Ferrari has become the first Formula 1 team to reveal the date of its 2025 car launch.The Italian outfit posted on social media a teaser image above the 19 February date, with the message “Get ready to meet our 2025 challenger”. While no further details were offered, the outfit has traditionally held such launch events at its Maranello base.The Ferrari reveal will take place the …Keep reading