January 21, 2025

The 2025 Formula 1 season’s biggest crossover event — Lewis Hamilton joining Ferrari — kicked off this weekend with our first look at what’s to come. Sir Lewis hard launched his new era on Instagram, dressed to the nines, standing in front of Enzo Ferrari’s house on the team’s Modena grounds while a Ferrari F40 poked into the frame. The image was, by itself, the first mile marker in what will …Keep reading

Racing Bulls racing director Alan Permane says getting Yuki Tsunoda to Red Bull should remain a target of the squad’s satellite team after his snub for 2025.Red Bull decided to turn to Tsunoda’s less experienced 2024 team-mate Liam Lawson to replace Sergio Perez at its main team for the upcoming season, ensuring Tsunoda stays at the junior team for a fifth consecutive season, much to the …Keep reading

The 2025 specification World Rally Championship cars without hybrid power are much “simpler” and “a lot easier” to drive, according to Hyundai Motorsport’s Ott Tanak.The WRC will usher in new technical regulations this season after the FIA decided to remove hybrid power from Rally1 cars, which will also now run on a new control tyre supplied by Hankook.As a result of the regulation change …Keep reading

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi is confident it will be “very easy” to manage former world champions Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez as they team up at its factory MotoGP squad this year.Ducati’s decision to sign former Honda star Marquez to replace Enea Bastianini has created the kind of ‘dream team’ not seen in MotoGP since Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo raced as team-mates at …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton will be reunited with his former trainer Angela Cullen as he embarks on a new chapter in his F1 career at Ferrari.Hamilton, who enjoyed a formidable partnership with Cullen during his time at Mercedes, has turned to the New Zealander, who will form part of his backroom team.Cullen worked with Hamilton for six of his seven world championship wins but they parted company …Keep reading

BMW has revealed an all-star line-up in its two Pro class entries for the 2 February race around the clock, in what could be the final showdown of the big three German marques at the Bathurst 12 Hour.WRT has named Augusto Farfus and van der Linde brothers Sheldon and Kelvin to drive the #32 M3 GT3 while Valentino Rossi, Raffaele Marciello and Charles Weerts will share the #46 entry.Read …Keep reading

Autosport is 75 years old in 2025 and a new-look Autosport Awards will kick off the celebrations.The Awards has moved from its traditional December slot at Grosvenor House Hotel to the Roundhouse in January. But some of the history, including a selection of the key Awards, remains – and the stars often attend the event to receive their Awards in front of motorsport luminaries.The …Keep reading

Haas has significantly altered its Formula 1 race team staff ahead of the new season, with changes in driver engineers, strategy and sporting operations personnel alongside the arrival of Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman.Team principal Ayao Komatsu said the alterations represented a “huge change” for Haas, as he briefed the F1 press corps ahead of the new season.Topping the bill of the …Keep reading

It was the first name that stood out on the presentation slide displayed on the wall in one of the meeting rooms in Haas’ UK factory in Banbury.Alongside the appointments of Ronan O’Hare as Oliver Bearman’s race engineer, plus the return of Mark Lowe as sporting director, Laura Muller’s name was confirmed as Esteban Ocon’s race engineer.Read Also:Formula 1Haas makes …Keep reading