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Following the resignation of Oliver Oakes, Flavio Briatore has taken on the duties of team principal at Alpine – despite not holding the official title.Briatore had already been wielding significant influence behind the scenes as an advisor, but now he has also become the French-owned team’s public face once again. This role includes appearing in official FIA press conferences when called …Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda admitted to befuddlement over his lack of pace after Formula 1’s opening practice sessions at the Spanish Grand Prix – revealing he “doesn’t have any idea why I’m slow”. The Red Bull driver believed that, although his two Friday sessions were “smooth” and without any obvious issues, the ultimate pace was too slow and he was at a loss to explain why.Tsunoda was heard to …Keep reading

Sebastien Ogier has been included on a 12-car Rally1 entry list for the Acropolis Rally Greece round of the World Rally Championship next month.The eight-time world champion has been confirmed on the entry list for the gravel rally (26-29 June) that will mark the Toyota driver’s fifth start of a partial WRC campaign in 2025.Ogier will join Toyota’s full-time line-up of championship …Keep reading

The Alpine Formula 1 squad appears a little closer to appointing a full-time team principal to replace Oliver Oakes, who departed unexpectedly and with immediate effect at the beginning of May.Oakes, recruited from his Hitech GP operation last summer by Briatore, resigned less than a week after his brother William, also a director of Hitech GP, was arrested and charged with “transferring …Keep reading

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri has set the fastest time in Friday’s second practice session at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.Piastri set his benchmark halfway through the one-hour session to grab the lead from Mercedes driver George Russell.At the start of the session Piastri’s team-mate Lando Norris picked up where he left off by immediately dipping below his FP1 leading time with a …Keep reading

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has shrugged off speculation linking him to the Ferrari Formula 1 team.Motorsport.com understands Ferrari chairman John Elkann is a big admirer of Horner, who guided Red Bull to two dominant spells with Sebastian Vettel and then Max Verstappen. And it has been suggested that Elkann has been trying to poach him on several occasions in recent …Keep reading

KTM CEO Gottfried Neumeister has confirmed the company’s participation in MotoGP until the end of 2026, but admitted that what happens thereafter remains uncertain. The company says its sites – particularly Mattighofen and Munderfing in Austria – are to be secured in the long term following a loan from Bajaj, which was announced last week.However, the future of its motorsport …Keep reading

McLaren’s Lando Norris has topped first practice at Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, heading Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona.Friday’s first free practice session in hot conditions was used as a testing ground for a brace of upgrades across most of the teams, as well as the first session in which teams ran stiffer front wings to comply with the FIA’s latest technical …Keep reading

Robert Wickens went into his first race of the season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Long Beach with a simple goal: “To leave with our heads held high.” The Canadian undoubtedly did that over the course of his maiden event aboard a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R specially adapted to allow him to drive with hand controls. But there was also a feeling of what might have been for …Keep reading

Pirelli has announced which tyre compounds will be available for all the remaining rounds for the summer break, with significant changes for the British and Belgian Grands Prix.While the selections for the Red Bull Ring and Hungaroring are the same as last season (with the C3, C4 and C5 compounds taking the hard, medium and soft slots), Silverstone’s will be a step softer: C2, C3 and …Keep reading