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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

‘Fast Freddie’ Lorenzen was just a couple weeks shy of his 90th birthday when he passed away on Wednesday. The Elmhurst, Illinois native was an early star of the sport of NASCAR, competing from 1956 to 1972. He had many nicknames including ‘Golden Boy,’ ‘Fearless Freddie,’ the ‘Elmhurst Express’ and was beloved by fans. Lorenzen was a two-time recipient of the sport’s Most Popular Driver …Keep reading

It had been pretty clear for a while that Sergio Perez would not be a part of Red Bull’s future in Formula 1 on the back of his troubled 2024 campaign.However, what was not so obvious was exactly how the parting of ways would play out because of the complications caused by him having a firm contract.That was the result of the decision made by Red Bull in June to hand Perez a two-year …Keep reading

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been granted the preliminary injunction to keep their charters for the 2025 season while the antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and the France family continues. The ruling is just for next year and states that the disputed sections of the 2025 Charter Agreement that caused this lawsuit are not enforceable while the legal battle is ongoing. The ruling …Keep reading

Williams is on a “mission” to return to the top of Formula 1 – and at the very heart of that assignment lies the team’s early careers programmes.Whether it is a graduate programme, an industrial placement, apprenticeships or work experience, the platform to launch a career into F1 with the team based in Grove has never been more accessible.Add to that a scheme such as the …Keep reading

Sergio Perez has announced his exit from the Red Bull Formula 1 team after four seasons with the squad.As widely expected, the Mexican will vacate the seat alongside world champion Max Verstappen after a tough 2024 campaign in which he struggled for performance and dropped to eighth in the drivers’ championship.That lack of form had long left his future in doubt, despite him originally …Keep reading

Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career haul now ends at five wins, three poles and 932 points. That he only added to the last of those three categories in the 2024 Formula 1 season is one of three key reasons why he’s finally been cast off as Max Verstappen’s team-mate.The other two are firstly how it’s thanks to Perez bringing in just 35% of the world champion’s points total that Red Bull …Keep reading

“The nomad that finally got a place to take residence,” was his response to Motorsport.com in an exclusive sit down roughly an hour before his announcement confirming his full-time IndyCar Series return with Juncos Hollinger Racing for 2025. The native Hoosier was thrust into a last-gasp situation for the small organization at the end of the 2024 season, closing out the final five races …Keep reading