Automotors

Norris’s sensational win last time out followed McLaren massively upgrading its 2024 F1 car, having shown bursts of Red Bull-beating pace at the Miami track.This included Norris’s lap times on old tyres compared to early leader Max Verstappen before the mid-race safety car that transformed their races and led to McLaren’s first GP win since 2021.Speaking in the pre-event press conference for this …Keep reading

While the full extent of the changes will not be revealed until Friday morning, its AMR24 has already been spotted with a new and interesting front wing design.As the above exclusive photograph shows, the team has created segmentation of the inboard and outboard portion of the front wing’s two upper flaps, with a V-shaped geometry used to accomplish this (red arrow, inset).This change in the flap …Keep reading

Roughly 90 minutes into the session, the 25-year-old Swedish driver was following the Arrow McLaren duo of Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi when the backend of his No. 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda snapped midway through the corner and pounded the Turn 2 wall.The damage left Lundqvist’s car unstable and bouncing toward the inside wall before gathering it back up and coming to a stop along the …Keep reading

Ferrari announced after Miami that Leclerc’s long-time race engineer Xavi Marcos was being moved on to a new role – although it is not clear at the moment what position he will take.Marcos is being replaced by Ferrari’s current performance engineer Bryan Bozzi, who has been with the team for 10 years.It is understood that this is the first time Ferrari has implemented a mid-season race …Keep reading

Magnussen’s last three race outings – the Chinese GP, Miami sprint and Miami GP – brought him from three licence penalty points to 10, just two short of the FIA’s limit for F1 drivers earning a race ban. This was introduced into the FIA’s superlicence system in 2014.While his Shanghai and main Miami race penalties were considered slam dunk cases given Magnussen’s actions put Yuki Tsunoda and …Keep reading

Pramac has until the summer to unilaterally validate the agreement that would allow it to remain the only team with full factory support from Ducati in 2025 and 2026. Renewing the agreement would maintain its current conditions, so that the two riders in its line-up would be hired directly by the Bologna factory, and both would have the latest generation of Desmosedici that are identical to those …Keep reading

The Grove-based outfit is pushing to get itself much closer to F1’s 798kg minimum weight limit, with a host of new lighter parts to be fitted to Alex Albon’s car at Imola.In a surprise confession before track running begins, team principal James Vowles has said that the squad ironically left itself on the back foot last winter by its chase to reduce chassis weight.An aggressive development …Keep reading

The race organiser is confident that there will be significant take-up of the rules it is putting in place for the carbon-neutral fuel.According to club president Pierre Fillon, there will be at least one hydrogen prototype on the grid for the centrepiece round of the World Endurance Championship in 2028 and “two or three the year after, or maybe more”.“We have been working on hydrogen since …Keep reading

Newey is set to leave Red Bull after an extremely successful 18-year stint at the team, designing the cars that propelled Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen to multiple world championships.But amid political unrest at Red Bull, an investigation into Christian Horner that was dismissed and a “whole host of other reasons”, Newey has decided to walk away from the Milton Keynes-based team, shifting …Keep reading

The entry list for Formula E’s Berlin double-header wasn’t short of new names, as the World Endurance Championship’s Spa clash last weekend offered the chance for some fresh faces to make their mark. While the likes of Formula 2 frontrunner Paul Aron was getting his first taste of racing in the all-electric championship, save for a 30-minute session in Misano last month, his team-mate across …Keep reading