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McLaren has revealed its 2023 Formula 1 car, with a Red Bull-inspired sidepod solution the most visually striking part of its launch-specification design. The 2023 car, which has been named the MCL60 in deference to the 60th anniversary of the ...

Albon’s first thoughts on 2023 Williams suggest real progress

It would be unwise to read too much into a ‘filming day’ shakedown run on demonstration-spec tyres, but Alex Albon’s extremely positive first impression of the 2023 Williams Formula 1 car will be an early boost for the team that ...

Gary Anderson’s first impressions of 2023 Williams F1 car

My first disclosure is that I can only comment on what I can see, and Williams has only released its own carefully chosen images of its new 2023 Formula 1 car so far. From what they show, the FW45 appears ...

Aston faces awkward questions if it continues to underperform

Of the teams that made a poor initial go of the new ground effect rules that Formula 1 adopted in 2022, Aston Martin was certainly one that far more had been expected of than a lacklustre beginning blighted by porpoising ...

Williams offers first look at its 2023 F1 car

Williams has become the latest team to reveal its 2023 Formula 1 car after its FW45 broke cover ahead of a shakedown run at Silverstone. The team kicked off a busy Monday of 2023 car debuts with McLaren and Aston ...

Norris interview: How he became the driver that buried Ricciardo

Superficially, McLaren driver Lando Norris’s Formula 1 development has stagnated. In 2019, he spent much of his impressive rookie season finishing in the bottom half of the points and exactly the same was true in 2022. Given McLaren’s timeline for ...

Reminder: Oscar Piastri is not a villain

As McLaren prepares to launch its MCL60 2023 Formula 1 car on Monday, the furore over its swoop for Alpine junior Oscar Piastri to replace Daniel Ricciardo for this season seems a long time ago. Some might even have forgotten ...

The signs of a clear shift in Haas’s F1 upgrades policy

A consistent message emerged from the technical talking heads around the reveal of Haas’s 2023 Formula 1 car and it indicated a clear shift in development policy. Last year, Haas kept its in-season upgrades to a minimum. The only significant ...

Everything wrong with F1 2023 launch season so far

Formula 1 car launch season 2023 is at its halfway point. And there’s a strong argument that it’s so far been the worst one ever. While teams’ increasing secrecy level over their new designs is understandable, and the challenge of ...

AlphaTauri unveils new car and revised livery for F1 2023

AlphaTauri has revealed its 2023 Formula 1 car and a revised livery for the new season. The colour scheme features significantly more red in deference to new sponsor Orlen – which has moved across from Alfa Romeo – and was ...

AlphaTauri boss’s uncompromising Tsunoda demand for 2023

Yuki Tsunoda has been given a strict 2023 target by his Formula 1 team boss: “Score many more points than he did last year.” That is at best uncompromising from Franz Tost, and at worst a bit unfair. Tsunoda did ...

Mark Hughes: A key change that could transform AlphaTauri

Although the renders of AlphaTauri’s AT04 2023 Formula 1 design suggest a car that is visually almost indistinguishable from last year’s, there could be one very important difference. It’s impossible to be definitive when all we are looking at are ...

Gary Anderson: AlphaTauri should copy Red Bull more than this

The new AlphaTauri Formula 1 car has just been shown to the world. Or at least renders of what it tells us is the new car have. I’m not completely sure that is 100% true, mainly because the lines are ...

Gary Anderson: VF23 is a solid step, but development must follow

Just under a fortnight after Haas showed off its new 2023 Formula 1 livery, the actual car has now broken cover. It’s a detailed development of last year’s design with some interesting changes. One key change is that we believe ...

What’s the purpose of the other Red Bull F1 team?

The purpose of Red Bull’s other Formula 1 team is not as clear as it once was. Toro Rosso had a well-defined objective. It was the final test for Red Bull’s best junior drivers, a place where they could be ...

First hints of Haas’s ‘massive rework’ and what’s planned

The first real images of Haas’s VF-23 2023 Formula 1 car give an indication of what the team’s self-described “massive rework” of its 2022 design has prioritised. Haas completed a shakedown at Silverstone on Saturday, showing its 2023 challenger for ...

In detail: AlphaTauri’s plan to right the wrongs of last year

AlphaTauri expects to get “back to business” with its 2023 car after a poor season last year, with its new machine aiming to benefit from unlocking more aerodynamic potential and the phasing in of more rolling updates throughout the season. ...

What Alfa’s track running has revealed about its 2023 design

The Alfa Romeo C43 became the first genuine 2023 Formula 1 car to hit the track on Friday, revealing key details that were hidden when the car was launched earlier this week. Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu drove the car ...

Gary Anderson: Sauber’s new F1 structure looks as clear as mud

When you are running a Formula 1 team, or any business for that matter, you need to set up a clear management structure. There are different ways to organise this, but if you do it right everyone knows what they ...

Mc Laren is wasting Norris and needs to shape up fast

When Lando Norris saw George Russell winning for the first time in Formula 1, at the 81st attempt, did he feel a sense of pride at a contemporary breaking through F1’s success barrier – or did he feel envious? Norris ...

Why Mc Laren and Honda might need each other again in F1

Honda’s commitment to a 2026 Formula 1 engine programme might have been oversold last week when the FIA announced the list of supplier registrations for the next rules cycle. FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem referenced “the confirmation that there will ...

Alonso tips Stroll as future F1 champion – and pledges to help

Fernando Alonso’s relationship with Esteban Ocon at Alpine ended with Alonso accusing his team-mate of trying to kill him in multiple on-track clashes. Alonso’s relationship with Lance Stroll at Aston Martin is beginning with Alonso declaring his new team-mate is ...

Initial contact made over possible Mc Laren-Honda F1 reunion

Initial contact has been made between McLaren and Honda over a possible Formula 1 reunion, The Race understands, as both explore their options for the 2026 engine rules. McLaren and Honda worked together at the start of the V6 turbo-hybrid ...

FIA can calm F1 drivers – or ignite a free speech row

While the FIA has insisted president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s step away from close involvement with Formula 1 is a long-planned element of its wider restructuring of F1 governance, it comes amid rising FIA/F1 tensions that Ben Sulayem has been central ...

Forget the Albon cliche – he’s the leader Williams needs

The sporting cliché that ‘nice guys finish last’ – the idea that how agreeable a person is defines how successful they can be competitively – is easily adapted to Formula 1, although it has followed Alex Albon in a slightly ...

Stewart’s breakout year showed what Ford in F1 could’ve been

Ford’s return to Formula 1 with Red Bull in 2026 brings back memories of working for the company both with Stewart in 1999 and Jaguar, the team it turned into, in 2000. Everyone remembers the failure of Jaguar, but it’s ...

Ben Sulayem stepping back from direct F1 involvement

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will step back from direct involvement in Formula 1 in what the governing body says is a pre-planned move. Ben Sulayem has been at the centre of a growing controversy in the F1 off-season as ...

The slim hope that drives Alonso, even if it’s only ‘1%’

He has not won a Formula 1 title since 2006 and not won a grand prix since 2013 but Fernando Alonso still entertains the prospect of becoming a three-time world champion. In fact, it’s more than that. Now 41 and ...

Gary Anderson: This C43 doesn’t match ‘brave’ Alfa Romeo claims

Alfa Romeo is the first Formula 1 team to sort of introduce its new car for 2023. I’m pretty sure there will be many changes before it first hits the track but at least the main architecture of the car ...

How ‘real’ is the first proper 2023 F1 car we’ve seen?

Alfa Romeo became the fourth Formula 1 team to hold a 2023 launch event on Tuesday, but the first to show a realistic 2023 car. Haas, Red Bull and Williams had all either openly stated they were just showing off ...

Alfa Romeo’s efforts to address a big 2022 backwards step

Alfa Romeo wants to reclaim what it regards as one of its “biggest strengths” in the 2023 Formula 1 season as it made improving reliability one of its major focuses during the winter break. The Sauber-run Alfa Romeo squad began ...

‘Brave’ changes, Red Bull-style ideas on 2023 Alfa Romeo F1 car

The final car Sauber has built for its Alfa Romeo era in Formula 1 features “brave” development work at the rear, according to its technical director. Sauber unveiled the Alfa Romeo C43 on Tuesday in the first launch of the ...

What Williams revealed about 2023 car it’s kept hidden for now

The Williams FW45 won’t break cover until it hits the track for a filming day at Silverstone next Monday but the team did reveal key details about its 2023 Formula 1 car during its ‘season launch’ event. Head of vehicle ...

Why F1 fans haven’t got the Gulf Williams livery they wanted

The addition of the Gulf logo to an otherwise familiar Williams Formula 1 livery will no doubt disappoint fans hoping for the return of a classic colour scheme. Williams announced a new “long-term Gulf partnership” at its season launch on ...

Williams F1 2023 livery revealed in season launch

Williams has revealed its 2023 Formula 1 livery at a season launch ahead of the real FW45 breaking cover at a shakedown next week. Last year’s FW44 was the first car to be decked out in new blue and red ...

Mark Hughes: The Williams flaw its 2023 F1 car should fix

Williams’s initial interpretation of the major aero Formula 1 regulations reset of 2022 – with a version of the ‘zero’ sidepod concept and wide outer floor channels – was quickly found to be seriously wanting and the team effectively redesigned ...

Williams must follow Mc Laren’s example with its new F1 boss

If Williams is to make a sustained climb up the Formula 1 pecking order in the coming years, it could do far worse than to give new team principal James Vowles the time, space and authority he needs to mould ...

Perez has an ominous tightrope to walk in 2023

Two race victories, one of them the Monaco Grand Prix, a career-best third in the Formula 1 drivers’ championship, part of a constructors’ title-winning team for the first time, and a new contract secured with that team for the next ...

Bottas found his natural F1 home – now he must fight to keep it

Leaving a team where you might finish fifth on a bad day to join one where that result is the peak is seemingly career regression. But in Valtteri Bottas’s case, he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else after leaving Mercedes ...

The ‘highest priority’ at the heart of Williams’s problems

Williams’s latest new Formula 1 era starts on Monday when it holds its 2023 season and livery launch. It’s a teaser of sorts, as new team principal James Vowles doesn’t start work for a further fortnight and the 2023 car ...

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