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Alpine announcing the departure of Otmar Szafnauer, Alan Permane and Pat Fry from the team all in one weekend is a concerning development in what is an increasingly chaotic period for Renault’s works Formula 1 team. When F1 went into ...

Szafnauer out amid exodus of Alpine F1 management

The Alpine Formula 1 team has dramatically parted with a group of senior employees including team principal Otmar Szafnauer. Sporting director Alan Permane is also leaving, while Williams team principal James Vowles announced during Sky Sports F1’s Belgian Grand Prix ...

F1 tyre blanket ban loses 2024 vote, now earmarked for 2025

Formula 1 teams have voted not to ban tyre heaters next year – although development will continue on tyres that don’t use blankets with a view to its possible introduction in 2025. The ban was originally in the 2024 sporting ...

Everything that happened in wet, red-flagged Spa F1 practice

The sole scheduled Formula 1 practice session of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend at Spa-Francorchamps was held in fully wet conditions and featured a red flag for a crash. Key moments: > Sainz leads McLaren duo > Sargeant in mid-session ...

Statement hire, great fit – Williams’ new F1 tech boss revealed

Williams has announced Pat Fry will join the team as chief technical officer, a shrewd appointment for a team in its long-term quest to climb the Formula 1 grid. The team has been without a technical director since Francois-Xavier Demaison ...

Mercedes package headlines Belgian GP upgrades

All but one of Formula 1’s 10 outfits have declared some developmental parts coming into the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps – and while many are specifically tailored towards Spa’s lower-drag demands and cooler temperatures, some are more general evolutions. ...

What happens if rain impacts Belgian GP or other F1 sessions

Contingency plans exist to manage any disruption caused through Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix event by poor weather and visibility. The Spa round has started, as expected, with rain throughout the morning and the first track running on Friday – ...

F1 drivers want ‘bold’ calls to delay/cancel Belgian GP sessions

The risk of the Spa circuit in the wet means Formula 1 drivers want the FIA to be willing to take “bold” decisions about delaying or cancelling sessions at the Belgian Grand Prix. F1 and its immediate junior categories Formula ...

Gary Anderson’s ideas for F1 spray guard design

The FIA’s first prototype spray guards as tested at Silverstone after the British Grand Prix weekend didn’t work as hoped and it’s clear that a lot more work needs to be done before there’s a workable solution. I’m not convinced ...

What makes Belgian GP tougher than Ricciardo’s first race back

Daniel Ricciardo carries the momentum of a very encouraging first weekend back in Formula 1 in Hungary into what should be a tougher test at the Belgian Grand Prix. The mid-season AlphaTauri call-up outqualified team-mate Yuki Tsunoda last weekend and ...

Gary Anderson: Why Mercedes’ Belgian GP changes are surprising

I must admit to being a bit surprised with the modifications Mercedes has brought to Spa for this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. While Red Bull has been pushing its radiator inlet opening into the higher-up letterbox style that appeared last ...

Russell has ‘a bit of fear’ over F1’s Spa undercard grid size

Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell admits he “fears a little bit” for junior categories below F1 racing with grids that he perceives as too numerous. Russell is a director of F1’s driver union, the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association – ...

Confidence or car? How Perez views his slump with RB19

It’s easy to forget just how impressively Sergio Perez started the 2023 Formula 1 season considering the scale of his recent slump with the RB19 – but has a change in the balance of the RB19 contributed to his complete ...

Does F1 Manager 2023 succeed where its predecessor failed?

Frontier Developments has no doubt made its presence felt in the F1 gaming space with the big push of its F1 Manager series since it debuted last year. The hype for the first game died down quite quickly once it ...

Do Alonso’s claims about Aston Martin’s F1 slump stand up?

Fernando Alonso has hinted several times that the change in the Formula 1 tyres from the British Grand Prix has contributed to Aston Martin’s recent disappointing form and the shuffles in the chasing pack behind Red Bull. So does he ...

All 10 F1 teams will be represented on 2024 F1 Academy grid

Formula 1 teams will become more directly involved in the championship’s all-female development series F1 Academy from 2024, with all 10 teams ‘nominating’ a driver on the grid to run in their colours. The inaugural F1 Academy season already features ...

‘More fun’ or ‘disaster’ – is F1’s new qualifying here to stay?

The way Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff discussed the series’ qualifying/tyre allocation experiment early on in the Hungary weekend, you’d be right to wonder whether F1 had a borderline elimination qualifying-level disaster on its hands. “I completely agree with ...

Vasseur 1-to-1: Ferrari mistakes, drivers and ignoring the noise

Halfway through a conversation with Fred Vasseur as the Ferrari Formula 1 team boss is nicely warmed up, feels like the best time to broach a topic that can easily be swatted away. Ferrari commands special affection from its fans ...

Why Aston Martin’s ‘reality check’ admission is so significant

Aston Martin Formula 1 team principal Mike Krack’s use of the term “reality check” after Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll finished ninth and 10th in the Hungarian Grand Prix was a pointed one. Rather than reflecting something vaguely negative, as ...

Norris podium banishes some Mc Laren nightmares – but not all

The Hungarian Grand Prix was not meant to be as competitive for McLaren. Yet Lando Norris scored its second consecutive podium finish – the first time McLaren has managed that in Formula 1 since 2012. It continued the burst of ...

Inside an abrupt Hungarian GP collapse with big ramifications

On Saturday in Hungary, Alfa Romeo had its best day of the season – with both cars in the top 10 and every chance of turning that into its biggest points haul of a difficult season. But within a minute ...

Edd Straw’s 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

The Hungarian Grand Prix was another Max Verstappen walkover, but the runaway Formula 1 points leader will be the first to admit he didn’t have the smoothest of weekends. But none of his F1 peers did, either, leaving something on ...

How Ricciardo saved himself from much bleaker Hungarian GP

Had Daniel Ricciardo not urged AlphaTauri to take a strategic roll of the dice, his Hungarian Grand Prix would have been “much more discouraging” and ended with “a lot of questions to be answered”. Ricciardo started and finished the first ...

Mark Hughes: Why Red Bull-Mercedes pace reversal was so drastic

Max Verstappen won the Hungarian Grand Prix with ridiculous ease. “Sometimes you have those days where you could put any tyre on and you’d win,” he later admitted. As soon as he’d beaten polesitter Lewis Hamilton into Turn 1, he ...

Potential Red Bull support for Renault F1 engine plea

Red Bull has tentatively declared its support for equalising the performance of the current Formula 1 engines if Alpine’s claim that its Renault engines are “significantly down” on power is validated. Alpine gambled ahead of F1’s engine freeze in 2022 ...

‘Completely unfounded’ – FIA’s stern F1 cost cap retort explained

The FIA has declared speculation that some Formula 1 teams broke the cost cap in 2022 “completely unfounded”. There have been rumours in F1 that two or more teams breached the financial regulations last year, even though the process is ...

Winners and losers from F1’s 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix

A long-standing Formula 1 milestone was surpassed by Red Bull in a Hungarian Grand Prix that had once promised it would be seriously challenged – only for Max Verstappen to immediately take the lead into Turn 1 and have minimal ...

Verstappen made rivals look like ‘bunch of F2 cars’ in Hungary

Red Bull’s rivals are like “a field of Formula 2 cars racing against a Formula 1” car according to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. Max Verstappen extended Red Bull’s winning streak to 12 grands prix by finishing almost 34 seconds ...

Verstappen wins in Hungary from Norris, Perez holds off Hamilton

Max Verstappen overcame his shock qualifying defeat to Lewis Hamilton to comfortably win the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix, claiming his seventh Formula 1 victory in succession as Lando Norris again finished second for McLaren and Sergio Perez charged from ninth ...

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