The elder of the van der Linde brothers was absent from Audis customer racing announcement on Tuesday, where it named 14 drivers as part of its factory line-up for 2023. He leaves Audi after nearly a decade under its umbrella, winning the GT Masters title in 2014 and 2019 and coming close to clinching the championship in the DTM at his first attempt in 2021. His other successes include two ... Keep reading
The Spaniard switched to Ferrari for 2021, as it struggled to eliminate its excessive aerodynamic drag given the freeze in the regulations and only two permitted development tokens. Nevertheless, he finished fifth in the drivers championship to rank two places ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc and with four podiums compared to the Monegasques one. But Leclerc streaked ahead in 2022 ... Keep reading
In motorsport, the usual path to management is thus: start out as a junior employee, work your way up, and eventually you can earn the keys to one of the many kingdoms of racing. There are a few exceptions to the rule, as the likes of new Ferrari Formula 1 boss Frederic Vasseur earned their keep by running their own race teams before earning a move into the top flight. Christian Horner did the ... Keep reading
Preview Another unfamiliar racetrack awaits teams and drivers in Cape Town only two weeks after the race in Hyderabad. Pascal Wehrlein and Antnio Flix da Costa from the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team underlined in India that they can easily handle such challenges: The German extended his lead in the drivers standings, with his Portuguese teammate clinching his first podium for ... Keep reading
The team is operating under Alfa Romeo badging for one final season in 2023, and is set to revert to a Sauber chassis name for two years before Audis official arrival in the series. Seidl says he wants Sauber to raise its level of competitiveness on track and at the same time become more attractive to drivers, staff members, sponsors and fans. Every area of the group is growing, and we ... Keep reading
Team Rosberg carried Audi driver Rene Rast to each of his DTM championship victories between 2017 and 2020 and was a race-winner in last year's championship with Nico Muller in Portimao. But like all DTM teams, it faced uncertainty last autumn when it became clear that series promoter ITR was in talks with the ADAC that ultimately resulted in a sale of the branding rights. It was only in ... Keep reading
F1's team boss merry-go-round started with Mattia Binotto leaving Ferrari at the end of November to be replaced by Alfa Romeo's Fred Vasseur. Andreas Seidl left McLaren to become Alfa's CEO, with Andrea Stella replacing him at the Woking squad while Alessandro Alunni Bravi was appointed Alfa's team representative on F1 weekends. In January, Mercedes strategy director James Vowles became the ... Keep readin
Twelve months on from McLaren facing a disastrous test in Bahrain and disappointing opening race after suffering brake overheating problems, the squad has made efforts to ensure there is no repeat trouble this time around. Well aware that there is just a single test before the opening 2023 race at Sakhir, McLaren booked in one of its two filming days for Bahrain on Tuesday to check that ... Keep reading
This quarters update includes an exciting new vehicle the Honda Civic Type R, the introduction of the superb, laser-scanned version of Long Beach, and a wealth of improvements to enhance the player experience. Following the partnership between the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), Motorsport Games and Studio 397, a seventh real world car into the NGTC specification BTCC content ... Keep reading
It has been such a horrible, horrible black place where I was last year. Dont let anyone ever put you down, because only you know your true potential. The people close to me know it and finally we managed to get it back out again. Im just so happy to be back fighting at the front again with this amazing team, amazing car. This emotional response from Craig Breen after returning to ... Keep reading
For the upcoming campaign, Mercedes has gone back to using the colour scheme it ran during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, when the W11s and W12s were painted black at Hamiltons behest to highlight motorsports diversity issues, as well as the problem of global racial inequality. This time, however, while Mercedes is pleased its livery can again help to promote those important messages, the ... Keep reading
Seidl's move to Sauber was announced late last year, and Stella was immediately named as his successor as team principal. Stella joined McLaren from Ferrari in 2015 and has had various job titles, latterly serving as racing director. Brown says that Stella's knowledge of the team made the transition much easier than if an outsider had come in and had to learn his way around the ... Keep reading
Mercedes have reverted to a black livery for the new Formula One season following their troubled 2022. Lewis Hamilton recorded his worst championship finishing position in F1 last year after the Silver Arrows struggled with the sport's new regulations. The Mercedes technical director, Mike Elliott, said: 'We've looked at the problems we had last year.' Elliott guaranteed that 'as best we can' the p
The Japanese series announced last year plans to switch to a second-generation biomass fuel supplied by German firm Haltermann Carless for the 2023 campaign as part of a drive to reduce carbon emissions. Teams sampled the fuel in a post-season test at Motegi after the final round of the season last year, but difficulties in supply mean most manufacturer testing over the winter has been ... Keep reading
F1s governing body insists the sport must remain neutral Drivers free to express themselves outside of competition Formula Ones governing body has attempted to defuse an increasingly fractious row with drivers over restrictions on their freedom of speech. The FIA has issued a clarification of the ban on political, religious or personal comments being made without permission. The update sets out the scenarios where drivers
F1 testing was reduced from six to three days for 2021, with just three test days in Bahrain instead of two three-day tests in Barcelona. For 2022, winter testing expanded to six days again, a one-off concession so teams could get more time to trial their brand-new machinery following a major rule change. But this year the number of days has been limited to three once again, with testing ... Keep reading
The Scot claimed his maiden British GT title at the Donington Park finale last year after taking two wins and a further four podiums during the campaign at the wheel of a RAM Racing-run Mercedes-AMG. Insight: How a Pro mindset finally secured a British GT Am an overdue title Having raced with the squad since 2019, Loggie has decided to move away from RAM with team founder Dan ... Keep reading
The Aussie series is embroiled in a parity storm just over a fortnight out from the start of the new season in Newcastle. The homologation of the new Gen3 cars has proven problematic, with Ford concerned over the parity in terms of both engine and aero performance. As expected the latter will now be addressed with a re-run of the VCAT homologation process, which involves measuring aero ... Keep reading
The change of specification was formally approved at todays meeting of the F1 Commission, which was held at the F1 organisations HQ in London. An F1-FIA statement said that "following successful testing by Pirelli, with the support of teams, Pirelli have arrived at a wet weather tyre which is much more performant than the previous specification this tyre type does not require the use ... Keep reading
The entire Supercars field ran its Gen3 cars together for the first time today in a single, crucial all-in test at Sydney Motorsport Park. The first opportunity to gauge comparative performance came amid an ongoing parity saga with the new cars, as Ford continues to voice concerns over aero and engine performance compared to the Camaro. Supercars is set to head back to the runway for more ... Keep reading
Spanish oil giant Repsol has been the factory Honda squads title sponsor since 1995 and continues its partnership into 2023, despite rumours in recent years of the tie-up ending. Honda comes into 2023 off the back of its second winless campaign in three years as it looks to turn around its troubled RC213V and challenge for the championship for the first time since 2019. Eight-time world ... Keep reading
Rowbottom, who took one victory during a two-year stint with the Team Dynamics Honda squad in 2021-22, will partner three-time champion Ash Sutton plus Dan Cammish and Sam Osborne in Motorbases squad of Ford Focus ST machinery. The 34-year-old Midlander replaces Ollie Jackson, who is returning to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB but will retain a BTCC Motorbase presence through his Mountune engine ... Keep reading
Ben Sulayem had fractious relationship with teams and drivers FIA says he always planned to move to non-executive role The FIA president, Mohammed ben Sulayem, has announced he is to step back from direct involvement with Formula One. The governing bodys relationship with F1s owners Liberty Media has been increasingly fractious since Ben Sulayem took over as FIA president in December 2021 and a series of controversies hav
Driver vows to challenge champion Max Verstappen Scuderia believe they have addressed 2022 weaknesses Ferraris Charles Leclerc has declared his determination to win this seasons Formula One world championship and redress the bitter disappointment of last year. Aat the launch of Ferraris new car the SF-23 at their test circuit in Fiorano, Leclerc was bullish in his insistence that he could end the Scuderias 16-year title d
The Californian squad, which has taken GT World Challenge America spoils in each of the last two seasons, will be back for the full GTWCE season for the first time since it managed a best finish of sixth running Bentleys in the COVID-impacted 2020 season. It also entered last year's Spa 24 Hours with Orange1, placing 11th overall with American team regulars Andrea Caldarelli and Jordan Pepper ... Keep reading