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Alonso: Abu Dhabi repaid Stella for our 2010 F1 title miss
Fernando Alonso says McLaren's Formula 1 title in Abu Dhabi has repaid team boss Andrea Stella for Ferrari's title loss in 2010.
Stella was Alonso's race engineer at Ferrari when the Spaniard went into the 2010 season finale with an eight-point lead on Red Bull's Mark Webber and an 15-point lead on Webber's team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
Vettel led the race from pole while an early pitstop for ...Keep reading
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Ben Sulayem finds ally in swearing clampdown in Mercedes boss Wolff
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s push to drive swearing out of Formula 1 has received unlikely support from Mercedes boss Toto Wolff.
While Wolff does not see eye-to-eye with Ben Sulayem on every topic in F1, he thinks the efforts to clean up the image of drivers is something worth fighting for thanks to a personal experience he had recently.
Amid an ongoing debate about drivers acting ...Keep reading
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Why Genesis evaluated F1 programme but chose WEC
Luxury car brand Genesis says it did evaluate a potential entry into Formula 1 prior to deciding that it would commit to an LMDh programme for the 2026 World Endurance Championship instead.
The South Korean manufacturer officially launched its Genesis GMR-001 Hypercar plans ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in Dubai, revealing a scale model and images of the car concept that will begin testing ...Keep reading
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Albon: F1 2024 a "missed opportunity" for Williams
Alex Albon says the 2024 Formula 1 season feels like a "missed opportunity" for Williams as it dropped to ninth in the standings.
Williams started the season on the back foot with an overweight FW46, and while a lot of effort went into taking the weight out again, that also impacted its update schedule. The Grove-based team only added one significant two-part update to the car right after the ...Keep reading
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The remarkable tale of F1’s unlikeliest team 'boss'
It was one of the more bewildering sights of the 2014 Formula 1 season, as Finbarr O’Connell took his place in the FIA team principals’ press conference at the Abu Dhabi GP. O’Connell was working for insolvency firm Smith & Williamson, who in turn had taken on the administration of Caterham Sports Limited.
O’Connell arrived, dressed in white and green Caterham kit, after the team raised ...Keep reading
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Ferrari needs to focus on "every pillar of performance" for 2025
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur says his team will have to improve "every single pillar of performance" to catch McLaren in 2025.
Ferrari just fell short of beating McLaren after an up-and-down campaign in which the Scuderia returned to the championship fight and its drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz registered five wins and 22 podiums.
For the Maranello squad, 2024 was a huge ...Keep reading
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Liam Lawson on the pressure to perform for Red Bull and getting advice from Max Verstappen
Liam Lawson could be looking at a new teammate in 2025 if paddock speculation about Sergio Perez’s career is to be believed. However, the New Zealand driver said the pressure to perform within the Red Bull family never goes away. In fact, it will likely only be heightened if Max Verstappen is on the other side of his garage next year.
“You’re always being evaluated,” Lawson shared with ...Keep reading
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JA on F1 Podcast: What Will Happen In F1 In 2025?
Who will win the 2025 F1 Drivers' Championship? Will Lewis Hamilton score more points than Charles Leclerc? What impact will the struggles of car manufacturers, especially Europeans, have on F1 next year? How might geopolitics impact on F1, for example in the Middle East and Asia?
For our final podcast of the year, we thought that rather than looking backwards with yet another Season Review – ...Keep reading
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Why McLaren thinks it can overcome its 2025 wind tunnel deficit
McLaren believes that the reduction in wind tunnel time that it faces as a result of winning the Formula 1 constructors’ championship will not be as big a handicap as some think.
The Woking-based outfit’s triumph in last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix helped to secure its first teams’ title since 1998, handing the team a good boost in commercial rights income.
But one of the ...Keep reading
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Rwanda launches official bid for F1 race at Wurz-designed track
Rwanda has formally announced its bid to hold a Formula 1 race at a new track close to the planned Bugesera airport near Kigali.
The spectacular circuit, which will make full use of the hilly terrain where it is to be constructed, is being designed by former F1 driver Alexander Wurz.
Autosport understands Wurz's company has been working on the project with the government and local ...Keep reading
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Rwanda launches official bid for F1 race
Rwanda has formally announced its bid to hold a Formula 1 race at a new track close to the planned Bugesera airport near Kigali.
The spectacular circuit, which will make full use of the hilly terrain where it is to be constructed, is being designed by former F1 driver Alexander Wurz.
AS/MS understands Wurz's company has been working on the project with the government and local ...Keep reading
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The 2025 design ideas behind RB's last update of 2024
RB introduced a new nose and front wing assembly at the last race of the season but, while the team did use the latest design, briefly during practice on Friday, the team quickly reverted to its regular specification for the rest of the weekend.
The car ran with a large Kiel probe rake attached behind the front wheels, with both front wing and nose designs on the car during that session in ...Keep reading
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Ben Hunt: The pointlessness of Verstappen’s flying visit to Rwanda
Perhaps in one way the punishment serves the ridiculous nature of the crime. The inconvenience of an eight-and-a-half-hour flight each way to Rwanda to “undertake some work” with the Rwanda Automobile Club as retribution for swearing during a press conference.
Coming at the end of the longest-ever season in Formula 1’s history, not to mention the environmental impact of Verstappen’s ...Keep reading
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FIA announces 2025 F1 rule changes
The FIA has unveiled a series of tweaks to the 2025 Formula 1 regulations governing driver cooling and the application of DRS, and has also revealed revised regulations for 2026.
Following the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Rwanda, the expected inclusion of driver cooling - denoted by new "heat hazard" regulations when temperatures at races exceed a certain level - has been ratified along ...Keep reading
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Alonso ready to accept lack of Aston Martin progress in 2025
Fernando Alonso knows Aston Martin may not be a frontrunner in Formula 1 next season, but expects his team to jump forward with the new regulations in 2026.
After a promising start to the 2023 season, when Alonso achieved six podium finishes in the first eight rounds, Aston’s performance relative to its rivals stalled as McLaren surged ahead.
It only got two further top-three results that ...Keep reading
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Alonso: Abu Dhabi repaid Stella for our 2010 F1 title miss
Fernando Alonso says McLaren's Formula 1 title in Abu Dhabi has repaid team boss Andrea Stella for Ferrari's title loss in 2010.
Stella was Alonso's race engineer at Ferrari when the Spaniard went into the 2010 season finale with an eight-point lead on Red Bull's Mark Webber and an 15-point lead on Webber's team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
Vettel led the race from pole while an early pitstop for ...Keep reading
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Ben Sulayem finds ally in swearing clampdown in Mercedes boss Wolff
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s push to drive swearing out of Formula 1 has received unlikely support from Mercedes boss Toto Wolff.
While Wolff does not see eye-to-eye with Ben Sulayem on every topic in F1, he thinks the efforts to clean up the image of drivers is something worth fighting for thanks to a personal experience he had recently.
Amid an ongoing debate about drivers acting ...Keep reading
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Albon: F1 2024 a "missed opportunity" for Williams
Alex Albon says the 2024 Formula 1 season feels like a "missed opportunity" for Williams as it dropped to ninth in the standings.
Williams started the season on the back foot with an overweight FW46 and while a lot of effort went into taking the weight out again, that also impacted its update schedule. The Grove-based team only added one significant two-part update to the car right after the ...Keep reading
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The remarkable tale of F1’s unlikeliest team 'boss'
It was one of the more bewildering sights of the 2014 Formula 1 season, as Finbarr O’Connell took his place in the FIA team principals’ press conference at the Abu Dhabi GP. O’Connell was working for insolvency firm Smith & Williamson, who in turn had taken on the administration of Caterham Sports Limited.
O’Connell arrived, dressed in white and green Caterham kit, after the team raised ...Keep reading
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Ferrari to improve every pillar of performance in 2025
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur says his team will have to improve "every single pillar of performance" to catch McLaren in 2025.
Ferrari just fell short of beating McLaren after an up-and-down campaign in which the Scuderia returned to the championship fight and its drivers, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, registered a combined five wins and 22 podiums.
For the Maranello squad, 2024 was a ...Keep reading
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Backfired: The top F1 free agent moves that flopped
Testing free agency as a Formula 1 driver can be a risky business. With so few seats available and even fewer capable of challenging for wins, choosing between seats often appears to be a stab in the dark based on faith in those leading the charge and a team’s inherent potential, leading numerous championship-worthy drivers to waste precious years behind the wheel of an uncompetitive ...Keep reading
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FIA governance restructure given the green light
Changes to the FIA statutes have been granted at the General Assembly in Rwanda, affecting the roles of the ethics and audit committees at motorsport's governing body.
Under new plans, the responsibilities of the compliance officer would mean that power would be handed over to the FIA president and the president of its senate.
It would also remove the power of the audit committee to ...Keep reading
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FIA governance restructure given the green light
Changes to the FIA statutes have been granted at the General Assembly in Rwanda, affecting the roles of the ethics and audit committees at motorsport's governing body.
Under new plans, the responsibilities of the compliance officer would mean that power would be handed over to the FIA president and the president of its senate.
It would also remove the power of the audit committee to ...Keep reading
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The 2025 design ideas behind RB's last update of 2024
RB introduced a new nose and front wing assembly at the last Formula 1 race of the season in Abu Dhabi last weekend.
But while the team did briefly use the latest design during practice on Friday, the team quickly reverted to its regular specification for the rest of the weekend.
The car ran with a large Kiel probe rake attached behind the front wheels, with both front wing and nose designs ...Keep reading
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Why McLaren thinks it can overcome its 2025 wind tunnel deficit
McLaren believes that the reduction in wind tunnel time that it faces as a result of winning the Formula 1 constructors’ championship will not be as big a handicap as some think.
The Woking-based outfit’s triumph in last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix helped secure it its first teams’ title since 1998, handing it a good boost in commercial rights income.
But one of the downsides of ...Keep reading
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Crunch day for controversial FIA vote
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will discover today if changes to the motorsport federation’s statutes will be approved.
The FIA General Assembly will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the prize-giving ceremony, where members will vote on the proposals.
Alterations would restrict the ethics and audit committees' control and reduce the responsibilities of the compliance officer, which ...Keep reading
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Crunch day for controversial FIA vote
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will discover today if changes to the motorsport federation’s statutes will be approved.
The FIA General Assembly will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the prize-giving ceremony where members will vote on the proposals.
Alterations would restrict the ethics and audit committees' control and reduce the responsibilities of the compliance officer, which ...Keep reading
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FIA announces 2025 F1 rule changes, 2026 tweaks outlined
The FIA has unveiled a series of tweaks to the 2025 Formula 1 regulations governing driver cooling and the application of DRS, and has also revealed revised regulations for 2026.
Following the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Rwanda, the expected inclusion of driver cooling - denoted by new "heat hazard" regulations when temperatures at races exceed a certain level - has been ratified along ...Keep reading
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F1 and Pacsun extend fashion licensing deal that aims to attract new Gen-Z fans
Formula 1 has announced what it calls a “multi-year” new deal with fashion retailer Pacsun, which produces clothes primarily for teenagers and young adults.
The two organisations have teamed up since 2022, when F1-branded garments began being sold in Pacsun’s 350 stores in the USA.
F1 initially decided to engage with Pacsun as part of its strategy to attract new fans to the ...Keep reading