After much speculation and conversation behind closed doors, Audi has officially announced its entry into Formula 1. The announcement comes a few days after the sport confirmed its new engine regulations post-2025, on the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix. The direction of the sport towards synthetic fuels to achieve carbon neutrality as opposed to … Continue reading F1 News: Audi Officially Joins F1 (From 2026)
F1 2022 Mid-Season Review: Red Bull Locks Horns With Ferrari, Consistent Mercedes And More
The current season of Formula 1 is now in its "summer break". While we're more than halfway done with the calendar, it'd still be fair to call it the mid-season break. Since we've not covered any individual races from 2022, it seemed fair to at least do a mid-season review of the biggest events and … Continue reading F1 2022 Mid-Season Review: Red Bull Locks Horns With Ferrari, Consistent Mercedes And More
F1 News: FIA Announces New Race Control System, Updated Sprint Format, GP Contract Renewals And More
The top tier in motorsport may only be active for 8 months in a year but there's always a lot going on. On the back of a hotly contested season that ended in a mist of controversy, there are a host of changes being made to Formula 1 ahead of the 2022 season. The brand … Continue reading F1 News: FIA Announces New Race Control System, Updated Sprint Format, GP Contract Renewals And More
F1 News: 2022 Transfer Updates Include Bottas Switching To Alfa And Being Replaced At Mercedes By Russell
The Formula 1 driver market has gone into a bit of overdrive ahead of the Italian GP and nearly all spots on the 2022 grid are now taken. First, we have the biggest and also the least surprising announcement from Mercedes-AMG F1. Valtteri Bottas will be parting ways with the team at the end of … Continue reading F1 News: 2022 Transfer Updates Include Bottas Switching To Alfa And Being Replaced At Mercedes By Russell
F1 News: Kimi Raikkonen Announces Retirement, Alonso and Perez Signed For 2022, Calendar Updates & More
"This is it." Those were the opening words of Kimi Raikkonen as he announced his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of the 2021 season. Quite surprisingly, and so fittingly, the Finn made his statement on his Instagram handle. There was no press conference or PR from the team. Like much of his racing … Continue reading F1 News: Kimi Raikkonen Announces Retirement, Alonso and Perez Signed For 2022, Calendar Updates & More
Formula 1’s New Sprint Qualifying Format Explained
Formula 1 announced in April that three races will feature a new Sprint Qualifying format following a unanimous agreement from all teams. The first one will be the British GP at Silverstone this weekend and we figured we'd this was a good time to discuss this experimental format. The usual F1 weekend's three days are … Continue reading Formula 1’s New Sprint Qualifying Format Explained
F1 News: Mercedes Signs Hamilton Till 2023, Turkey Returns To Calendar, Yas Marina Layout Updated & More
Mercedes was the only top team whose driver lineup had no confirmed drivers beyond 2021 but no more. Lewis Hamilton has extended his stay with the Silver Arrows for another two years, announced ahead of the qualifying at the Austrian GP. The seven-time world champion is already in his ninth year with the Mercedes team … Continue reading F1 News: Mercedes Signs Hamilton Till 2023, Turkey Returns To Calendar, Yas Marina Layout Updated & More
F1 News: Calendar Reshuffle As Turkey Drops Out, Double-Header At Austria Again
While Formula 1 is no stranger to venue troubles in the middle of a season, the pandemic forced the sport to become increasingly flexible with its calendar. As different parts of the world are in various stages of dealing with the crisis one did expect to see last-minute changes to the 2021 schedule. Canada was … Continue reading F1 News: Calendar Reshuffle As Turkey Drops Out, Double-Header At Austria Again
F1 2020 Season Round-up: The Highs & The Lows
It's been a freaky year with a lot of negatives, and for some of us, the nightmare continues. But as motorsport fans, especially of Formula 1, we got quite lucky. When the Australian GP was cancelled, at the last minute as the whole world seemed to go into a lockdown, it seemed uncertain if we'll … Continue reading F1 2020 Season Round-up: The Highs & The Lows
F1 News: AlphaTauri Confirms Tsunoda For 2021
The 2020 Formula 1 season ended just a few days ago with two Red Bull spots on the 2021 grid still unconfirmed. It was recently confirmed that Max Verstappen's future teammate will be announced by Christmas time and today AlphaTauri confirmed their second driver to be Yuki Tsunoda. The Japanese driver had entered F2 this … Continue reading F1 News: AlphaTauri Confirms Tsunoda For 2021
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