Aston Martin reveals launch plan for 2025 F1 challenger
Aston Martin will unveil its AMR25 car on 23 February in an online launch, a day before it gets its first on-track run at Bahrain. This will follow the team’s livery reveal at F1’s 75th anniversary launch event at London’s O2 Arena on 18 February, and imagery will be released across Aston Martin’s media profiles. […]
MotoGP champion Martin out of Sepang test after multiple fractures
Jorge Martin will miss the remainder of the Sepang MotoGP test after suffering multiple fractures in a crash on the opening day of the running. The reigning MotoGP champion was making only his second appearance aboard the factory Aprilia RS-GP when he suffered a highside at Turn 2 shortly before midday in Malaysia. Martin was […]
Why Honda’s biggest critic was smiling after first day of MotoGP testing
Joan Mir is so used to highlighting the flaws of Honda’s MotoGP bike that it was a shock to see him singing praises for its 2025 prototype in Sepang. Just three months prior, Mir had expressed his anger over Honda failing to bring any new parts to experiment with in the Barcelona test. It followed […]
Sauber launches UK engineering hub ahead of Audi F1 takeover in 2026
Sauber is set to establish a United Kingdom base as it prepares to morph into the Audi Formula 1 factory team in 2026. The team’s headquarters will remain in the Swiss municipality of Hinwil, while running its power unit operation in Neuburg, Germany. But it will now open a third location in the UK’s ‘motorsport […]
Alpine announces new team-mates for Schumacher in WEC 2025
Mick Schumacher will be joined by Frederic Makowiecki and Jules Gounon in Alpine’s World Endurance Championship line-up for 2025. It means the ex-Formula 1 racer will have two new full-season team-mates in the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh for his second year of sportscar racing. In 2024 he was joined by Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere, who […]
Martin taken to hospital after huge crash in Sepang MotoGP test
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín suffered a horror crash just two hours into the the Sepang MotoGP test on Wednesday, forcing medical services to take him to a nearby hospital. At around ten minutes to twelve in Malaysia, the Spaniard was approaching the entrance to Sepang’s second corner, a tight left-hand turn, when his Aprilia […]
Aston Martin completes line-up for Hypercar project in WEC and IMSA
Aston Martin will run an all-British line-up in one of its Valkyrie AMR-LMHs at the Le Mans 24 Hours and across the full World Endurance Championship this season. The double Le Mans class winner Harry Tincknell, who was announced as part of The Heart of Racing Hypercar class line-up last November, will be joined by […]
How Brown turned McLaren into a title-winning outfit
When Zak Brown joined McLaren as its CEO in 2018, it was a completely different operation to it is now having won the 2024 Formula 1 constructors’ championship. It was McLaren’s first teams’ crown since 1998 and came after several management and structural changes from the moment Brown first walked through the door. The American […]