How Hamilton has changed his Ferrari F1 steering wheel to be like Mercedes’
Lewis Hamilton has made notable adjustments to his Ferrari Formula 1 steering wheel layout – incorporating button shifts and clutch and gearbox paddle changes that retain familiarity from his long stint at Mercedes. The changes are all part of Hamilton’s adjustment to life at the Scuderia ahead of the 2025 F1 campaign, with the Italian […]
How Red Bull arrived in F1 as a «breath of fresh air» 20 years ago
The year is 2004 and David Coulthard is in his final season with McLaren. DC knows that his future will not be with the Woking-based team and that a certain Juan Pablo Montoya is set to take his place. He has to look for other options and attracts interest from Jaguar. The team with the […]
How Racing Bulls has adopted its «location-free» approach with Red Bull relationship
While Racing Bulls — and its previous monikers — has shared common technology with its ‘parent’ Red Bull squad throughout its 19-year tenure in Formula 1, the team is a bona fide constructor in its own right. The Italian-registered squad leans on Red Bull for gearboxes, suspension, and other tradeable components to ensure its own […]
Is Esteban Ocon actually a bad team-mate?
He debuted with a backmarker team before moving up to a bigger one, where he partnered with an established driver – a team leader for several years. Things didn’t go smoothly. Aside from a few disagreements over strategy that led to heated radio exchanges, there were also a couple of crashes. Nothing too unexpected when a […]
Verstappen rules Red Bull out of Australian GP victory bid
Max Verstappen has warned he doesn’t expect Red Bull to be in the battle for victory at Formula 1’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Although reigning champion Verstappen has won four world titles in a row and took pole by 0.270s in the most recent Melbourne event, Red Bull slid down the pecking order throughout the […]
F1 formally approves deal for General Motors to become 11th team with Cadillac in 2026
Formula 1 has formally approved the entry of General Motors and its Cadillac brand into the championship for the 2026 season and beyond. The move supersedes a deal in principle that was reached between F1 and General Motors last November and now ratifies Cadillac’s slot on the grid as an 11th team. It will mean […]
The next steps for Cadillac’s formally confirmed F1 entry
The news that Formula 1 has rubber-stamped Cadillac’s entry into the championship for 2026 is a small but important milestone for the Andretti-backed project, but what comes next is much more significant. The General Motors squad – which will start out as a Ferrari customer engine team while it works to build its own engine […]
Briatore’s blueprint to replicate Alpine’s past F1 title success
It turns out that Formula One Management is not alone in planning on producing a new movie. If Flavio Briatore gets his way, then Alpine is also working on a blockbuster hit that would tell the story of it winning the 2027 Formula 1 world championship. Briatore is back with big ambitions for the Alpine […]
The main questions about Drive to Survive Season 7 answered
There’s an underlying feeling that grows stronger as you make your way through the episodes of Netflix’s seventh Formula 1 quasi-documentary: they know each other a lot better now. There’s a lot less stating the obvious or over-explaining the basics. Even the main characters introduce themselves to the camera far less often — and when […]