Formula 1

Last season Racing Point caused a stir when it arrived in winter testing in Barcelona with a car that looked a lot like the Mercedes from 2019, the team it bought a gearbox, power unit and other unlisted parts from. Its midfield rivals were alarmed about the design of the RP20, with Alpine – then

Ahead of the new technical regulations for 2022, the team owned by American industrialist Gene Haas decided to start with a clean slate this year. Reluctant to keep pumping large sums of his own money into the team, Haas wanted the team to bring in a larger share of the budget itself. Long-time drivers Romain

Despite having made an impressive start to life as a Ferrari driver, the Spaniard feels he is yet to have a full weekend without any problems, claiming he doesn’t see the current season as his strongest in F1 yet. Sainz is ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc in the standings after 11 races, and has been

For with it well entrenched in that ultra-close midfield pack, any small pace advantage that rivals gained as they pushed on with their current cars risked shuffling the Hinwil-based operation down the order. Sure enough, with most of the grid bringing at least some major developments early in the campaign, it’s been perhaps a tougher

Alonso made headlines when he produced a tenacious drive in the Hungarian Grand Prix, crucially holding off Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton for several laps while teammate Esteban Ocon secured his maiden victory. But Budapest wasn’t the first time 40-year-old Alonso left his Enstone team stunned by his race craft and his ability to read races from

Gasly was promoted from Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri’s previous identity, to Red Bull in 2019 but was demoted back to the Faenza team after only half a season alongside Max Verstappen. The Frenchman grew from the experience and bounced back strongly in 2020, a season capped off with a maiden win in Monza. In 2021 Gasly

The Maranello squad endured one of its worst seasons in recent times last year, finishing down in sixth position in the constructors’ championship, its worst result since 1980. Despite chassis development being restricted by the regulations this season, Ferrari has been one of the most improved teams, scoring three podiums, including Leclerc coming close to

That fight became even closer after Hungary, where neither of the orange and blue cars scored as a result of first lap contact, and Carlos Sainz Jr logged a valuable third place. The two rivals are now locked together on 163 points, with the Maranello outfit officially ahead thanks to the two second places it

Unlike the hyper-specific world of engineers, Garage Technicians are expert adapters, getting involved with a bit of everything to help the team run through a race weekend. This flexibility and diversity makes the role an interesting and varied one, and to find out more we spoke to Haas F1 Team’s Marek Smrek to see what

All-new car rules will be introduced in the sport in 2022, the goal being to have closer racing and increase overtaking through simpler aerodynamics revolving around ground effect. Although the DRS didn’t feature on the full-scale model of a 2022 car revealed last month at Silverstone, F1 bosses have decided to retain it at least

Norris joined the Woking squad ahead of the 2019 F1 season and has since grown into one of the sport’s most reliable performers, taking four podiums over the past 18 months while currently holding third in the 2021 driver standings ahead of Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas and Red Bull driver Sergio Perez. The 21-year-old has particularly

Maillet’s body was found by the local police in her Luxembourg home, alongside the bodies of her husband and another woman, all three showing gunshot wounds. According to a statement issued by the public prosecutor, Maillet’s husband is believed to have shot and killed both women before committing suicide. “At 00:10, the bodies of two

Alpine, then called Renault, and McLaren were embroiled in a tense three-way fight for third in the 2020 constructors’ championship, a battle which also included Racing Point, now Aston Martin. While McLaren continued its upward trajectory in 2021 and now has to contend with a resurgent Ferrari for third place, Alpine and Aston Martin have

The rookie burst onto the F1 scene winning over plenty of fans with his aggressive driving style in the opening races, highlighted by a series of impressive overtakes on his way to ninth on debut in Bahrain. However, in the races that followed the FIA Formula 2 graduate struggled, with his approach catching him out,

With an RB16B car and engine combination that is much improved on last year, Red Bull has taken the fight to Mercedes and left the German manufacturer facing up to its biggest title threat since the start of the turbo hybrid era. But it’s not all been plain sailing for the energy drinks giant, as

The 18 points lost with Sebastian Vettel’s exclusion from second place after the FIA failed to extract a one litre fuel sample could prove to be very expensive, especially as the team’s direct rivals for fifth place in the constructors’ championship, Alpine and AlphaTauri, were both gifted positions. Having failed in its push for a

The British-Korean driver, who is currently recovering from injuries he sustained in a sportscar crash at Spa recently, is hoping to land a golden chance to step up to grand prix racing next year. Although he only has one race outing so far, when he was called up as a last-minute stand-in for George Russell

Only 67 percent of the entire capacity of the circuit at Zandvoort can be used, with the Dutch government announcing the limit for sporting events on Friday evening. After the Formula 1 return was postponed for a year in 2020 the organisation was hoping for a full house this time around, swapping the initial date of

For the latest episode of the Autosport Podcast, we have picked three features from this week’s magazine to analyse with the writers that have crafted them. Autosport editor Kevin Turner (Chief Editor, Autosport) examines British F1 team BRM and its last hurrah with its Tony Southgate designed P153 and P160 machines in 1970 and 1971.

Vettel was excluded from his second-placed finish at the Hungaroring after the FIA could not extract the minimum one-litre of fuel that is required for post-race technical inspections. Aston Martin had initially been confident that more than enough fuel remained in the car beyond the 0.3 litres the FIA got, but it could not be

Frenchman Gasly re-joined the Faenza team halfway through 2019 after being demoted by Red Bull, taking his first ever win at the 2020 Italian Grand Prix. Teammate Tsunoda made his debut in 2021 after impressing Red Bull and Honda during his junior formula career. While Gasly has been performing at a high level in 2021,

F1’s top teams have faced a big headache this year trying to cut back their spending to get below the $145 million cost cap limit that has been introduced. Both Mercedes and Red Bull talked about the pain they had to go through over the winter to lay off staff that they could no longer afford

Tsunoda started his rookie year operating out of the UK, after impressing Red Bull bosses by finishing third overall in FIA Formula 2 last season to secure an F1 graduation with AlphaTauri. The Japanese driver then earned high praise by starring on his debut at the Bahrain season opener after charging through to score points

Having arrived at the Milton Keynes-based team full of confidence, and declaring ambitions to out-perform the car he had underneath him, the 2021 F1 season has not been as straightforward as he would have liked. The lack of pre-season testing, and reduction in Friday running at grands prix, left Perez, along with the other drivers

For despite the huge encouragement that Ferrari has taken from the way it has recovered from a dire 2020 campaign, where it finished a lowly sixth in the standings, ending up third is still not its ultimate target. Time and again this season, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has been clear on that point: saying

Red Bull’s sister team has impressed in F1’s 2021 season with a fast car, which allowed Pierre Gasly to qualify on the front three rows eight times out of 11 races and grab a podium in Baku. Rookie Yuki Tsunoda also showed flashes of promise but has generally struggled to match his more experienced teammate

The Milton Keynes-based team is locked in an ultra-close tussle for the world championship with rival Mercedes, as the two outfits have been hard to separate over the first half of the campaign. But as well as the battle on track, the season has witnessed its fair share of clashes off it, with the FIA being pushed to

Teams are allowed to use eight exhausts during the season before they face grid penalties, and Alpine has already gone through seven for Esteban Ocon and five for team-mate Fernando Alonso. No other team has used more than four in the first 11 grands prix of the planned 23-race season. Alpine’s executive director Marcin Budkowski has explained

Despite all he has achieved in his motor racing career, and especially amid what has been a stellar 2021 campaign, he is not one to let himself get carried away and believe that he is infallible. What this season has delivered though are opportunities and experiences to help Norris wipe away much of the personal negativity he sometimes still (wrongly) has about himself. And there is no better example

It happened twice in 2020, with Pierre Gasly and AlphaTauri triumphing at the Italian Grand Prix, and Sergio Perez and Racing Point winning the Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain. In Hungary last weekend it was the turn of Esteban Ocon and Alpine to benefit from a little chaos ahead, and a team that hadn’t won