The Mercedes Formula 1 team has announced plans to go carbon neutral by the end of the current 2020 season. As well as offsetting its carbon dioxide emissions, the reigning…
A quite extraordinary and unexpected press release from the FIA last Friday stated: “The FIA announces that, after thorough technical investigations, it has concluded its analysis of the operation of…
So the numbers are in from six days of pre-season testing. When analysing them, using the methods outlined here, to attempt to establish a performance order, we can apply several…
Preseason testing is over and there are two weeks until the first race of the F1 season, but there's still plenty of mileage left in last year's racing, as Drive…
A confidential settlement has been agreed between Ferrari and F1’s governing body, the FIA, after an investigation into the team’s engine. Rivals had raised suspicions over the legality of last…
“It was pretty dire last year. No one gets their car late for testing, do they? It was a shock. I mean, I arrived, thinking that car was going to…
Tony Brooks turned 88 this week. My interest in him was piqued by a factoid within Cyril Posthumus’ year-by-year history of the German Grand Prix: that two-time winner Brooks was…
Classification Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m 16.841sec 145 2. Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 1min 17.066sec 139 3. Lance Stroll Racing Point 1min 17.118sec 130 4. Nicholas Latifi…
New banked corners at Zandvoort have been completed, two months before Formula 1 returns to the Dutch circuit. The two sections, angled at 18- and 19-degrees, are said to be…
Alfa Romeo’s reserve driver clocked the fastest time of Formula 1 testing day four, as Robert Kubica registered a 1 min 16.942sec to top the timesheets. His time was comfortably…
The 2020 Formula 1 season is fast approaching and it isn't just new cars that get unveiled these days.
So ahead of the second and final week of pre-season testing, we have one unsurprising, nailed-on super-fast Mercedes. Then we have an enigmatic Red Bull that looks far better on…
Formula 1 legend Alain Prost celebrates his 65th birthday today. With 51 grand prix wins and four world drivers’ titles, usually done in his inimitable smooth-as-silk style, his F1 career…
Throughout testing this year, one clear area of differentiation between cars (beyond the noses), is the bargeboards and sidepods. The former have increased in complexity year on year, particularly since…
This year’s F1 season will feature close racing at the front and a midfield pack that’s gaining on the leaders, says Mercedes, which has published some of its internal analysis…
After causing quite the stir in the paddock on Thursday, Mercedes ended the first week of pre-season testing the way it started, with a one-two on the timesheets. Valtteri Bottas…
