Hitech announced as 11th team on the 2020 F2 grid
The F2 grid is set to expand to 11 teams after the announcement that British-based Hitech will be joining the series from 2020. Active in a number of series over…
Fernando Alonso has parted ways with McLaren after the Spaniard's ambassadorial role with the team was not extended beyond the end of 2019. As revealed by Motor Sport's Mark Hughes…
The departure of Formula 1's commercial boss Sean Bratches comes on the eve of a season in which its owners Liberty Media have most obviously stamped their image on the…
Arthur Leclerc, younger brother of Formula 1 driver Charles, has been signed by Ferrari to become part of its young driver programme. The 19-year-old has two seasons of single-seater experience…
The Hanoi Circuit pit building has been completed as construction of the Vietnamese Grand Prix facility continues ahead of the first Formula 1 race in the country later this year.…
The W Series championship is set to expand in its second year with two races added that will feature as part of the Formula 1 support line-up in 2020. The…
Williams has signed Roy Nissany as test driver for the 2020 season, replacing Nicholas Latifi, who has moved up to a race seat. The Israeli-born 24-year-old follows his father, Chanoch, who was test driver…
“We spent Christmas together as a family, out in the US – it’s the first time we’ve been able to have a full break as a family for a while…
Colin Chapman was used to ringing the bell, to being the king of the hill. Through the 1960s and into the 1970s his Formula 1 car concepts most consistently set…
It remains a statistical quirk that Italy produced two drivers who between them won three of motor racing’s first four world championships but has yet to conjure another, despite frequent…
Mercedes may have broken new ground by securing a record sixth consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ world championship double, but could the Silver Arrows juggernaut be about to run out of…
The line of Patrick Head-masterminded Formula 1 Williams-Cosworth FW07s proved to be the most effective successors to the Lotus 78-79 series’ legacy of ‘underwing’ ground-effect aerodynamic technology. Patrick had joined…
MH When the Honda decision came and the team was facing oblivion, was it a big decision to stay? You could have left. JB Yes. I could’ve gone to Toro…
2025 Motor Sport calendar: 75 years of F1 The stunning shot above of Niki Lauda driving for Ferrari at the 1976 Spanish GP features in Motor Sport's 2025 calendar, celebrating 75…
Mauro Forghieri – for 27 years the chief engineer of Ferrari’s racing operation – was on fine form. Ten days earlier, this tall, rangy man of enormous accomplishment had celebrated…
‘This car was born from the regulations. It was a variant of the successful BT49. By then the car was so reliable – we knew it inside out. At that…
Formula 1 operated on very different principles during the early years of the world championship, when much of the technology had pre-WW2 roots, but in the late 1950s a revolution…