Szafnauer: New Alpine CEO won’t have input into the F1 bit of it
Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine’s Team Principal, insisted the company’s new CEO Philippe Krief, who replaced Laurent Rossi won’t have any input into the Formula 1 team.Szafnauer must have breathed a sigh of relief when the new management structure at...
Hungary Day 1: Teams and drivers reflect on a strange one
Formula 1 at times delivers strange days, today was one of those. Day one of practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday, turned out to be pretty meaningless.The biggest news before FP1 at Hungaroring was the return...
Perez: No! I cannot believe this
What masochist is writing this year’s Formula 1 script? He does not fancy Sergio Perez as the underfire Red Bull driver, shot himself in the foot with a rookie mistake on his first lap in FP1 for the...
Alpine replace Laurent Rossi with Philippe Krief
Renault replaced Laurent Rossi as chief executive of its Alpine sportscar brand, which competes in Formula 1, with a low-profile but experienced Philippe Krief taking over at the top as of today.The Renault Group announced in a statement...
Ricciardo: The dream is a Red Bull seat
Daniel Ricciardo admitted he is daring to dream about a return to Red Bull ahead of his Formula 1 comeback with AlphaTauri at the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend.Ricciardo’s F1 career looked to be all but over after...
Parc Ferme: An F1 engine epiphany
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Formula 1 chief, Stefano Domenicali, had received a blow to the head last week.Nothing serious, of course, but enough to precipitate a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree U-turn from F1’s earlier position on normally aspirated...
De Vries: Sometimes you have to take the hard road
Nyck de Vries spoke of the pain of losing his AlphaTauri Formula 1 seat to Daniel Ricciardo after only 10 races and before he got a chance to race at his home Dutch Grand Prix.The 28-year-old was dropped...
Is this the McLaren F1 team Zak Brown was talking about?
In March, this site speculated that this final season of Zak Brown’s five-year master plan, to get McLaren to win again in Formula 1, was set to flop, but it did not and a huge dose of humble...
F1 Tech boss denies Red Bull’s 2026 regulations concern
Formula 1 Chief Technical Officer, Pat Symonds, downplayed the concerns Red Bull’s Christian Horner and Max Verstappen raised regarding the 2026 regulations.In 2026, F1 is planning new cars and power units. The new cars will have active aero...
Domenicali: I would like a cost cap penalty to be sporting
Stefano Domenicali, Formula 1’s CEO, believes that any infringement of the sport’s cost cap should be punished with a sporting penalty.That means, and according to the FIA’s regulations, penalties may take the form of deductions of Drivers’ and...
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