24 hour races
2018 Rolex 24 at Daytona – LIVE
Our 1st live blog of the year and we’re not even doing an F1 race! This is the 24 Hours of Daytone with plenty of interest for F1 fans as McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Lando […]
Year: 2018
News
Alonso qualifies 13th, Stroll’s car 6th at Daytona
Formula 1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will be starting from 13th and 6th respectively at the 24 hours of Daytona this weekend. Alonso took part in qualifying for the United Autosports team in […]
News
Force India, Sauber withdraw anti-competition complaint
A complaint about anti-competitive practices in Formula 1 has been withdrawn by Force India and Sauber. The two teams put in a complaint with the European Union in 2015 claiming the way F1 was structured […]
News
Renault academy boss wants to find champions
Renault hope investing in young drivers will help them find a future Formula 1 champion. The constructor relaunched its driver academy in 2016 as it returned to F1, and recently confirmed seven drivers will be […]
F1
Episode 140 – Lando Norris Special
We’ve been teasing it for ages that we were going to do something special last weekend and that thing was that Paul & Lee took a trip to the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking to […]
News
Toro Rosso expects more visually refined Halo
Toro Rosso technical director James Key believes the Halo will look more visually refined by the start of the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Halo is new to F1 this year, sitting around the cockpit […]
News
Steiner thinks Haas started 2018 car too soon
Haas team principal Gunther Steiner admits the team may have switched its attention to the 2018 car too soon. Just five of the team’s 13 points finishes came in the final 11 races of the […]
News
Cosworth keen to work with Aston Martin on F1 return
Cosworth believes it could return to Formula 1 in partnership with Aston Martin in the future. The engine builder recently admitted it was keen to return to F1, but that it would need support from […]
News
Renault deal means more sponsors for McLaren
McLaren’s Zak Brown says the team’s switch to the Renault power unit has made attracting sponsors easier. The Executive director revealed in an interview with Racer that the team will be announcing a number of […]
F1
Episode 139 – I Don’t Like Tuesdays
We knew it, we bloody knew it! We’ve been waiting for Williams to make the 2018 driver announcement for weeks and they go and do it on a Tuesday morning after we recorded the show […]
News
Racing pioneer Dan Gurney dies
Formula 1 and the wider motorsport community are mourning the death of racing revolutionary Dan Gurney, who passed away following complications from pneumonia over the weekend at the age of 86. The American remains one […]
F1
Pat Symonds says F1 wants to change grid formation
Former Williams chief technical officer Pat Symonds claims Formula 1 is looking at ways to change how the grid is formed ahead of each Grand Prix. Symonds was appointed to Ross Brawn’s panel to help […]
News
Chase Carey visits Copenhagen to discuss Danish GP bid
Denmark could be added to the Formula 1 calendar in the near future as the sport’s owners hold talks with Copenhagen. Chase Carey has been in the Danish capital this week to meet the city’s […]
News
Kvyat secures development role with Ferrari
Ferrari have announced that Daniil Kvyat has joined the team as a development driver. The former Red Bull and Toro Rosso driver has been out of F1 since being replaced by Pierre Gasly after the […]
F1
Episode 138 – 24 Hours From Somewhere
The new F1 season is still a couple of months away, but there’s still a few things to keep us ticking over. Kimi has lost his race engineer, There’s still no news from Williams on […]
News
Raikkonen’s race engineer leaves Ferrari
Kimi Raikkonen will have a new race engineer for the 2018 Formula 1 season following David Greenwood’s departure from Ferrari. Greenwood has left the team after three years working with Raikkonen. He joined the team […]
News
Gasly insists F1 hopefuls don’t need financial backing
Pierre Gasly claims he’s proof a driver doesn’t need financial backing to secure a seat in Formula 1. The former GP2 champion made his debut with Toro Rosso towards the end of the 2017 season, […]
News
Latifi joins Force India as test/reserve driver
Nicholas Latifi will be Force India’s reserve and test driver for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Silverstone-based team have announced that the young Canadian driver will take part in young driver tests and participate […]
News
Nurburgring in talks over F1 return
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nurburgring hopes the track will be back on the Formula 1 calendar next year. Mirco Markfort, who took charge of the circuit in 2016, has claimed in an interview […]
News
Helmut Marko believes in Honda
Red Bull’s Helmut Marko insists the team believes in Honda after agreeing to use the Japanese manufacturer’s engines for Toro Rosso from 2018. Toro Rosso have used Renault engines in three of the last four […]
F1
Episode 137 – All Is Silent On New Year’s Day
Yep, the calendar has flipped over to 2018 and as usually happens at this time of year, there’s very little in the way of F1 news happening. With all the factories on shutdown for the […]
News
Daytona test for Alonso this week
Fernando Alonso will step up his preparations for the Rolex 24 At Daytona as he takes part in the ‘Roar before the 24’ test later this week. The two-time Formula 1 world champion will be […]