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Stop the count! Donald Trump’s peculiar Tweet during the 2020 United States presidential election has long since become a meme. You can imagine, given Ferrari’s double disqualification from the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, that the Scuderia will be wishing fervently that everyone had just packed up and flown home on the Saturday, after Lewis Hamilton won the sprint race. Events in China then ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/xI48SJH via IFTTT

The FIA has confirmed TotalEnergies will take over as the World Rally Championship fuel supplier after P1 Performance Fuels went into administration. The motorsport governing body has moved quickly to appoint a new supplier now that P1 Performance Fuels can no longer fulfil its contractual obligations to act as the WRC’s fuel supplier after being placed into administration. As a result the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/qsWNmSF via IFTTT

Pull the 21 April 1988 edition of Autosport from the archives and you’ll find an image of Johnny Herbert, arm aloft in triumph, crossing the finishing line in the opening round of the International F3000 season at Jerez. In a stark visual echo of the white border around the photo, Johnny’s Eddie Jordan Racing-entered Reynard 88D is also almost completely white, bereft of sponsor logos but for ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/kir2KRG via IFTTT

World Rally Championship drivers have continued their stance opposing the FIA’s move to sanction drivers for using “inappropriate language” by limiting comments in stage-end interviews at Safari Rally Kenya. Drivers refused to comment or only spoke in their mother tongue to explain why they are not commenting during stage-end interviews during Wednesday shakedown in Kenya. It is ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/P6hQLvI via IFTTT

As expected, very few genuinely new parts arrived at the Australian Grand Prix as the 10 Formula 1 teams sought to put more mileage on the packages they ran with in Bahrain testing. That's not to say anyone didn't dabble in a bit of early update fun; Sauber introduced a new set of wings for the opening race, McLaren had a circuit-specific set of rear wings to test, and Red Bull spent the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/dKkTnBH via IFTTT

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has admitted the Scuderia made a mistake in leaving its drivers out on slick tyres for so long when a shower disrupted the late stages of Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were running in fifth and eighth, 42 laps into an eventful mixed-weather race, as the rain returned. Leclerc was overtaken by Yuki Tsunoda the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Fdvw7VK via IFTTT

The FIA is imposing stricter load deflection tests for Formula 1 rear wings at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix after analysing Melbourne footage. As part of a clampdown on teams exploiting aerodynamic elasticity to an undesirable degree, the FIA told teams over the off-season that it would impose stricter loads tests for both the front and rear wings. The front wing clampdown will be ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ikh7YgF via IFTTT

There are three strategy scenarios possible for Formula 1’s 2025 Australian Grand Prix, but they all depend on how and when the forecast rain hits the Albert Park track on Sunday. In scenario one, which assumes rain does not fall despite having been the talk of the event so far in Melbourne, a simple one-stop race becomes the most likely strategy. This is because the track would remain ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Ksb2ZHF via IFTTT

Mercedes driver George Russell believes McLaren is so dominant it can already turn off development of its current Formula 1 car and move on to 2026. McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri locked out the front row for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, with Norris putting nearly four tenths on the team's nearest chaser Max Verstappen in the Red Bull. As teams aim to find a balance between ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OJLMdmV via IFTTT

You may be wondering why Alpine has just signed a fourth Formula 1 reserve driver. There may be tens or even hundreds of thousands of reasons, if not millions. Alpine has already been rebuilding its young-driver programme under new leadership after the embarrassingly disastrous loss of Oscar Piastri in 2022. And stuffing the ranks with young hopefuls is very much in keeping with the return ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/kMjlhOy via IFTTT

Every racing driver dreams of becoming the Formula 1 world champion with Ferrari one day. But very few manage to turn that dream into reality. This year Lewis Hamilton aims to prove otherwise. His move from Mercedes to Ferrari ranks among the most significant transfers in F1 history because it connects the most successful driver (seven world titles) with the most successful team (15 drivers' ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/t7m8Faf via IFTTT

Lewis Hamilton has made notable adjustments to his Ferrari Formula 1 steering wheel layout – incorporating button shifts and clutch and gearbox paddle changes that retain familiarity from his long stint at Mercedes. The changes are all part of Hamilton’s adjustment to life at the Scuderia ahead of the 2025 F1 campaign, with the Italian team working hard to get him comfortable with its ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/GuAh5FK via IFTTT

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Formula 2 championship’s inception (then under the GP2 mantle), but there’s another reason why it represents a landmark for the series: F2 has four drivers graduating directly to Formula 1 – something that had not happened since 2010, when the F1 grid expanded from 20 to 24 cars. In other words, this is rather unprecedented in normal ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/bXK2AS1 via IFTTT

In 2018, I was working as Formula 2's press officer, working as tangentially to the F1 paddock as conceivably possible. Our occasional interloping among the F1 great and good usually went unnoticed, but we were still privy to the odd bit of goss about the driver market so long as it corresponded with our little world in the support paddock. Did you know that Lando Norris was being tapped up for a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/CVMdbUl via IFTTT

The 2025 Prototype Winter Series will be decided at the final event of the season, after an Aragon weekend where Konrad Motorsport’s Danny Soufi was finally beaten to the chequered flag. Saturday’s 50-minute race featured a familiar pattern for Soufi, as he started his Ligier JSP320 from pole position, and led the early stages of the race. High Class Racing’s Philip Lindberg settled into ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/L4xZVFN via IFTTT

Wayne Taylor Racing will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time this year as part of a four-car Cadillac assault on the World Endurance Championship’s blue-riband event.  The maiden participation at Le Mans for a team that has won the Daytona 24 Hours four times has been confirmed along with a return of the Action Express Racing team with its Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh for a third ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/Al45TgS via IFTTT

Formula 1 stewards’ panels will expand from three to four officials at six events deemed high workload by the FIA, including the 2025 season opener in Australia, Autosport can reveal. The change is covered in Article 15.1 of F1’s 2025 sporting rules, which have been overhauled in several places just before the new campaign starts. F1 stewarding panels have comprised of three officials ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/OIyqvfY via IFTTT

Each of the Ferrari 499Ps that flashed past the chequered flag almost line astern in positions one to three at the Qatar World Endurance Championship curtain-raiser would have been a worthy winner. They were separated by less than three seconds after 10 hours of racing and any one of them might have come out on top in the dash to the finish after the final pitstops. But there was one thing that ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/yTa9HEx via IFTTT

Marc Marquez outduelled his brother in a strategic masterclass to claim victory on his debut with the factory Ducati MotoGP team in the Thailand Grand Prix. Polesitter Marquez purposefully sat behind Gresini’s Alex Marquez for a large section of the race and made the decisive move on him with four laps to run to claim what was an otherwise comfortable 1.7s victory at Buriram. Alex Marquez ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/6GXuBI2 via IFTTT

Factory Ducati rider Marc Marquez claimed a dominant lights-to-flag victory in the Thailand Grand Prix sprint race, as team-mate Francesco Bagnaia held off Ai Ogura to finish third. Having claimed pole position by 0.146s in qualifying, Marquez was also untouchable in Saturday's half-distance race at Buriram, leading every lap en route to a 1.18s victory over younger brother Alex Marquez. The ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/sjmP2zy via IFTTT