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Ferrari's errors tour: what went wrong at the Chinese GP

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

FIA appoints new WRC fuel supplier for 2025

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

Eddie Jordan: Formula 1's great disruptor

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

WRC drivers protest FIA swearing ban at Safari Rally Kenya

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

Analysis: McLaren experiments with rear wings, Sauber improves with aero updates

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 must "understand what went wrong" after Australian GP strategy blunder

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

FIA tweaks F1 rear wing deflection test for China

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