Traditionally, the sporting director has been the sole point of audio contact between the pit wall and race control should the need for communication arise during races. This year F1 and the FIA agreed to broadcast selected conversations between the teams and Michael Masi for the first time in order to give fans extra insight.…
The 55-year-old Italian legend had been hospitalised after he collided with a truck during the Obiettivo Tricolore handbike relay event in June 2020, with his injuries requiring multiple operations and a prolonged rehabilitation programme. In an interview with BMW, his wife Daniela provided the first update on her husband’s condition since July, saying that Zanardi…
Fourth place for 2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg’s crew comprising Johan Kristoffersson and Molly Taylor in the Dorset finale meant it drew in the standings with Lewis Hamilton’s X44 as they both ended up with 155 points. But having won the maiden Saudi Arabia event, then again in Senegal and in Sardinia, RXR took…
The manner in which F1 race director Michael Masi handled the late race safety car at the Yas Marina circuit last weekend has triggered a backlash for grand prix racing, and tarnished the image of both the sport and the FIA. While motor racing’s governing body is clear that lessons can be learned from what…
The newly crowned eight-time world champion is set to head into semi-retirement in 2022 having elected to scale back his WRC commitments to only a partial campaign with Toyota, driving a third entry shared with Esapekka Lappi. Ogier has cited wishes to spend more time with his family and a desire to go circuit racing…
DTM racer and future Audi LMDh driver Muller will make his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debut when he tackles the 2022 season opener at Daytona on January 29-30. He will share High Class’s solo Oreca 07-Gibson entry with the team’s full-season drivers Dennis Andersen and Anders Fjordbach, as well as fellow Swiss driver Fabio Scherer.…
For a third season in a row, Motorsport.com brings you its countdown of the most impressive performers from both of Japan’s two top categories. Wildly varying fortunes for many drivers across SUPER GT and Super Formula made this list even harder to compile than usual, but after much debate, this is the order we settled…
Honda returned to the sport in 2015 as an engine manufacturer with McLaren but suffered a disastrous start with underperforming and unreliable engines, which had to be designed to fit McLaren tight packaging. The partnership proved to be a major embarrassment for the proud Japanese company, with soundbites such as Fernando Alonso’s “GP2 engine” comment…
The Enstone-based squad achieved its target of fifth place in the constructors’ championship this year with a double points scoring finish at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. But it comes ahead of a winter where CEO Laurent Rossi has hinted at needing to make some changes to its structure in a bid to help move…
Sulayem won last week’s FIA presidential election when he beat rival candidate Graham Stoker to the most powerful position in motorsport. One of the early decisions during his campaign was to propose Fabiana Ecclestone as the candidate for vice-president for sport in South America. The move was the first time in the FIA’s 117-year history…
