Feb.7 (GMM) A throng of highly-respected Formula 1 personalities are chewing over whether Lewis Hamilton or Charles Leclerc will be the biggest winner in Ferrari’s bombshell 2025 driver lineup. Corriere dello Sport this week said incumbent Leclerc is actually upset that Ferrari has chosen to replace Carlos Sainz with the seven time world champion. Former […]
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Insiders doubt Albon should secure top F1 seat
Feb.7 (GMM) Two F1 insiders are not so sure Alex Albon is really a worthy candidate for one of the top seats on the grid. The Williams driver is not only being linked with Sergio Perez’s place at Red Bull for 2024, he is also being mentioned as a good candidate to replace Lewis Hamilton […]
F1 insiders doubt Horner will survive Red Bull scandal
Feb.7 (GMM) Former F1 driver Giedo van der Garde doubts Red Bull team boss Christian Horner will survive his current “inappropriate behaviour” scandal. Top Austrian specialist source motorsport-magazin.com agrees that the 50-year-old long-time team principal’s days at Red Bull now appear numbered, having completely lost the support of the Austrian parent company. The energy drink […]
Hamilton arrival may help Leclerc win title – Alesi
Feb.6 (GMM) According to Corriere dello Sport newspaper in Italy, Charles Leclerc is unhappy behind the scenes at Ferrari after it emerged that he will be paired with Lewis Hamilton in 2025. For the rest of the Formula 1 world, the news is one of the most exciting developments in the sport for years – […]
Singapore still reviewing F1 deal amid scandal
Feb.6 (GMM) A dark cloud continues to hang over the future of Formula 1’s original night race in Singapore. In January, we reported that the event was in fact likely to survive a corruption scandal that in 2023 engulfed the Singapore GP promoter and high-ranking government minister Subramaniam Iswaran – who resigned last month. Singapore’s […]
Albon not confirming definite 2025 Williams seat
Feb.6 (GMM) Rumours Alex Albon is one of F1’s hottest properties for the 2025 driver market have been scotched by James Vowles, his current boss at Williams. Just as the on-form British-born Thai driver was being linked with Lewis Hamilton’s suddenly-vacant 2025 seat at Mercedes, rumours emerged that Albon has actually been offered a three-year […]
Sainz ‘very calm’ about post-Ferrari F1 career
Feb.6 (GMM) Carlos Sainz has broken his silence following confirmation he will be replaced by seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton in 2025. The Spaniard was already being linked with a potential move to Sauber-Audi, but 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve says his “bargaining power” has been greatly diminished by the looming ousting. Former Renault […]
Horner could lose F1 career over accusations – Albers
Feb.6 (GMM) Ahead of another season of expected dominance for Red Bull, the entire Formula 1 career of the team’s long-serving boss Christian Horner is in tatters. “It’s all nonsense,” Blick newspaper quotes the 50-year-old Briton as saying as he emerged from the F1 Commission meeting in London, where the tweaked ‘sprint’ weekend format for […]
Bottas may struggle to stay in F1 – report
Feb.5 (GMM) 2024 could be Valtteri Bottas’ last season in Formula 1, according to Finnish journalist Ismo Uusitupa. When news broke that his former Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton would switch to Ferrari in 2025, Bottas teasingly posted on X a photo of himself sitting at a table with his phone in front of him. He […]
Haas owner didn’t want to spend more on F1 – Steiner
Feb.5 (GMM) Gunther Steiner admits he was fired by Gene Haas because he wanted the billionaire team owner to spend more money on Formula 1. Haas may have finished dead last in 2023, but the small American outfit is first out of the ranks with its new car launch for 2024. New team boss Ayao […]
Sacked de Vries ordered to give up half of F1 pay
Feb.5 (GMM) Nyck de Vries must pay back half of all the money he earned during his ill-fated season with Alpha Tauri last year. The Dutchman, who was ousted by team owner Red Bull mid-season for poor performance, was sued by his former backer Jeroen Schothorst a year ago. The real estate million alleged a […]
Former driver slams F1 for Andretti-Cadillac rejection
Feb.5 (GMM) Spanish racing driver Oriol Servia has slammed Formula 1 for rejecting Andretti-Cadillac’s FIA-approved bid to enter the sport. In its lengthy statement explaining the decision to block Andretti’s debut, the Liberty Media-owned Formula One Group mentioned that team officials actually turned down one particular offer of a meeting in London. Andretti has now […]
Lawson admits F1 future with RB ‘really promising’
Feb.5 (GMM) Liam Lawson admits that the future of the team that he will probably race for sooner or later in Formula 1 is looking “promising”. Last year, Red Bull turned to its top junior to substitute for injured Alpha Tauri regular Daniel Ricciardo – and 21-year-old New Zealander Lawson impressed. Dr Helmut Marko is […]
Not many candidates to replace Hamilton – Schumacher
Feb.5 (GMM) As the dust continues to settle after Lewis Hamilton’s bombshell news last week, the candidates to replace him at Mercedes in 2025 are now starting to pile up. An obvious choice, according to well-known Spanish commentator Antonio Lobato, is Fernando Alonso. “In any case,” he told the El Partidazo radio program, “Fernando will […]
Wolff plays down 2025 Vettel comeback rumours
Feb.5 (GMM) Toto Wolff is already fending off the early and wild rumours about who will replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in 2025. One of the wildest is that it may be the perfect opportunity for quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel to mount a Formula 1 comeback. “We talked yesterday,” team boss Wolff told journalists […]
Next step in Andretti F1 saga could be legal battle
Feb.2 (GMM) The next stage in Andretti-Cadillac’s quest to join Formula 1 could be legal action, according to two of the sport’s top journalists. F1’s Liberty Media-controlled commercial rights holder, the Formula 1 Group, waited four months after the FIA approval of Andretti’s bid to become the eleventh team to reject the application earlier this […]
Alonso recalls ‘very cold tough guy’ Schumacher
Feb.2 (GMM) Fernando Alonso says he remembers the great Michael Schumacher as a “tough guy” who was “very cold” as they sparred for the world championships almost two decades ago. Alonso, then in his early 20s, broke Schumacher’s impressive run of drivers’ titles in 2005 and 2006 – and he said he had prepared for […]
Even Batman may not win in a 2025 Ferrari – Briatore
Feb.2 (GMM) Many of the most well-known names in the Formula 1 paddock are already chewing over Lewis Hamilton’s shock decision to scrap his Mercedes deal for 2025 in order to move to Ferrari. “I’m very surprised,” said former Renault boss Flavio Briatore, “but he must have his reasons. “The only thing I can say […]
Hamilton ‘turns F1 world upside down’ with Ferrari switch
Feb.2 (GMM) The Formula 1 media is in a spin as the pre-season ‘silly season’ goes into overdrive, with Lewis Hamilton sensationally switching to Ferrari for 2025. The seven time world champion only signed a new two-year Mercedes contract at the end of last August – but the Toto Wolff-led team now admits it featured […]
Backer denies talks to revive Malaysian GP
Feb.1 (GMM) A proposed backer has poured cold water on new reports that Malaysia could soon be back on the Formula 1 calendar. Sepang, located close to Kuala Lumpur, hosted the sport between 1999 and 2017, eventually opting to bow out after the Malaysian sports minister declared the “cost too high”. There were rumours of […]