Jun.3 (GMM) The boss of the Dutch GP says he isn’t worried about the departure of major race sponsor Jumbo. We reported on Friday that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo had terminated all of its sports sponsorships, including with the cycling team Jumbo-Visma and world champion Max Verstappen. But another high profile Jumbo sponsorship was […]
Newey admits rejecting Ferrari moves
Jun.3 (GMM) Adrian Newey has confirmed that he turned down multiple offers to work in Formula 1 for Ferrari. Last month, founder Enzo Ferrari’s son Piero, who is vice chairman of the Maranello based company, revealed that Ferrari tried to lure 64-year-old Newey to Italy. “He said no to (Luca di) Montezemolo and to Jean […]
Verstappen could lap entire field in Spain – report
Jun.3 (GMM) Max Verstappen looks set to utterly dominate this weekend’s Spanish GP. Ferrari has newly-shaped sidepods and various other developments in Barcelona, Mercedes is again running its ‘B’ car, and even Aston Martin has new front and rear wings. And yet championship leader Verstappen’s Red Bull was easily fastest in P1 on Friday, with […]
Red Bull engine linked with Marshall switch
Jun.3 (GMM) There could be more than meets the eye to Rob Marshall’s move to McLaren. Behind the scenes, Red Bull and Ferrari are still arguing and negotiating over the release of Laurent Mekies to become Alpha Tauri’s new boss in 2024. So far, no agreement has been made after Ferrari described Red Bull-owned Alpha […]
‘Not easy’ amid swirling Ferrari rumours – Sainz
Jun.2 (GMM) Carlos Sainz has repeated his call for an end to rumours surrounding his Ferrari race seat. The Spaniard had already said this week that he wants speculation linking other drivers with his seat, like Lewis Hamilton, to be resolved by the beginning of next season at the latest in the form of a […]
Haas confirms F1 talks with Alfa Romeo
Jun.2 (GMM) Haas could become the new Formula 1 home for Alfa Romeo. Alfa Romeo is leaving Sauber – where the Ferrari-linked Italian carmaker is currently naming sponsor – at the end of the year because the Swiss team is in the process of being taken over by Audi. In Barcelona, Haas boss Gunther Steiner […]
McLaren wooed Marshall with huge money offer – Marko
Jun.2 (GMM) Red Bull’s long-time engineering boss Rob Marshall may have been wooed to McLaren with the promise of a doubling of his salary. Lando Norris, disappointed with the pace of his McLaren in 2023, said in Barcelona that the signing is good news. “Yeah, brains and laptime I guess are the two big things,” […]
Alonso slams ‘negative’ F1, Stroll criticism
Jun.2 (GMM) Fernando Alonso has leapt to the defence of his struggling teammate Lance Stroll. Stroll, 24, is the son of Aston Martin’s team owner Lawrence Stroll – but he has not looked impressive in the same 2023 car that Alonso has steered to five out of a possible six podiums so far this season. […]
Verstappen losing biggest personal sponsor
Jun.2 (GMM) Max Verstappen is losing one of his longest-serving and biggest personal sponsors. Last year, Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo’s CEO and owner Fritz van Eerd was embroiled in a money laundering scandal. Almost all of Jumbo’s sporting sponsorships were subsequently scrapped, except the highest profile one – 25-year-old back-to-back world champion Verstappen. But according […]
De Vries coy in wake of Marko praise
Jun.2 (GMM) Nyck de Vries may be on the road to rescuing his short and already beleaguered Formula 1 career. After an impressive one-off fill-in debut for Williams last year, the 28-year-old rookie Dutchman was snapped up by Red Bull-owned Alpha Tauri. He has struggled. “We thought Nyck would immediately challenge Yuki Tsunoda with his […]
Two F1 drivers don’t believe Hamilton rumours
Jun.1 (GMM) Two former Formula 1 drivers have added their scepticism to rumours Lewis Hamilton might consider a switch to Ferrari for 2024. All involved parties, including Mercedes’ Toto Wolff, stridently denied the speculation in Monaco – but that is generally the nature of the ‘silly season’. However, long-time Ferrari test driver and ambassador Marc […]
New candidate for future Africa GP emerges
Jun.1 (GMM) Another candidate to host Formula 1’s return to Africa has emerged. Last year, a project to bring the sport back to Kyalami in South Africa collapsed – but F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali says he is still working “very hard” on an Africa GP project. “What I want to avoid is that we go […]
Revived Barcelona layout to be ‘more fun’ – Alonso
Jun.1 (GMM) The big novelty at this weekend’s Spanish GP will be the absence of the slow chicane at the end of the Circuit de Catalunya layout. For safety and overtaking, the original and iconic final two high-speed right-handers were removed ahead of the 2007 race. “I don’t like it much,” Fernando Alonso said at […]
Steiner regrets one Mick Schumacher insult
Jun.1 (GMM) Gunther Steiner says he regrets one insult hurled at axed Haas driver Mick Schumacher. The small American team’s boss insists he has no regrets about replacing the struggling 24-year-old with his older and more experienced fellow German Nico Hulkenberg. “After the first race it was clear that it was the right decision for […]
Alonso’s new flame is not Taylor Swift
Jun.1 (GMM) Fernando Alonso has a new girlfriend – and it’s not American pop star Taylor Swift. When the Spanish driver split with Servus TV correspondent Andrea Schlager earlier this year, he teased those who believed rumours his new flame is Swift. But when Alonso got more serious, he insisted: “I usually keep my personal […]
Rivals ‘dismayed’ at Red Bull floor complexity
Jun.1 (GMM) Rival Formula 1 teams are “dismayed” as much as they are excited about the details of dominant Red Bull’s newly-revealed car floor. At Monaco, the underbody of Mercedes’ 2023 car was also revealed to scores of photographers when a crane lifted it up. “Red Bull will certainly have been more annoyed than us […]
Monaco legend Boeri to ‘oppose’ new F1 deal
May 31 (GMM) Monaco only “reluctantly” signed a contract with Liberty Media to keep the fabled street race on the Formula 1 calendar in 2023 and 2024. Following intense speculation last year that the parties were at stalemate, F1 and Monaco announced that a new deal had been struck. Michel Boeri, who has been Automobile […]
Sainz wants swift end to contract rumours
May 31 (GMM) Carlos Sainz wants Ferrari to end all the speculation about his race seat by concluding contract negotiations by early next year. The Spaniard signed an initial two-year deal with the Maranello team that kicked off in 2021, but in April of 2022 he extended that deal for 2023 and 2024. But in […]
2026 rules slow cars down too much – Newey
May 31 (GMM) Adrian Newey has warned that Formula 1’s sweeping rule changes for 2026 threaten to slow the cars down too much. When Honda last week announced its fully-fledged return to the sport for 2026 in a works collaboration with Aston Martin, the Japanese carmaker said the FIA’s rules vision was the key to […]
Ferrari can still win races in 2023 – Vasseur
May 31 (GMM) Ferrari can still win races with its 2023 car, team boss Frederic Vasseur insists. After Monaco, many critics claimed the Maranello based team is still struggling with both performance issues and repeated strategy mistakes. Vasseur, however, told Italian reporters this week that while there were mistakes in the Principality, there were “no […]