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 […]
Month: June 2023
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 […]