Jun.6 (GMM) Dr Helmut Marko says retired quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel is not the only candidate to replace him as Red Bull’s key motorsport advisor. Weeks ago, it seemed clear that Vettel was the ideal successor for 82-year-old Marko, with the pair exchanging pleasantries over a peaceful handover of power. But now, the Austrian […]
FIA could green-light Lindblad for F1 next week
Jun.6 (GMM) Arvid Lindblad could be on the Formula 1 grid soon. Red Bull sent the British-Swedish teenager to race in New Zealand over the winter to collect the final points he needs to qualify for an F1 super license. The only missing piece now is special dispensation from the FIA – because the rules […]
Hamilton ‘only missing the details’ at Ferrari – boss
Jun.6 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton thinks it may be time for Ferrari to shelve the 2025 car project in order to focus on next year. Team boss Frederic Vasseur revealed after Barcelona that “visible” and “invisible” developments are still en route for the current car, even though McLaren is increasingly out of reach. Charles Leclerc’s pace […]
Developments still coming for 2025 Ferrari – boss
Jun.5 (GMM) Ferrari is not yet giving up on the 2025 season. German newspaper TZ is reporting that an increasingly downbeat Lewis Hamilton and the Maranello based team are at loggerheads over whether to keep developing the current car, or switch all resources to the radical new 2026 regulations. Team boss Frederic Vasseur thinks there […]
Hamilton, Sainz have bad F1 ‘habits’ – Hadjar
Jun.5 (GMM) Just a third of a season into his Formula 1 career, Isack Hadjar seems destined for a future at Red Bull Racing. Early this year, Liam Lawson was full of confidence after being promoted from the junior Racing Bulls team to serve as Max Verstappen’s new teammate. His two-race fate at Red Bull […]
Red Bull needs ‘stable’ teammate for Verstappen – Marko
Jun.5 (GMM) The jury is out as to just how long Yuki Tsunoda will survive alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull Racing. When a seat vacancy arose with Sergio Perez’s ousting at the end of last year, the Japanese was overlooked by the team in favour of the much less experienced Liam Lawson – whose […]
Verstappen ‘slowly giving up’ on 2025 title – Marko
Jun.5 (GMM) Dr Helmut Marko admits Max Verstappen is slowly giving up the fight for his fifth consecutive drivers’ world championship. Indeed, the Red Bull driver seemed nonplussed with his FIA penalties in Barcelona that dropped him to P10, almost 50 points behind Oscar Piastri, and on the brink of a race ban. When asked […]
Keke Rosberg, 75, admits his health is failing
Jun.4 (GMM) Formula 1 legend Keke Rosberg admits he is not in good health. The 76-year-old Finn may be the 1982 world champion, but to a younger audience he is arguably better known as the father of fellow title winner Nico Rosberg. When Finland’s Apu magazine correspondent arrived at Rosberg’s Monaco apartment building for the […]
Angry taxi drivers hit back at Mercedes’ Toto Wolff
Jun.4 (GMM) Italian taxi drivers have amusingly returned fire at Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. When asked to comment on Max Verstappen’s move on George Russell in Barcelona, which Lando Norris said reminded him of Mario Kart, Wolff told Sky Italia: “It was like certain taxi drivers in Rome or Naples, who go crazy in […]
Briatore ‘never spoke’ with Piquet about crashgate
Jun.4 (GMM) Flavio Briatore has reiterated his innocence some decade and a half after Formula 1’s infamous “crashgate” scandal. The 75-year-old recently credited F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali for allowing him to return to the paddock as Alpine’s executive advisor, having been banned for life in 2009 for ordering Nelson Piquet to crash on purpose during […]
Stroll has surgery after Barcelona tantrum – reports
Jun.4 (GMM) Lance Stroll has undergone another round of surgery on a hand and wrist injury that flared up in the hours before he pulled out of the Spanish GP. The Aston Martin driver’s absence from Barcelona on Sunday, leaving the team as a one-car operation, has triggered a fevered round of media speculation. The […]
Verstappen deserved FIA’s Spanish GP slap – Marko
Jun.4 (GMM) Dr Helmut Marko admits Max Verstappen deserved to be penalised for his highly-controversial and presumably deliberate crash into George Russell in Barcelona. The quadruple world champion was unrepentant immediately after the incident, but on social media a day later he admitted it was “not right”. Red Bull boss Christian Horner also revealed that […]
Vasseur again defends downbeat Hamilton
Jun.3 (GMM) Frederic Vasseur is still rallying around Lewis Hamilton amid the seven time world champion’s self-admitted struggles at Ferrari. Bild newspaper reported that the 40-year-old former Mercedes driver had to wipe away tears before facing the world’s media after Sunday’s Spanish GP. Hamilton declared it “the worst race I’ve ever taken part in my […]
Horner slams ‘nonsense’ Verstappen conspiracy theory
Jun.3 (GMM) Christian Horner has slammed a wild conspiracy theory about why Max Verstappen crashed into George Russell in the closing moments of the Spanish GP. Most honest insiders concede that the quadruple world champion deliberately made contact with Russell as he allowed the Mercedes to re-pass. Even Verstappen didn’t hide it. “Yes, it was […]
Boss slams ‘typical media’ over Stroll rumours
Jun.3 (GMM) Aston Martin mechanics, engineers, and the rest of the world all found out about Lance Stroll’s sudden withdrawal from the Spanish GP at the same time. One unnamed mechanic said an email was sent to the race team late on Saturday that hand pain that had existed for at least six weeks prior […]
Michael Schumacher ‘lying on a bed’ – Briatore
Jun.2 (GMM) Flavio Briatore has hinted that F1 legend Michael Schumacher’s days are now limited to “lying on a bed”. A few days ago, Briatore – who was boss at Benetton (later Renault and Alpine) when Schumacher won his first two titles back to back – admitted that he had deliberately not tried to visit […]
Stroll had tantrum before Spanish GP withdrawal
Jun.2 (GMM) There could be more than meets the eye to Lance Stroll’s sudden withdrawal from the Spanish GP. The Canadian, whose billionaire father Lawrence owns the Aston Martin team, practiced and qualified in Barcelona – and then withdrew from the event with an old hand and wrist injury. 26-year-old Stroll underwent surgery in 2023 […]
Nurburgring admits F1 not returning to Germany
Jun.2 (GMM) The boss of the famous Nurburgring circuit has confirmed that Germany is no closer to returning to Formula 1. Even with F1 open to safeguarding key European events with a new race rotation scheme, and with Mercedes to be joined on the grid by Audi next year, Toto Wolff thinks a German GP […]
Hamilton ‘cried’ after hitting new low in Spain
Jun.2 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari dream is ending up in tears, according to the major German newspaper Bild. “The Formula 1 world has never seen Lewis Hamilton as devastated as he was after the Spanish GP,” the report declared. “The Ferrari driver wiped tears from his eyes before collecting himself to answer questions from journalists […]
Alonso snaps up son of F1 legend Montoya
Jun.2 (GMM) Fernando Alonso’s next protege is now on the long road to Formula 1. The headline star of the two-time champion’s driver management company, A14 Management, is Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto. On the occasion of Alonso’s home Spanish GP, the 20-year-old Brazilian reiterated the credit the Aston Martin driver deserves for paving his way […]