British Formula 3 champion Enaam Ahmed will make the step up to the European Formula 3 championship with HitechGP. The 17-year-old became the youngest driver ever to take the British F3 crown, winning the title by 164 points in 2017. Ahmed has already begun testing with the HitechGP squad, who enters its third full season […]
Improving reliability is Renault’s first goal of the 2018 season. The team finished sixth in the constructors’ championship, more than 300 points behind customer team Red Bull Racing, and faced numerous reliability problems with the engine and chassis. In a bid to close the gap to the front of the field, Renault’s first aim of […]
Ferrari Driver Academy new comer Robert Shwartzman will compete in the European Formula 3 championship with Prema Powerteam next season. Shwartzman, who only joined the Ferrari junior squad in October, has already begun testing the Prema-prepared Formula 3 car. “We are delighted to have Robert with us in 2018,” said team principal Rene Rosin. “He […]
Ex-Williams driver Felipe Massa has turned his attention away from Formula 1 following his retirement from the series. Massa had been pushing to remain at Williams alongside Lance Stroll for the 2018 season, but announced his retirement ahead of his home GP earlier this year. Though the 36-year-old has made comments criticising his old team […]
The 2017 Formula 1 season started with Ferrari’s first victory since the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix. It set the scene for a Ferrari versus Mercedes showdown. Vettel versus Hamilton. For the first half of the season, fans were gifted with a tough battle for the title between two of the greatest names in the sport […]
Canadian racer Devlin DeFrancesco will continue with Carlin for a full European Formula 3 campaign in 2018. Having spent most of the season competing in the Euroformula Open, DeFrancesco took the step up to F3 for the final two rounds of the season. He took a best finish of 14th in the last race of […]
Ferrari Academy Driver Marcus Armstrong will continue with Prema Powerteam as he takes the step up to the European Formula 3 championship next year. In only his first full season in Europe, Armstrong was crowned Italian Formula 4 champion in 2017, taking four wins and 13 podiums with Prema. He also ran an ADAC Formula […]
Kamui Kobayashi could continue with Andretti’s Formula E squad after a “one off” appearance at Hong Kong. The ex-Formula 1 driver jumped into the Andretti ATEC-O3 with almost no experience in the car, and managed 15th and 17th place finishes from the two Hong Kong ePrix. It was expected Tom Blomqvist, who was named on […]
McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Dan Ticktum will race in the European Formula 3 series with Motopark next year. The Red Bull junior driver follows in the footsteps of fellow MABA winner Lando Norris, who made the step up to F3 after winning the award last year. Ticktum impressed in his first outing with the […]
Felix Rosenqvist believes his Hong Kong performance is proof he’ll be able to challenge for the 2017-18 Formula E title, despite struggling with brake balance all weekend. Rosenqvist claimed pole, fastest lap, and victory in the second race of the season, a feat never achieved before in Formula E’s short history. But it was a […]
Nick Heidfeld claimed his podium in the first race of the 2017-18 season was one of his “most disappointing career podiums ever”. After starting third, Heidfeld survived a chaotic opening lap to take the challenge to Techeetah’s Jean-Eric Vergne in second. The Mahindra racer spent the entire second stint battling with Vergne, getting very close […]
Jean-Eric Vergne claims the first pole position of the 2017-18 season with a spin across the line in his superpole lap. The Frenchman, who was out in the penultimate qualifying group, finished the group stages third fastest, behind Nick Heidfeld and Sam Bird. In the superpole shootout, his first two sectors were slower than those […]