British Formula 3 duo Enaam Ahmed and James Pull will test a European F3 spec-car for the first time this week. Ahmed, who became the joint youngest British F3 champion with Carlin last weekend, is hoping to step up into the European series next year. He has the backing of Carlin boss Trevor Carlin. “Enaam’s […]
Porsche LMP racer Neel Jani will make his Formula E debut with Faraday Future Dragon Racing next season. Jani will join Jerome D’Ambrosio at the American team for the fourth season of the championship. It’s the first time since season one that Dragon Racing has changed its main driver line-up. Jani started his career in […]
Kimi Raikkonen will race with Ferrari in the 2018 Formula 1 season. The 2007 champion’s contract had been due to run out at the end of the year, and there was speculation he could retire after 15 years in F1. Ferrari has now confirmed it has renewed its agreement with Raikkonen in a short statement […]
McLaren junior Lando Norris led a Carlin 1-2 to take his seventh win of the season and extend his lead at the top of the European Formula 3 championship. A clean start and a trouble free race for Norris allowed him to build a gap of more than six seconds to team-mate Ferdinand Habsburg. His […]
Prema Powerteam’s Callum Ilott has taken his first European Formula 3 win since the Hungaroring round in June. Ilott inherited pole position after a series of penalties mixed up the grid for the second race of the weekend. He managed to pull away from Jake Hughes in second on the opening lap, only for the […]
McLaren junior Lando Norris took a dominant victory in the first European Formula 3 race of the weekend at Zandvoort. Starting from pole, Norris controlled a safety car restart on his way to his sixth win of the season, ahead of championship rivals Joel Eriksson and Maximilian Gunther. A good start from the rookie allowed Norris […]
For the third consecutive season, McLaren Honda has let down star driver Fernando Alonso. The engine manufacturer promised great things for 2017 at the start of the season, having changed its engine design to something a little closer to Mercedes’. Things didn’t exactly go to plan, and Honda seemed to take another step backwards. Four […]
You would be forgiven for forgetting Pascal Wehrlein had once been Mercedes’ star of the future. The 22-year-old has spent most of this season at the back of the field in a Sauber, after Esteban Ocon beat him to the Force India seat at the end of last year. But, despite a back injury ruling […]
Sebastian Vettel heads on his summer holidays leading the Formula 1 World Championship, a position no non-Mercedes driver has held since 2013. Midway through the most exciting season in years, Vettel is 14 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Mercedes’ new star Valtteri Bottas has been keeping the pressure on the top two, whilst the Red […]
Ferrari would like to develop its relationship with Sauber to form a Formula 1 proving ground for its young drivers. Running young talent wasn’t part of the deal that secured Sauber Ferrari engines for 2018, but Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne is keen to find space in F1 for Antonio Giovinazzi and Charles Leclerc. “[Sauber becoming […]
The delayed update to the Hungaroring’s facilities will begin after next year’s Hungarian Grand Prix. The venue has received roughly £103 million in the form of state support to complete the work on facilities, many of which have not been upgraded since the first GP back in 1986. “We have a plan now,” Hungaroring President […]
McLaren Junior Lando Norris brushed off claims he could make the move to Formula 1 as early as 2018. Norris, who is currently racing in the European Formula 3 championship, made his F1 test debut last week. He was second fastest in the second day of testing, just two tenths of a second slower than […]