Former four-time Formula One world champion and Renault ambassador Alain Prost has said winning a constructors’ title is not Renault’s main concern. Renault will take part in the 2016 Formula One season as a works team after a six-year absence in which time they helped Red Bull to four drivers’ and constructors’ world championships. With […]
Sauber’s Felipe Nasr is confident not having their 2016 car ready for the first test in Barcelona will not be ‘a big problem’ despite having very little time to test parts before the season opener in Melbourne. Sauber announced that they would not be taking their 2016 challenger to the first test in Barcelona despite […]
Kevin Magnussen has revealed he received no help from McLaren in securing his 2016 race seat with Renault McLaren decided not to renew Magnussen’s reserve driver contract, stating they did not wish to hamper his career by holding on to the talented driver. At the time of the announcement, Ron Dennis made clear himself and […]
Mercedes president Dieter Zetsche has claimed Red Bull never officially made an approach to Mercedes for a supply of power units for the 2016 season. Following the fallout from Red Bull’s decision to end their contract with Renault a year early, Red Bull claimed they had requested the use of Mercedes power units for the […]
Renault has revealed their third driver for next season Esteban Ocon is actually on loan to them from Mercedes as he is still under contract with the German constructor. Renault Sport managing director Cyril Abiteboul announced the news at Renault’s launch in Paris on Wednesday. “Esteban is great new addition for us for this year, […]
Nico Hulkenberg says he hopes 2016 will be his best season in Formula One as he goes in search of his first ever podium finish. Force India enjoyed their best ever finish in the constructors’ championship last season and the German himself achieved success at the Le Mans 24 hour. Despite these successes, he struggled […]
Honda will not be looking to employ anyone from outside the Honda organisation to help with their Formula One engine development. McLaren struggled with the Honda power unit last season suffering from poor reliability and performance issues, despite their winning record when working together in previous years. Both were heavily criticised last season for not […]
Kevin Magnussen will officially be unveiled as Pastor Maldonado’s replacement on Wednesday according to reports on Autosport.com. For over a week now it had been suggested Kevin Magnussen was in talks with Renault to replace Pastor Maldonado. This comes after the Venezuelan’s sponsor PDVSA failed to reach an agreement with Renault over what they should […]
Daniil Kvyat claims as long as Red Bull make steps forward and see progress at the start of the 2016 season, the team will be happy, but ultimately being on the top step of the podium is their main goal. After the team struggled last year with reliability and performance issues from the Renault power […]
Haas F1 founder and owner Gene Haas believes his two drivers Esteban Gutiérrez and Romain Grosjean will compliment each other because one knows the package and one will know the tracks. Gene Haas was speaking to Sports Business Daily ahead of his team’s first year in Formula One which begins on the 20th of March […]
Pirelli’s Paul Hembrey has told F1i.com they welcome the agreement made my Bernie Ecclestone and the Formula One drivers on the tyres that want for the 2017 season. When Pirelli joined F1 as the sole tyre supplier, they were asked to manufacture degradable tyres that would result in teams having to stop at least twice […]
The addition of a Formula One sprint race could be seen during the 2017 Formula One season if an agreement is reached at the meeting on Friday according to F1i.com. The inclusion of a sprint race has long been discussed in Formula One with it already part of each GP2 and GP3 race weekend. The […]